Posted on 01/14/2003 5:58:34 PM PST by chance33_98
(Texas)
1-14, Local: Man says he was kidnapped, raped
By JOHN LYNCH
Investigators were making arrangements Monday to view video surveillance tapes from a Longview grocery store where a 23-year-old man said he was kidnapped at knifepoint over the weekend. The man told police he was taken to Smith County, raped and abandoned.
The man, whose identity has not been released since he is a victim of sexual assault, told law officers he was abducted about 10:30 p.m. Saturday in front of Super 1 Food store, 1217 E. Marshall, by a knife-wielding man who forced him into his own car, said Sgt. James Johnson, Longview police spokesman.
The man was found about 9 a.m. Sunday on County Road 354 in northeastern Smith County, where he had knocked on a resident's door asking for help. Johnson said the man was suffering minor cuts to his neck, chest and thighs.
The man said his abductor had forced him to drive around for a while before robbing him, sexually assaulting him, then stealing his car, Johnson said.
Longview police are coordinating their investigation with Smith County sheriff's investigators. Longview detectives had not had an opportunity to question the victim Monday, Johnson said.
Police had only a sketchy description of the kidnapper and were hoping the surveillance tapes would give them a better description of the assailant.
Video surveillance from the store has played a crucial role in prior investigations.
In September 2001, police were able to use video from Super 1's security cameras to shatter the alibi of a Gilmer man accused of murder.
Accused of killing 37-year-old Kelly Broday Peterson and leaving her body behind a doctor's office, Kevin Richard Watts admitted to being present when the woman was shot to death in her truck, but denied having anything to do with her death.
He told police he and the woman had met up with a mysterious stranger, a man with long hair and a tattoo on his upper left arm, in the Super 1 parking lot, and that stranger shot and killed Peterson.
Detectives reviewed the security tapes from the parking lot and saw that Watts was alone with Peterson.
Investigators found money stolen from the slain woman hidden in a clock in Watts' home and a pistol buried in the back yard of his home.
Watts eventually confessed to killing the woman and taking her money, but claimed the shooting was accidental.
Watts is now serving a 55-year prison sentence.
There's nothing wrong with a felonious fudgepacker that can't be fixed by 230 grains of lead.
Damn, that sort of thing could ruin your whole day.
Will we see more of these stories? Maybe, but possibly not in the U.S. - knife-wielding rapists don't do very well in a gunfight.
...never mind. The guy WILL run into an armed citizen there, sooner rather than later. Bet on it.
This happened in our area a a few years ago, some 'loosers' grabbed a guy out of his truck and did the butt pirate thing.
LEO said was a bike-gang initiation.
Indeed. It may have been a woman who had a sex change too. One never knows today...
Yeah, well I'm just waiting for all of the people who were commenting on the other issue posted here about the girl who was raped....ya know, how girls who go in cars and in the bedrooms of guys are 'sort of telling' the guy she wants sex and shouldn't 'cry rape' because after all men can't control themselves....ya know, those 'FReepers'.
No one said that. What was said was that this particular girl (as detailed in the court documents) was in the room, naked and involved voluntarily and only protested after riding the guy for four or five minutes.
It was also pointed out that any woman who goes to a place (bedroom etc) where she will be alone with a guy is stupid for putting herself in that situation (unless she is planning to screw him anyway)
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