# Missouri woman escapes home after being held captive for weeks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283 "2022-10-15T02:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/1 "2022-10-15T02:00:33Z")
I’ve seen other reports that the victim weighed under 90 lbs. She had a horrific experience locked up in this asshole’s basement. Whipped and raped repeatedly. Thankfully she escaped and neighbors helped her. Cite [Court docs: Excelsior Springs victim escaped basement while duct-taped, wearing metal collar](https://www.kctv5.com/2022/10/11/court-docs-excelsior-springs-victim-escaped-basement-while-duct-taped-wearing-metal-collar/) > [@](#): > > When Haslett’s charges became public on the Missouri courts database, a narrative of the events surrounding the charges became available through court documents filed by the prosecutor in Clay County. Those court documents outline what led to the initial police investigation and the law enforcement lockdown at the property ever since. > > Excelsior Springs officers responded at 7:47 a.m. last Friday morning (Oct. 7) to Don Shelton Boulevard after a woman showed up at the front door of a home wearing a trash bag, metal collar with a padlock and duct tape around her neck. The woman who found the victim called 911, and the victim said she had been held hostage at a nearby home since September. > > The alleged victim told responding officers that a man named Timothy picked her up off of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City toward the beginning of September. Ever since then, he had kept her in a small room in his basement that he had built. While she was in the small room, she was restrained with handcuffs on her wrists and ankles, the court documents state. > **[Missouri Woman Escapes Weeks-Long Rape, Torture After Alleged Captor Took...](https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/timothy-haslett-charged-kidnapping-rape-missouri)** > > A Missouri man is in custody after a woman allegedly escaped his captivity and alerted neighbors for help. Timothy Marrion Haslett Jr., 40, was charged Friday night with the kidnapping and rape of an unnamed woman in Excelsior Springs, Missouri —... ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/2 "2022-10-15T02:05:49Z")
There may have been other victims. > [@](#): > > Celia Tharp told KCTV the victim claimed to have friends who “didn’t make it,” alluding to other possible victims. > > “She made a comment that ‘He killed my friends,’” said Tharp. “She just kept repeating it.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/3 "2022-10-15T02:13:00Z")
The house is boarded up and has a high fence around it, probably to protect evidence they haven’t processed yet. This is probably going to be a much bigger story in time. I’m glad she managed to escape. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/4 "2022-10-15T10:30:11Z")
I’m guessing no one had reported this woman as missing. ☹ Wonder how long he’s lived in the area? A thorough search of his property could wrap up some missing persons cases. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/5 "2022-10-15T13:01:17Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s abducted other women in the past few years. Law enforcement acted quickly to secure that house and property for a search. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/6 "2022-10-15T13:36:57Z")
Horrifying! I hope she isn’t pregnant, no exceptions except medical emergency in Missouri. She may have been prostituting out there on the corner, dangerous violent way to have to live. The extreme violence that can occur to them anytime they get in a vehicle is heartbreaking. And most of the time they don’t even bother reporting to the police the shit that happens to them, rape, theft, assault. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/7 "2022-10-17T00:36:22Z")
The victim insists her 2 friends are missing. The police response is frustrating. People living and hustling on the streets often won’t leave behind anyone concerned enough to file missing person reports. The police have a victim with marks from whipping and abuse. They can’t ignore what’s happening this time. > **[Woman who escapes month-long captivity says other Black women killed by abductor](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/missouri-woman-escapes-captivity)** > > Missouri woman, 22, escapes less than a month after police dismissed concerns about a serial killer as ‘completely unfounded’ > [@](#): > > Kansas City police have defended their response, claiming that they were right to dismiss the concerns as rumors because they had not received any formal missing person reports. > [@](#): > > Around the time she went missing, several prominent community leaders raised concerns about the disappearance of multiple Black women and girls. Last month, the [Kansas City Defender,](https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-woman-kidnapped-prospect-excelsior-springs-serial-killer/?fbclid=IwAR2K9ffaKLqDRlzZmD3P0FWspm9gI5qaU4Zriw8RO83lXZ_W0My3W3tS5kc)a nonprofit newsroom, published a video of Bishop Tony Caldwell saying that he had received information that the missing women had all been kidnapped from Prospect Avenue in Kansas City. > > The police dismissed the concerns outright as “completely unfounded”, [saying in a statement](https://www.kctv5.com/2022/09/26/kcpd-social-media-post-claiming-serial-killer-loose-kc-completely-unfounded/) that “there is no basis to support this rumor”. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/8 "2022-10-17T01:09:43Z")
> The woman said she escaped the house when her captor took his child to school that morning. Am I to understand that a child lives in this hellhouse? ~Max ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/9 "2022-10-17T01:29:10Z")
The woman was held in the basement. There was a case in Cleveland a few years ago where three women were held captive for 10 years. > **[Cleveland kidnapping victims release a memoir](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-held-captive-in-cleveland-home-for-decade-release-a-memoir/)** > > Co-authors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were held captive by Ariel Castro for about a decade before 2013 escape ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/10 "2022-10-17T01:42:06Z")
Do they make basements deep enough that you can’t hear screams from the rest of the house? I guess that makes sense. I don’t really know much about basements. The two or three I’ve been in, you could definitely get someone’s attention by yelling. In the Cleveland case you cited, the kid was apparently brought up to think holding mommy captive in her room was normal. Unless I’m misreading. “When Amanda Berry’s toddler daughter had night terrors and started screaming and running around the room, Berry couldn’t _ **always** _ get to her - because she was chained and couldn’t move that far.” “As the girl grew older, Berry wrote, it became harder and harder to hide the strangeness of their lives.” ~Max ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-escapes-home-after-being-held-captive-for-weeks/973283/11 "2022-10-17T05:54:39Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Do they make basements deep enough that you can’t hear screams from the rest of the house? I guess that makes sense. If not, I’d suspect that someone who would do this sort of thing would probably invest in sound proofing.