Manhattan Crypto Kidnapping and Torture Case
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An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin password.
William Duplessie is charged with kidnapping and assaulting an Italian crypto trader in Manhattan; he and co-defendant John Woeltz allegedly tortured the victim for his Bitcoin password.
The second suspect in the alleged kidnapping and torture of an Italian bitcoin dealer inside a SoHo townhouse was seen scowling as he was remanded without bail in court Tuesday night.
The tortured and wounded victim escaped John Woeltz's house of horrors in an ordeal authorities described as “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “American Psycho."
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.
John Woeltz, the Kentucky crypto entrepreneur accused of a heinous kidnapping and torture plot is innocent — and being manipulated by someone else, a relative claimed to The Post.
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