Cryptocurrency, NYC and torture
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A second man has been indicted in New York after being charged with kidnapping a man for three weeks in Manhattan's upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password,
Beatrice Folchi, a Southbury resident and UConn grad, was initially arrested and remains under investigation in a New York City crypto kidnapping case.
An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin password.
A New York City Police detective assigned to Mayor Eric Adams’ security detail will be questioned in relation to a bizarre crypto currency kidnapping and torture plot after he allegedly delivered the victim to his tormentors,
An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin password.
A grand jury has indicted a 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping a business partner in Manhattan's upscale Soho neighborhood for three weeks, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his Bitcoin password,
John Woeltz, 37, and his alleged accomplice, William Duplessie, 33, started frequenting the NYC nightclub, The Box.
Before they allegedly kidnapped an Italian tourist, crypto bros John Woeltz and William Duplessie were rolling up to NYC nightclubs with their own security — and looking for "Instagram baddies."