2 indicted in NYC crypto kidnapping, torture case
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John Woeltz, 37, and his alleged accomplice, William Duplessie, 33, started frequenting the NYC nightclub, The Box.
The investigation into the bitcoin torture case in New York City has revealed gruesome details about the alleged kidnapping and beating of an Italian man.
The duo was spotted there on multiple nights in a row, reportedly spending between $80,000 and $100,000 during each visit.
Internal investigators with the NYPD are said to be looking into whether two detectives hired to provide security at a Manhattan townhouse where inside when two crypto businessmen allegedly completed acts of torture against their partner in a hunt for his Bitcoin password,
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 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.
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, also known by some as the "crypto king ... the victim's passport and electronic devices, then demanding his Bitcoin password. When the 28-year-old refused, police said Woeltz and ...
The pair of hard-partying crypto bros accused of sadistically torturing an Italian millionaire lured him to New York City with the promise of returning Bitcoin they had allegedly stolen from him — only to then keep him hostage for weeks in a twisted bid to siphon the rest,