An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin ...

The investigation into the bitcoin torture case in New York City has revealed gruesome details about the alleged kidnapping ...

A Kentucky man, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was arrested in Lower Manhattan over the weekend, accused of kidnapping and ...

Woeltz's supposed assistant, Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also taken into custody in relation to the crime and faces one count of ...

Sources said cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz took the man's passport, tied him up, tortured and photographed him until ...

An Italian man was kidnapped and tortured for weeks in a New York City townhouse, allegedly over a Bitcoin password.

John Woeltz was arrested on May 23, court records show. According to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court, ...

John Woeltz also faces charges including unlawful ... but came to a head when the Italian arrived early in the month. After arriving in New York City on May 6, Woeltz and Duplessie allegedly ...

John Woeltz, 37, has been jailed since his arrest ... to a posh townhouse in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, one of the city’s most expensive, by threatening to kill his family.