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

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

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

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 ...

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 and William Duplessie, the two men arrested for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting Italian tourist Michael ...

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.