A man blamed for being a serial attacker who is named "The Reaper," is tormented and assaulted a lady he held hostage for two months, Tulsa police have said. The Oklahoma man has been named a suspect in three other comparable episodes.
On 27 August, a 22-year-old lady got away from a van at a Tulsa corner store and requested assistance from a representative, a testimony says. The lady told police she had been held hostage by 60-year-old Victor William Hursh for around two months in the wake of meeting him at a supermarket on 15 June, KOCO News 5 detailed.
Hursh professedly told the casualty, who was destitute, that she could remain at his home. The casualty asserted that once in the home, Hursh became irate at her when she declined to smoke methamphetamine from a pipe.
The casualty asserted Hursh started punching her in the head and face. He at that point supposedly kept her exposed in his room without wanting to for two months, she guaranteed. Hursh would utilize a syringe to infuse her with meth each a few days, the casualty told officers.
Hursh likewise constrained the casualty to take part in sexual acts and tormented her, as per KOCO News 5. The casualty said Hursh would punch her, consume her with cigarettes and choke her. As per the sworn statement, he would lite fireworks and toss them toward her.
The lady said she dreaded for her life. Hursh apparently would point to a silver pistol handgun he kept in his room, undermine to slaughter her dad and child and demonstrated her containers of fade and alkali he said he used to discard another lady who endeavored to get away.
The casualty figured out how to evade amid one of the numerous errand ride alongs he constrained her to make. He was captured four days after the fact outside his home, the Daily Mail revealed. Police additionally grabbed a firearm that was in his ownership at the time.
The sworn statement says Hursh is associated in three different occurrences with assault and hijacking that include three other ladies, in 2015, 2016 and January of this current year.
"The MO of the respondent is comparable in that of compelling the casualties to smoke or infuse methamphetamine and after that utilizing dangers of brutality or genuine savagery to keep the casualty in his habitation, and power the casualty to participate in sex, persuasive homosexuality and assault by instrumentation by the utilization of different sexual gadgets," the oath states.
Hursh has been accused of one tally of first-degree assault, two pennies of second-degree assault, persuasive homosexuality, abducting and ownership of a gun while in the commission of a crime, the Daily Mail detailed.
He has been set up for Tulsa Jail on a $425,000 bond. Hursh's arraignment is booked for Thursday, 7 September.
