Woman held captive as sex slave escapes booby-trapped Idaho home: police Twin Falls
Woman held captive as sex slave escapes booby-trapped Idaho home: police
Twin Falls County Sheriff's detectives arrested Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi, a man living in the U.S. illegally, for the alleged rape and kidnapping of a 27-year-old woman. He reportedly held the woman captive for 18 months.
BY Nicole Hensley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, May 15, 2014, 2:03 PM
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Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi is accused of holding a 27-year-old woman captive in her home, and physically and sexually assaulting her over an 18-month period.
Detectives found a house in Idaho rigged with electrical booby traps after a woman said she escaped and claimed a man chained her up as a sex slave.
The victim pointed Twin Falls County investigators to the rural home of Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi, 36, on the outskirts of Buhl, where they served an arrest warrant, and found a complex construction of restraints, electrical wiring and fencing to keep the alleged victim trapped for nearly two years, according to probable cause documents obtained by the Daily News.
The detectives arrested Ayala-Arizmendi — a man living in the U.S. illegally — on charges of rape, kidnapping and drugs. He appeared in court on Wednesday and was slapped with a $1 million bail.
The 27-year-old victim escaped on April 8 with the help of her brother under the cover of night, she told detectives on April 26. The suspect held her captive for 18 months and forced her to smoke meth once or twice a week.
The documents show the victim began to live with Ayala-Arizmendi more than two years ago, but he began raping and beating her “more times than she could count.” He used a hammer and wood plank at times to hit her.
The woman claimed he would walk her around the house with a rope around her neck “like a dog,” the documents state.
She tried to escape in the past, but he just beat her for it. The man threatened to kill her by holding a pillow and handgun to her head, she said. If she tried to leave the house again, he would “cut her up into small pieces and flush her down the toilet.”
At night, the suspect locked her in the bedroom with him and raped her on several occasions, she said. She had to use a waste basket for a toilet.
The search backed up several details from the victim’s testimony, including the chains and locks mounted to the walls of the home. The investigators also found a bucket with urine in the bedroom, and a mesh of wood and metal entrapping the bedroom.
The windows were boarded up and there were security camera documenting the home.
The investigators found a handgun and box of ammo in the house.
The detectives believe the electrical wiring that surrounded the house was set up to shock anyone who tried to escape. The wires were hooked up to several electrical outlets in the house.
The victim only left Ayala-Arizmendi’s custody about three to four times, but he threatened to hurt her if she didn’t come back.
She only escaped when her brother and his friends came to the house and, through “a show of force and some deception,” he freed her with the clothes on her back, the victim said.
The investigators took note of a bruise on the victim’s body afflicted during rape, she said, that had lasted several weeks since she escaped.
During the arrest, detectives saw Ayala-Arizmendi throw a glass pipe into a bathtub. They later tested the residue positive for meth.
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