Overview

• The victim escaped on July 2 through an unlocked shed door after at least two weeks of confinement and called 911 from a neighbor’s house.
• Officers found chains, tow straps and a mattress in the backyard shed, supporting her account of prolonged captivity and abuse.
• Court documents detail that Wood struck her with an electrical cord, threatened to saw off her foot, knelt on her neck and buried her in a crawl space.
• She was hospitalized with facial swelling, extensive bruising, bite marks and a fractured rib that medical staff confirmed matched her injuries.
• At his July 9 bond hearing, Wood denied the victim’s account and claimed she “just got out of the loony bin.”