Overview

• TMZ’s new videos depict Michael Carturan shirtless and smiling while participating in S&M scenarios, sex acts and cocaine use over a two to three-day period inside the Manhattan townhouse.
• Prosecutors maintain John Woeltz and William Duplessie held Carturan against his will from May 6 to 23 to force him to reveal the password to his roughly $28 million Bitcoin wallet through beatings, shocks and pistol-whipping.
• Carturan’s reclusive parents exchanged WhatsApp messages they believed were from their son during his captivity but only learned of his abduction on May 25 when a family friend intervened.
• Woeltz and Duplessie remain jailed without bail on charges of kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, assault and weapons possession as Duplessie’s lawyer suggests the case could unravel.
• The Italian Consul General in New York is working with US authorities after Carturan’s family traveled to the city to seek support and updates on the investigation.