Overview

• Michael Carturan arrived from Italy on May 6 and was lured to a SoHo townhouse where he was held captive for nearly three weeks.
• Authorities say he was tied with electrical cords, pistol-whipped, shocked with a taser, forced to smoke crack cocaine and threatened with a chainsaw and a ledge drop.
• Carturan escaped on May 23 and flagged down a traffic agent, triggering the arrest of John Woeltz at the scene.
• William Duplessie surrendered on May 27 and now faces the same felony counts as Woeltz, with both denied bail by a judge citing flight risk.
• Inside the rented $30,000–$40,000-per-month townhouse, officers found a saw, chicken wire, body armor, Polaroids of the abuse and ammunition.