Woman tied up and tortured by boyfriend escapes with help from neighbor, MI cops say

A Michigan woman was tied up and endured hours of torture before she escaped with the help of an armed neighbor, officials said.

The woman, who police have not publicly identified, was being held against her will at a house in Albion, a town roughly 95 miles west from Detroit, the Albion Department of Public Safety said in an Aug. 6 news release.

Police received a call about a domestic violence incident at 4:40 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, but they arrived to find a badly beaten woman who had only narrowly escaped a house of torture, officials said.

Her boyfriend is her accused captor, according to investigators. Starting on the night of Saturday, Aug. 3, he tied her up and beat her, and it only ended when she got away Sunday afternoon, she told police.

She managed to slip out of the house and quickly made a beeline to a neighbor’s home — but she almost didn’t make it, officials said.

The neighbor told police he saw a man attacking the woman outside of his house, and “started dragging her away.” He armed himself and intervened.

“He pulled his gun at (the man) and told him to let her go, and the suspect then fled out of the area,” officials said, then he called authorities.

The violence she suffered was clear to see, as she “had bruising and lacerations throughout most of her body and face,” police said. She was taken to a hospital “with serious injuries, including possible broken bones.”

Responding officers searched the home and discovered two children, ages 9 and 11, in the basement, the release said. Relatives took them in at the scene.

Police launched a search for the boyfriend, who has not been named. He was arrested the next day, Monday at 5 p.m., and was found on the same block where the house was, officials said.

Officials didn’t list any charges.

This story was originally published August 7, 2024 at 11:14 AM with the headline "Woman tied up and tortured by boyfriend escapes with help from neighbor, MI cops say."