A woman who said she was kidnapped and held captive in a closet by her boyfriend for two months managed to escape, leading to the man's arrest, Tenessee police said in a statement Wednesday.
A woman who said she was kidnapped and held captive in a closet by her boyfriend for two months managed to escape, leading to the man's arrest, Tenessee police said in a Police found the woman on March 11 after a man working in Dyersburg, Tennesse, said the woman had approached him and said she had been kidnapped weeks earlier, according to the statement.
"The victim reported that, for approximately two months, she was forced to stay in a closet that was locked by some type of locking device with a cable," the department wrote, adding that she was"only allowed out of the closet for an hour a day."
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