Seattlecrime.com has a scoop on a major arrest this evening, involving a man abducting a woman on Aurora Avenue in Seattle, taking her to his home outside of Tacoma and torturing her.
The details are grim, and more than a little disturbing. I’ve included the blockquote after the jump.
Seattle police have arrested a 66-year-old suspected of kidnapping, raping, and torturing a woman in what court documents describe as a “torture room,” inside a mobile home in Tacoma….
The woman started screaming, and was able to get her blindfold off, only to realize she was shackled to the ceiling in Hauff’s “torture chamber” filled with whips, syringes, belts, paddles, “sexual devices,” locks, ropes, chains, tubes, and two devices designed for “administer[ing] electricity to the human body.”
According to court documents, the walls in the “torture room” are eight inches think, “making most sounds—such as screams—emanating from inside the room almost undetectable.”
The woman asked Hauff to let her go, but he told her “no,” put the blindfold on her, and let the room for about 15 minutes. He returned and began plucking out the woman’s pubic hair, and then stuck electrodes to her and began shocking her. He did this for about three hours, police say.
Hauff then used a speculum and catheter on her, and bound her until some of her extremities turned blue.
At one point, she asked Hauff he was going to kill her. According to police, the man told her “we’ll see.” He later threatened to bury her body in his yard, police records say.
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I wouldn’t exactly call it a scoop. The PI, King5, and Komo also all reported it tonight.
of course everyone is going to report on anything this salacious and twisted. this is news manna from human perversity heaven.
Scoop means they had details on it before everybody else.
That poor woman. Aurora sex work is so risky. The spot where the bastard picked her up is six blocks from the mayor’s house, for pete’s sake.
Sounds like her friend didn’t call police at midnight when he or she was supposed to. Good on the hooker for having that bright idea and telling the rapist about it. Bad on the friend for not following through. Get new friends.
@5 EricaP
Absolutely correct! What the fuck is wrong with the safe-call friend?
Coming soon as a movie:
“The Hooker and the Slogger’s Big Day out”
Woo. SeaCrime is the blog equivalent of an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer. So what that Jonah got someone at SPD to call him when this was published in the blotter? Good, uh, reporting there Jonah.
@ 7 Shame on you!! Sex Workers don’t deserve rape and torture just bc they have chosen an unconventional lifestyle. And agreed…what a dipshit safe-call friend
I’m pretty sure a guy doesn’t assemble a dungeon filled with S&M toys for his first assault against some unfortunate lady.
I linked this on twitter yesterday afternoon.
By the way, your headline reads as if the man was kidnapped and tortured and then he raped the woman who had imprisoned and tortured him in the dungeon … a little more care in crafting your ledes might prove useful.
Dexter- where are you?!
Very similar to the strange case of David Parker Ray…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parke…
@11 lol! That is what i read as well!! I was pretty confused for a second.
isnt this uh like standard s&m equipment? like no weird cutting or maiming seemed on order from these details. obviously the abduction and imprisonment is dark, but the other details dont make this that much more creepy.
@15 — The amount, not the type of additional equipment makes this story much, much more creepy.
Well, also the fact that he apparently told her “we’ll see” when asked if he was going to kill her.