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Listener discretion is advised. And that's when, um, he grabbed me really fast to yank me back in there, and I got really startled and scared, and so I screamed.
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It was July of 2022 in a little place we like to talk about a lot, called Florida.
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This time, Boca Raton, a place named after the mouth of a rat. On a suburban street where crime was low and the Tesla count was high, along with a few vandals, I'm sure,
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a group of friends in their mid-20s were standing outside a big yellow stucco house
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in Larkspur Trail before sunrise. One of the friends in the group was a woman who we will refer to as Annie,
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and her girlfriend, who we will call Kate, had been missing for over 12 hours. Annie had this feeling that Kate was inside the yellow house,
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and one of the things that clued her into that was the fact that her car was sitting in the driveway.
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The night before, she had received some strange messages from Kate's phone that did not sound like her.
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Maybe Kate was at a hotel, like the text messages claim, but that didn't seem right, and Annie wanted to be sure.
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The friends had rallied around the house in Larkspur Trail while the cops did their due diligence,
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knocking on doors and windows, announcing themselves to the property owners, but they are met with silence.
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By the looks of it, no one was home. It was hard to tell what was going on. The house on Larkspur was in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood,
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and the day in question was Shabbat, which is the holy day of rest for the Jewish people.
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Shabbat starts at sunset on Friday and ends 24 hours later, at sunset on Saturday.
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And during this time, Jewish people are not allowed to use any forms of technology.
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Orthodox Jews take Shabbat very seriously. And everyone in this neighborhood was on their day of rest, like the good Lord.
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The cops continued knocking and calling out property owners, but no one responded.
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Without cause, they couldn't just break in. I mean, you want cops breaking into your house without permission?
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So the police left. But Kate's friends did not. They were convinced that the police had made a big mistake.
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So one of them called the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office again. There were officers outside of the house of the missing person, and they refused to go inside to retrieve her.
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So I'm just trying to get reconnected with those officers if possible, because they literally hung up on me when I asked for their name and badge number.
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And if you can't reconnect me, then I would like the officers who were dispatched to that call, and I would like their name and badge numbers to be.
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OK, hold on just a second. I never spoke with you, so let me read this. I completely understand. I'm just letting you know what's going on.
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The scene was tense. Annie had already reported Kate missing to the police department near their home, which was in another jurisdiction.
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The dispatch operator had a point but so did the caller And things only escalated from there as they tend to do when one party is emotionally charged
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Like I just said, we have a missing person sitting in that house with a mentally ill patient.
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But if you want my name, my name is John Doe. Now, please tell me the officers who were dispatched to 22147 Lake Spurt Trail.
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And don't ask me another bullshit about this. Okay, I can't give you any information because I don't show that name listed on the person who called.
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Oh, so if I called on a star six seven number, you guys got that on fire, right?
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Come on, man. Let's not play this game. I don't do this. Like, there's a missing person right here.
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This is our friend. This is our loved one. Okay, and I'm trying to help you. Listen, no one's here to say.
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No, you're not. No, you're not. You're playing some shit game with me. Don't play the game with me.
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2-2-1-4-7, Lakesford Trail. Which officers were dispatched to that call? Are you at that location right now?
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Yeah, I am. So which officers were dispatched to that call? Go ahead and speak with the officers that are on scene if you're there.
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But the police had left. However, this caller was too heated to relay that. Ma'am, are you going to hang up on me too?
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Is there anything else I can help you with? I'm not giving you an officer. Absolutely there is.
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Okay, you can contact the records division. Officer's name and badge number. You can contact the records division during normal business hours.
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forget that information. I'm not going to give you... Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
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Ma'am. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
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No, ma'am, you... What are you doing right now? You're acting like I'm not calling, like, with emotion and care right now
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because I care for one of my friends. You're acting like I'm another fucking random robot in the world.
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Like, can you please help me right now? Of course. I'm willing to help you. I'm actually...
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and we are trying to help her. And the officers outside of her house who refuse to go in there
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and literally save her from this mentally ill person hung up on me. So can you please help me?
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Why not just say your name? If it's the emergency you say it is, I mean, say your name, right?
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The dispatch operator told the caller that she would contact an officer and have them call them back.
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That was all she could do from the 911 line. I mean, you can't just call up 911 and start obtaining personal information about prior calls.
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There are rules and procedures for a reason, to protect the public. That's when a calmer friend took over the phone and gave his number to the operator.
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Then they waited. As intense as it was, that 911 exchange worked because more officers were soon sent back to the scene.
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This time, they heard something that made them second guess if Annie and her friends had been right.
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We would dispatch to this location approximately 645 this morning sometime, roughly, in reference to assisting Lantana PD in recovering a missing persons from their jurisdiction.
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I arrived here with my trainee deputy parent. We arrived here and met with the complainant who filed the original missing person's report with Lantana Police Department.
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I cannot recall her name right now. She told us that she believes her girlfriend is inside that house.
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And she did report her, in fact, with Lantana Police Department last night. Asked her how does she know she's in there.
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She goes, well, her car is here. Okay. Originally, we were trying to gather as much information as we can. Things were not really that clear, but it became clear later on when other deputies arrived that she is a therapist and she came here to meet a client.
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Kate was a social worker who had been sent to the Yellow House on Larkspur by her boss to check on a client. Soon, the officers found themselves walking around the perimeter of the house, knocking on doors and windows.
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Repeatedly, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Got no answer. We did notice that the window to the door was obscured with something.
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We didn't know that that was all right. We had that conversation. But anyhow, we went.
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A window in the house? No, the front door. Okay. Because we were trying to look in the glass.
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I got it. See if we could see anything in the house. The obvious front windows had the blinds closed.
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We continued around the outside of the house to see if we did it again, see if we could see anything inside the house.
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As we're going around the house, we're at the rear of the house now on the pull deck.
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There is a big sliding glass. It's a double sliding glass door. We kind of pulled on that.
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Hey, you know, try to save it open. And when we were at the door, I don't know, but at the moment we pulled it or let go or whatever,
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we heard a very loud scream, female, clearly, from inside the house. And that's all we heard.
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And we confirmed, we checked. Hey, did you hear that? Yeah, I heard that. I heard that. Came back to the front of the house, the component from who filed the missing person report.
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I go, did you hear that? She goes, I heard that. Did you guys hear that? So she heard the scream also from inside the house.
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And I confirmed we all heard something from inside the house. I think it was before we came around the front of the house, my training got on the radio and made an announcement that we heard a scream come from inside the house.
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Upon hearing the scream, the officers immediately called their sergeant who drove to the scene.
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As Annie and her friends huddled on the sidewalk watching, the officers briefed one another.
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There was something about a 22 year old I don think we had that This was a patient I not I don remember what the time frame was but I don think we had that right away because I think that what we trying to figure out is
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Who's the parents? Where are they at? There's two kids that live in the house. It's a 26 year old female, 22 year old male. So we had that.
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So the conversation we're having where we're standing front doors, hey, is this a fall final or is this an affair?
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she got caught and it's that. Hours passed and more details began to unravel as the day broke.
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Kate was a 26-year-old social worker and the client she had gone to meet was a 20-year-old
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man who lived on the house at Larkspur. But the cop was right. There were many ways this could
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play out and one of them could have been an affair. So something about this still wasn't right
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And there was another option. It's a call for no, but you can write that shit up.
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I said, we'll fucking kick the goddamn door at you. The officer who originally heard the scream confirmed that it sounded off.
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So the sergeant called his lieutenant, and the two decided to have fire and rescue come break the door.
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That way, if it did turn out to be a false alarm, the homeowners would be left with minimal damage.
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And then we start getting more details. And one of the details was that the doctor who is caring for this kid.
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So now we know it's the kid is the patient. The 22 year old is the patient. The doctor who's caring for the kid sent her here on assignment at 6 p.m. last night.
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And I don't know if it was him or the girlfriend. Somebody told us they got a text message saying I made contact.
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I think it was the doctor. I made contact. He let me in the house. So now we have that information.
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After realizing that Kate was potentially inside the house with a mentally ill patient,
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the cops knew they had to get in immediately. We're getting a fire arrest so you cut the locks, that's what it wasn't.
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So that's what we're planning for. L.T. Cohen shows up. So at this point, we're pinging the phone.
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So now we're kind of doing like the extra, like, hold on, let's just make sure this isn't
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some 26-year-old that ran off of a 22-year-old. So we're pinging phones. We're trying to get everybody's number.
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This whole time, you know, hey, you, a deputy is being tasked with get the parents on the phone.
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We can't get the parents. We know the neighbors close to the parents are out of town.
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And it's, I don't know what holiday or what Saturday is to the Jewish religion, but something about on Saturday they can't use phones.
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So we knew that. They don't usually try to send their used phones. Remember that it was Saturday of Shabbat.
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So the All Swangs weren't permitted to use technology. So no one could reach them on their cell phones.
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And while we're paying the phone, Canaan's on the way, Dronin's on the way. We get,
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this match says, her telephone number, came at 7 a.m. in Deerfield Beach. So that kind of put the brakes on us,
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which I regret doing. I'm just mad that they waited. And it's nobody's fault. Just checking the fucking promises.
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So they waited. They followed the protocol, like the sergeant said, checking all the fucking boxes.
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But time was ticking and Kate was potentially inside the house. No one had heard a peep from inside since the first scream.
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Then they received information that the cell phone ping was off. Finally, it was time to go in.
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So once everybody gets into the house, and I'll be honest, I don't even know how many people in it.
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Sure. because it ended up being everybody. Once they get into the house, myself and Sergeant McGarris go into the house.
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So stick teams in front of us. So you went in? Yes. And now I'm in the front door.
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There was a room to the right. I did not go into it. At this point, I have my gun out.
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We're kind of clearing behind them, opening closet doors as they're making their way through.
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The officers began thundering through the quiet house, opening closets and checking rooms with their weapons drawn and their shields ready.
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And then I start making my way to the other side of the house and they start saying,
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hey, we got a locked door. We got a locked door. At the back of the house, off a bedroom, the cops found a locked door and
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knew the scream had to have come from inside. A female officer opened the door and was stunned at what she saw hiding in the back of the closet.
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At first, I was like, okay, you kind of do that glance, like, oh, it's clear, nothing in here.
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Then I'm like, no, no, no. Assessing. No, there's people in here. I now see a man and a female when I saw them.
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I'm now trying to figure out what I got. At first, it looked like he just was choking her out.
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At the back of the closet was Tsi Alswang, the 20-year-old patient. And he had Kate in his grasp.
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Tsi, what a name. I guess his parents didn't like vowels. So they're now talking to me.
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What do you got? What do you got? What do you got? I'm trying to access processing.
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I'm like, okay, I see he's got her, you know, and then I'm like, okay, now I'm seeing the
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knife. I'm like, knife. He's got a knife. At this point, as I'm talking, the gear slides in.
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Where was the knife? Shiny. Intelliction to her body. Neck. Got it at her neck. What was she doing?
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Did she say anything? No, she was dead silent. she was staring at me like scared did he say anything no not he's right here he's just there
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not moving she has her hands up uh like chest maybe like even in her throat like kind of doing
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this and like uh eckert phones her against her throat and the knife was either on the thumb or right above it it was right there And Will starts giving him commands You don want to do this You don have to do this You know there a better way He talking Drop knife drop knife
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Then he starts to communicate. Hey, come on, man. Just talk to me. Just talk to me.
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Just talk to me. And literally, as I'm behind him, I see the knife to me. And I'm thinking this to myself.
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I shouldn't know. I'm thinking this to myself. I'm like, man, this fucking knife's going to come through.
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And he's shocked. Okay. Shot the guy in the head. He dropped. He'd go in. It all happened in a flash.
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The shot rang out a hundred times as loud in that tiny closet. It hit Z and he dropped to the ground.
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Kate was free. She was grabbed, taken out of the room. A couple deputies took her out of the house.
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People moved in. I handcuffed the subject. At that time, he starts speaking. I can't tell you what he was saying. It's not because I don't know, I just don't remember.
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And it wasn't like it was gurgling. He was actually communicating words. He was saying something.
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Then he starts hitting the ground. An officer grabbed a towel and pressed it on Z's gunshot wound as they handcuffed him to the gurney
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and wheeled him out of his parents' $1.5 million bungalow. Outside, Kate's friends rejoiced.
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but now it was time to take her to the hospital and find out exactly what happened
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on Larkspur Trail. Palm Beach County Sheriff's had spent the early morning hours in a SWAT-style takedown
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at a home in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Boca Raton. A missing 26-year-old social worker had been trapped inside with her 22-year-old client, Z. Allswang,
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for the last 15 hours or so. The social worker's girlfriend, Annie, had reported her missing the evening before,
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but it took until the next morning to find Kate and get into the All Swangs' house.
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When they did, the police found Kate trapped in a closet being held at knife point by Z.
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When he refused to comply, an officer shot him and saved Kate's life. It was an incredible and terrifying scene.
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Now Kate was in the hospital recovering from the kidnapping and was ready to tell police what happened to her inside that house.
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Kate's identity had been protected, and since we want to honor that, the details of her exact employment status will remain confidential.
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Despite what you might have heard on certain forums, where people who spend all of their time online hang out,
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we do not dox victims. And if we do make a mistake, we typically correct it within 24 hours.
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Anyway, back to the story. You just need to know that she was finishing up her degree to become a counselor,
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and she worked for a mental health practice, of all things, that had Z all swing as a client.
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She was tasked to help him find employment and to help him figure out how to exist in the adult world,
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because obviously he was having trouble doing it. Z wasn't a normal 22-year-old.
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Despite his privileged upbringing and resources, he was floundering. Kate had a big morning at work, and the last client of the day was Zee.
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Everything was kind of smooth sailing. Went through and saw the rest of the clients for the day,
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and then I had Smee scheduled for originally 4 or 5.30. Smee pushed it back to 6 p.m.
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He didn't have a particular reason, but I was willing to be flexible because it's been a challenging start for him to accept therapeutic services.
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And this is something that's not uncommon, especially in case management, to have some clients that might be really stuck in life
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or really struggling to need additional support in order to get them on track and everything.
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Kate drove up to Z's parents' house like she had done for the last month she'd been working with them.
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She met with Z there, and they would have their session in the den. while his parents stayed in the living room.
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Kate only had about four or five sessions with him, so she didn't know him all that well just yet.
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But what she did know was that he was socially off. I guess what I would say that would be unusual with Sfi
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was that he was a little off at times, meaning that Sfi was not fully able to be present in conversation and engage.
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and this was something that dad was particularly concerned about in terms of there being any
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cognitive deficits that might be present along with the clinical team. In addition to that,
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dad would always make remarks to Courtney, who was his primary therapist, who is his primary
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therapist, and I was the case manager on the case, would mention to Courtney that
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Sfi's dad was very scared of Sfi and wouldn't necessarily give any context to it.
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Then I started speaking with dad a little bit more often because he's a very, you know,
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overprotective and involved parent in Sfi's life. And he had disclosed that Sfi had a history of sexual assault in my life.
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where he was convicted, and the case was ultimately sealed and resolved in the sense that he did his service,
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he did his community service, that he did his, you know, time. He went to court-mandated counseling, and the therapist at that time had given him a clear bill of health.
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Spie, however, had never opened up about that side of his history, even when directly asked about it.
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So Z had a history of assault on his record, but it was sealed and obviously no one thought it was too big of a deal to deny him home visits.
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Kate waited at the front door for someone to answer. Z swung it open and let her inside the cool, air-conditioned Florida home.
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So, you know, I go in with him and right off the bat, he's a little bit more talkative than he normally is.
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he's a little bit more engaged. He's asking a lot more, he's asking a lot more questions about me to get to know me.
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And I looked at it from a perspective of, okay, we can focus on report building.
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Kate was a little surprised by Z's new attitude, but saw it as positive. Then they sat down for their usual meeting.
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While we were meeting for a regular case management discussion, which was rapport building, job discussion, and a little bit more about getting to know each other.
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Svi had gotten up a few times, either citing that Svi needed to go to the bathroom,
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that Svi needed to go get some water, and I didn't think anything of it at the time.
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So then when I got up to leave, when our time was over, he kept trying to persuade me to stay.
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and saying that he wanted me to help him with more things. Kate kept it professional and told him that she had to go.
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They could schedule another time to meet next week. As she walked towards the door, she noticed that all the blinds in the house had been shut.
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In that moment, her stomach flipped. She picked up her pace towards the front door and realized
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that it had now been covered with black plastic and duct tape. And as I was about to get to the door, which I never made it to,
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he um put his arms around me and put his body weight on me and he was squeezing me really tight
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and I kept saying Speed what are you doing? What are you doing? He was trying to kiss my neck
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and he was trying to overpower me and he started dragging me back into the living room
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and and at that point I was resisting and he didn't like that. So he, um, he started grabbing my hands,
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like this with his, really tightly. And I have, you know, his hand works here from it.
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And I tried to struggle and break free multiple times to which was met with his first round of
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beating me, which included punches in the face, being neat in the gut just to get me to calm down and be compliant.
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Kate fought as hard as she could, but Z was strong, tall, and overpowered her. I bit his hand at one point.
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You know, I tried to kick him out in his scrotum. I tried everything I could, and he let me know that there wasn't anything you can do,
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and then he was much stronger than me. Well, there was this struggle going on and he was trying, putting his body weight on me
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and trying to subdue me and trying to end hurting me. He kept wanting me to sit on his lap.
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And at this point he had obviously had, he had a hard penis. And he kept wanting me to sit on his lap.
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Pulling me on his lap. It was so quiet in the house. Just the sound of the air conditioner humming and Z's grunts and struggles as he yanked Kate back every time she tried to get away.
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He would squeeze her towards his body and smack her any time she fought. So Kate dug into her social worker toolkit and tried another approach.
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So that's when I switched to the rapport building. you know just to try to talk to him get to know him more figure out what you know his game plan
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is here and then i moved next to him which he let me do while he was holding my wrist he was really
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really angry at me and he seemed really odd at this point to a place where sphi was sounding
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you know delusional he was unable to listen to any logic he was unable to listen to any reason
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he couldn't comprehend or try to see my perspective or engage in a rational discussion
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and he said that the reason he was so angry at me and was doing all of this was because at our previous meeting he had told me by accident that he had applied to a job in
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Pennsylvania. So I reported to dad that he had applied to a job in Pennsylvania. And
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then Sfi had corrected himself and said, oh, never mind, it wasn't a job in Pennsylvania.
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And I had not followed up with Sfi dad about that But Sfi dad confronted Sfi about this miscommunication about the location of jobs he was applying to
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And Sfi thought that I was doing that to make him look bad, to steal his family's money, and to ultimately try to make Sfi need to spend more time with me.
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He held Kate's wrists tightly like a human handcuff, and he explained all this to her.
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She was terrified, and she started pleading. was first driving me into the room.
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He was very methodical in wanting to take my bag and my phone away from me. And that's where he started calling me a dumb bitch
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and telling me that I'm just a hoe that wants money and asking me how much I make
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and asking me what I'd like to do with that money. At that point, I really focused on a very calm and collected tone
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saying, so that was his reasoning. He was mad that Kate had reported something he felt was incorrect to his father.
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That's how sick and delusional this kid was. Kate kept trying to talk to him, but it wasn't working.
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He went to go for abductive and behind me with my hands like this behind my back
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and he put a lot on you know telling me that he didn't want me to be able to get loose and that he knows
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all the tricks I could pull and that he thought this through and at that point I was like
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I'm gonna be in this for a while and then after that while I was bound he got my phone
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and was trying to convince me to give him my phone password, and I didn't want to give him my phone password.
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So I lied or tried to give him the wrong ones and tried to have him type in the wrong ones enough times
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so that it would disable my phone. And he told me he knew my tricks. He knew what I was doing.
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And that's when he started to beat me again. Z beat Kate again until she was face down on the floor.
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Still want to be a social worker? Yeah, I'm talking to you. And when he had me overpowered on the floor,
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and my knees were on the floor, and he put my hand into the couch, and he put his hand on the back of my head,
00:33:07
and he said, you know what would happen if I smashed this radio? You know, you would be dead throughout this process.
00:33:16
throughout the struggle. He is trying to grope me. He is rubbing me over my pants,
00:33:23
on my vagina. He is grabbing my ass. All of this is mixed into the struggle. So I knew at some point
00:33:31
that that was most likely coming. He was really well planned at times. And other times it just seemed like
00:33:39
he didn't know what was going on or he wasn't totally there or things just weren't connecting or adding up.
00:33:45
It was really strange and scary because it was so volatile and unpredictable. Part of his plan was to make sure that no one could reach Kate.
00:33:55
He wanted to wrap our phones in tinfoil and put them on airplane mode. I noticed on his phone he was using this VPN.
00:34:05
He was saying strange things about how his location could be tracked or pinged. He was talking about, you know, odd things related to people watching him and being able to see him and hear him.
00:34:19
Like, for example, like, he did let me go to the bathroom if he took me in there and watched me.
00:34:24
But he wouldn't let me flush the toilet because that would make too much noise. And he would cover my mouth if I started to speak any louder than a whisper.
00:34:33
Back at Kate and Annie's house, Annie was beginning to become worried when Kate never came home.
00:34:39
she's supposed to be home by like 6 30 when it was 7 30 that's when i texted her where are you
00:34:45
and the message didn't go through it went straight to like the green text bubble so then i was
00:34:51
sending uh just like question marks and then i was like are you good hello i'm concerned and then
00:34:56
i'm like what the fuck hello are you okay where are you are you okay and then i was like i'm gonna
00:35:01
have to call her boss um and then i was like hello please are you okay and then then randomly
00:35:08
it turned back to blue like her phone went back on and then I got the text message quote oh my god
00:35:16
I got pulled over on my way cop thought I was drunk taking me to station I'm going to take
00:35:22
blood test there because the cop is a dick love you see you later and what time was that at that
00:35:27
was at 9 13 at that point he took me over into the bedroom closest to the front door and that was
00:35:35
the first time he forced me to have sex with him i convinced him convinced him to wear a condom
00:35:44
thank god tried to tell me his pullout game was strong um and then he put me on the bed
00:35:53
and he put the condom on and like i was dry like i it hurt and i told him that i was like this is uncomfortable like I don like this this doesn feel right You know like I not into it right now And he like was fixated on me calling him daddy and putting it in him anyway and putting it in me anyway
00:36:15
Which he did as I was lying down. He was barreling over me with his full body weight on top of me.
00:36:22
And I remember just thinking, when is this going to be over? When is he going to finish?
00:36:28
Because this isn't going to stop until he's done. So it did. At this point, he was tired, and he wanted me to go to sleep.
00:36:36
And I told him I was not going to go to sleep, that I was too scared, that I was too anxious,
00:36:42
that, you know, I'm not hungry. He offered to give me, like, melatonin and, like, sleeping aids, and I told him I don't want any of that.
00:36:50
I said, like, I can't sleep. Like, when are you going to let me go? And this was something that I kept reiterating the whole time.
00:36:59
When is he going to let me go? After he raped her, Z decided to follow up with Annie on Kate's phone.
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So then I'm saying, what the hell is happening? Only three messages got delivered, and then the phone was turned back off.
00:37:14
And then nothing. I just was, like, blowing up her phone, trying to see if anything got sent.
00:37:19
Okay. And then I got a text message at 12, 28 a.m. Hey, sorry, I never got back to you.
00:37:26
I'm fine. They got me a hotel room for all the shit they put me through. I'm still kind of shook.
00:37:31
I'm staying here tonight. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now. Good night.
00:37:35
Which just did not sound like her. That's not how she normally texts? Not how she usually texts.
00:37:41
In five and a half years, we've had three nights apart because we were on vacation.
00:37:45
And also, a cop. the whole thing about going up for a blood test sounded sketchy to begin with because i she was
00:37:52
she was coming from a client you know like and she if she did have one drink with someone and
00:37:56
she was pulled over and she refused a breathalyzer like it just didn't make any sense to me
00:38:00
um and then when she said that the cops got her a hotel room for all the trouble she caused that
00:38:06
was a major red flag and i immediately called the police back and then that's when i because
00:38:11
before then i was calling just to see if she had been arrested for drinking and driving or if anyone
00:38:16
got brought in for like a field sobriety test or something like that. Did you call 911 or what
00:38:20
number did you call for the police? No, I was calling the Boynton Police Department. I called
00:38:24
the Delray Department. I called the BOCA. I called the county office and the sheriff's office and no
00:38:32
one had any records of her. Z thought that his pathetic messages to Annie would keep her at bay.
00:38:39
But Kate also did something smart. She never let Z know that Annie was her girlfriend.
00:38:46
She told him that Annie was her roommate, which probably helped him underestimate how hard Annie would be looking for her.
00:38:53
I told him I wasn't going to go to sleep. And we were back on the living room couch at this point.
00:39:01
And he was ready for round two with sex. And I told him that I was still sore and in pain and that I wasn't in the mood.
00:39:10
and then he said again, if you ever want to get out of here, if you want to be able to leave,
00:39:17
then we're going to need to figure out something that works for us. This guy is such an unbelievable monster.
00:39:24
Listening to this poor woman recount what undoubtedly is the most terrifying experience of her life is heart-wrenching.
00:39:31
This young man deserves to be locked away for the rest of his life, regardless of any mental health issues he might have.
00:39:40
because it ain't an excuse. If you act like an animal, you belong in a cage. And the same thing happened again,
00:39:50
except this time he couldn't get it inside of me because I was just too dry and I was just wailing in pain.
00:39:58
I told him I didn't want it. And then he said I need to suck him off. So I sucked him off, you know, with his hands there.
00:40:06
and and then he came all over me in my hair on my face on my chest on my own sports
00:40:18
where I have it on here right now and my hair is out and at this point he wanted me to change into his clothes
00:40:27
or shower and I told him that I was okay that I wanted to stay in these clothes and then I really started
00:40:35
after that to plead with him more about when he was going to let me go. You know, it's
00:40:41
hard for me to necessarily sequence because it comes in flashes. At some point within the beginning part of it,
00:40:51
though, he had tried to use a heavy-duty sex toy that he had on me to try to simulate
00:41:03
these. And I told him it hurt and i told him you know that it hurt because he didn't even know well kate was trapped
00:41:12
in hell and he had rallied some support and was not giving up on finding her girlfriend her boss
00:41:20
he's also like the rest of this community orthodox jewish so he does not use electronics so all night
00:41:27
i knew that like she was with her client so i was trying to get in contact with him to just find out
00:41:31
like if he heard anything that there was an issue with her boss or the client the boss okay um but
00:41:37
he was not answering the phone because he doesn't use electronics during shabbat um so but i didn't
00:41:44
really care at that point so i was just continuously blowing up his phone and he finally called me back
00:41:48
at 3 a and i explained the situation i was like i need the address of the last of the last client she was gonna see and he gave it to me and that this house And then I called back the Lantana police department because at that point I had already
00:42:05
filed a missing persons report. All right. So you did speak to Lantana. Okay. Yeah. When her mom called Lantana, the police then came to my house, like my apartment,
00:42:14
and we discussed everything. They went down and checked all the files to make sure she wasn't in
00:42:20
any systems anywhere and then came back up and then gave me the option to make a police
00:42:25
a missing person report so that's what I did. And what time was that at? Did they come in?
00:42:29
Probably around like 1 a.m., 1.30. So at that point he started to express how he's had like a history of suicide and that he's not planning on letting me go
00:42:41
and I kept at this point trying to get him to turn on his phone just to maybe like see if you
00:42:49
know if anyone's called or there's someone he can talk to and like figure out another way out of
00:42:54
this like that it doesn't have to escalate this whole big thing and then he said he's fucked and
00:42:59
that he's sorry and at that point he didn't have any hope anymore and he wanted to take us down
00:43:06
together and he was frustrated she had checked with every police station and filed a missing
00:43:12
persons report. There was nothing left to do except go to Kate's last known address herself
00:43:18
and knock on the door. So Annie, along with some friends, drove over to Z's house on
00:43:25
Larkspur Trail at 4 a.m. and took matters into her own hands. And what did you see or hear when you got here?
00:43:33
Nothing. I saw her car in the driveway and I was just banging on the door and like walking around
00:43:40
the house and my friend stopped me from using a rock to try to crack the window even though I
00:43:45
probably wouldn't have done anything. Kate could hear the knocks and doorbell rings from inside the
00:43:50
house but Z had grabbed a large butcher knife from the kitchen and told her that if she made a sound
00:43:57
he'd kill her. Outside, Annie was calling Kate's name and waiting. Of course, they couldn't break in, so they tried to talk to some neighbors.
00:44:41
Six o'clock, I knocked on the neighbor's door just because I noticed that he had a ring camera.
00:44:45
So I just wanted to know if, like, because it's facing the street, so you would have saw her car drive past that house.
00:44:52
So it's like, okay, we know she came here, but did she ever leave with the client like how they were supposed to, or did she only ever get here?
00:45:00
And he told me it was Shabbat, and he could not help me. I know religion is important to some people, but can you imagine if that was your loved one inside?
00:45:10
As the knocks grew more frequent and police arrived on scene, Z began to freak out and dragged Kate into his parents' closet.
00:45:20
That's when she let out that fateful scream. That was the one time that kind of gave confirmation that it's like, hi, I'm here.
00:45:29
I screamed when he was taking me. From the main part of the house with like the living room area in the bedrooms we had been in over to his parents bedroom and closet
00:45:41
You know at that point the cops were around And he was starting to get rid he himself was getting really scared at one point. He asked me to feel his heartbeat
00:45:50
It was also getting weirdly turned on And he kept asking me to fuck in the closet and I kept telling him no no no like I don't want this anymore
00:46:01
And I still had to cuddle him You know, with his heart beating up against me. Every time I tried to move away while we were laying on the floor in the closet,
00:46:12
he would pull me back in. Ms. Kate was being held in the closet with Zee trying to rape her again
00:46:19
while the cops surveyed the perimeter of the house. Annie waited with her friends outside and talked with the officers.
00:46:27
She was getting fed up. I waited here and then when they got back here, two of them showed up
00:46:32
And I explained the situation, and they did their little walk around, and then they were in the back, and they came up, and me and all my friends heard it.
00:46:42
We all heard a scream, and they came in, and they said, you guys heard that too?
00:46:46
And we said yes, and then it still took three hours for them to get inside that house.
00:46:51
So many things went wrong during those hours, while the police figured out if they could get inside.
00:46:58
Like the sergeant at the top of the episode said, just check in all the fucking boxes.
00:47:03
But while they were handling protocol, Kate was stuck in a closet being held at knife point
00:47:08
by a deranged 20-year-old who had repeatedly raped her for the last 15 hours. I mean, fuck protocol.
00:47:16
They laughed and they told me and my friends to go get breakfast while we were sitting out here begging them to go inside.
00:47:23
And then when I did get them to sleep briefly for the two seconds, And she was telling me that the only thing that kept her going was hearing me yell at the cops outside to do something.
00:47:31
So I just don't understand how this can be the correct way to handle this situation,
00:47:36
to have your deputies be telling us that we should be going for breakfast and brunch when this was happening
00:47:42
and chit-chatting with the neighbors who were outside drinking their coffee, watching us have mental breakdowns on the road because no one's doing anything.
00:47:50
How could anyone have known what was happening inside that house? the cops had to play it safe
00:47:55
to avoid being liable and Annie was emotional and her gut firmly telling her that her girlfriend was in trouble and was behind those doors.
00:48:06
But finally, they got in. And eventually, more and more knocks started to come more frequently.
00:48:13
And he eventually heard the drill of the door, or the saw of the door that was going to be knocked down.
00:48:20
He wouldn't give me any answers, but he just told me, he was like, I need you to do exactly what I say, you know, and telling me that I can't say a word,
00:48:28
and then I say a word that I'm going to be dead. So he holds me up in the closet behind me with me in front of him,
00:48:37
and he pulls out the knife, and he has it up to my neck, and then he says, wait a minute.
00:48:43
And then he is going through his mom's clothing, and he picks out a dress of hers and asks me to hold it up and hold it.
00:48:54
and I tried to put the hook of it, you know, over my neck so that he couldn't, you know, cut it,
00:49:00
but he picked up on that and he lowered my hand and he held with his hand this arm down
00:49:06
and put the knife up to my throat and waited for the cops to come. And he had been saying how hopeless he was.
00:49:17
And at this point I was shaking and crying and just saying, please let me go. It doesn't have to be this way.
00:49:23
We can do something else. Like, please, I'm scared. Like, please don't hold the knife up to my throat.
00:49:28
That's when the female officer broke in the locked door and found Kate and Zee huddled at the back of the closet.
00:49:35
The long silver blade held tightly against her neck. Then all the police swarmed in.
00:49:42
Within a matter of seconds, a gunshot went off. And I heard it in this ear, and then a ringing came on.
00:49:49
I couldn't look back and I was shuffled out of there Z Allswang was shot in the front of the head
00:49:58
the bullet hit him right above his left eyebrow it's not like it is in the movies
00:50:04
if you give them an opportunity they will shoot you dead if you're threatening someone with a knife
00:50:09
this one was a near bullseye and the most shocking thing of all was he survived the 20 year old rapist and kidnapper
00:50:19
would have to face what he did on that horrible Shabbat Saturday Zee showed up in court in a wheelchair with a plastic beige helmet on his head He was charged with first degree attempted murder kidnapping and several sexual battery charges
00:50:39
No one in his family attended his court appearances or spoke to the media on his behalf.
00:50:44
Remember how Kate mentioned that Zee had a previous sexual assault charge that had been
00:50:48
sealed. It was also for rape, and he served not a minute of jail time because the victim's family
00:50:56
did not press charges. He was let out back into the free world, a rapist. Can you believe that?
00:51:05
Yeah, these are the court papers right here that detail a 15-year-old girl's accusation that Svee
00:51:09
Oswang raped her. Oswang was 16 at the time, and the victim's attorney told me tonight
00:51:14
Because of Allswang's age and his lack of criminal history, they decided to give him a break.
00:51:20
It's a decision they'd all now like to have back. Even Z's first victim's lawyer regretted underestimating how dangerous this man really was.
00:51:31
So because of his young age and the fact he had never been arrested before, Rotterman and the prosecutor agreed to ask the judge to go easy on Allswang.
00:51:40
That we would agree to probation with the special conditions that he undergo an evaluation and any kind of follow-up treatment.
00:51:47
The judge agreed, and Rotterman says even the victim's family was on board with Oswang only getting probation.
00:51:53
Zee had planned Kate's attack out carefully. The police were able to obtain video footage of him buying plastic bags and other supplies from Party City, of all places, before the kidnapping.
00:52:06
And check this out. This is the part that should sound some alarm bells and teach you a little bit of a lesson about how the world works.
00:52:14
Zee Allswing, this rapist, chose Shabbat, a religious holiday, because he knew that no one in the neighborhood
00:52:23
would be using their cell phones, ring cameras, or any other electronic device. Shabbat meant the Jewish world was turned off,
00:52:32
so even Zee's parents would be out of communication and out of town. That bought him a lot of time,
00:52:40
a lot of leeway, and he knew it. Even Kate's boss was an Orthodox Jew. Z knew this too.
00:52:50
His sick plan would only work on this quiet holy day What a sick fuck Remember Z was angry with Kate for relaying the wrong information to his father about a
00:53:03
job application. Like, that was a justifiable reason for anything. In his twisted mind, Z thought that this was the perfect excuse to kidnap, rape, and torture
00:53:15
the woman who was assigned to help him. The judge showed Z no mercy, and thank God for that.
00:53:23
He handed him down four life sentences for his crimes to make sure that he would never be able to hurt another woman ever again.
00:53:35
Kate lived through a woman's worst fear, but she survived. I have to think that her education and social work helped her survive this situation.
00:53:45
It must have. She used her compassion to her advantage and was wise enough to trick her kidnapper into thinking that the girl he was texting was only a roommate, not her beloved girlfriend of five years.
00:53:59
So many things went wrong in this story between the cops and Kate's friends and family.
00:54:06
But the most important thing is that Kate should have never been allowed to be alone with Z.
00:54:11
He had a history of sexual violence and rape. Men who do this are going to do it again.
00:54:20
Letting Z off so easily the first time only told his underdeveloped brain that he could possibly get away with this kind of behavior again.
00:54:31
But this time he took it too far and he underestimated Kate's prowess and Annie's devotion
00:54:38
despite the cop's missteps. This truly is a story of love. Annie saved Kate. She never gave up, and she trusted her gut
00:54:49
even when the cops were moving too slow or telling her that they just had to follow protocol.
00:54:56
This was simply not acceptable. Annie's love for Kate is what saved her. And that, in its own way,
00:55:06
is what makes this tragic story kind of beautiful. Well I hope that by the time you hear this story we done with all that replacing cops with social workers bullshit
00:55:32
Perhaps we should stop listening to people that come up with really retarded ideas like that.
00:55:39
But I'm sure those of you that believe that sort of nonsense will just complain and whine instead, like you always do.
00:55:47
Maybe just leave the adulting to adults. Adults have a way of being able to keep you safe.
00:55:56
Then again, the cops weren't really adulting, were they? I don't know. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
00:56:03
But I do think we need to stop making excuses for those with mental illness. Just because you have an illness doesn't mean you're not responsible for your actions.
00:56:14
I think we need to stop selling that lie. because even at the height of madness,
00:56:22
you still have choices to make. And those choices say who and what you are fundamentally.
00:56:33
So, sorry if you don't like that and your kid's mentally ill. It's just the cost of living in a society.
00:56:41
The good of all outweighs. Thank you. Thank you. you