DYERSBURG, Tenn. — A woman told Tennessee police this weekend that she had escaped from a kidnapper who held her in a locked closet for two months.
The woman, who was not named, stopped a man in Dyersburg, Tenn., Saturday afternoon to tell him that she had escaped a kidnapper and needed help.
Dyersburg police officers said in a news release that they were called on Saturday around 1:30 p.m. by the man who said a woman had approached him and told him she had been kidnapped weeks ago and had just escaped.
When officers arrived, they found the woman, 40, hiding under a house. According to WREG, the woman had multiple cuts to her face and weighed less than 100 pounds.
The woman told officers that she was reportedly forced to stay in a locked closet for about two months, the news outlet reported. She said she was only allowed out of the closet for about an hour a day and wasn’t given much food or access to a restroom.
Investigators located the vacant house where the woman said she was being held, police said.
Brenton Bell, 30, was identified by the woman as the man who held her captive, Dyersburg police said.
According to investigators, Bell and the woman were in a relationship, but the woman said it turned physically abusive before Bell locked her in the closet.
Bell is wanted for aggravated kidnapping, according to police. The victim was treated and has since been released from the hospital.
