An emaciated man, 32, says he was held in his room for 20 years and set it on fire to gain his freedom, according to police.

A Connecticut man says he set a fire in his room to escape a 2o-year-imprisonment at his stepmother’s house, according to the ...

Police in Connecticut are trying to determine how a man could have been held captive in his home for 20 years without anyone ...

When he visited the man in the hospital after the fire, his uncle said, “I was shocked, he looks like a Holocaust survivor.” ...

Waterbury, Connecticut police said the stepson, now 32, weighed just 68 pounds when they found him. His stepmother, Kimberly ...

A former principal of an elementary school in Waterbury claimed that school officials raised several concerns about the boy around 2005 and contacted DCF numerous times.

A Connecticut woman accused of kidnapping a man and holding him captive for over 20 years was arrested Wednesday, police said ...

A woman allegedly held her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forced ...

Officials described the disturbing conditions that a Waterbury, Connecticut, man endured during 20 years of captivity.

Not one soul forgot about you.” That’s Peter Lopes’ message to his former next-door neighbor, who was allegedly held captive by his stepmother for decades. Lopes and his mother, Paula Depina, who we ...