A West Virginia man has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped and tortured a woman by burning her with a torch.
Officers with the Philippi Police Department were called to a residence following a report of a domestic disturbance on Jan. 24, according to a criminal complaint obtained by WBOY.
Officers found the female victim hiding under the porch of the Philippi, West Virginia, residence and told police the suspect, 47-year-old Sammy Martz, “had punched her in the face.”
The female victim told police officers that she “escaped the residence through the rear window and ran from the residence to hide” after Martz “threatened to kill her and burned her stomach and leg with a torch,” it said. the complaint. according to the report.
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Officers found the female victim hiding under the porch of the Philippi, West Virginia, residence and told police the suspect, 47-year-old Sammy Martz, “had punched her in the face.”
(West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Police officers stated in the complaint that the “victim’s eye was swollen shut.”
The victim told police as first responders treated her that Martz was inside the residence and was in possession of a firearm, prompting multiple law enforcement agencies to enter the home and take Martz into custody, police told the outlet. Communication.
Martz told law enforcement officers that he “injured the victim … by beating and burning her with a torch on at least three occasions,” police said.
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Investigators interviewed the female victim at a local hospital and said “she was trying to leave early in the morning” but added that Martz would not let her go for a “4 to 5 hour period,” the complaint said.
Martz used the 4-5 hour period on the female victim to torture her by “beating her all over her body, sitting on her and burning her with a butane torch,” authorities said in the complaint.
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Martz is in custody at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail and was not given bail after being charged with kidnapping.
