Man Admits To 62-Year-Old Woman

A story like this usually only happens in Hollywood.  It's awful enough that it would feel over the top, maybe.  From a woman's perspective, it's about as bad as it gets from beginning to end.  The victim survived, which is a miracle.

DALLAS – A man accused of kidnapping a 62-year-old woman and sexually assaulting her over a two-week period confessed to an investigator that he "strung her up" in his garage on a rack used for skinning deer and tortured her, a sheriff's investigator said.

Jeffrey A. Maxwell, 58, told a Texas Ranger after his arrest Saturday that he abducted the woman at gunpoint from her home near Fort Worth, handcuffed her and drove her more than 100 miles to his home in Corsicana, 52 miles south of Dallas, a Parker County sheriff's investigator swore in a probable cause affidavit released Monday. Authorities also indicated that they're looking into whether Maxwell might have been behind the disappearance of two other women, including an ex-wife.

According to the sheriff's investigator, the Ranger said Maxwell told him that once he got the woman home, he "strung her up" on a homemade rack in his garage and sexually assaulted her. Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said Tuesday that the rack was an electric device that enabled Maxwell to hoist the woman off the ground.

There was an established history of harassment between the offender and victim.  This poor woman lived a nightmare.  She had been chosen for torture until death.  It's a terrible story but a good reminder of what can happen, and how dangerous the world can be.