A second cryptocurrency investor has surrendered to police in the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man inside an upscale Manhattan apartment.

Shocking details from an ongoing case have emerged after John Woeltz, a purported “Crypto King,” was ... demanding he give over the password to his Bitcoin and was tortured after he refused. The victim was reportedly held over the edge of a building ...

The tortured and wounded victim escaped John Woeltz's house of horrors in an ordeal authorities described as “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “American Psycho."

A man living in a KSh 9.7 million-a-month Manhattan apartment was arrested for kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for weeks to steal his Bitcoin password.

Police in Manhattan arrested Kentucky native John Woeltz, 37, alleging he kidnapped a man and tortured him for weeks to get his Bitcoin password.

John Woeltz, 37, faces multiple charges including kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon.

The Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian businessman in a sadistic attempt to extort his Bitcoin password was ordered held without bail Saturday by a Manhattan judge.

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