Excelsior Springs, Missouri kidnapping and murder: What we know [Video]

NOTE: Details in this story may be considered graphic to some. Court documents released after a man was charged with murder are providing horrific details into a kidnapping and rape case that shook a small town in Missouri in 2022.In October 2022, a woman showed up at an Excelsior Springs, Missouri, home pleading for help. She said she’d been taken from Kansas City, held in a small room in a basement, bound, beaten, and raped. Police said she showed “obvious signs” of trauma. She said there were other victims. Now a man, suspect Timothy Haslett Jr., originally charged with rape, kidnapping, and assault, has been charged with murder after authorities linked a second victim to the case.Haslett now faces one count of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of felony kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, and one count of endangering the welfare of a …