Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, have released photos from inside a house where a man was allegedly held captive by his ...

Sesen Tesfay was feeling lonely, down and struggling with an undiagnosed mental illness in the early morning hours after ...

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. His stepmother was charged with cruelty and kidnapping.

He lit a fire with some hand sanitizer, some paper from a printer, and he lit that fire while he was locked in that room from the outside,' a prosecutor said in court on Wednesday, WFSB reported.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. A 32-year-old man set fire to his home Feb. 17 after allegedly being held captive by his stepmother for over 20 years, according to authorities in ...

Sesen Tesfay, the woman accused of starting the 2022 fire in the Peace United Church of Christ, received a stayed sentence.

The man, whose name has not been made public, started the fire with printer paper and hand sanitizer, using a lighter found in his late father’s jacket to ignite the blaze, he told police ...

“I wanted my freedom,” the stepson said, admitting to intentionally starting the blaze using paper from a printer and hand sanitizer. “He lit a fire with some hand sanitizer, some paper from ...