Crypto King of Kentucky - John Woeltz

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Stove Leg Media

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today's story is about a chilling 17-day ordeal that unfolded behind the doors of a luxurious Manhattan townhouse. When a 28-year-old Italian man traveled to New York under the promise of reclaiming stolen Bitcoin, he instead found himself the victim of a harrowing kidnapping. Bound, beaten, drugged, and tortured for his cryptocurrency password, the victim faced death threats and unimaginable abuse—all in pursuit of digital wealth. It’s a true crime story that exposes the high-stakes danger lurking in the shadowy corners of the crypto world.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media
0:02.6	Igniting Conversation
0:04.4	Welcome to trick on to go.
0:14.4	What can I get for you?
0:16.3	Man, I'm, I am just broke.
0:18.2	Do you have anything, like, even cheaper than the dollar menu? Wait, I got an idea.
0:24.8	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:30.7	Welcome to true crime to go. Came in a little early, man, because I'm just excited to talk about this Kentucky cryptocurrency
0:38.3	case. Yeah, man, I got some texts earlier today. I hadn't heard about this. I know you sent
0:43.2	the email out a few days ago, but I had a friend text me about it today, and I started looking
0:48.5	some things up, and this is absolutely wild. I think this is going to end up being a much bigger
0:53.7	national story than it is, and I think we're going to end up being a much bigger national story than it is.
0:55.5	And I think we're going to have follow-up episodes. But even the opening details of what happened
1:00.4	are absolutely phenomenal. So why don't you go ahead and get us rolling? Yeah, I mean, just this month,
1:06.6	2025 in the month of May, there was a 28-year-old Italian man who arrived in New York City.
1:13.0	And while the exact nature of his relationship with the individuals that we're going to be talking about remains unclear,
1:19.3	he was reportedly lured to this house under pretenses of retrieving extorted Bitcoin.
1:26.6	I'm going to be honest with you.
1:28.3	I have read about it.
1:29.7	I still don't completely understand cryptocurrency and what it means, but what I do
1:35.1	know is that it's incredibly valuable.
1:39.6	And shortly after this guy got to the hotel, the situation took a dark turn. On May 6th, he was abducted
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