Hey, everyone back to Crime Weekly News.

I'm Derek Lassar.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

So we're going to jump into this week's episode and I was trying to find some type of connection to these cases.

And this one, it wasn't hard for me.

Stephanie was telling me about it before we started recording.

She actually covered it on her channel and she mentioned Waterbury, Connecticut.

A lot of you guys don't know this, but I went to college in Connecticut, New London, Connecticut, and had a lot of friends who were from Waterbury, hung out in Waterbury,

multiple occasions, definitely had some, you know, off-campus parties there. You know, great,

great town, absolutely loved it. But the reason we're talking about Waterbury, Connecticut today

are not for good reasons. In this quiet talking about Waterbury, Connecticut today, are not for good reasons.

In this quiet city of Waterbury, Connecticut, a home went up in flames, but what first responders

uncovered inside was far more horrifying than the fire itself. Behind a locked door in a room no bigger

than a walk-in closet, they found a 32-year-old man who weighed just 68 pounds,

a man who said he had been held captive in the house for over two decades.

What he revealed next was a tale of unimaginable suffering, starvation, isolation, and psychological

torment.

This is not something you would expect to find at a house fire. I think I've

told you this story before. We went into a abandoned building one time and I go in there after the

patrolmen were done kind of scouring the area. We found two dead bodies. And it was like unexpected,

obviously some people got in trouble for that one,

but that's a different story for a different day. When it comes to this case,

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