• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • FFS PRODUCTIONS
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Mum 'held stepson captive’ for 20 years in ‘house of horror’ before he made brave act to escape knowing he could die

Home> News> US News

Updated 10:25 13 Mar 2025 GMTPublished 09:58 13 Mar 2025 GMT

Mum 'held stepson captive’ for 20 years in ‘house of horror’ before he made brave act to escape knowing he could die

The man told police 'I wanted my freedom'

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: Waterbury Police Department

Topics: Crime, US News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

X

@jessbattison_

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

16 mins ago
an hour ago
3 hours ago
4 hours ago
  • MIKE PERSSON/AFP via Getty Images
    16 mins ago

    Ex-marine's shocking testimony about ‘sniper tourists’ who allegedly paid £70,000 for ‘human safaris’

    Italian prosecutors are investigating what happened in Sarajevo's 'sniper alley'

    News
  • Getty Stock Image
    an hour ago

    Expert shares terrifying true reality about what would happen if world’s internet went down

    What would happen if the internet went out...for good?

    News
  • Miami Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation
    3 hours ago

    YouTuber whose partner split up with him after ‘humiliating’ wedding act arrested

    He has addressed the incident on social media

    News
  • Mark Robinson/Getty Images
    4 hours ago

    People shocked at one detail as Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr scorecards released

    Conor Benn took the fight by unanimous decision

    News
  • Mum made chilling remark after stepson she 'held captive' for 20 years in 'house of horror' finally escaped
  • Neighbours describe chilling encounter with 'house of horror' victim 'held captive by stepmum' for 20 years
  • Sickening photos emerge from inside 'house of horrors' where mum 'kept stepson captive for 20 years'
  • Man 'held captive by stepmum in house of horrors for 20 years' speaks out for first time about horrific situation