A 28-year-old Italian crypto holder arrived in NYC on May 6—and vanished.
What followed was straight out of a psychological thriller:
Kidnapped. Tortured. Electroshocked. Forced to smoke crack.
Held for weeks by crypto investor John Woeltz, the victim was beaten, pistol-whipped, sawed, and dangled from a townhouse upper floor—all for access to his Bitcoin wallet.
He refused to give up the password.
He finally escaped on Friday, flagging down NYPD.
Woeltz is in custody. No bail.
This isn't fiction. This is the new frontier of digital crime.
Private security firms report a surge in demand from crypto elites.
Stay low. Stay cold. Stay anonymous.
Because if they know you HODL, they might come for you.