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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — After nearly two months on the run, a man accused
of keeping a woman chained in a basement for fours days showed up at a courthouse Thursday morning and surrendered to one of the first law
enforcement officers who passed.
That officer happened to be Sgt. Eric Gundle, a supervisor with the
Marion County Sheriff's judicial enforcement division. He said he had no
idea that Maurice Nelson was one of Marion County's most wanted
fugitives.
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Gundle, who wasn't on duty yet, parked his vehicle in front of the City
County Building at about 7:30 a.m. and was going inside to grab some
paperwork when a man who appeared to be a pastor approached.
"He stated he had somebody by his vehicle who was wanted on a warrant
and wanted to turn himself in," Gundle said in a telephone interview
with IndyStar Friday.
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Gundle followed the pastor and put handcuffs on Nelson. Nelson's face
seemed familiar, Gundle said, but the name did not ring a bell.
It wasn't until much later, like the next morning when the arrest was
being reported by the news media, that Gundle realized who he had
arrested.
Nelson did not say where he had been hiding out over the last seven
weeks, Gundle said.
"He actually didn't say much of anything," Gundle said.
Marion County prosecutors say Nelson, 28, abducted and tortured a
23-year-old woman and held her prisoner from July 10 to 14 in the
basement of a Indianapolis home.
A neighbor called police after hearing the woman's screams for help
about 6:20 p.m. July 14, according to a probable cause affidavit filed
in Marion Superior Court.
Officers cut through a padlock, forced open the front door found the
woman in the basement. She was nude, handcuffed, shackled and chained
around the neck to a pole and around the ankles to a floor bolt.
The woman told police she had met Nelson through a telephone chat line.
He picked her up at a hotel and she agreed to go home with him.
They started having sex when, prosecutors say, Nelson stopped and
sprayed her with pepper spray. Nelson, according to court documents, overpowered the woman and forced her into the basement, where
prosecutors say he repeatedly threatened, beat and raped the victim over
the next four days.
Prosecutors charged Nelson with three counts of rape, criminal
confinement, three counts of battery and other crimes. An initial
hearing is scheduled for Sept. 6.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/02/man-run-accused -torturing-raping-woman-turns-himself/89779298/
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