A few days ago, Lee Carter, a well-known rapper in Houston, USA, was arrested by the police:
Lee shocked everyone by imprisoning a woman A (not her real name) in her garage for five years, during which time she forced A to take poison and sexually assaulted her for a long time.
Many people can't imagine that this rapper, who wrote words such as drugs, violence, and sex crimes in his songs, actually implemented them in reality...
(Lee Carter is a well-known local rapper in Houston)
Lee was born in Kansas in 1971 and has never left since moving to Houston at the age of six.
He showed great musical talent at a very young age, and in 1998, at the age of 27, he released his first single, which was a good result.
(Lee as a young man)
2008年他发行了第一张专辑《你们这群懦夫连可卡因都不敢吸》（You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack）。
The album garnered more than 4 million views on YouTube, making him a well-known singer in Houston.
(Lee's first album released under the stage name Viper)
In the more than ten years since then, Lee has been relying on this album to eat his old book, and he has gradually faded out of the music industry, but from time to time rumors such as "suicide attempt" have broken out to brush up his existence.
(Lee holding the album of that year)
Who would have thought that this semi-retired rapper would commit heinous crimes in private.
A few years ago, neighbors often heard Lee boasting that he had several women in the house and feeding them drugs and food, but the neighbors only thought Lee was bragging, and did not take it seriously.
But in fact, Lee is talking about the crimes he has committed...
One day in 2018, a pregnant homeless woman, A, was begging along a highway in Houston.
Lee drove past the woman, stopped for a moment, threw a dollar out of the car and gave it to her, and drove away.
After a while, Lee drove back to find A, and he asked A to get in the car and follow him, promising to help A out of the predicament...
A later recalled that because he was very weak at the time and had lost his due judgment, he believed Lee in a daze and got into the car with him.
(Young singer Lee)
As soon as the car drove home, Lee immediately changed his face, and he roughly dragged A off the car and locked him in the garage with chains...
Since then, A has lived a dark life, and she is chained in a corner by Lee, unable to leave the garage at all.
Lee only gives her very little food and a toilet on weekdays, and she eats and drinks in this place.
Lee would also forcibly feed her pills containing cocaine and hallucinogens, causing her to become addicted to drugs and weaken her body, unable to escape.
(A small garage in captivity)
From time to time, Lee would come to the garage and sexually assault A, turning her into his own device.
For a few years, A was tortured to the point that she was inhuman, she was severely malnourished, her body was extremely weak, and because she had not bathed for a long time, she had an unpleasant smell all over her body.
A: It's not that I haven't thought about running for my life.
Once, she finally broke free from the chains, smashed the window of the garage and climbed out, but she didn't expect to be "picked up" from the hospital by Lee after being taken to the hospital by passers-by.
(Lee's backyard)
After failing to escape and being caught, Lee guards A more closely.
A continued to endure all kinds of torture every day, his body became weaker and weaker, and the chances of escaping became more and more slim.
After a while, perhaps it was decided that it was impossible for A to escape,
Lee finally "graciously" gave A a laptop to use, giving her a little pastime.
It was this casual move that allowed A to finally seize the opportunity to escape.
(Police car in front of Lee's house)
In April 2023, after A got her laptop, she searched for a software that could send text messages for free, and she immediately sent a text message to the official number of the Houston Police Department, asking the other party to save her.
After receiving the text message, the Houston Police Department decided to send several police officers to "random checks" to find out.
A policeman cautiously approached the garage where A's prisoner was held, and when she heard something unusual inside, she smashed open the window from the outside.
The officer rescued one of the dogs and then smashed open the garage.
(The police rescued the dog inside first)
After the garage was opened, the scene in front of them shocked the police officers present:
Curled up on a tattered mattress, A looked badly malnourished, skinny (only 30 kilograms) and smelling foul.
In the corner of the garage is a toilet bowl with A's excrement and vomit that has accumulated for many days.
A weakly said to the policeman who came to the rescue,
I've been locked up by Lee for almost five years, and I haven't taken a shower for two months...
(Rotten mattress in the garage)
A was finally rescued, and the police later applied for an arrest warrant for Lee, but did not take immediate action to arrest him.
It wasn't until Jan. 4 of this year that police arrested Lee in a motel in Houston.
At present, the case of Lee's long-term imprisonment and sexual assault on A is still under investigation, and some key doubts have not yet been resolved:
For example, what happened during A's pregnancy?
Did she give birth to a baby?
If so, where does the child go?
While in detention, Lee's official Twitter account continued to post content that he described as "innocent."
(Lee claims to be innocent on Twitter)
It is believed that the truth will soon come out and the criminals will be punished as they deserve.