Man Arrested Of Enslaving His Wife In Chains For 10 Years This story is as crazy as the dude in the photo looks!! A West Virginia man was arrested Thursday for allegedly making his wife his slave, abusing her and holding her hostage for almost a decade. Authorities in Jackson County, W.Va., charged Peter Lizon of Leroy, W.Va., with malicious wounding after a woman staying at a domestic-violence shelter filed a criminal complaint, alleging a woman she met was brutally beaten by her husband. In an interview with investigators, the woman said she met Lizon’s wife, Stephanie, 43, while staying at the Family Crisis Intervention Center in Parkersburg, W.Va., and described her as “gaunt and filthy.” According to the criminal complaint, Stephanie told the woman that she recently escaped from her husband, who had kept her chained up with metal padlocks for about 10 years, which tore into the skin on her hands and ankles, leaving noticeable scar tissue. Her feet were also “mutilated and swollen” after her husband allegedly smashed her foot with a scoop attachment from a farm tractor. Lizon reportedly called his wife his “slave”, and whenever he entered the room, he made her kneel down before him. The woman also alleged that Stephanie said her husband caused her to have a miscarriage after her husband hit her in the stomach. She said she buried the corpse of a fully developed infant on their farm. She also said she gave birth to another baby while bound by chains, but neither she nor her now-one-year-old child had received any medical attention. During the investigation, police took 45 photos of Stephanie, showing injuries ranging from severe burns to her breasts and back to broken fingers and bruises all over her body. “It’s amazing what one human being can do to another,” Boggs said, “and that should not ever happen or be allowed to happen. And hopefully this will stop and curtail that, at least in this instance.” Lizon’s attorney, Shawn Bayliss, told WSAZ the allegations against Lizon are false, saying the woman who told police everything has a “feeble mind.” Lizon is being held in the South Central Regional Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail. Chief Boggs told msnbc.com malicious wounding is likely to net Lizon between two to 10 years in prison. According to the criminal complaint, Stephanie escaped from Lizon on June 18 while he was returning farm equipment to a rental store in Parkersburg. He left her and their child in the family’s vehicle. While Lizon was inside, she walked away, leaving her child in the car, and hid in a Zumba dance facility. She then found a ride to the shelter and checked in under the name “Serena Sokol.” Staff at the shelter later determined her true identity. She was treated for her injuries in an emergency room on June 20. Wow. No words for this one. Source
Are Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb back together … and engaged? The actress received an early birthday present on Tuesday when she got engaged to her longtime businessman boyfriend, according to E! News. Loeb popped the question in Mexico, where Vergara is in the midst of a week-long celebration of her 40th birthday with family and friends. However, People Espanol tells something of a different story . One source says that there was a ring given to Sofia, but other sources say the actress “does not consider herself engaged.” An unnamed Mexico-based rep for the star also told People Espanol that “As of today, Sofia Vergara is not engaged.” So consider yourself as confused by this story as Jay is by her accent in some of those always-hilarious Modern Family quotes . In any case, she and Nick broke up in May, but reconciled in June. Says a source, “There are compromises to work out on both sides.” Like the fact that Nick Loeb … well just read the link earlier in this sentence. Possible congratulations to the couple and keep us posted! [Photo: WENN.com]
It’s the hot American Idol talk making all the rounds and creating all the buzz: Adam Lambert is under serious consideration to be a Season 12 judge. There’s just one problem: this is news to Adam Lambert. Speaking to U.K. radio station Capital FM yesterday, the former runner-up sounded excited but cautious about the possibility, referring to it as a “beautiful rumor.” “I’m just hearing about this today,” Adam said. “Listen, if – and I say ‘if’ with a capital I-F – if they were to approach me and if they were to say, ‘We want you to be a judge on the show,’ I would love that. I would jump at the chance. “I owe my career to American Idol . I mean, if it weren’t for American Idol , I doubt that… I would be sitting here with you… I think it would be really exciting to be sitting at a judging panel and trying to help people reach their dreams.” Aside from Lambert, chatter persists that Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and others are up for American Idol judging spots . Would you wanna see Adam on the panel?
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