{"id":28431,"date":"2025-05-24T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28431"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:31:32","slug":"crypto-investor-allegedly-tortured-tourist-with-a-chainsaw-to-steal-his-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28431","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Investor Allegedly Tortured Tourist With a Chainsaw To Steal His Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor has been accused\u00a0of torturing an Italian tourist\u00a0in a high-end New York City apartment. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The accused, 37-year-old <strong>John Woeltz<\/strong>, was taken into custody after the 28-year-old victim managed to escape from the SoHo apartment on Friday morning and informed a police officer. <\/p>\n<p>The victim alleged that he had been held captive for more than two weeks. The alleged motive behind this horrifying act was to extort the victim\u2019s cryptocurrency account password.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation, police found several Polaroid photos in the Prince Street apartment, which Woeltz rented for an estimated $30,000 to $40,000 per month. <\/p>\n<p>These photos depicted the victim undergoing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45600729\/crypto-investor-allegedly-tortured-tourist-with-a-chainsaw-to-steal-his-password\" alt=\"Crypto\" investor allegedly tortured tourist with a chainsaw to steal his password>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor has been accused\u00a0of torturing an Italian tourist\u00a0in a high-end New York City apartment. What Happened: The accused, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was taken into custody after the 28-year-old victim managed to escape from the SoHo apartment on Friday morning and informed a police officer. The victim alleged that he had been held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}