Idaho Falls Woman Kidnapped, Tortured Over Casino Payout Dispute, Court Hears

An ID Falls woman kidnapped, tortured, and left for idle was targeted o'er a conflict around gambling casino winnings, prosecutors believe. They also guess at to the lowest degree ace of the attackers was duped into committing the crime.

On Tuesday, Maddeline Ovard, 30, was sentenced to 23 years in prison house for her role in the brutal attack, the Post Register reports.

Ovard took a plea trade and has agreed to prove against her co-conspirators, some of whom are unknown.

The 33-year-old dupe was seized from a friend’s put up inwards March 2021 past tercet women inward masks. Despite their efforts at concealment, she recognised two. According to the victim, they were Ovard and 37-year-old Tabatha McKnight.

‘Lucky to live Alive’

The victim, who has been named inward royal court filings, told police force Ovard shell her with a socket spanner and threatened to “slice her throat,” piece McKnight promised to germinate her during the four-hour attack. Her lead was shaved, and the attackers attempted to fire a taser at her neck, but it malfunctioned.

The adult female was goaded to Wolverine Canyon, 15 miles in the south of the city, where she was stripped except for a sweater, a towel, and a blindfold. She had suffered multiple skull fractures and was left hand for dead.

District Judge Dane Watkins Jr. said Tues the victim was lucky to be alive.

Police began sounding for her at 5 am the next morning after a piece called 911 to study he had been sent a video showing division of the attack via Facebook Messenger.

Mystery Ringleader May follow Dead

Bonneville County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Randall Herbert Spencer said he believed Ovard was not the ringleader, despite the dynamic role she played inwards the attack. He said she was manipulated into it past other suspects who told her the victim was in a human relationship with her ex-boyfriend.

According to Spencer, the existent reason for the kidnap was because an unidentified piece had won $3,000 at an unnamed Idaho casino. He had asked the victim to pull in the winnings because he had been banned from the locale for cheating. Spencer said the dupe claimed the money, but failed to payoff it.

The public prosecutor told the homage that Ovard and McKnight had briefly taken the dupe to the rest home of a man named Susan Anthony Hoff, who has since died from a drug overdose.

To date, Ovard and McKnight are the only when individuals to be supercharged with the crime. The 3rd adult female has not been identified in court of justice filings.

Watkins noted the vitrine was same “something from Breaking Bad.”