Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    1 month ago

    He was only 200 meters from home and it took them twenty six years to find him? I just looked up what a “sheep fold” was and it’s just a simple sheep pen.

    This story can’t be real.

    • June (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      56·
      1 month ago

      Most of the people who lived in the same building as Dahmer had no idea he was killing, dismembering, and even eating his victims in the same building as them.

      Josef Fritzl managed to hide his daughter in a secret room in his basement, with his wife convinced she had ran away. She gave birth down there six times and her mom, just above her head, was completely unaware.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      32·
      1 month ago

      He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn’t look as hard as they otherwise would.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        That’s not what confuses me, the dude didn’t try to escape for 26 years even though he was only being held in a sheep pasture?

    • Deebster@programming.dev
      3·
      1 month ago

      There’s the idiom “return to the fold” which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don’t think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
    211·
    1 month ago

    Mr Bin Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him”, local media reported.

      • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 month ago

        A 35 year old man kidnapped a 19 year old man and kept him hidden for 26 years. I would be shocked if there WEREN’T a sexual aspect to the story.

          • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
            51·
            1 month ago

            What? Where did you get that? No one is saying that, and also that makes no sense.

            I’m saying that the reason for the kidnapping in the first place might have something to do with homosexuality being illegal. If you would already go to jail for consensual sex, the threat of jail for kidnapping/rape isn’t as menacing.

              • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
                31·
                1 month ago

                Nah, it tracks. In a bizarre, backwater country where homosexuality is persecuted, it is possible that the kidnapper (perhaps both men)…to borrow from your words…enjoy acting on the tip. 😏

                Things aren’t always as they appear & we might not know the truth. We know only what they tell us. A man being restrained in a sheep pen for 26 years? A man “put under his captor’s spell”? At this point, it is remotely plausible that this great war was seen as an opportunity to run away from his family, disappear entirely & be presumed dead, to live with his lover that he knew. ¯\(°_o)/¯