Missing Madelyn Allen, 19, found naked and covered in coal in basement – as Brent Brown arrested for ‘kidnap and rape’
A MISSING college student was rescued, naked and covered in coal, from the basement of her captor in Utah, almost a week after she was last seen on surveillance footage leaving her dorm.
Madelyn Allen, 19, was found at the home of 39-year-old Brent Brown, who initially told police that he was alone in the house.
Officers spotted a slight, blonde-haired person in the basement of the home, which prompted police to obtain a search warrant, officials told the Salt Lake Tribune.
After police found Madelyn’s Snow College ID card in the residence, they searched the cellar, where the student was found hidden in the coal room.
Brown reportedly told police that he tied Madelyn up and took away her phone as part of a sexual role-play.
However, Madelyn said that she was held against her will, didn’t want to have sex with Brown, and was coerced because he threatened her family.
After Brown revealed that he knew the Allen family’s home address, and threatened harm against Madelyn’s parents and siblings, she felt forced to comply with his demands.
Court documents indicate Madelyn and Brown met online, in a group chat on the Kik app, and she intended to meet with him on December 13.
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On the morning of Tuesday, December 14, Madelyn sent her family members a text that simply said “I love you!” before Brown confiscated her phone.
The out-of-the-blue text prompted Madelyn’s family to contact the police.
Madelyn’s college roommates also reported her disappearance to authorities.
She was officially declared missing by Wednesday.
Cellphone towers helped officers pinpoint Madelyn’s phone location in Loa, a town of about 500 people nearly a ninety-mile drive from the Snow College dorm in Ephraim.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Brown is being held on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping, rape, object rape and obstruction of justice.
“We don’t have a lot of information about him,” Snow College Police Chief Derek Walk said on Sunday at a news conference.
“We met him for the first time last night. We don’t know how extensive his relationship or her knowledge of him is thus far,” Walk said.