“A lot of times we are even trying to give the police information so they can act on it, because the people in the street don’t trust them and now we can see that’s rightfully so.” I’m sorry people didn’t act on it sooner, and it’s absolutely tragic that the other young ladies didn’t make it. That’s exactly what we were telling people. Haslett, a scruffy looking white man with dark brown hair and a greying beard, was detained and last week pleaded not guilty to charges including rape, kidnap and assault.Įxcelsior Springs police are now investigating the possibility that at least two more women were similarly victimized.īishop Caldwell told the Defender: “That was the description of the guy we were talking about and that was the location we said they were being taken from.

In fact the survivor, who is referred to as TJ in court documents, said Haslett picked her up on Prospect Avenue in early September. The police dismissed the concerns outright as “completely unfounded”, saying in a statement that “there is no basis to support this rumor”. Last month, the Kansas City Defender, a nonprofit newsroom, published a video of Bishop Tony Caldwell saying that he had received information that the missing women had all been kidnapped from Prospect Avenue in Kansas City. She escaped while Haslett was dropping his child off at school, and she sought help from neighbours whom she told that her friends “did not make it out” and were killed by Haslett.Īround the time she went missing, several prominent community leaders raised concerns about the disappearance of multiple Black women and girls. She told Kansas City police that 39-year-old Timothy M Haslett had imprisoned her in a basement room in Excelsior Springs – a city just north-east of Kansas City – where he whipped and raped her repeatedly.

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