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A North Carolina man has been found guilty and sentenced to 37 years in prison for holding a woman captive in a motel room, beating and strangling her for 11 hours, prosecutors announced Friday. Authorities said defendant Joseph Timothy O’Buckley and a woman he knew were staying at a motel in Marion, North Carolina.
O’Buckley locked the victim in a room and barricaded the door, refusing to let her out,” the Rutherford and McDowell County District Attorney’s Office wrote. “Over the next eleven hours, he repeatedly beat and choked her while he told her that he was going to kill her and that she was not going to leave the room alive.”
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However, O’Buckley fell asleep, and the woman fled the room. She ran across the street to a residence for help. Paramedics, McDowell County deputies and Marion police responded. The woman was rushed to a hospital for what prosecutors described as “serious injuries.”
O’Buckley was arrested shortly thereafter. Despite the charges, however, he continued to call the woman from the McDowell County jail and threatened to kill her if he testified against her, prosecutors wrote. Jurors convicted him after a three-day trial and several hours of testimony from the woman. O’Buckley was found guilty of attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping, assault by strangulation, assault with grievous bodily injury, assault on a female, intimidation of a witness, and habitual offender.
“We are so grateful for the trust and immense courage the victim has shown throughout this process, to the witnesses who have come forward to support her, to McDowell County EMS, McDowell Mission Hospital, the County Sheriff’s Office, McDowell County and the Marion Police Department for their work. in this case, and to the jury for bringing justice to the victim,” the office wrote.Read More…..
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