This update says he's been booked into the Clay County Adult Detention Center
After a weekend-long kidnapping and assault investigation that left an Excelsior Springs man in custody, neighbors recalled things they had witnessed Friday to KSHB 41.
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It's a miracle she managed to escape.
"She heard a woman screaming and came knocking on the door, so she opened the door and the lady said, 'You have to help me, I've been raped, I've been held captive,'" Tharp said. "She's like, 'You gotta help me.'"
Tharp's grandma let the young woman in, wrapped her in a blanket and gave her some food and water.
"My grandma could tell she was weak," Tharp said. "She didn't have a whole lot of clothes on. She said she had a metal dog collar around her neck and could see the ligature marks around her wrists."
Tharp said the woman also had duct tape around her neck, as if it had been on her mouth and she pulled it down.
Johnson said she also saw the ligature marks around the woman's wrists and even noticed some on her ankles. She said the woman looked malnourished and couldn't weigh more than 100 pounds. Johnson said the dog collar looked like a homemade shock collar because it had a black box on the front.
The young woman said Haslett, who lives at the white house at Old Orchard Avenue and Don Shelton Boulevard, was the one who sexually assaulted her and held her against her will in the basement. She guessed she'd been there since September.
But that Friday morning, she saw a window of opportunity.
"She said once he left, she flung that door open, let his dog out and she took off," Tharp said.
Tharp says her grandma did the right thing.
"There's a possibility that my grandma got her in the house just in time," Tharp said.
Neighbors on Don Shelton say they never saw Haslett much and never had interactions with him.
"I seen him walk his child up and down the street once in a while, that's about it," said Tim Grover said, who lives next to Johnson and Tharp.
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