Crime & Safety
Report: Serial Kidnapper Klotz Pleads Guilty
Matthew Klotz, 35, of Stonington to serve eight years for attempted abduction of a Groton teen in 2018, his second kidnapping conviction
NEW LONDON, CT — Matthew Klotz, formerly of Stonington, admitted in court that he leaped out from behind bushes in the city of Groton in the summer of 2018 and grabbed a girl walking alone and tried to force her into his truck.
Klotz, 35, pleaded guilty and will serve eight years in prison,The Day reported.
Klotz is currently locked up in the high/maximum security Suffield prison MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution and due back in court for sentencing on March 18, records show.
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Klotz, who lived at 113 Hewitt Road in Stonington, was convicted of a Narragansett, Rhode Island kidnapping in 2012. In that case, he was also convicted of felony gun possession and stalking. But, much of his 20-year sentence was suspended; he was sentenced to serve eight years and was also ordered to undergo mental health treatment.
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Matthew Klotz booking photo from 2012
As Patch reported in 2012, police at the time said he tried to abduct a woman and there was evidence he'd been stalking another.
Currently, he has an outstanding charges of probation violation in Washington County court records show in connection with his parole on that case.
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