Report: Husband Kidnaps Wife, Threatens To Kill Her

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Bartow County sheriff’s investigators are looking for the husband who allegedly kidnapped his wife from Alabama and threatened to kill her.

According to an incident report released by the sheriff’s office, a deputy was dispatched around 6:07 p.m. Friday, July 3 to a location along U.S. 411 near Reynolds Bridge in Kingston. Bartow County 911 dispatchers reported receiving numerous calls of a “white male chasing a white female down in the roadway.”

The deputy met with the woman, who said her husband, Kingston resident Luther Dewitt Ray Aaron, 35, allegedly came to her home in Fort Payne, Alabama, early that morning, climbed through a window and ”woke her up by placing his hands over her mouth and whispered in her ear that if she tried to get away, he would kill her,” the report states.

The woman said her husband allegedly forced her to get into his vehicle. Once on the road, Aaron allegedly told her he was taking her to Georgia “where he was going to kill her so that he wouldn’t hurt anymore,” the deputy wrote in the report.

On their way to the Peach State, the woman said they pulled over and she was forced to get on her knees in the middle of the roadway while Aaron allegedly slapped the woman in the face and choked her several times.

The pair got back on the road again and later stopped at an abandoned house where the victim said the assault continued.

The victim said she was eventually able to run from the house and tried to flag down two cars, but Aaron allegedly caught her by the shirt, threw her up against a vehicle that stopped to assist her and tried to throw her into oncoming traffic.

The first witness who stopped intervened and told Aaron he was going to call 911, a move that prompted the man to flee, the report states.

Two witnesses corroborated the victim’s story, noting they observed a white male wearing shorts and no T-shirt was chasing the victim, throwing her up against a vehicle, hitting her several times before trying to throw her into oncoming traffic.

The victim was released to family members, and back to Ft. Wayne, Alabama, to report the kidnapping incident. Warrants were issued for Aaron on numerous charges, including false imprisonment, reckless conduct, aggravated assault and battery.

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