Warning: This article contains descriptions of violence, kidnapping, and assault.
The moment a 23-year-old woman was rescued from the shed of a serial kidnapper who’d been holding her captive was caught on police bodycam footage. Chloe Jones was found in a garage shed in Kenmore, Akron, Ohio, where she’d been held for four days after accepting a ride home from a man, later identified as William Mozingo, 33. Now, she considers herself lucky to be alive.
Mozingo didn’t drive Chloe Jones Home — he took her to a shed and locked her away.
During her four days in the shed, Jones says she was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat — violence that was evident by the two black eyes and other cuts and bruises she had when found. According to The Sun, she’s still suffering from a skull fracture.
Jones, who has a young son, said that Mozingo repeatedly told her she’d never see her child again as he tortured her.
“I thought about him every day. I just saw his face in my head every day,” Jones told Fox 8.
“It was terrifying. Being in fear of your life countless times, I can’t even count how many times he threatened my life.”
Police received a tip that led them to Mozingo’s property.
There, officers opened the shed and called out to see if anyone was there. That’s when they saw Jones slowly coming down a ladder from an upper floor.
Mozingo was found elsewhere on the property and was immediately arrested and taken into custody.
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This wasn’t the first time William Mozingo has kidnapped a woman.
In fact, he’s done it there other times. Another victim, Mackenzie Mastin, was abducted by Mozingo in 2017 and also held captive. Throughout that time, she was abused and threatened with death.
“The police were able to come in and swarm him and the whole time during when he was getting in the cop car and everything else, he was screaming that he was gonna finish what he started,” Mastin told Inside Edition.
While Mozingo was convicted of the kidnapping, he was released after only two years behind bars.
“It was one of the most scariest experiences of my life,” Mastin added. “I just can’t believe that law enforcement and the court system is allowing him to keep reoffending and do it four times. I just couldn’t believe that he had done it twice just since me.
Chloe Jones now has a lot of healing to do.
Her mother, Jessi Barham, told Fox 8 that her daughter may never be the same again after what she went through.
“Her life as she knows it is over because he was allowed to walk out on these streets, and that is not acceptable.”
Barham also recalled seeing her daughter for the first time after her rescue, saying, “I saw this person I didn’t recognize. Her face was twice its normal size. She said she had been abducted. She said she had a broken arm, and her face had fractures.”
She has now arranged a GoFundMe to help Chloe in her recovery. She has raised more than $3,600 at the time of writing.
