SHEREE IS ON ASSIGNMENT NEW
DETAILS ABOUT THE CASE AGAINST
THE MAN, ACCUSED OF TRYING TO
FORCE YOUNG GIRLS INTO BEING HIS
SEX SLAVES.
THERE MAY BE AS MANY AS 50
VICTIMS AND SOME OF THE EVIDENCE
WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA, THANKS TO
THE SUSPECT HIMSELF.
WLWT NEWS 5'S JENELL WALTON
BEGINS OUR TEAM COVERAGE LIVE
FROM THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE
WHERE THE SUSPECT APPEARED IN
COURT TODAY JENELL?
REPORTER: THE LIST OF GIRLS JUST
KEEPS GROWING.
THE SUSPECT WAS IN COURT FOR
JUST TWO OF THE VICTIMS TODAY.
HE'S ACCUSED OF THREATENING TO
KILL THE GIRLS' FAMILY MEMBERS
AND FRIENDS IF THEY DIDN'T AGREE
TO BE HIS ONLINE SEX SLAVE AND
SEND HIM NUDE PICTURES.
THE SUSPECT IS 21-YEAR-OLD
NICHOLAS KURTZ OF WARREN COUNTY.
INVESTIGATORS SAY HE BEFRIENDED
YOUNG GIRLS BETWEEN THE AGES OF
13 AND 16 ONLINE.
HE'D ASK THEM FOR NUDE PICTURES.
HOWEVER, ONE PHOTO WASN'T
ENOUGH.
THE AFFIVIDAVIT STATES KURTZ
WOULD THEN ASK THE GIRLS TO
PERFORM SEX ACTS ON THEMSELVES
AND THEIR FRIENDS WHILE HE
WATCHED VIA SKYPE OR KIK.
HE'S ACCUSED OF ASKING THE GIRLS
TO CUT THEMSELVES OR HE'D POST
THE VIDEOS AND PICTURES ON THEIR
FRIENDS SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES.
HERE'S ONE EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE
KURTZ AND ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
MINOR FEMALE A WROTE ON AN
ONLINE CHAT WITH KURTZ, YOU
CAN'T HURT ME BEHIND A SCREEN.
I WON'T BE FOR LONG.
2 WEEKS I WILL BE THERE.
OBEY ME AND I WON'T COME.
DON'T AND I WILL.
THAT IS YOUR CHOICE.
YOUR BLUFFING YOU DON'T KNOW
WHERE I LIVE.
REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAY
KURTZ WENT SO FAR AS TO THREATEN
TO KILL HIMSELF IF THE GIRL'S
DIDN'T AGREE TO CALL HIM MASTER
AND PERFORM LEWD ACTS AS HE
WATCHED VIA SKYPE.
POLICE SAY ONE GIRL FINALLY
BUCKLED UNDER THE PRESSURE AND
TOLD A FRIEND AND SCHOOL
COUNSELOR.
KURTZ WAS NOT GIVEN A BOND
TODAY.
HE'S BEING HELD AT THE BUTLER
COUNTY JAIL.
MIKE: OF THE TWO VICTIMS IN THE
COURT DOCUMENTS ONE IS FROM
WISCONSIN AND THE OTHER FROM NEW
YORK.
THE INVESTIGATION INTO THIS CASE
IS FAR FROM OTHER.
THERE ARE STILL THOUSANDS OF
EMAIL TO GO THROUGH AND COULD BE
DOZENS OF VICTIMS.
WLWT NEWS 5'S BRIAN HAMRICK
CONTINUES OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH
POLICE WHO CRACKED THE CASE,
REPORTER: WHEN THIS CASE BEGAN
THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF VICTIMS
BUT AS DETECTIVES WITH
CLEARCREEK TWP DUG INTO THE
CASE, LOOKED AT THE SUSPECT'S
COMPUTER THEY FOUND THERE ARE
DOZENS AND DOZENS OF POTENTIAL
VICTIMS.
IT'S TECHNOLOGY USED TO
TERRORIZE.
WE OBTAINED COMPUTERS
LAPTOPS, SO FORTH.
REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAY
21-YEAR-OLD NICHOLAS KURTZ HAD A
REACH SO WIDESPREAD, HE WAS ABLE
TO THREATEN VICTIMS ACROSS THE
NATION AND EVEN IN OTHER
COUNTRIES, THE LEAD DETECTIVE IS
STILL SORTING THROUGH TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF TEXTS, EMAILS AND
PICTURES, HE IDENTIFIED ABOUT 50
POTENTIAL VICTIMS THAT COULD
PRODUCE A CASE AND WE'RE STILL
WEEDING THROUGH TO SEE IS WE CAN
GET ENOUGH NOW TO SUBSTANTIATE
THAT.
REPORTER: JOHN TERRILL IS CHIEF
WITH CLEARCREEK POLICE.
HE SAYS DISTURBING IS INADEQUATE
TO DESCRIBE WHAT THEY'VE
UNCOVERED WITH THE HELP OF THE
FBI.
I'VE BEEN A POLICE OFFICER
FOR 34 YEARS AND PROBABLY THE
MOST SADISTIC LOOKING CASE I'VE
SEEN IN 34 YEARS, AS FAR AS THE
INTERNET.
REPORTER: POLICE SAY KURTZ
OPERATED FROM THIS HIGH END HOME
IN CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP, WHERE HE
LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER AND
FATHER, WHO IS A HIGH RANKING
OFFICER AT WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR
FORCE BASE.
NO ONE ANSWERED THE DOOR WHEN WE
ARRIVED.
BUT DETECTIVES SAY THIS IS WHERE
THEY SEIZED SOME OF THE EVIDENCE
THAT KURTZ WAS THREATENING
UNDERAGE GIRLS.
WAS SENDING THEM INFORMATION
RELATIVE TO BEING HIS SEX SLAVE,
HOW TO BEHAVE AS A SEX SLAVE AND
SO FORTH.
REPORTER: KURTZ ALLEGEDLY TOLD
HIS VICTIMS IF THEY IDENTIFIED
HIM HE WOULD POST SEXUALLY
EXPLICIT PICTURES HE HAD
ELICITED FROM THEM, POLICE SAY
SOME VICTIMS WERE PARALIZED BY
FEAR OF, EMBARASSMENT, NOW THE
SUSPECT IS DEALING WITH THE SAME
EMOTION.
POLICE SAY AS THEY CONTINUE TO
LOOK INTO THIS CASE, THERE'S A
GOOD CHANCE THERE WILL BE MORE
CHARGES.
BRIAN HAMRICK, WLWT, NEWS 5.
MIKE: INVESTIGATORS WOULD NOT
DISCUSS WHETHER THERE ARE LOCAL
CASES, BUT WANTS ANYONE WHO
BELIEVES THEY MAY HAVE HAD
CONTACT WITH KURTZ THOUGH THE
INTERNET TO CONTACT POLICE.
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