{"id":59834,"date":"2025-11-21T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:31:07","slug":"texas-captors-give-sick-excuse-for-chaining-torturing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59834\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas ‘captors’ give sick excuse for chaining, torturing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A member of a family of sickos charged with handcuffing and torturing a woman<\/a> for months said she thought the horrifying crime was alright because \u201csome people liked getting frisky,\u201d according to Texas cops.<\/p>\n

Mache Carney, 32, was arrested along with her mother, sister, husband, brother and a family friend after Austin officers found the battered, terrified victim handcuffed to an workout rack behind the group\u2019s trailer-style house.<\/p>\n

The woman had apparently been starved and abused <\/a>for \u201cmonths\u201d in clear view of Carney\u2019s 4-year-old kid, according to an affidavit supplied to The Post by the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n

A woman was found handcuffed and covered in wounds behind this home in Austin, Texas. Google Maps<\/p>\n

Mache Carney, 32, has been charged with kidnapping along with her husband and several family members. Austin Police Dept.<\/p>\n

Carney said she didn\u2019t think there was anything wrong with handcuffing the woman because \u201csome people liked getting frisky in bed at night, and since it was night when the victim was handcuffed, it was alright,\u201d according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

Family members claimed the women, who had known them for years, had mental health issues and that they chained her up \u201cto prevent her from stealing things,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

They said the victim had consented to being locked up as a condition for staying at their house, but a 911 caller reported hearing the woman screaming for help from the backyard.<\/p>\n

The victim said she would try to free herself or call for help but that the family would beat her and shoot her with a BB gun as punishment.<\/p>\n

Officers found the woman chained face-down, naked from the waist down and covered in horrific injuries, including a 6-inch scar on her belly, an eye swollen shut and wrists puffy and bruised where handcuffs dug into her flesh.<\/p>\n

She also had \u201chundreds of round BB sized scars\u201d across every inch of her body.<\/p>\n

The victim told police she was only given one meal a day and left out in freezing weather.<\/p>\n

Medical teams treating her horrific wounds found a \u201cBB sized projectile lodged in right eye,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n

Michelle Garcia, 51, allegedly chained and tortured a woman with the help of her daughters. Austin Police Dept.<\/p>\n

Crystal Garcia, 21, also was arrested and charged along with her sister, mother, brother-in-law and a family friend. Austin Police Dept.<\/p>\n

Three children were in the house when the woman was rescued, including Carney\u2019s 4-year-old son. She told the tot the woman was being punished for \u201ckilling rabbits,\u201d according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how long the woman had been kept outside. Carney allegedly told police the family had initially kept her in the house but moved her to the back yard \u201cdue to the smell of urine from Victim
soiling herself,\u201d the affidavit reads.<\/p>\n

Suspected kdinapper Maynard Lefevers, 21, had a fascination with tacks and making a bed of nails, his grandmother said. Austin Police Dept.<\/p>\n

Juan Pablo Castro, 30, allegedly told his 4-year-old son he was torturing the victim to punish her. Austin Police Dept.<\/p>\n

The other suspects are Michelle Garcia, 51, her daughters Mache Carney and Crystal Garcia, 21, her son-in-law Juan Pablo Castro, 30, and Maynard Lefevers, 21, a family friend.<\/p>\n

They have been charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault, among other crimes.<\/p>\n

Lefevers was once obsessed with creating a \u201cbed of nails\u201d for himself, his paternal grandmother told The Post earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The man collected thumbtacks to create a pin-point bed, which is often used in magic tricks, the grandmother, Frankie Lefevers, revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were speaking, the only thing he ever asked me for was thumbtacks for a bed of nails that he would make himself, which I thought was strange,\u201d the 64-year-old said.<\/p>\n

The granny had been excommunicated from her family for several years and learned from The Post that Maynard was accused of the sickening crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God!\u201d Lefevers exclaimed at the time. \u201cI would never expect anything like that from Maynard.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspects are awaiting indictment. The next court appearance for all except Michelle Garcia is scheduled Jan. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of a family of sickos charged with handcuffing and torturing a woman for months said she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,294,18483,27,734],"class_list":["post-59834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime","tag-kidnappings","tag-texas","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}