Stewart Weldon (pictured) was arrested Sunday after a car chase that ended when he crashed into a police cruiser and wrestled with officers
A child has been rescued from a grisly Massachusetts ‘house of horrors’ where three bodies has been discovered.
Police found the child during a search of Stewart Weldon’s Springfield home after the 40-year-old was arrested Sunday for kidnapping following a high speed police chase.
Three dead bodies were also discovered in and around the home.
The child was taken into emergency state custody, the Department of Children and Families told MassLive.
The agency refused to release the age or name of the child, or how they were connected to Weldon. Or if they had ever received reports about the child or residents of the property in the past.
‘The Department of Children and Families took emergency custody of a child in the home and is investigating in collaboration with law enforcement,’ said Andrea Grossman an agency spokesperson.
However, neighbors say that Weldon had lived at the house with a young woman and a teenager. They would often overhear loud, angry rows coming from the home, the Boston Globe reports.
Sources say the victim of the alleged kidnapping has two children with Weldon, and they all lived together at his home.
Neighbor, Stefan Davis, a high school teacher, told the newspaper that the young woman ‘didn’t look much older than my students.’
He added that he’d never heard the woman speak but would see her scurrying from the car to the house.
Cops are continuing to search the home for other potential victims.
Weldon is being held on kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges including resisting arrest; driving with a revoked license; and failing to stop for police, records show. He has not yet been charged in connection with the bodies found at his home.
Massachusetts State Police investigate the home of Stewart Weldon’s Springfield home after the 40-year-old was arrested Sunday for kidnapping following a high speed police chase
A child has been taken into emergency state custody after police searched the home
Three dead bodies were also discovered in and around the home
Weldon has a long history of violent crimes stretching back more than a decade.
In September 2006, he was jailed in Maywood County for a year for attempted theft and burglary. He was out of jail for just over a month before he was jailed again in October for a burglary and probation violation in 2008.
He had a few more run ins with the police over the years and was recently arrested again on October 14, 2017, near Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Police had stopped him for reckless driving but the police report reveals he was also arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest and assault and battery of a police officer during the violent confrontation.
On Sunday, cops stops Weldon and rescued a woman in his car, found with severe injuries, who told police she’s been kidnapped and abused by Weldon for a month.
‘I never thought I would get away’, she told officers, according to a police report.
‘Thank you for saving my life.’
The woman told cops he held her captive for a month, sexually assaulted her and beat her with a hammer and other objects, police said.
Two bodies were found ‘in and around’ the Springfield, Massachusetts, home after police responded to the house on Wednesday night, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said.
Three dead bodies have been found at his home in Springfield, Massachusetts. Weldon has been charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and torturing a woman, a prosecutor said on Thursday
Late Thursday, Gulluni confirmed a third body had been found on the property, MassLive.com reported. Bodies were found in the garage and basement.
At a press conference Gulluni was asked if they were dealing with a serial killer.
‘Right now we are focusing on the piece-by-piece investigation, and it’s early…Much work is to be done,’ he said.
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Weldon, who was arrested Sunday after a car chase that ended when he crashed into a police cruiser and wrestled with officers, is believed to live at the address.
Gulluni said that it was a ‘dangerous pursuit’.
‘He put forward a very violent struggle before his arrest,’ he said.
Police has tried to stop his car when they noticed a broken tail-light but he sped off.
Weldon, who’s 47 years old, pleaded not guilty to a variety of charges on Tuesday and was held on $1million bail
When they finally caught up with him they found the woman in the vehicle.
A police report said she was ‘extremely distraught … and crying uncontrollably’.
She was taken to a hospital and police said her injuries were ‘grotesque and violent’, including a possible fractured jaw, stab wounds to her abdomen, marks from being hit with a blunt object and a leg infection.
She was still in the hospital on Thursday, Gulluni said.
Weldon, who’s 47 years old, pleaded not guilty to a variety of charges on Tuesday and was held on $1million bail.
His bail in several unrelated cases was revoked.
Weldon had not been charged in connection with the discovery of the bodies.
Gulluni did not disclose the names, ages or genders of the bodies.
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni, left, briefing the media on Thursday at the home in Springfield where three bodies were found
Property records show that the home is listed under Weldon’s mother and the DA implied other people were also living in the residence but did not give further details.
Police visited Weldon’s home Wednesday evening after his mother called to report a foul odor at the address.
A police report shows that Weldon was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
He was previously jailed in New Jersey for burglary and given probation for unlawful possession of a weapon.
In January 2015 he was charged with assault and battery, and assault with a dangerous weapon in Westfield District Court.
The public defender who represented Weldon at his arraignment did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Thursday.
A police department spokesman said there was no threat to the public.
Weldon is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on June 29.
He was previously jailed in New Jersey for burglary and given probation for unlawful possession of a weapon