John Esposito
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John Esposito (died September 4, 2013) was an American man who abducted 9-year-old Katie Beers in 1992 and held her captive for 17 days. He had previously sexually abused her brother John Beers.
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Esposito worked as a building contractor in Long Island. A friend of the Beers family, he paid much attention to Katie Beers and her half-brother John, visiting regularly under the pretext of giving them presents. However, he actually used this to get John Beers on his own and molest him. He was arrested in 1977 for attempting to abduct a 12-year-old boy but somehow avoided prison.
On December 28, 1992, Esposito lured Katie Beers, at the time nine years old, onto his property to play a video game. Once she had finished, Beers was forced into a soundproof bunker Esposito had dug under his garden a few years ago; Esposito would later admit he had dug it specifically to imprison Beers. Esposito forced Beers to record a message to her parents and say a man with a knife had grabbed her off the street before calling a nearby arcade from a payphone and claiming he had lost Beers on the premises.
Beers spent the next 17 days chained up in Esposito's bunker, which contained a television, a bed and a toilet. Esposito visited her regularly to rape her and give her food. He told her he would keep her there until she was 18, when he would marry her and she would have his children. He also said he planned to take a photo of Beers in her sleep and send it to the police to make it look like she was dead, although the photo was never taken.
Esposito quickly became a suspect in the disappearence when John Beers accused him of sexual abuse. Police soon discovered that witnesses had seen Esposito arriving at the arcade alone and began to suspect that Beer's call to her parents was pre-recorded due to the lack of background noise. He soon confessed and led police to where Beers was imprisoned. Esposito was sentenced to 15 years to life for kidnapping and was later found dead in his prison cell in September 2013.
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- Beers later claimed that Esposito's actions had helped her in the long run, as his rape of her caused her to unlock repressed memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather Sal Inghilleri.