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October 06, 2005

Wallace Moody Statement Obtained by PW

(Moody emerged from NW Detectives last night around 1:30 a.m.)

Wallace Moody turned up at Einstein Medical Center late last night, and PW obtained a copy of the statement he gave police.

According to the interview record, Moody says he left for work at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning when a pair of vehicles boxed his Taurus in.

Two men emerged from the car that drove right up to his bumper. Two more men emerged from a truck behind his car.

They hollered, “Police! Police! Don’t move!” The four men wore bandannas over their faces and put a black thermal hood over Moody’s head.

They drove and made him get out and enter what he believed to be the basement of a house. He could hear a garage door open from time to time while he was there.

“The whole time I was there they just beat on me,” reads Moody’s statement. “They burned me and put a drill through my sneaker.”

The men told Moody they heard he was dealing drugs again and kept asking for money and narcotics. “I told them I wasn’t in the game anymore,” said Moody. “They kept telling me that I better make some calls.”

Moody swore to the men that he’d gone legit, working steadily since 2003.

He told investigators his captors burned him with a torch, pistol-whipped him and beat him with a shovel.

He also said he called his wife, but they didn’t have money or anything to give them.

The men then took Moody back to the truck and drove around for a while. “They kicked me loose and told me it was my lucky day,” Moody told police.

Moody said he was released somewhere near Central High School at 1700 W. Olney. He then walked to Einstein Medical Center for treatment.

His statement supplies almost no information about the vehicles used in his abduction and even less about the men involved. He told police his abductors referred to each other as “cousin” the entire time he was there.

Moody was asked how he recognized the individual items he was tortured with, but never saw any of the males. “They had all kind of stuff in my mouth and over my face,” Moody told investigators.

He said he knew of Sam Derry through his brother Kent Derry, with whom he was arrested on a drug case in 1999.

He also said he knew Beanie Sigel “just from the radio.”

When Moody left Northwest Detectives last night, his hands were bandaged and his left eye was black.

Posted by steve at October 6, 2005 03:01 AM

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