A South Carolina man, 35-year-old Donnie Ray Birchfield, Jr., is accused of keeping four different people captive in his basement for years. He allegedly controlled their every movement, which tragically led to one of his victims dying.

According to The Post and Courier, citing police warrants, the investigation began back on July 25. At the time, Lancaster Police Department officers responded to a Churchill Drive residence after receiving a report of an “unattended death.”

Investigators determined that the victim, a woman, unnamed, had died a day before. However, according to court documents, evidence showed that she had been physically abused, denied appropriate sustenance, and lacked medical treatment.

The investigation determined that, alongside the dead woman, three other people we

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