Woman tells jurors she'd rejected torture suspect
By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press
Posted February 15, 2012 at 8:08 p.m.
WEATHERFORD — A Texas woman who authorities say was kidnapped and tortured for nearly two weeks by her ex-neighbor told jurors Wednesday that she rejected his romantic advances several years ago.
The woman testified that Jeffrey Allan Maxwell occasionally chatted with her when he lived half a mile from her rural North Texas home, but she told him to keep away when he started coming on too strong. The 63-year-old woman said Maxwell once asked her to kiss him as a thank you for borrowing his tractor, recalling that the experience "felt weird."
Maxwell moved in 2005, and the woman said she had not seen him since — until he unexpectedly showed up at her house last March.
Prosecutors say Maxwell abducted her at gunpoint and drove her 100 miles away to his house near Corsicana, some 50 miles south of Dallas, and tortured her on a deer-skinning device, chained her to a bed and even put her in a box when he'd leave to run errands.
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