Jassy Correia Had Been Kidnapped Once Before: Newspaper

BOSTON — A year before her body was found beaten and bruised and bound in a car in Delaware, Jassy Correia survived a kidnapping and beating at the hands of her daughter's father, the Eagle Tribune reported first.

"You need to help me," Correia texted to her boyfriend's mother last January. "Miguel won't let me leave. Don't call him. He'll kill me."

According to court documents, he gave Correia a broken nose and fractured orbital bone, and police found her blood all over his apartment, the paper reported. And her ex, Miguel A. Castro, of Lawrence, is serving a four-and-a-half year state prison sentence for kidnapping, witness intimidation and attempting to lie to police.

Correia was staying in an emergency shelter in Lynn when she went missing in February, the Tribune reported.

The U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said it does not appear Louis Coleman, the man charged with kidnapping leading to the death of Correia, knew her before this.

Read more details in the full Eagle Trib story here

As Patch previously reported Coleman, 32, of Providence, R.I., is charged with one count of kidnapping, resulting in death. That federal charge faces a mandatory life sentence, and is also death-penalty eligible, if convicted.

Correia was kidnapped while leaving the Venu Night Club in Boston Feb. 24, where she was celebrating her 23rd birthday, authorities said. Her case - just weeks after another Boston woman was kidnapped - garnered national attention and set off a multi-state manhunt and Coleman was identified as a kidnapping suspect.

Her body was found five days later in the trunk of Coleman's car inside a suitcase. Lelling said police found her body naked, bound, bruised and covered in what was believed to be in baking soda. Coleman appeared in Delaware court and is being moved to Massachusetts where he will be tried in Boston federal court in the coming weeks.

Check out the Full Eagle Tribune story here

RELATED:

• Jassy Correia Missing: Police Searching For Person Of Interest (Feb. 27)
• Police ID Rhode Island Man As Suspect in Jassy Kidnapping
• Louis Coleman Arrested In Delaware (Feb. 28)
• Police Arrest Main Suspect In Jassy Correia's Kidnapping, Murder(Feb. 28)
• Coleman To Face Charges In Rhode Island (March 1)
• More Details Emerge About Louis Coleman And What Was Found In His Home (March 3)
• Jassy Correia's Accused Kidnapper To Be Moved To Boston (March 4)

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