DES MOINES – A wanted Iowa man has been caught Sunday morning after imprisoning and beating a woman who narrowly escaped with her life.
Police now have in custody 39-year-old Matthew Sites of Des Moines. According to a viral social media post that was echoed by news reports, Sites locked a woman “in his basement and beat her for two days straight … she cannot walk she had to break out and crawl to safety … the doctors [say] she lucky to be alive and that she has burns throughout her body inside and out and will be in the hospital/recovery for the foreseeable future.”
Sites has been charged with felony willful injury, domestic abuse assault involving strangulation, and false imprisonment.
