9 of 10Attribution: Waterbury Police Department via CNN
The last time he left the property was with his father, when he was about 14 or 15, he told police. After his father died in 2024, he said his captivity became even more restrictive.
"It got to a point where the only time he would ever be out of the house once his father died was to let the family dog out in the back of the property," he told police, according to an affidavit.
Those outings were "only about one minute a day" as he "essentially, was locked in his room between 22 to 24 hours a day," the sworn statement said.
A year ago, he found a lighter in a jacket that belonged to his late father, he told police. That's when he started devising an escape plan.