An elite team of NYPD detectives has taken over investigating the apparent abduction and torture of a mute mystery man found in Times Square Wednesday.
Kidnap- and extortion-plot experts from the NYPD Major Case Squad have been interviewing the man who was found bruised, burned and bound by wire at the Eighth Avenue/42nd Street subway station and say that 48 hours later the man still hasn’t said a word.
“He understands English, but he can only draw answers to questions,” a police source said.
Cops don’t know if the victim is unable to speak or is just terrified. He has been able to tell investigators, through a series of drawings, that he was grabbed off a street, possibly in Brooklyn, and tossed into the rear of a black Lincoln Town Car.
The drawings showed that he found a lever and a hatch and was able to escape as the car came to a stop in Times Square.
The man is believed to be Eastern European and was found wearing a Carhartt jacket, blue jeans and hiking boots.