Girl In The Bunker Kidnapper, Who Raped Teen Over 10 Days, Dies In Prison
Vinson Filyaw had been serving a 421-year sentence after posing as a police officer and luring Elizabeth Shoaf to a secret bunker in the woods, where he raped her repeatedly for 10 days. Vinson Filyaw with his two attorneys as he listens to his sentence passed by Judge G. Thomas Cooper at the Beaufort County Courthouse in Beaufort, South Carolina, Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Photo: Getty Images
The South Carolina man who kidnapped 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf, hid her in a self-made bunker for 10 days and repeatedly raped her 15 years ago has died in prison.
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A South Carolina man convicted of an infamous kidnapping that was later dramatized in a TV movie has died in prison.
WLTX reports that Vinson Filyaw, a former construction worker, died recently of an unknown cause at McCormick Correctional Institute, about 75 miles west of Columbia, near the state’s border with Georgia.
Filyaw, 51, was sentenced to 421 years in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting Elizabeth Shoaf, a 14-year-old girl, in September 2006 in Lugoff, about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, while posing as a police officer. After Shoaf got off a school bus, Filyaw walked her into the woods and to a bunker he had built near his trailer home.
A man serving a 421-year prison sentence for the kidnap, torture and rape of a 14-year-old girl he kept hidden in an underground bunker rigged with explosives for 10 days has died in jail.
Vinson Filyaw, 51, was found unresponsive in his cell at McCormick Correctional Institution in South Carolina on Monday having served 14 years of his sentence, sources said.
There were no immediate signs of foul play and an autopsy will be performed, The State reported.
McCormick County coroner Faye Puckett confirmed that a prisoner had died but would not name him due to state corrections policy which says only the coroner can formally name dead inmates.
Updated: 15:03 ET, May 4 2021
A MAN serving a 421-year prison sentence for kidnapping, raping and torturing a 14-year-old girl in an underground bunked rigger with explosives has died in prison.
Vinson Filyaw, 51, was just 15 years into his sentence for abducting and abusing Elizabeth Shoaf when he was found dead in his cell at McCormick Correctional Institution in South Carolina on Monday.
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Vinson Filyaw, 51, was just 15 years into his 421 year sentence when he was found dead on MondayCredit: AP:Associated Press
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He abducted, raped and tortured 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf in an underground bunker he d built in September 2006Credit: Family Handout
There were no immediate signs of foul play and an autopsy will be conducted to determine a cause of death.