Man recorded 7-hour torture and murder of longtime girlfriend after getting dumped: Police

A 56-year-old antheral successful Illinois is accused of torturing and sidesplitting his longtime woman soon aft she broke up with him successful a prolonged onslaught of which helium made an audio recording.

Kevin D. Motykie is charged with 1 number of first-degree murder and 3 counts of aggravated transgression intersexual assault involving the decease of 43-year-old Katherine D. Torbick.

According to a news release from the Schaumburg Police Department, officers responded to a residence successful the 1700 artifact of West Weathersfield Way astatine astir 9:20 p.m. connected April 30 to behaviour a payment check.

The caller told the dispatcher they had been incapable to get successful interaction with Torbick and were acrophobic for her safety. Police were already alert of a caller home unit incidental astatine the location and knew that Motykie had a pending apprehension warrant for aggravated home artillery against Torbick.

Upon forcing introduction into the home, officers discovered Torbick's assemblage with aggregate signs of trauma. Motykie was allegedly located successful the store of the residence and instantly taken into custody.

Following a detention proceeding connected May 8, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office approved further felony charges against Motykie for transgression intersexual battle involving threats to the victim's life.

A consequent autopsy conducted by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office determined her decease to beryllium a homicide by strangulation, according to a report from the Lake & McHenry County Scanner.

Following the arrest, constabulary reportedly recovered an audio signaling instrumentality successful Motykie's pocket. During tribunal proceedings, prosecutors reportedly alleged that the instrumentality contained a seven-hour signaling of the fatal encounter, which began astatine 2 a.m. connected the time of the murder.

On the audio, investigators could reportedly perceive Torbick "screaming" for Motykie to get disconnected her and begging him not to enactment her successful handcuffs, CBS News reported. The signaling allegedly captured Motykie accusing the unfortunate of cheating portion helium beat, bound, and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Torbick tin reportedly beryllium heard trying to flight earlier she is bound with duct tape.

The last 4 minutes of the audio allegedly captured Torbick being strangled to death.

Prosecutors said Torbick had agelong expressed fearfulness for her life, reportedly creating a videotaped connection for instrumentality enforcement due to the fact that she believed Motykie was going to termination her. On March 12, Torbick had filed a felony ailment against Motykie, and she had been hospitalized conscionable days earlier her decease pursuing a abstracted attack.

In that anterior March 16 incident, prosecutors said Motykie bushed and strangled Torbick, threatened her with a knife, and forced her to constitute a termination enactment to her 12-year-old son, according to the Scanner. Although an apprehension warrant was issued a week later, Motykie was ne'er taken into custody and reportedly continued to unrecorded successful the location with Torbick.

The unfortunate worked astatine the Fox River MedSpa successful Algonquin, wherever colleagues described her arsenic a valued subordinate of their team. In a tribute posted to societal media, the spa stated that Torbick "brought warmth, vigor and genuine attraction to our workplace," adding, "She mattered. She was valued. And she volition ever beryllium portion of our story," the Daily Herald reported.

Motykie has a past of home issues, reportedly having had 3 abstracted orders of extortion taken retired against him by 3 antithetic individuals. He was besides progressive successful a civilian ineligible feud with his brother, a California-based integrative surgeon, who accused him of stealing funds from a Barrington med spa business. Torbick had antecedently testified successful that civilian lawsuit arsenic Motykie's girlfriend.

The suspect is presently being held astatine the Cook County Jail without enslaved and is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal aboriginal this month.