horseshoe tattoo. i came up with several other girls with the exact same tattoos. so when i started seeing all of this come together, i had reason to fear that this girl was in serious danger, and i needed to get her in a safe haven before he finds her. julia, who had a master s in education from ukraine, struck vanhorn as an unlikely girlfriend to such a violent felon. she d come to the u.s. to become an awe an au pare. my plan was to improve my english and learn the culture of this country. after working three months caring for a family of six, the family let her go on thanksgiving weekend, leaving her homeless in a foreign country. the agency that placed her offered no help. my agency told me, you can call your parents and ask for money, and theoretically i could do that, but practically i could not because i was too proud to do that.
he kept repeating, your life doesn t belong to you anymore, now your life belongs to me. i am your kingdom and i am your god. campbell then gave julia an ultimatum. if she ever again disrespected him or angered him, she would be taken to the basement. he used his basement as a place kind of torturing people. and he said that whoever comes in this basement will never come out alive from that place. and he said that it was really easy to get rid of the dead bodies. for six months, julia says she was a virtual prisoner. forced to work 12-hour days in the spa doing bookkeeping and massage. i told him, i am going to leave. just give me back may passport because i m done. then he said that it s not going to happen. he would never just let me go.
that s when an acquaintance introduced her to the owner of several chicago massage parlors. a businessman named alex campbell. the first time i talked to him was over the phone. there was nothing suspicious about him. just, like, regular person, talked to me about a job. even though julia has no experience as a massage therapist, campbell offers her a job. in the beginning, he was her knight in shining armor. she was in a situation. he came along and saved her from that situation. he gave her a job. he gave her a car to get around in. he gave her an apartment to live in and she was paid very well. after a few months of constant attention, julia reluctantly begins a romantic relationship with campbell. i would not say that i liked him so much at first, but i think i got used to him, and then i realized that it was not even my decision, it just, like, happened. then things start to change. he acted like a very jealous
when i first met julia, she was a very scared young lady. julia reported her boyfriend had beaten and threatened her. he said many times that he would kill me and nothing would stop him. she feared for her life and she feared she could be killed by him and thought she would be killed by him for going to the police. vanhorn plugged julia s so-called boyfriend s name into the computer. before i started this case, i never even heard of alex campbell. once i put him in the system, i found an extensive criminal history. in 1986, campbell shot his way into a house, then held two women captive in a tense standoff with chicago police. convicted of attempted murder, home invasion and kidnapping, campbell served ten years. after his release, he was arrested again for selling young women. and many of those women like julia sported that telltale
clothing, tied to a bed and he beat her with sticks, a belt, and his hands. he kept repeating, your life doesn t belong to you anymore, now your life belongs to me. i am your kingdom and i am your god. campbell then gave julia an ultimatum. if she ever again disrespected or angered him, she would be taken to the basement. he used his basement as a place kind of torturing people. and he said that whoever comes in this basement will never come out alive from that place. and he said that it was really easy to get rid of the dead bodies. for six months, julia says she was a virtual prisoner. forced to work 12-hour days in the spa doing bookkeeping and massage. i told him, i am going to leave, just give me back my