A North Carolina man allegedly tortured his girlfriend for months after he tied her down to a bed with tow straps and repeatedly stabbed her until she died.
Thomaz Hamilton, 24, stands accused of first-degree murder and first-degree forcible rape in the death of 19-year-old Isabella Mary Alexandria Stroupe in Charlotte.
The investigation began around 3:30 a.m. May 1 when officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to a QuikTrip gas station in the Hickory Grove neighborhood, an arrest affidavit said. Hamilton told cops his girlfriend at his nearby apartment had stopped breathing…