A South Carolina man kept four adults captive in his basement for years while stealing from them, according to police.
Donnie Ray Birchfield, Jr., 35, faces more than a dozen felony charges, including false imprisonment and neglect of a vulnerable adult, WSOC-9 reported. Police began investigating after a woman died in the basement. That death was not reported until the next day, the station reported.
“That’s a sick individual right there. He’s a sick person to do something like that,” neighbor Darryl Evans told WSOC-9…