DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — The survivor of a violent kidnapping incident is reacting to an Indianola man’s guilty plea more than a year and a half after police say he kidnapped her and abused her.
Jordan Blake Mangum, 42, pleaded guilty Monday to multiple charges related to a Dec. 2, 2023, kidnapping. On that day, Mangum and Jessica Ann Marie Wheeler, 36, entered the Des Moines home of Mangum’s former girlfriend, Luna Cox, and bound her hands with duct tape, forced her into a minivan and took her to his home in Indianola, according to investigators.
The victim was taken to an unknown location and assaulted. Investigators say the victim was strangled, ran over multiple times with the minivan and her throat was slashed. She was later taken to a nearby hospital…