When the woman fought back and hit Hoffmann in the groin, he punched her in the face, giving her the black eye Joey saw as well as a bloody nose.
Hoffman then forced the woman upstairs, tied her to her bed with the cord from a vacuum, and shoved a towel in her mouth so “nobody would be able to hear her.” The woman told investigators she had trouble breathing and was afraid she was going to die.
After about 30 minutes, Hoffmann untied the woman, but he refused to let her leave the house. The woman recalls telling him, “If you love me, you will let me go,” but Hoffmann just replied, “You know I can’t do that.”
Hoffmann even texted the woman’s children from her phone telling them she was sick and not to come over for a few days.
The woman says she “truly believed [Hoffmann] was going to kill her that night.”
Thankfully, though, he decided at some point to order from Dominos, and that was the woman’s saving grace.
Hoffman now faces charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, strangulation and suffocation, felony intimidation of a victim, and burglary of a building.
Had it not been for the woman’s bravery and Joey’s quick actions that day, this awful story could have had a much different ending.
“I’m grateful [the delivery driver] was paying attention,” said neighbor Amy Hammarlund, “because it could have been a lot worse.”
So are we.
