11.   Stephen West was quoted as saying his father tortured the victims before killing them, cut the bodies into pieces and buried them around the home in garbage sacks.

12.   The prosecution alleges that West and his wife were obsessed with sex, and that they sexually abused and tortured their victims before killing them.

13.   Yegorov said Russian mobsters are growing increasingly cruel, beating, raping and torturing their victims and even hunting them with dogs.

14.   He was testifying in the trial of You Zhong Peng, a Chinese national accused of running a kidnapping ring here and torturing its victims.

15.   In many instances, they rape and torture their victims before killing them and robbing the farm.

16.   Police recently arrested members of a kidnapping gang who tortured their victims into revealing their secret credit card codes.