James B. Horn, suspect in Sedalia crime, has criminal record of rape, kidnapping - KSHB
, 1996, then 28-year-old James B. Horn, Jr. , perched a ladder to the attic ventilation on the home of his estranged wife in Mississippi. She’d just moved out of their Tennessee home with her 8-year-old daughter and filed for divorce. Horn removed the paneling and crawled into the attic crawl space, then down into the master bedroom closet. He then raped his wife, kidnapped her and drove her to different ATMs to withdraw money. He abused her and threatened to kill her before finally locking her in the car’s trunk and driving her to Springfield, Mo. Federal court records show the FBI eventually caught up with Horn in a motel in Kansas City. Agents raided the hotel and found Horn inside with a knife at his wife’s throat. When he pleaded guilty in federal court to the crime in January of 1997, it wasn’t the first kidnapping charge on his record. Just four years earlier, at the age of 24, Horn had been convicted of kidnapping and raping his girlfriend in Memphis, Tennessee. On the evening of February 18, 1992, a woman who had dated Horn for about five weeks woke up around just after midnight to find Horn rummaging through her closet. Horn pleaded guilty to the charges. Source: www.kshb.com
