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FBI agents have identified four more alleged victims of a Utah long-haul truck driver with a set of false vampire fangs who already is charged with kidnapping and abusing two women, including sexually assaulting them nearly daily, filing their teeth with a power tool and cutting and dying their hair.
Since Timothy Jay Vafeades, 54, Salt Lake City, was arrested in March in Minnesota, four more women have been identified as alleged victims of the same type of assaults by Vafeades, according to a document filed in federal court.
Vafeades faces charges in U.S. District Court for Utah of kidnapping, transportation for illegal sexual assault, transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
The allegations from the six women span from 1994 to 2013 as Vafeades plied the nation's highways in his truck named "Twilight Express."
The victims reported similar experiences of being held captive by Vafeades, who took their identifications and cell phones, forced them to shower with him and sleep naked, forbaded them from looking at other people and beat them repeatedly while also sexually assaulting them almost every day, according to court documents.
He used a Dremel power tool to grind off the teeth of at least three victims, and on one he also used an X-Acto knife so she could wear false teeth.
"Valfeades had his own set of false teeth with vampire fangs on them," according to the criminal complaint filed in March.
He also cut and dyed the hair of several of the women. Vafeades assaulted the victims after gaining some measure of control over them by marrying them or luring them into his truck. In at least one case, he forced an alleged victim to marry him, but it wasn't clear in court documents about whether other marriages were forced or voluntary.
Authorities also found numerous images of child pornography on computer hard-drives confiscated from his truck, court documents allege.
The four new victims were disclosed in a filing in which federal prosecutors said they intended to use evidence from them at trial for the two more recent victims to show a pattern of conduct. A trial has not yet been scheduled.
Vafeades' court-appointed attorney has filed a motion to throw out much of the evidence in the case, claiming he was unlawfully detained in Minnesota because officers had no legitimate reason for a traffic stop. A hearing on the motion is set for next month.
Vafeades is being held in the Davis County jail without bail.