I'm Detective Pesh. Okay. And you're telling him to get out of the room? Get out of the room cuz there's flames there. >> Who else is in here? >> Um, my stepson is in here. >> That's it. I have two cats. >> I know. Come on. >> I'm coming. [Music] >> Waterberry, Connecticut. A small industrial city. Once thriving, now quiet. The house on Blake Street looks ordinary. one of hundreds in the neighborhood. But on this night, when firefighters and police arrived, what they found inside shocked even the most seasoned first responders. Inside, they discovered a 32year-old man in a state of severe malnutrition, weighing just around 68 lb, 31 kg. He claimed he had been locked in a small room since he was 11 years old. The door had bolts on the outside. The woman who did this was his stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan. >> Hello. Are you Kimberly? Hi, I'm Detective Pesh. Um, I investigate all the fires that happened in the city. So, I just wanted to get an idea of what you know or what happened. >> When did he say that? >> Woke up and the TV was in. >> Okay. Where was he when he said that to you? >> Um, coming out of his room. >> He was coming out of his room. >> Yeah, I guess he fell asleep and I guess I don't know. Smell just >> So tell take me right to the beginning of when you know there's a fire or there's >> I smelled it. >> Okay. Where were you? >> In bed. >> In bed. Where's your bed? Downstairs. Upstairs. Upstairs. Okay. >> You smelled it. So then what happened then? >> That he I guess he was sleeping. He passed out. >> Okay. But what did you do though specifically? I was I was screaming for him. I was screaming, you know, for him and and I I I was trying to go into the room, but it was just >> they were just flames. So, he came out of the room. He as he woke up, he came out of the room. >> So, when you saw him at first, he was sleeping. >> No, no, he was he was he was talking. >> Okay. >> But he said that he couldn't come out of the room because there were flames. >> Okay. >> And I was standing like back because I could see them. And I said, "Just come out." >> And he couldn't get out because of the flames, >> right? I said, "Just come out. Just come out. Just come out, you know. >> Did he run through them? >> I guess he did. Yeah. >> Okay. >> I guess he did. >> Was the door locked on his room or No. >> No. >> Okay. Is it normally locked? >> No. >> Okay. It's normally open. >> And he has free reign to go out of there whenever he wants. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Does he Now, does he have any like any mental challenges or anything? What is he I think he started the >> Well, we don't know yet, but that's why I'm asking. That's why I'm asking if there's a history of Okay. So no nothing like that in the past. No. >> Okay. >> So other than you were you sleeping you said in your bed? Yeah. >> Okay. He smells right. >> You get up you go to his room right screaming must have passed that. He must have been sleeping and just >> I don't know. I didn't realize until it was actually happening. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And you're telling him to get out of the room. Get out of the room cuz there's flames there. >> That was scared because of the >> Yeah. And I get that. And um I said just just cotton I was supposed to glue that whatever just come out of the room. >> Yeah. And where do you go at that point? >> We both we both went downstairs. >> So he was able to get out with you at that time. >> Yeah. And I was trying I kept I was trying to hit 911 and I was just so shaking. I just It took me a second. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. I I I get that. >> All right. You're going to be here for a little while? >> Well, I was going to go to the hospital. >> Okay. Is somebody with you? >> Yeah. >> Who's with you? Black water. Oh, >> okay. Yeah. >> Husband. Oh, >> okay. Do they live at the house, too? It's just you and your son. Okay. And you're going to go to the hospital? >> Okay. >> That's where my other girl is. Oh, >> that's where she is. >> All right. I'm fine with that. He's at St. Mary's, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. And that's where you're going to go now? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. If I need to talk to you later, you don't have a problem talking with me, right? Okay. Thank you. Come down. You have to get stuff out. >> Come on. Come down. Come down. >> Come on down. >> Who else is in the house? Who else is in here? >> My stepson is in here. >> How many How many other people? I have two cats. >> Everybody's out. >> Yes. >> But your stepson's still inside. >> Yeah, he's right here. >> Okay. Come out. Come down the road. Come on. Come on. The savior. Come on. All right. My dog is shaking. >> I know. >> That's true. 87.33 victim. >> Okay. >> My dog. I know my dog. >> I know. Come on. >> I'm coming. >> You see it? Got one victim right here. I need you to stay over here. You're going to have to [ __ ] stretch line. >> Her son's in the back separative. Make sure we get her in the car. >> Nobody else is in the house, right? >> Or her family's over there. >> Okay. >> All right. probably in there since he was 11:30 since he hasn't had a shower in over a year. [Music] >> Am I going here? What's the deal? >> Yeah, I guess. So, I guess Martin I was following you down. >> All right, >> I I'll tell you. >> I'll text you. Full drop. River number one. [Music] You want me to hang by stepmom for right now or what? >> What? >> You want me to hang by stepmom for right now? >> Yeah, get her uh >> I'm trying to find out where the hell she is. >> Cuz I just >> She's waiting in the car down here. >> Okay. >> Get her um >> all her info and everything. >> We already got all her info. I just don't want her to [ __ ] anyway. We don't have enough to really contain her. >> Yeah. [Music] Hello. Another night. [Applause] Is there a number on the front of this [ __ ] place? I look at >> this two. >> Uh, yeah. >> Neither do I. >> All right. single family house with just this guy in the back of the ambulance and the aunt, right? Whoever she is with that mother. >> Stepmother. >> Stepmother. >> She's out front with the dog call him on the phone like you have to get out. You have to get out. She's standing right on the front. >> Uh I'm trying to get her attention. >> She's allegedly in car down there. >> On maps. The house looks utterly ordinary. a neat green rectangle among dozens like it. But if you zoom in, knowing what happened there, you realize behind a normal facade, there can be an abyss. The man she can find is undergoing long-term rehabilitation. And society, all of us, must confront a harder question. How long can we not look before we finally see? The Blake Street case is more than a crime story. It's a warning about silence, power, and the fragile line between care and cruelty. The door that once locked a human being away now stands rusting.