He told them that his stepmother had held him in captive for 20 years and he set the fire to escape, according to police. Get top local stories in Connecticut delivered to you every morning.

A former principal of an elementary school in Waterbury claimed that school officials raised several concerns about the boy around 2005 and contacted DCF numerous times.

Police have released more than 100 photos showing the inside of a home where a 32-year-old man said he started a fire in a ...

A 32-year-old emaciated man, weighing just 68 pounds at 5-foot-9, was allegedly held captive by his stepmother in a Waterbury ...

For 20 years, police say, the man—once a boy—rationed two daily sandwiches, used small water bottles to bathe and even cut ...