BETHEL, Alaska, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old Alaska man was tied to a table saw and beaten for hours before he died, police said.
Two Bethel, Alaska, residents have been charged with killing Benjamin Kaiser of Hooper Bay, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Bethel Police Chief Larry Elarton said more suspects could be arrested.
"Suffice it to say, in 31 years of investigating hundreds of homicides, this ranks in the top 10 for the amount of violence involved on another human being prior to his death," Elarton told The Tundra Drums newspaper.
Police in Bethel found Kaiser's body after another man, Nick Cooke, told them Wednesday evening he had seen the young man being beaten that morning. Cooke said Kaiser was still alive then and Jeffrey Hout, 46, and Harry Williams, 32, were flogging him with electrical wire and grilling him about a missing truck.
Hout and Williams turned themselves in and have been charged with first-degree murder.
