Bond set for suspects accused of holding disabled adults captive

[The Northerner]

Bond was set at $2.5m each on Monday for two of the captors who allegedly locked four mentally disabled adults in a filthy Philadelphia basement in order to cash in on disability checks, authorities said.

The ringleader, convicted murderer Linda Weston, 50, was being arraigned on Monday morning, Philadelphia police spokeswoman Jillian Russell said.

Weston allegedly posed as the victims' caregiver to cash their disability checks. Two of the captives were held for 11 years and referred to Weston as "mom", police said.

Bond was set at $2.5m apiece for two alleged accomplices, a homeless man named Eddie Wright, 51, and Philadelphia resident Gregory Thomas, 48, Russell said.

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[dtexdem]

1. Totally disgusting. And there may be other victmis not yet found.

Weston isn't cooperating. That means, among other things, that if there are other victims now untended who die, this would become murder.