Katherine Beers [1] (born December 30, 1982) [2] [3] is an American woman who was kidnapped when she was 9 years old in Bay Shore, New York by John Esposito, a friend of the family, and held in an underground bunker from December 28, 1992, to January 13, 1993.

Nov 21, 2022 · Just a few days before her 10th birthday in 1992, Katie Beers of Bay Shore, New York was lured into the home of a neighbor and family friend named John Esposito. He then held her captive in an underground bunker and sexually …

Dec 30, 2017 · John Esposito faces the court during his arraignment in Central Islip, N.Y., on charges he imprisoned 10-year-old Katie Beers in an underground bunker for 17 days. She credits her parents as...

Jan. 13 marks 25 years since she was rescued from the underground bunker in Bay Shore where a family friend held 9-year-old Beers hostage for 17 days. Anniversaries can make her emotional, but...

Jan 14, 2013 · Twenty years after she was kidnapped, forced into an damp, dark underground hole – 2 feet wide, 7 feet long and 3 feet high – and often held in chains, Katie Beers is speaking out at last about...

Jan 16, 2013 · Two decades ago, Katie Beers was a household name, the neglected 9-year-old girl who had been abducted and abused in a dungeon on Long Island. It is not her married name now, but it is still...

Jan 15, 2013 · The cement and wood bunker, which contains a trap door, is 6 feet by 9 feet. Esposito is charged with keeping 10-year-old Katie Beers imprisoned in the bunker for 16 days.

Jan 31, 1993 · BAY SHORE, N.Y. — The real John Esposito, it seems, was much like the bunker in which 10-year-old Katie Beers was imprisoned--hidden from view, inexplicable, rooted in darkness and dark impulses.

Jan 15, 2013 · Two decades ago, Beers, then 9, was abducted by John Esposito, a neighbor on Long Island, N.Y., and imprisoned by him for 17 days in an underground bunker.

She then made national headlines on December 28th, 1992 when a close family friend abducted her when she was 9 years old and held her captive for 17 horrendous days in an underground bunker built specifically for her.