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A 60-year-old Sandy man — already charged with beating, raping, and trying to drown a woman who was renting a room from him — was charged Thursday with kidnapping and attacking another woman at his home.
Both women escaped — one on Aug. 9, the other on Sept. 1 — and ran to neighbors' homes to seek help, according to charging documents.
Vratislav Roger Bilek is charged in 3rd District Court with 11 felonies, including aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated assault.
He is scheduled to appear in court on both cases on Tuesday.
The August case was not charged until Thursday because the alleged victim, a transient, was released from the hospital and disappeared before police could thoroughly interview her, according to Deputy Salt Lake District Attorney Nathan Evershed.
On Aug. 9, the woman — naked, bleeding from her nose and covered with small cuts and bruises — turned up at a home near 600 East and 10800 South claiming she had been held hostage next door for two days, according to charges.
Police said the woman was "speaking in a scattered form and was not able to give a detailed statement."
Sandy police Sgt. Dean Carriger said the woman had numerous injuries, but because of her state of mind, officers could not initially determine if they were accidentally or intentionally inflicted.
But this week officers located the woman at the Salt Lake County Jail, and were able to able to speak to her again, which resulted in the new charges, said Carriger.
The woman told police that after meeting Bilek through mutual friends, she stayed at his home for three or four days.
She said things went well at first, with Bilek providing her methamphetamine. But then Bilek began to attack her — choking her on three occasions, and punching and kicking her in the face and body.
The woman said that as a "shock factor," Bilek showed her a black handgun.
Bilek kept the woman in his basement for seven to nine hours, but then allowed her to go upstairs by herself for a drink of water, according to charges.
Because the woman was naked, Bilek did not think she would run outside, but she knew this was the best time to escape, so she unlocked the front door and fled, according to charges.
In that case, filed Thursday, Bilek is charged with one count each of first-degree felony kidnapping, second-degree felony drug distribution and third-degree felony aggravated assault.
In the other case, a woman showed up on the porch of a home near Bilek's at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 1, calling for help.
The 40-year-old woman, who had numerous visible injuries on her body, told police she had been kidnapped and physically and sexually attacked by a man who had offered to rent her a room.
The woman said she met the man, whom she knew only as Ronnie, at a motel in Salt Lake City, where he offered to rent her a room at his home, according to charges.
After the victim moved in, she and Bilek used methamphetamine and began to argue, according to charges.
The woman said she was going to leave, but could not open the door, and Bilek told her, "If you go out that door, I'm going to kill you," according to charges.
Bilek then punched her in the face and began to choke her, according to charges. Bilek then allegedly forced her face into a filled bathtub.
He then told her he wouldn't let her out of the bathroom unless she showed her breasts to him; he then grabbed her breasts, according to charges.
Bilek later showed the woman a gun and demanded sex, according to charges.
Bilek raped the woman with multiple objects, including the handle of a sledgehammer, while the woman "begged him to stop," according to charges.
The woman ultimately escaped through a back door.
When police later searched Bilek's home, they found blood throughout the home, a sledgehammer, methamphetamine, a BB gun and other items the woman had described.
In that case, Bilek was charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape and three counts of object rape, all first-degree felonies; possession of a controlled substance and two counts of aggravated assault, third-degree felonies; and misdemeanor sexual battery.
Carriger said Thursday that while police are not aware of additional victims, they are "concerned there could be others out there."
Anyone with information may call Sandy police at 801-799-3000.