HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Past abuse complaints are mounting on a wealthy developer who admitted on a secretly recorded police audiotape to chloroforming and sexually abusing his own stepdaughter over a period of six years beginning when she was 12-years-old. It's abuse that prosecutors say involved torture, needles and makeshift "surgeries."
Police and court records reveal there are additional complaints of sexual abuse made against Louis Bianculli, 69, claiming abuse dating back 50 years involving the use of chloroform and plastic bags to render the alleged victims unconscious.
One woman who is now living in Massachusetts called the Hallandale Beach Police Department on Aug. 15, about three weeks after his arrest, reporting that Bianculli had lured her into his parents' home roughly five decades ago, when she was about 9 and he was 19. She said Bianculli, a neighbor on the 500 block of Hibiscus Drive in Hallandale at the time, sexually assaulted her several times.
According to the report: "The suspect would tell her that he was failing a biology class and needed to perform experiments to pass said class. The victim agreed because according to her she did not know better. When asked, she advised the suspect would knock her out with chloroform and put a bag over her head. She would then wake up hours later and would feel pain from her vagina and anus. The victim never notified anyone because she was embarrassed and advised she thought it was the right thing to do at the time to help her friend. In addition, she stated she was madly in love with the suspect at one point."
Another alleged victim told Local 10 News that she suffered abuse at Bianculli's hands over a seven-year period beginning when she was 10 years old, dating back to 1979, when Bianculli would have been about 30 years old.
She said the Bianculli home on Southeast 12th Court in Fort Lauderdale was between her house and the bus stop. She said Bianculli would come out every day and wait for her on her way home.
The woman claims Bianculli had a stethoscope and told her that he was training to be a doctor and that she could help him get extra credit. She said he would knock her out with chloroform and said he told her that he was videotaping inside of her. She too didn't report the abuse at the time, but has come forward to prosecutors since Bianculli's arrest.
More alleged victims originated at a pet shop in Pembroke Pines that Bianculli once owned at 160 S. Flamingo Road. In 1995, a 17-year-old pet store employee reported to Fort Lauderdale police that Bianculli, then 38, raped her after the two went to dinner. She told police that he invited her to her home to look at motorcycles and once inside the home he kissed her before handed her "what looked like a mask that doctors wear, which was white in color."
The woman said he told her to breathe into it, according to the police report at the time. She said she told Bianculli that she didn't do drugs and he told her it was just helium so she breathed it in.
"The victim felt a strange sensation," police wrote in the report. "[She] stated that she could see but it was as though she had no control over her body. She remembers Lou telling her to go to the bedroom so she walked in there as if she had no control to say no. She was told by Lou to take off her clothes so she did so. … Lou asked her what his name was and if she was with him. She wanted to answer Lou but she couldn't."
She said Bianculli then had sex with her, even after she passed out. She said the same routine occurred on two other occasions. Police visited Bianculli who told them that the girl wanted him to put her up in an apartment and that he had told her he would do so after she turned 18. He refused to give a sworn statement in the case.
Police chose not to arrest Bianculli, according to the report, because there were "no witnesses, no physical evidence due to the time delay and the fact that she was sexually active and also the fact she was not pregnant." The State Attorney's Office also reviewed the allegations and declined to prosecute.
Court records also reveal that Bianculli allegedly became involved with a 15-year-old daughter of another pet store employee. She also alleged that chloroform was used and ended up having a 10-year relationship with Bianculli. She told prosecutors that Bianculli videotaped some of the activity.
Authorities seized 114 VHS tapes and over 1,000 DVDs during a search warrant conducted at Bianculli's Lighthouse Point mansion two weeks after the arrest. It is unknown if those videos have any incriminating information contained in them or even if police or prosecutors have viewed them.
Still another woman contacted Lighthouse Point police to report that in the early 1980s she and Bianculli were members of the Porsche Club and that they became intimate. She was an adult at the time, but she reported that during sex with Biancullli he began to choke her without consent, prompting her to fight him.
According to the report, "just as she was about to pass out, he released her." She told police that when she questioned him about the choking, he began crying "and related to her that he has problems with intimacy." He then admitted that in his younger days, he visited "Atlanta snuff clubs" to see if "watching someone get killed would help him with his sexual issues."
Interestingly, in a series of recordings the mother of the alleged crime victim made with Bianculli prior to his arrest, he makes mentions "Atlanta snuff clubs" and admits using chloroform on the girl multiple times, placing plastic bags over head to bring her to verge of suffocation, giving her sleeping pills and using needles on her.
He said he and the girl had a "game" where he would suck the fact out of her belly with insulin needles and inject it into her breasts (though he said he never harmed her and didn't actually inject her fat).
"I was running with people were into bizarre kinds of sex," Bianculli said on the recording. "It distorts your whole sexual appetite."
At another time, he said he was trying to clean up his life and stop doing what he admitted was an "addiction" to what he conceded were perverted acts.
"I got off track," he said. "And once you get off track, I don't know if you get back on the track."