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Who is Benjamin Foster? Dead After Being Accused of Kidnapping and Torturing a Woman

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John Parsons

Published Dec 31, 2025

Benjamin Cultivate, an Oregon man who was needed for endeavored murder and different violations after a lady was tracked down restricted and severely beaten last week, is supposed to be dead after a stalemate with police that went on for quite a long time.

In a short proclamation on Tuesday, the police said that 36-year-old Benjamin Obadiah Encourage of Wolf Spring was in guardianship after a deadlock that endured a few hours. The suspect later died at a medical clinic from a discharge wound he gave himself, an Awards Pass police representative told the CBS station in Medford, Oregon, KTVL-television, late Tuesday night.

Encourage had been the objective of a serious manhunt since Jan. 24, when Awards Pass cops went to a home and tracked down a lady who “had been bound and seriously beaten until she was oblivious,” as police said at that point. Police said Cultivate was needed on charges of capturing, endeavored murder, and attack. The casualty was supposed to be in an exceptionally terrible state.

In a court report, Josephine Region Head prosecutor Joshua Eastman said that Encourage attempted to kill the lady while “purposefully tormenting” her.

“I’m sickened by what I know occurred” – Police Boss Warren Hensman said last week, as revealed by a NBC subsidiary in Medford, KOBI.

#Breaking: @gppolice has confirmed to @KDRV, that Benjamin Foster, who was wanted for the attempted murder of a local woman is in custody and is alive. Police say he was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. This is the moment we believe he was taken from the scene.

— Brett Austin Taylor (@Brett_Taylor94) February 1, 2023


“This was an abhorrent demonstration.” On Tuesday, police said on Facebook that Cultivate was seen strolling a canine in the Awards Pass region.

As police searched for Cultivate, they cautioned that he was all the while utilizing dating applications and that he may be attempting to connect with individuals he didn’t be aware to help him.

Cultivate was found liable in Nevada quite a while back of keeping another lady prisoner. In 2019, Cultivate secured his better half for quite a long time in her Las Vegas condo.

He was first accused of five crimes, including threatening behavior. In 2021, he made an arrangement with Clark Region examiners to confess to lawful offense and crime battery.

#Breaking: I can confirm that several law enforcement agencies are right now at the house where Benjamin Foster, who is wanted for attempted murder, kidnapped, bound and severely beat a woman. We are working to confirm more information. Stay tuned for updates. @KDRV

— Brett Austin Taylor (@Brett_Taylor94) January 31, 2023


He was given a sentence of one to more than two years in jail, yet he had proactively been secured for 729 days while sitting tight for his preliminary, so he was let out.

Awards Pass is a city in southwest Oregon with around 39,000 individuals. It is around 25 miles north of the line with California.

KOBI said that police had encircled a house in the city on Tuesday and that an emergency moderator was there before they said that Encourage was in guardianship.

Last week, the police boss, Hensman, said that the assault was fierce and that the police thought often about the person in question and her loved ones. It occurred more than “an extended timeframe,” he guaranteed. “We regularly figure this couldn’t occur in our little local area of 40,000 individuals, however this can happen anyplace” – he said.