COLUMBUS, Ind. — Court documents in a case about alleged voyeurism at a Columbus home-based massage business state there was an accusation of an attempted coercion by a suspect against his supervisor involving compromising videos.
Two months after his arrest, a probable cause affidavit has been filed against Jason M. Correll, 50, of 3065 Pippin Court S., who is charged with three counts of voyeurism and obstruction of justice, all Level 6 felonies. In addition, he’s facing a misdemeanor charge of intimidation, court documents state.
On Aug. 12, detectives with the Indiana State Police were assigned to investigate suspected voyeurism in a private residence in the Tipton Lakes area. Correll’s wife operated a massage therapy business in her family home, investigators said in August.
The probable cause affidavit states that while investigating, detectives were given a corporate cell phone that had been taken from Correll when he was terminated from his job.
On the phone, detectives found videos of persons undressing with various levels of undress and receiving massages in Correll’s home, the affidavit states.
As the investigation got underway, the detective first talked with a woman who said she received a massage from Correll’s wife on Aug. 9. The woman said Correll told her he had installed a camera in the massage room just two days earlier, and that she was the first person recorded in the room, the affidavit states.
Police also found a Aug. 10 video recording of a man undressing before his massage on the same phone. While the detective found records that another woman received a massage while the recording device was in use, no video of her could be found, the affidavit states.
When the story first broke in late summer, a police spokesman stated the defendant’s wife was unaware of the recordings.
During questioning, Correll told the detective that on Aug. 11, he told his work supervisor that he had compromising videos of him Correll warned his boss that if he told anyone about an affair Correll was having, he would make the recordings public and reveal “everything else Jason knew about (his boss) privately and professionally,” the affidavit states. The two men were known to be friends outside of the work environment, according to the affidavit.
Correll was subsequently fired and he was ordered to turn in his company-owned phone. However, it appears that Correll had unsuccessfully tried to erase all of the videos before handing over the phone, according to the affidavit.
Also arrested in connection with the case was Amy Kushner, 46, of 922 Box Turtle Court, Columbus.
Kushner told a detective she knew nothing about the video recording system. However, text messages found on her cell phone show Kushner discussing the video recording device and planning to use the information obtained as evidence in Kushner’s divorce, the affidavit states.
Kushner is charged with false informing, a Class B misdemeanor, according to court documents.
For more on this story, see Friday’s Republic.
