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Philadelphia (CNN) -- One of the women rescued from a boiler room in a Philadelphia apartment building says she had two children while she was held against her will, police said Tuesday, another development in the bizarre case.
The woman is one of four mentally disabled adults rescued from the boiler room over the weekend and authorities have located 10 others who may be victims in the case, said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.
The four people, three men and a woman ranging in age from 29 to 41, were found locked in the room, with no food and only a bucket for a toilet, police said. The pitch-black, 15-foot-by-6-foot space houses what police described as a boiler used to heat the building. A penetrating stench of urine and feces still hung in the chamber days after the discovery.
One of the four, Derwin McLemire, had been chained to the boiler, police said.
Three suspects -- Gregory Thomas, 47, Eddie Wright, 49, and Linda Ann Weston, 51 -- face charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, according to Philadelphia Police. Authorities were investigating whether the victims' Social Security checks had been stolen, as well as several other leads.
Six of the 10 new alleged victims are children, Ramsey said. Two of them, ages 2 and 5, are believed to be the children born to the woman who was held captive in the boiler room.
One of them is a 19-year-old neice of Weston Ramsey said.
"The 19-year-old has visible injuries, she may have been beaten, and she has scars all over her body," Ramsey said.
Weston had identification documents for about 50 people with her when she was arrested, Ramsey said. They included Social Security cards and court documents giving power of attorney, among others.
Ramsey said police must track down all of those individuals and find out what happened to them and whether they were victims. It is possible that Weston has been involved in similar activity dating back to the late 1990s, he said.
"We don't know the extent of this," Ramsey told CNN. "We do know it goes beyond the borders of Pennsylvania -- at least Texas, Florida and Virginia, and we suspect other locations as well."
Three of the four people rescued from the room spoke about their harrowing experience on Monday.
"That was real dirty of you. That was wrong," a tearful McLemire told CNN affiliate KYW , talking about his alleged captors.
The alleged victims said they were beaten and were afraid of the suspects in the case.
Tamara Breeden told KYW Weston hit her in the head, "and all this was bleeding and everything."
McLemire, Breeden and a third man, Herbert Knowles, told KYW their Social Security information was taken from them.
McLemire, who said he is from North Carolina, said he met Weston on an online dating site, according to KYW. He said once he attempted to escape from a home of Weston's, "and I didn't get away, so they got me."
Bond for each of the three suspects was set at $2.5 million, according to the Philadelphia district attorney's office. The FBI joined the probe after detectives discovered one of the accused had traveled to at least two other states with the people found in the basement of the northeast Philadelphia apartment building, police spokesman Evers said.
Weston served eight years in prison for killing her sister's boyfriend in the early 1980s, Ramsey said earlier. In that case, the victim "was held captive for an extended period of time, locked in a closet and he literally starved to death," he said.
"That concerns us because obviously, she's capable of quite a bit of a lot of different things," he said.
Asked why Weston is not still behind bars, Ramsey said Tuesday, "That's a good question. Our legal system is what it is, but you would think that someone who's committed a crime that horrific would still be in jail. But she wasn't, and obviously she wasn't fully rehabilitated, either."
Ramsey said he has a team of detectives working the case, and is likely to put a task force together for long-term investigation, because "this is not one that's going to end very quickly."
Weston is believed to have been in McLean, Texas, with some or all of the alleged captives. They then traveled to Florida and Philadelphia, Evers said. All seven had been traveling together, he said, but he did not know for how long.
A preliminary hearing for the suspects on the charges and evidence in the Philadelphia case was set for October 24. No pleas were entered on Monday, with that to happen at a formal arraignment at a date yet to be set.
