A Kansas City North man has been charged after allegedly recording a woman using the restroom at Kansas City International Airport.
Teriosi Ludwig, 32, remains in custody in the Platte County Detention Center, held on $25,000 cash-only bond. He so far has been charged with one count of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly following a woman into a gender-inclusive restroom on Concourse A on Monday, March 9. Ludwig was charged and taken into custody Thursday, March 19.
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Prosecutors believe other women have been victimized – potentially up to 65 women – and Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd held a press conference Monday, March 23, asking women who used that restroom between Jan. 16 through March 9 to contact KCI Airport police at (816) 243-5175.
“I can’t tell you whether we would have additional charges yet, because I don’t know the facts,” Zahnd said, although more than 60 recordings were found on Ludwig’s phone. “I can’t foretell the future but I would just urge anybody who believes they heard or saw somebody that just doesn’t quite add up to call.”
According to court documents, airport police were contacted by a woman who said she noticed the corner of a cell phone, illuminated by a flashlight, poking under the small gap underneath the stall partition. She identified Ludwig as the man who had walked past her and smiled before she had entered the stall. Police reviewed surveillance footage and watched Ludwig jog away from the restroom about 35 seconds before the victim exited. Ludwig returned to Martin City Brewery, where he was employed.
When confronted by police, he allowed them to search his cellphone and police found multiple videos of adult females inside restroom stalls, in various stages of undress. During an interview with police, Ludwig said he watched the victim enter the stall and “had the urge to film her.” He entered the adjacent stall and tried to record her, running away when the victim began to scream.
Ludwig’s phone was seized and searched by the Platte County Cyber Crimes Task Force and located 66 video files filmed in the same manner as the March 9 incident. Many of the videos include footage of Ludwig’s face when he withdrew the phone from under the stall.
Two incidents that occurred on Feb. 12 at the same restroom are corroborated by surveillance video that captured Ludwig entering the restroom prior to the recording and remaining inside until after the victims left the restroom.