A frisky Texas couple is angry enough to sue, after a hidden camera saw what they were up to in the bathroom. That wasn’t the only secret recording device they found at the Airbnb they rented for a weekend. They yanked one down and turned it over to cops.
Hidden camera in the bathroom
A Texas based couple is suing a Maryland homeowner “after he allegedly filmed them” with a hidden camera “while they had sex in the bathroom of his home.”
Beware what you find on Aribnb, they warn. Any pervert can wire their rental and they might not do such an amateur job of bugging the place.
Kayelee Gates and her fiancé Christian Capraro drove all the way from their home in the Lone Star state to Silver Spring, Maryland. The drive took a full 23 hours.
Airbnb owner disguised cameras as smoke detectors in home where couple was 'intimate,' lawsuit alleges https://t.co/vEjbqip2XM
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They were really looking forward to spending two nights in the vacation rental back in August of 2022. They didn’t discover a hidden camera until it was too late.
The night they arrived, the vacationing couple got a little “intimate while in the shared bathroom” before they “laid down on the bed, put a movie on and began to relax,” their lawsuit explains. It turns out that Mr. Capraro happens to install smoke detectors for a living.
Even though he was way off the clock and in bed with his soon to be wife, he couldn’t help noticing the smoke detector on the ceiling. Then the other one in the corner. He looked a little closer and found the camera in the one above the bed. One just like it was in the bathroom
Couple suing Airbnb owner after hidden camera in bathroom filmed them having sex https://t.co/tU5EsLLarl pic.twitter.com/ahwddKsVQL
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Police find more
After evacuating to a real hotel, the couple called the Montgomery County Police Department, who sent a few cops around to talk to the owner. Christopher Goisse lives in the house with his twin brother and sort of cooperated.
Not at first but little by little, as they told him how much worse it would be for him if he didn’t. While searching the place, police found another “hidden camera disguised as a smoke detector in the basement where another guest had been staying.”
Goisse turns out to be a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner in Maryland. It seems he could use a little help from his own office. He “was staying in the master bedroom of the home when police arrived” and “originally consented to police searching the house.”
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He started getting a little nervous and “refused to let officers into the bedroom of his twin brother, Larry Goisse, who was also staying in the home.” He almost convinced the cops Larry wasn’t there until he made a noise. “The brother eventually emerged, presumably after taking the time to destroy evidence.” Police already had more than one camera and have ways of un-deleting files you never imagined.
In Larry’s room they found a locked safe. The brothers made them get a search warrant for it so they did. When they opened it up they found “multiple hidden cameras, including but not limited to the hidden camera smoke detectors [similar to the one] removed from the bathroom.”
Larry Goisse is currently behind bars for a separate incident involving “federal charges of drug diversion and health care fraud.” The couple is still freaked out about it. “It gives me the heebie geebies not knowing if someone looks at me weird if there’s a potential they have seen it. That always lurks in the back of my head every time I meet somebody,” Ms. Gates relates.
