The 11-year-old said the boys are given "night pills" to sleep and that the Waldmillers use a 2-by-4-inch piece of wood to spank them. He told investigators he had escaped the house through the window to "dumpster dive," but when Matthew Waldmiller caught him, the father forced him to eat rice with cayenne pepper and salt on it as punishment. The boy added that he is not permitted to drink anything after 6 p.m. and reported that he had been "hog tie[d]" with zip ties by Matthew Waldmiller and Diane Waldmiller and was put in a suitcase for a month.