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Three people appeared in court Monday on charges of kidnapping and torturing a 16-year-old boy who an investigator said had been kept chained in a fireplace, choked with a belt and denied food for days at a time during more than a year in captivity. The emaciated boy fled a home in Tracy last week with a chain around his ankle and sought help at a local gym. Michael Schumacher, 34, his wife, ...