The first note appeared just over a week ago.

Stuck to a mirror in the women’s restroom at the Walmart on Washington Pike in Scott, a handwritten note pleaded for help, police said. The writer, a woman, wrote that she was being held captive by a man named Corey Brewer in a Scott apartment. She alleged he’d sexually and physically assaulted her, and he had a knife.

This wasn’t a joke, police said she wrote.

Brewer, 40, is charged with three felonies: strangulation, sexual assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, records show. He also faces three misdemeanor charges of making terroristic threats, unlawful restraint and simple assault.

He remains free awaiting a preliminary hearing next week after posting 10% of the $5,000 bail set by Magisterial District Judge Robert Ravenstahl Jr. Brewer’s attorney could not immediately be reached.

On the day the first note was discovered, Scott police officers went to the the address written on the note but received no answer, according to a criminal complaint filed against Brewer. They noted that they could hear shuffling inside the apartment, like furniture being moved up against the front door. Without a warrant, they couldn’t go inside.

A day later, on July 9, officers called Brewer at a phone number he’d given them during previous police interactions, according to the complaint. They asked to speak to the woman they believed left the note, and then asked Brewer to take them off of speaker phone, according to the complaint.

Police said Brewer refused, saying he wanted to hear what was going on. The woman said she was on vacation with Brewer in New York.

A day later, more than 70 miles away, another note was found in a women’s restroom at Fallingwater in Fayette County.

That note, according to police, indicated the same woman had been being held captive by Brewer since May 1. The writer said she’d heard police at the door days prior, and the abuse hadn’t stopped, police said. She wrote that the last text messages sent from her phone to her family weren’t from her.

“If I don’t make it, tell my family I love them,” police said the note read.

Security footage from the museum showed the woman police believed to have left the notes enter the bathroom, according to the complaint, while Brewer monitored the door.

Investigators spoke to the woman’s ex-boyfriend with whom she has two children, according to the complaint. He said he had not seen her since the end of April, and he reported her missing.

On July 11, before sunrise, police served a warrant on Brewer’s apartment, according to the complaint. They found the woman inside and took Brewer into custody.

The woman described months of abuse, which investigators detailed in the complaint. He’d allegedly punched her and stabbed her and cut off chunks of her hair, police wrote. She said he’d tried to strangle her on several occasions, and he had raped her, according to the complaint. Police noted red marks, bruises and cuts on the woman, and they wrote that her hair was cut unevenly.

She said Brewer threatened to kill her and her children if she tried to leave, according to the complaint.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 22.

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