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Gunmen in Acapulco Kidnap 22 Men

Resort city has been plagued by drug violence

(Newser) - Gunmen kidnapped 22 men who were traveling together in Mexico's Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said today. The group was visiting from the western city of Morelia and looking for a place to stay when they were abducted Thursday. Witnesses said the men, ranging in age 17 to...

Taliban Offer Kidnapped Doc for MIT Terrorist

Insurgents nab Scottish aid worker, want Aafia Siddiqui in return

(Newser) - The Taliban today admitted to kidnapping a female Scottish aid worker in Afghanistan, and offered to trade her for the release of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani ex-MIT student sentenced to 86 years in prison last week for trying to kill FBI officers. Siddiqui’s sentence set off a wave of...

Phillip, Nancy Garrido Indicted in Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case
Garridos: We Want to See Jaycee
Sep 24, 2010 9:48 AM CDT

Garridos: We Want to See Jaycee

Alleged kidnappers finally indicted in Jaycee Dugard case

(Newser) - It took more than a year after their arrest, but Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been indicted in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard . Nancy Garrido’s lawyer says a grand jury handed up the indictment this week after secret proceedings. Now the couple can be arraigned on the charges as...

Kidnapped Girl: I Was Beaten 200 Times a Week

10-year-old forced to call her attacker 'my lord'

(Newser) - An Austrian girl kidnapped when she was 10 and kept in a basement dungeon in a Viennese suburb for 8 years is finally revealing her horrific ordeal of imprisonment and vicious beatings by the man she was forced to call "my lord." Natascha Kampusch's body was a mass...

Missing Teen Feared With Man Who Grabbed Her Before

Brittney Kustes was to testify against him, says mom

(Newser) - Police fear a missing teenager is being held by the same sex offender who held her against her will over a year ago. Brittney Kustes, 19, was last seen at her grandparents' pool in Kentucky. She was to testify against Roy Vernon Elwell, 34, next week, according to her mom....

Baseball Player's Wife Admits Stealing Baby

Jose Tabata's spouse faces life in prison

(Newser) - The wife of Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Jose Tabata has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby after faking her own pregnancy. Amalia Tabata-Pereira, 44, faces life in prison for impersonating an immigration officer and pressuring a young couple at a health clinic into surrendering their 2-month-old child last year, reports the...

Missing Teen Found Murdered

Norma Lopez was grabbed as she left a summer class

(Newser) - Remains found in a wheat field near a southern California town have been identified as those of a missing teenage girl police believe was abducted after a summer school program. Norma Lopez, 17, vanished a week ago after a biology class at Valley View High in Moreno Valley. Police have...

Missing SoCal Teenager Was Likely Abducted

Cops find Norma Lopez's belongings, signs of struggle

(Newser) - Deputies and detectives yesterday searched for a Southern California teen girl missing for a third day, and authorities said evidence points to an abduction. Personal items belonging to 17-year-old Norma Lopez and signs of a struggle were discovered by investigators in a field the girl often used as a shortcut...

Abducted Girl Found Safe 7 Years Later

Young aunts took baby; she's never been to school

(Newser) - Details of a bizarre kidnapping emerge: A girl who was snatched as a baby 7 years ago in Los Angeles was raised by an Arizona couple who kept her out of school to hide her from authorities, officials said. Amber Nicklas, who turns 8 this month, was abducted in 2003...

Terri Horman Tried to Abduct Own Daughter

Stepmom started affair after Kyron went missing: Court docs

(Newser) - The case against Kyron Horman’s stepmother continues to get more damning and more bizarre: Terri Horman is now accused of trying to kidnap her own daughter. Two days after Kaine Horman took their daughter and left Terri, she went to his gym “looking to ‘abduct’ her daughter”...

Man Sought in Girl's Kidnapping Shoots Self

Kidnapper cut tot's hair

(Newser) - A man sought in the kidnapping of a 4-year-old Missouri girl shot himself during a confrontation with police who tracked his car to a home. Police did not identify him, nor reveal his condition. Alisa Maier was grabbed from the front lawn of her home where she was playing with...

Clueless Parole Agents Actually Spoke to Captive Jaycee

They never questioned who she was

(Newser) - Clueless California parole agents actually spoke to kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard while she was still captive as they were checking up on sex offender Phillip Garrido, but failed to take any action to help her, according to a newly released state report. "Agents saw and spoke to Ms. Dugard...

Snatched Tot Found Alive —70 Miles From Home

Desperate mom gave chase

(Newser) - A 4-year-old girl was found alive wandering some 70 miles from her Missouri home 24 hours after her frantic mom chased her daughter's kidnapper in vain. Alisa Maier was ordered into a car by a strange man as she played outside her home with her 5-year-old brother, cops said. When...

Vatican OKs Cracking Open Mafioso's Tomb

Teen kidnap victim may be buried with mobster

(Newser) - Italian police probing the unsolved 1983 disappearance of a teenage girl have been given the Vatican's permission to open the tomb of a mobster. Enrico Pedis was buried in the crypt of a Vatican-owned church after he was gunned down by rival gangsters in 1990. Now police have received a...

California Settles With Jaycee Dugard for $20M

State admits its parole officials failed in her kidnapping case

(Newser) - California lawmakers approved a $20 million settlement today with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive in a secret back yard for 18 years by a paroled sex offender. Dugard, 30, resurfaced last August with two daughters she bore with Phillip Garrido, a...

Woman Fakes Pregnancy, Tries to Kidnap Newborn

She stabs parents of baby, police say

(Newser) - An Indiana woman with a history of miscarriages faked a pregnancy for 9 months, then stabbed a couple in an attempt to kidnap their newborn son and pass him off as her own, police said. Stephanie Foster, 34, of Terre Haute was arrested yesterday. The newborn's mother is in stable...

Kidnapper to London: 'Hit This or I'll Kill You!'

 Kidnapper 
 to London: 
 'Hit This or 
 I'll Kill You!' 
timeline gets weirder
Jun 21, 2010 9:49 AM CDT

Kidnapper to London: 'Hit This or I'll Kill You!'

More bizarre details emerge, London's wife talks

(Newser) - The saga of Jeremy London’s alleged kidnapping continues to get weirder. Radar has all sorts of new details, including an unintentionally hilarious quote supposedly uttered by one of London’s drug-offering abductors: “Hit that motherf***er! Hit it or I’m gonna kill you!” Even stranger is the...

Jeremy London Kidnapped, Forced to Smoke Dope

Sounds like something out of a really strange movie...

(Newser) - In today’s Bizarre Crimes Department: Actor Jeremy London was reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to do drugs. The Party of Five star—and former prescription drug addict—was changing a flat tire in Palm Springs last week when two men stopped to help, then abducted him in his...

Father Admits Killing 'Sold' Mexican Kids

Dad tells cops he couldn't afford them

(Newser) - A father who first claimed his children had been kidnapped and then said he'd given them away to settle a gambling debt has confessed to murdering them both. Police found the bodies of the Mexico City man's year-old daughter and 2-year-old son wrapped in plastic bags in a park, the...

After 15 Years, Mom Finds Kidnapped Kids on Facebook

Dad charged with kidnapping; daughter breaks off contact

(Newser) - Fifteen years after her husband ran off with their two children, a California woman has located her daughter—on Facebook. The father, who the woman says vowed she'd never see the kids again, has been arrested in Florida, but the story doesn't have a happy ending, reports the San Bernardino ...

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