Kidnapping

Terry Anderson, reporter held hostage for years in Lebanon, dies at 76; remembered for "great bravery and resolve"

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America's longes...

us | 5 months ago

Teen who vanished 26 years ago rescued from neighbor's cellar — just 200 yards from his home in Algeria

An Algerian man who had been missing for 26 years has been found in his neighbor's house, just a few...

world | 5 months ago

David DePape set for sentencing in hammer attack on ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband

The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband ...

politics | 4 months ago

Missing womens' bodies found buried on farm property linked to grandma accused in complex murder plan, documents show

The bodies of two murdered women who earlier this year disappeared in rural Oklahoma were eventually...

us | 4 months ago

Gunmen kidnap 150 people in central Nigeria: officials

Gunmen in central Nigeria have kidnapped about 150 people in the country’s latest mass abduction, of...

world | 4 months ago

Man gets life in prison over plot to rape and murder famous British TV personality in case cracked by undercover U.S. cop

A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughb...

world | 3 months ago

Man accused of holding woman captive in Poland for over 5 years, abusing her with "special cruelty"

Prosecutors in southwest Poland say a man has been arrested on allegations of imprisoning and physic...

world | 1 month ago

German couple accused of killing Ukrainian refugee to kidnap her newborn and "pass her off as their own child"

A German couple were charged on Tuesday with the murder of a Ukrainian woman and the kidnapping of h...

world | 1 month ago

How a 12-year-old Massachusetts girl who escaped a serial killer likely saved the lives of others

Jan. 7, 1994, started out like any other typical winter morning for Rebecca "Becky" Savarese of Pitt...

us | 3 weeks ago

Boy kidnapped from California park in 1951 at age 6 found alive on East Coast: "Thank you for finding me"

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, Califo...

us | 3 weeks ago

DNA evidence found in truck leads to suspect in Arkansas girl's 1995 abduction

Almost three decades after a 6-year-old girl was abducted in western Arkansas, modern forensic tests...

us | 1 week ago

Christian Brueckner, suspect in Maddie McCann case, acquitted on unrelated rape, sex abuse charges in Germany

Braunschweig, Germany — A court in Germany has acquitted a man identified as the only suspect in the...

world | 1 week ago