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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Crime list This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions ...
John Jamelske, serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of girls and women and held them captive in a concrete bunker beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, US. All five of his victims were from different ethnic origins and most from different age groups.
One of the first child abductions to garner mass media attention was the 1874 kidnapping of Charley Ross as the United States was entering the industrialized Gilded age. A kidnapping scare occurred during the early 1930s with the Lindbergh and Howard Woolverton cases while the country was in the depths of the Great Depression. These kidnappings ...
Although the Ridulph family remained convinced McCullough was the man who kidnapped and killed 7-year-old Maria in 1957, according to ABC 7, he was granted his freedom in 2016.
Although child abduction cases have been registered for centuries in United States history, reports about children being abducted by strangers rarely reached national attention before the 1980s. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] Following the abduction of Etan Patz on his way to school in 1979, and subsequently the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh in 1981, public ...
Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman who they thought skipped out on probation 25 years ago — but they got the wrong person and instead pulled their guns on ...
Corey Pritchett Jr., 26, is accused of kidnapping the women after they went bowling with him in Houston on Nov. 23, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
Verne Sankey (1890 – February 8, 1934) and Gordon Alcorn were a pair of Depression-era outlaws whose successful kidnappings of Haskell Bohn and Charles Boettcher II in 1932 made them two of the most wanted criminals in the United States, and inspired a number of other kidnappings across the country. Their eventual capture was, in fact, a ...