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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 ...
Jayme Closs, kidnapped after her parents' murder and held for 88 days, discovered on 10 January 2019. Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965.
Serial rapist Iain Packer was jailed for her murder 19 years later after one of the longest-running murder investigations in Scottish history. [86] 6 May 2005 Mary-Ann Leneghan: Six men Reading, England 16 Murdered Leneghan and a friend were kidnapped from Prospect Park by a group of six men who drugged, tortured and raped both of them ...
Kidnappings during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war: Gaza envelope, Israel: 7 October 2023: Ongoing 250+ [1] Nduga hostage crisis: Nduga Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia: 7 February 2023: 1 year, 7 months and 2 weeks 9+ [2] Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis: Colleyville, Texas, United States: 15 January 2022: 10 hours, 41 minutes 4 [3] 2020 ...
The Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis, as it is known, refers to the October 2008 incident involving 15-year-old Brazilian girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel, who was kidnapped, [1] taken against her will and held hostage before being murdered by her 22-year-old ex-boyfriend, Lindemberg Alves. Additionally, Pimentel's friend, Nayara da Silva, was shot by ...
The following is a list of kidnappings that occurred between 1950 and 1979, summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions, claimed hoaxes, suspected kidnappings, extradition abductions, and mass kidnappings.
The kidnapping began when the four perpetrators, already with a history of abduction and gang rape, attacked Furuta while riding home on her bike. She was held captive for 40 days in the house where Minato lived with his parents. [108] Torture over the subsequent days included gang-rape, starvation, forced alcohol ingestion, beatings, and burnings.
Kidnapping for ransom is a common occurrence in various parts of the world today. In 2018, the United Nations found Pakistan and England had the highest number of kidnappings while New Zealand had the highest rate among the 70 countries for which data is available. [ 45 ]