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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 ...
Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. [3] Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered. December 1954 Unidentified 11-year-old girl John A ...
Her kidnapping was the oldest unsolved case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. [20] 4 June 1930 Asser Salo: Anti-communist Lapua Movement activists Vaasa, Finland 28 Released Asser Salo, a Finnish lawyer and politician, was kidnapped in Vaasa by activists of the anti-communist Lapua Movement on 4 June 1930.
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. [107] Torture over the subsequent days included gang-rape, starvation, forced alcohol ingestion, beatings, and burnings.
1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir: Pahalgam, India 4 July 1995: Unknown Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis: Budyonnovsk, Russia 14 June 1995: 5 days Air France Flight 8969: Algiers, Algeria, Marseille, France 24 December 1994: 3 days 232 1994 kidnappings of western tourists in India: New Delhi, India 20 October 1994: 12 days 4 ...
Serial rapist Iain Packer was jailed for her murder 19 years later after one of the longest-running murder investigations in Scottish history. [84] 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 ...
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 ...
Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by fraud or deception. Kidnapping is distinguished from false imprisonment by the intentional movement of the victim to a different location. Kidnapping may be done to demand a ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal ...