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On April 27, 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak was kidnapped from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.A woman dressed as a nurse had entered the hospital room of Dora Fronczak and told her the doctor needed to examine the baby; Dora handed the baby to the unknown woman, who left the hospital with the baby and never returned.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 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 ...
The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles. The group was composed of Robin Gecht [ 1 ] and three associates: Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. [ 2 ]
Four-year-old Czech-American girl kidnapped and murdered: Bugs Raymond: Chicago: 1912-02-24: MLB pitcher beaten in a fight, died of fractured skull at age 30: Leopold and Loeb: Chicago: 1924-05: Wealthy students at University of Chicago kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks [76] [77] John M. Bolton: Chicago: 1936-07-09
The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
Mary Agnes Moroney (May 10, 1928 [1] – October 20, 2003) [2] [3] was an American woman who as a child was kidnapped from her home in Chicago, Illinois, on May 15, 1930. The case was heavily covered by both local and national media. Mary Agnes' kidnapping is the oldest case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. [4]
October 8, 1871 – Much of the city's population lost everything, including for 300 people their lives, to a fire that lasted 36 hours and brought rampant looting. [5]1879 – Michael Cassius McDonald, lived in the midst of what was called "Hair-Trigger Block," was a gambling kingpin who understood the power of a bribe.