All tagged kidnapping
A 14-year-old used a slingshot to save his sister from an alleged kidnapper in Michigan last week. Per ABC News, the Michigan State Police Department said in a press release that the "unknown male appeared from the woods" and entered the siblings' property in a rural area of Alpena County on Wednesday, when the 8-year-old girl was mushroom hunting. The suspect grabbed the young girl, put a hand over her mouth and the other arm around her waist, and attempted to pull her into the woods.
Aranza Lopez was kidnapped by her mother, Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez on October 25, 2018, during a court-supervised visit at Vancouver Mall and taken to Mexico, according to People.
Mack Varnum, 45, and Nichole Cloutier, 36, were taken into custody for allegedly kidnapping an unidentified woman. According to People, Varnum and Cloutier are facing charges of attempted first-degree murder, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, and aggravated domestic assault.
According to CBS News, two abducted children, 12 and 11, who had been missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a central Florida Winn-Dixie Supermarket. They were found with their non-custodial mother, Kristi Nicole Gilley, 36, who was taken into police custody.
New York police are currently searching for a woman who attempted kidnapping in public on Monday. The victim, a five-year-old boy, was with his parents on the street when the woman attempted to kidnap him. Police are still searching for the woman in question.
Michael Ramirez was last seen on May 18, 2020, when he left home after an argument. He was reported missing by his parents on June 9, 2020. When he returned to his family’s home on March 11, 2022, he said that he was staying in his friend’s house, whose mother is Olivares.
Prosecutors in Merced County, California charged Jesus Manuel Salgado Monday with four counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances following the quadruple murder of a California family.
Prosecutors with the Office of the State’s Attorney For Baltimore City have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed was released on his own recognizance on September 19 while the State Attorney’s Office decided whether or not to re-try him based on new DNA evidence.
Investigators in Merced County, California are searching for a man the believe is “armed and dangerous” following the kidnapping of a family of four, including an infant, Monday morning.
"They are not going to let me go, love you," the message from her mother was sent to Amanda Bearden’s Venmo account on Sept. 10, along with $2,400 by her mother, Deborrah Collier. "There is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door."
On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam John Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. His severed head would be found two weeks later along a Florida Turnpike. In the aftermath of the horrifying crime Adam’s father John Walsh became a victims rights advocate.
Phoenix police and Arizona residents are on the lookout for a missing baby taken by her biological mother this past weekend. Police have put out alerts for this child and fear for her safety at this time.
Netflix has released a new docu-series that has taken the internet by storm: I Just Killed My Dad. Coming from the same director, Skye Borgman, who crafted the gripping tale of Girl in the Picture, this series aims to bring the same questions, intrigue, and stellar storytelling of the former film’s popularity.
After a young girl escaped captivity from a Dadeville, Alabama home on Monday, police returned to make a shocking discovery the following day that opened an entirely new investigation.
17-year-old William Hester has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of Joanna Lockaby. Held without bond in the Greenville County Detention Center, Hester will be tried as an adult.
Inspiration can be found anywhere, and for some musicians, a true crime story is just what they need to spark their songwriting skills. Here are 12 songs about crime in genres ranging from alternative to rock to pop to R&B/soul.
In 1932, America was electrified by the kidnapping of renowned aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son. The legendary trial to come would launch the true crime genre into the media titan we know it as today.
The 40-year-old cold case of the kidnapping, assault, and murder of five-year-old Anne Pham was solved last week in Monterey California using DNA evidence. The perpetrator, now in his 70s, has been taken into custody in Nevada, waiting to be extradited to California for trial.
Netflix has just put out a stellar new true-crime documentary: Girl in the Picture. The feature follows a twisting, turning, and 20+ yearlong investigation into Tonya Hughes, a young woman who had to be killed for her secrets, abused past, and true identity to come to light.
Carlina White was just days old when she was kidnapped from a Harlem hospital in 1987 and raised under a new name by her kidnapper; 23 years later she solved her own kidnapping.
