A self-proclaimed Texas street preacher was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison Thursday after helping a woman kidnap, torture and enslave mentally disabled adults, all while stealing more than $200,000 of the captives’ government benefits.
Read moreThe woman who kidnapped Utah teen Elizabeth Smart 16 years ago in a bizarre plot to procure a child bride for her husband will be released from prison Sept. 19, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced Monday.
Read moreDistrict attorneys from six counties around California said Tuesday they will jointly prosecute the accused Golden State Killer on 13 counts of murder in Sacramento County, one count for each of the murders he’s suspected of committing during a statewide spree decades ago.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice has reopened the 63-year-old case of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal murder in 1955 helped trigger the civil rights movement.
Read moreA woman who kidnapped a newborn from a Florida hospital two decades ago and raised the child as her own was sentenced Friday to 18 years for kidnapping. She will also serve five years concurrently on a charge of custody interference.
Read moreAfter 24 years since Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide, his wife Courtney Love has been accused of ordering the kidnapping and attempted murder of her former son-in-law in an effort to reclaim Cobain’s most famous guitar, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Read moreBritain acknowledged Thursday that its intelligence agents played a role in the kidnapping and torture of an opponent of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi — a rare admission of wrongdoing by British spies.
Read moreA Vietnamese man charged with involvement in the kidnapping of a former Vietnamese oil executive in Berlin has gone on trial in the German capital.
Read moreEcuador’s President Lenin Moreno on Friday confirmed that three press workers kidnapped along the conflictive border with Colombia had been killed, opening the door to a military strike against their captors.
Read moreJournalists kidnapped a week ago along Ecuador’s increasingly conflictive border with Colombia have appeared in a video appealing to Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno.
Read moreA former Lake County teacher convicted of attempting to entice an 11-year-old to engage in sex and asking her father to take part in a kidnap plot, asked the 11th Circuit to vacate his 30-year sentence Thursday arguing that kidnapping is not necessarily a crime of violence.
Read moreA couple reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Northern California city and its police department after investigators dismissed the woman’s elaborate and bizarre kidnapping as a hoax.
Read moreIsraeli rabbinical judges accused by a man of helping his wife abduct their child are entitled to immunity, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday.
Read moreA Houston man prosecutors say admitted to shooting the mother of two of his sons in the head and leaving her body in woods along a Louisiana interstate made his initial appearance Wednesday in a federal courtroom for a kidnapping charge that carries a possible death sentence.
Read moreThe real estate company that employed a Little Rock realtor who was kidnapped and murdered in 2014 is to blame for not training her to handle life-threatening situations, the woman’s family claims in court.
Read moreA lawyer representing a suspect accused of kidnapping a British model says the entire case may have been fabricated as a publicity stunt.
Read moreA federal grand jury charged a Houston woman with 10 felony counts over a 2015 virtual kidnapping scam in three states.
Read moreReligious liberty did not grant three rabbis leeway to abduct Jewish husbands to force divorces from their wives, the Third Circuit ruled, upholding their kidnapping convictions.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday denied the City of Vallejo’s attempt to halt a defamation lawsuit stemming from its handling of a peculiar 2015 kidnapping case that garnered national attention.
Read moreThough it refused to disturb monetary sanctions against a Belarusian oil company accused of helping kidnap two U.S. citizens, the Second Circuit found it unjustified Thursday to strike the company’s foreign sovereign immunity.
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