Britain 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 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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Demanding punitive damages from Lufthansa German Airlines, a Pennsylvania man says it has been two years since he last saw the children his ex-wife spirited off to Austria.
Read moreIn a 2-1 ruling, a 10th Circuit Court panel affirmed a sentence of 70 days in prison and five years supervised release for a man who kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and drove her across state lines to try to persuade her to marry him.
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CN) – The criminal investigation file relating to the 1989 abduction of Minnesota boy Jacob Wetterling will
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The former Tennessee high school teacher arrested in California after going on the run for over a month with a female student was indicted Thursday on charges of obstructing justice and transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes.
Read moreDespite no crime scene or dead body, a jury convicted a 26-year-old man of murdering Sierra LaMar, a 15-year-old who went missing in 2012.
Read moreThe Tennessee teacher suspected of kidnapping a 15-year-old student has been arrested in California and the girl was found safe after she was missing for more than a month, police said Thursday.
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