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News Articles: kidnapping

FILE - An employee watches an electronic signboard displaying the prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at the lounge of Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 21, 2024.

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  • Europe

Kidnappers in France target cryptocurrency entrepreneurs for ransom

French police say they rescued the father of a wealthy crypto entrepreneur, the second ransom case linked to the crypto world this year.

May 04, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Luis Armando Albino was kidnapped as a child from a park in Oakland, Calif., in 1951. Seven decades later, his niece took an online DNA test that led authorities to his home on the East Coast.

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  • National

A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast

Luis Armando Albino was lured away from a California park at the age of 6. He reunited with his biological family this summer after his niece found him through DNA testing and newspaper clippings.

September 24, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A shattered father recounts his kidnapping and the struggle to negotiate with the kidnappers for the release of his children.

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  • World

For one Nigerian family, freedom after a kidnapping hasn't ended their terror

Ten years after the mass abduction of 276 Chibok schoolgirls, kidnapping in Nigeria continues to rise. Nearly 1,000 people were kidnapped in the first three months of 2024. Here is one family's story.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
In this undated photo provided by El Roi Haiti, Alix Dorsainvil, right, poses with her husband, Sandro Dorsainvil. Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped July 27, the organization said.

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  • World

An American nurse and her young daughter are freed in Haiti after being held 2 weeks

Armed men had seized Alix Dorsainvil and her child from the El Roi Haiti clinic she worked at in a gang-controled part of Port-au-Prince.

August 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Carlee Russell, the Alabama nursing student who falsely said she was kidnapped, was charged with two misdemeanors in connection with the hoax, police announced Friday.

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  • National

Carlee Russell is charged with kidnapping hoax

It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Juliana Kim
Authorities applauded the actions of a 13-year-old Michigan boy, who shot a would-be kidnapper with a slingshot.

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  • Law

A Michigan boy fended off a would-be kidnapper by wounding him with a slingshot

The 13-year-old boy sprung into action after another boy attacked his sister. He used his slingshot to shoot the suspect in the head and chest.

May 15, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Matamoros, Mexico, is a stronghold for various criminal organizations, particularly the Gulf Cartel. U.S. and Mexican officials say four U.S. citizens were abducted at gunpoint in the city on Friday.

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  • Latin America

The U.S. and Mexico are working together to find 4 Americans who were kidnapped

The abduction took place on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of the Americans and the arrests of those involved.

March 06, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
Sherri Papini leaves a federal courthouse Monday after Judge William Shubb sentenced her to 18 months in federal prison for faking her own kidnapping in 2016.

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  • National

She faked her kidnapping to go back to her ex. Now she'll get 18 months in prison

Sherri Papini disappeared in 2016, triggering a three-week multi-state search. When she resurfaced, she told authorities an elaborate lie about being abducted and tortured by two Hispanic women.

September 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Armed forces secure the area where Haiti's prime minister, Ariel Henry, placed a bouquet of flowers in front of a memorial to independence hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday. Haitian police are working with U.S. officials and are in contact with the kidnappers who abducted a group of U.S.-based missionaries on Saturday.

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  • World

What we know about the 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti by a notorious gang

Sixteen members of Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries are U.S. citizens, including 5 children. The 400 Mawazo gang that took the group specializes in mass kidnappings and seeks a $17 million ransom.

October 19, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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  • World

30 Students Missing In Northwest Nigeria In Country's Latest School Kidnapping

More than two dozen students were taken from Federal College Of Forestry Mechanization, marking the fourth kidnapping of students in the country since December.

March 12, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
An image from the book <em>Bring Back Our Girls. </em>The families of these missing girls sent photos of them to photographer Glenna Gordon.

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  • Global Health

What The Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Have To Tell Us

Seven years after the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, a new book shares insights into their survival strategies — and looks at the mixed blessing of the 'Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.

March 03, 2021
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  • Diane Cole
A man stands in the deserted school dormitory after gunmen invaded and took away more than 270 girls in Jangebe in northwest Nigeria, on Feb. 26. The girls have all since been returned.

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  • Africa

Nigerian Schoolgirls Released After Armed Kidnapping

The kidnapping of the 279 girls from their school last Friday is the latest in a string of similar incidents.

March 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Jennifer Montana and Joe Montana are seen in Berlin in 1991. The Montanas thwarted the kidnapping of their grandchild Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

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  • National

Joe And Jennifer Montana Foil Attempted Kidnapping Of Their Grandchild

The Montanas were in their Malibu, Calif., home when a woman walked in and snatched the 9-month-old child from a playpen, officials say. Jennifer Montana had to pry the child from the intruder's arms.

September 28, 2020
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz

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