All news on the topic: abduction

Laquana Ruiz was left shaken after following the terrifying ordeal which began when she stopped off at KN Mi Delicia bakery and coffee shop at around 11am on Sunday in New York

One-legged kidnapper Michael Sams took two young women hostage in the early 1990s, beating Hannah Dart to death and only releasing Stephanie Slater after a ransom was paid

Police were called to a home in South Carolina after Joshua Dornella was accused of violently assaulting the mother of his child before kidnapping their three-year-old and allegedly leaving him in a burning car

Ania Acosta, 43, had moved to Mexico in 2022 in an attempt to jumpstart her singing career, however in June 2023 she disappeared, believed to have been kidnapped and was never heard from again

Patric J Ferguson, 32, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of kidnapping and destroying evidence in the January 2021 killing in which he allegedly kidnapped a man and shot him in his patrol car

Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas was allegedly kidnapped before her car was set ablaze with her inside, police in Florida said. Suspect Jordanish Torres-Garcia has been arrested

Aura Guerrero León was just four years old when she was kidnapped in 1972 while buying sweets - and has now been reunited with her brother over half a century later

The woman, identified only by the name Manon, is a French woman in her 60s who discovered the body of Émile Soleil, who went missing from his grandparents' home in Le Vernet last summer

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Harrowing footage shows the moment police officers gunned down 15-year-old Savannah Graziano on September 27, 2022 in Hesperia, California

Addison Pierre Maalouf, known online as YourFellowArab, was reportedly kidnapped in Haiti after trying to interview notorious gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier

Muriel McKay was 55 when she was kidnapped by brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in 1969 and died in the incident, but her body has never been found

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons has said it is believed that Don Steven McDougal was the last person to have seen missing Audrii Cunningham, 11, in Livingston, Texas

Footage of person of interest in the disappearance of Audrii Cunningham, Don Steven McDougal, has been published showing the 42-year-old arrested by members of the police

A harrowing warrant showed that the abused pregnant woman texted Carter, 'I'm dying' and he responded with 'Quit the dramatics'

Footage from inside a Miami Beach pharmacy on Thursday allegedly shows Nicolas Sternman, the suspected kidnapper snatching up a 4-year-old boy by the neck

An unlikely piece of evidence led a winding pathway to find a story of bloody revenge at the heart of a tragic missing persons' case in Sacramento.

Joseph Ruiz allegedly attempted to kidnap a young, 11-year-old girl in broad daylight just before 8am Friday - cops say he left his vehicle and tried to grab the girl as she was walking to school

Morgan Nick was just six years old when she disappeared without a trace from a Little League game in Alma, Arkansas, in 1995, and while a person of interest has been named, nobody knows what happened to the young girl

Leah Mullins, 14, was last spotted getting into a darkly-coloured estate car close to a pub on Sherston high street in the Cotswolds, before being found in a residence in a different country last night

Scott Eby confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year-old girl in 2010 - not before the victim's father had wrongly gone to prison for the same crime. 13 years later, Eby has now died in prison

WARNING, DISTRESSING DETAILS: Tara Calico disappeared while out on a bike ride, something she did daily, in Belen, New Mexico, with no trace of her until a Polaroid photo many believed showed her was found thousands of miles away in Florida

Detectives from the Major Crime Team have not yet confirmed the woman's identity, but confirmed that her body was discovered in a car park in Hertfordshire

A dad in Venus, Florida died after a mammoth standoff with police earlier this week. Sonny Ray Holland Sr stayed locked inside a property with his young children

The moment police in Arkansas rescued a scared girl hidden in a tiny secret closet in a home was captured on bodycam footage. A man was arrested in connection with the incident

The devious escape plan put to work by a teenage student is unveiled in a CNN documentary about the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping incident, in which 26 children and their bus driver were abducted