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'Bride-Napping': A Wedding Craze With an Edge

Romanians love new custom of stealing her from the groom

(Newser) - Bride-napping sounds like a serious crime—except that Romanians like doing it every week as a means of spicing up ordinary weddings, the AP reports. Typically the wedding party will be in full swing when friends of the bride abduct her, take her to a popular tourist spot, and demand...

Cal Ripken Jr.'s Mom Abducted, Found Safe

Violet Ripken forced into car at gunpoint: police

(Newser) - A very strange crime story out of Baltimore: Violet Ripken, mother of Orioles great Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted from her house at gunpoint but is now back home, unharmed. A man reportedly forced the 74-year-old into a 1998 Lincoln Town Car between 7am and 8am yesterday, and she was...

Iowa Girls' Case Now Considered 'Abduction'

Police find no trace of Elizabeth Collins, Lyric Cook-Morrissey in lake

(Newser) - Two young girls in Iowa remain missing , and police have formally reclassified the case as an abduction, reports the Des Moines Register . The move comes after police drained and searched the small lake where the bikes of Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, were found. Family members had pushed...

Doctors Abducted in Afghanistan

Also, huge bomb plot foiled

(Newser) - Two foreign doctors and their three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan, officials said today. The kidnapping occurred yesterday as the group was traveling on horseback between Yaftal and Ragh districts about 56 miles from the provincial capital of Faizabad, a Badakhshan...

Missing Girl's Family Ordered to Leave Ariz. Home

Dogs give police 'new direction' to investigate

(Newser) - Canine units gave police a clue today that sent them in a "new direction" in the search for missing Arizona 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis —a direction that led them to ask Isabel's family to leave the home from which she allegedly disappeared over the weekend, police tell...

Disabled French Hostage Dies in Somalia Captivity

Marie Dedieu was a quadriplegic and needed medicine

(Newser) - The wheelchair-bound French tourist kidnapped by Somali gunmen earlier this month died in captivity, France said today. Marie Dedieu, 66, was a quadriplegic and required medication every six hours. Though the French government attempted to send her prescriptions to her and well-wishers offered to bring the medicine to where she...

Kenyan Troops Invade Somalia
 Kenyan Troops Invade Somalia 
Oct 17, 2011 7:58 AM CDT

Kenyan Troops Invade Somalia

Official says they're targeting suspected kidnappers al-Shabab

(Newser) - Kenyan troops crossed the border into Somalia yesterday in an attempt to crack down on militants suspected in a rash of kidnappings, residents say. A Kenyan official confirms to the BBC the country’s troops are targeting al-Shabab, the Somalia group suspected of crossing the border and seizing four Europeans...

Holly Bobo's Kidnapper May Have Struck Before

Nearby woman reports similar attack in Jan.

(Newser) - A potential new lead in the kidnapping of Holly Bobo : MSNBC reports that Heather Sullivan, who lives about 45 minutes from where Bobo was abducted, found herself nearly kidnapped in January. A "tall, skinny man" accosted her outside her home around 5:30am, grabbing her arm. But she dropped...

Searchers Find Lunchbox of Missing Tennessee Woman

But Holly Bobo remains missing as hunt continues on fourth day

(Newser) - Hundreds of volunteers scoured the woods in Tennessee today as the search for a missing 20-year-old nursing student entered its fourth day, reports Reuters . Investigators say they turned up the lunchbox of Holly Bobo along with other unspecified belongings about 8 miles from her house, notes CBS , but no sign...

Pliers-Wielding Mom Nabs Kidnap Suspect

Mother gives chase after drifter tries to snatch daughter

(Newser) - After her 8-year-old daughter came running home to report that a man had tried to kidnap her, a Florida mom jumped in her car to find the suspect and ended up chasing him while brandishing a heavy set of pliers, ABC News reports. The man was detained by a clerk...

Van Halen's Sammy Hagar: Aliens Uploaded My Brain

Has he ever been abducted by aliens? 'I think I have'

(Newser) - Sammy Hagar has had his brain "uploaded" by aliens in a "download situation," and he wants to talk about it. The former Van Halen frontman describes his close encounters in his new autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, and expounds upon them in an interview with...

6 WWF Volunteers Abducted From Indian Tiger Reserve

Kidnapping carried out by heavily armed group

(Newser) - Six volunteers for the World Wildlife Foundation were abducted yesterday as they counted the tiger population at a preserve in northeast India, the AP reports. The kidnapping was carried out by a heavily armed and organized group, but no one has yet claimed responsibility, though the area is home to...

Taliban Abducts Candidates Ahead of Election

Intimidation campaign precedes tomorrow's vote

(Newser) - Taliban fighters have reportedly abducted more than 20 people in an intimidation campaign designed to derail tomorrow’s parliamentary elections, including at least two candidates. The Taliban also warned yesterday that anyone showing up to vote tomorrow “would get hurt.” NATO troops, meanwhile, have vowed to protect the...

Missing SoCal Teenager Was Likely Abducted

Cops find Norma Lopez's belongings, signs of struggle

(Newser) - Deputies and detectives yesterday searched for a Southern California teen girl missing for a third day, and authorities said evidence points to an abduction. Personal items belonging to 17-year-old Norma Lopez and signs of a struggle were discovered by investigators in a field the girl often used as a shortcut...

Terri Horman Tried to Abduct Own Daughter

Stepmom started affair after Kyron went missing: Court docs

(Newser) - The case against Kyron Horman’s stepmother continues to get more damning and more bizarre: Terri Horman is now accused of trying to kidnap her own daughter. Two days after Kaine Horman took their daughter and left Terri, she went to his gym “looking to ‘abduct’ her daughter”...

Iranian Nuke Scientist: I Fled US Kidnappers

Iranian TV airs footage of man claiming to be missing atomic researcher

(Newser) - A man who says he is missing nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has appeared in a video shown on Iranian TV claiming to have fled his American captors. "A few minutes ago I succeeded in escaping US security agents in Virginia," the man says. "I am producing this...

Kidnapper to London: 'Hit This or I'll Kill You!'

 Kidnapper 
 to London: 
 'Hit This or 
 I'll Kill You!' 
timeline gets weirder
Jun 21, 2010 9:49 AM CDT

Kidnapper to London: 'Hit This or I'll Kill You!'

More bizarre details emerge, London's wife talks

(Newser) - The saga of Jeremy London’s alleged kidnapping continues to get weirder. Radar has all sorts of new details, including an unintentionally hilarious quote supposedly uttered by one of London’s drug-offering abductors: “Hit that motherf***er! Hit it or I’m gonna kill you!” Even stranger is the...

Jeremy London Kidnapped, Forced to Smoke Dope

Sounds like something out of a really strange movie...

(Newser) - In today’s Bizarre Crimes Department: Actor Jeremy London was reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to do drugs. The Party of Five star—and former prescription drug addict—was changing a flat tire in Palm Springs last week when two men stopped to help, then abducted him in his...

Jaycee Dugard Doesn't Want Info on Kids Released

Seeks privacy for pair fathered by abductor

(Newser) - Jaycee Dugard is asking a northern California court to keep information about the two girls fathered by her alleged abductor private—though Phillip Garrido, accused along with his wife of holding Dugard, now 29, for 18 years, wants access to videotaped interviews with the girls for his defense. The two,...

Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?
Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?
investigation
Mar 28, 2010 3:12 PM CDT

Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?

Evidence links serial killer, America's Most Wanted host's son

(Newser) - In 2008, police in Hollywood, Fla., announced they had confirmed the identity of the man who abducted and murdered Adam Walsh: Otis Toole, a longtime suspect in the 1981 crime who had died in 1996. But a Miami Herald investigation suggests a link between the disappearance of the 6-year-old—whose...

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