Abduction

The State Department confirmed that Iran had kidnapped an American journalist, Reza Valizadeh, in a statement to the Associated Press.

A New York City homeless woman allegedly tried to abduct two toddlers from a Manhattan playground in broad daylight, police saying she has a long criminal record full of assaults.

A Texas man convicted of abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing a woman in 2001 was executed via chemical injection on Wednesday.

The missing teenager of two tech founders was located in San Francisco on Saturday with a 26-year-old man.

Bodycam footage shows police speaking with the concerned father of a child who was nearly abducted in Miami Beach, Florida, in February.

A Florida woman was brutally carjacked and abducted in broad daylight, with police believing that they found her burnt remains in a construction site hours later.

A young Alabama mother was allegedly abducted before being tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed by a group of eight suspects in a horrific attack recorded by the perpetrators.

A 5-year-old Ohio boy has been found deceased after a statewide manhunt for him and his foster mother, who is accused of kidnapping the child and later leading police to his body.

Kim Yo-jong, the politically influential sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, said on Thursday that her brother might be willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, who wishes to discuss the fate of Japanese civilians kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, provided Kishida is “respectful.”

A German priest who was abducted by rebels in Mali’s capital in November 2022 has been released by his captors.

The profound shockwave emanated by a sudden and violent attack by Hamas terrorists against Israel over the weekend is reverberating across the world, leaving a tragic tapestry of loss, abduction, and injury that has affected numerous nations from six continents, each mourning and frantically searching for its citizens targeted in the “savage” onslaught.

Fingerprints from a ransom note were key in locating a 9-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip with her family at a state park in New York Saturday, officials said.

A nine-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip with her family at Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York, has been found safe, and a suspect involved in her disappearance is in custody, officials announced Monday.

New York State Police are searching for a 9-year-old girl they say was abducted Saturday night while she was camping with her family at Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York.

The man accused of abducting and raping a teenager who went missing in Loudoun County, Virginia, is an illegal alien, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official states.

The heroic Dallas couple who helped police arrest a most wanted fugitive got a huge surprise from a fellow citizen.

A South Elgin, Illinois, girl who vanished years ago was located in North Carolina on Saturday and will be reunited with her family.

A Pennsylvania woman stands accused of faking her own abduction to conceal the fact she is a college dropout.

An unidentified woman was abducted in Brooklyn, New York, around 1:45 a.m. on Friday and carted off in a minivan.

Officials located a missing Dallas 13-year-old over 1,000 miles from her home on Friday.

Andrew Miller, a transgender butcher who goes by Amy George, has been charged with a string of child sex offences in the Scottish courts.

A man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a female barista at a drive-thru window in Washington State early Monday morning, according to police.

A good Samaritan with a gun saved a woman from an alleged attempted abduction at the Shops at Saddle Creek parking lot Friday at 8 p.m.

A five-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his foster mother and taken to Vietnam was recently reunited with his birth mother on U.S. soil.

The mother of the child allegedly abducted and killed by a FedEx driver in Texas blasted him in a series of online posts.

A 10-year-old boy knew exactly what to do during a tense situation on Friday in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

A man was arrested after his parents turned him in for allegedly attempting to abduct a ten-year-old girl outside her school in Thornton, Colorado.

Good Samaritans on the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island, helped save a teen girl on Saturday who had allegedly been kidnapped the day before. The suspect was in custody hours later. 

Newly released surveillance footage shows Cleotha Abston, 38, allegedly cleaning a dark-colored SUV hours after mother and teacher Eliza Fletcher, 34, was kidnapped early Friday morning. She was officially confirmed dead Tuesday morning after her body was discovered on Monday.

Cleotha Abston, 38, the suspect in the abduction and murder of Eliza Fletcher, 34, was convicted of kidnapping a Memphis-based attorney in June 2000.

The body of heiress and kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher, 34, was discovered on Tuesday morning, according to the Memphis Police Department. The recent discovery comes after Sunday’s arrest of a suspect in connection to the case whose charges have been upgraded to first-degree murder.

The felon accused in the case of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher reportedly stalked the area prior to her abduction in Tennessee.

A suspect was charged on Sunday in the abduction of Memphis, Tennessee, teacher Eliza Fletcher who disappeared Friday.

A teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, was abducted while jogging on Friday and family members have offered a reward in the case.

Amnesty International reported Wednesday that 109 women remain unaccounted eight years after the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a state-run secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.

A group of unidentified Nigerian terrorists released a video on Monday appearing to show hostages abducted from a passenger train attacked by the terror group on March 28, Africnews reported.