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An alleged southwest Oregon kidnapper died Tuesday following a standoff with police that ended with the kidnapper apparently shooting himself. 

The U.N. prepared a troubling report on the insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, warning that the conflict is intensifying and putting more civilians, including children, at risk of abduction, rape, and torture.

Two Indianapolis women reportedly helped wrap up a case involving a suspect and a missing five-month-old last week, according to the Indianapolis Star.

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.

A Texas sheriff working on the Athena Strand, 7, murder case says he will recommend to the district attorney to seek the death penalty against accused killer Tanner Horner, 31.

Officials in Texas have a man in custody after a child was abducted then killed once she vanished Wednesday and her body was found on Friday.

A Texas family has reunited with their child who disappeared in 1971 and they had no idea she has been living in the same area.

Gunmen identified as “bandits” by Nigerian officials kidnapped over 100 people from four northeastern villages on Sunday, possibly for ransom or use as human shields against Nigerian military operations.

A Chicago man on parole is accused of carjacking a vehicle with a baby inside and then crashing into several other cars before taking off on foot.

A teen girl was recently kidnapped from Alabama, taken to Florida, and eventually left hurt and alone, according to law enforcement.

Chicago Police have issued community alerts to residents who live near Wrigley Field after four individuals were temporarily kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint over the weekend.

A Michigan man is accused of stalking, kidnapping, torturing, and raping a woman while holding her hostage for 13 hours inside a homemade sound-proof bunker.

The Chinese government is so concerned about the potential for kidnappings of Chinese workers and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that it sent a delegation of top criminal investigators to met with Congolese officials and shore up security in the African nation, according to a Thursday report from the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

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.

A convicted sex offender is accused of attempting to kidnap a woman and committing aggravated battery against two other women in Chicago on Sunday morning, according to police. Less than 24 hours before the alleged attacks occurred, the suspect was released by a judge on his own recognizance after failing to register as a sex offender.

A convicted sex offender in eastern Tennessee is accused of carjacking a woman’s vehicle, forcing her to drive to an abandoned home with her one-year-old child inside, and then raping her.

State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up to arrest an alleged human smuggler in West Texas who reportedly held a migrant toddler for ransom. The arrest followed a traffic stop by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper working under Operation Lone Star.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgium’s justice minister remained under protection Monday after four people suspected of taking part in a plot by alleged drugs criminals to kidnap him were arrested in the Netherlands.

Sherri Papini, the woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping, was sentenced Monday in California to 18 months in prison and her attorney deemed it “fair.”

The DeSantis administration has debunked some of the wild talking points claiming that the Republican governor “kidnapped” migrants by shipping them to the wealthy liberal enclave of Martha’s Vineyard last week.

Two Florida teens were arrested for allegedly kidnapping, sexually assaulting, carjacking, and robbing a woman with a firearm, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

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. 

A man was arrested Monday for attempting to kidnap and buy off a five-year-old girl in front of her mother in Chicago, according to police.

The left has created a new playbook over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying 50 migrants up to the wealthy liberal enclave Martha’s Vinyard.

Eliza Fletcher, the 34-year-old mother of two boys and kindergarten teacher who was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee this month, “would be alive today” if her accused killer had been locked up in jail for a prior rape he allegedly committed, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said.

A man is accused of trying to kidnap a five-year-old girl and attempting to buy her from her mother Thursday in Chicago.

Officials have charged the suspect in the kidnapping and murder of jogger Eliza Fletcher in Memphis, Tennessee, regarding a similar but unrelated case last year, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.

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.

An Ohio man who allegedly attempted to kidnap a kindergartener was seen on footage trying to stab a police officer with a pen while being interrogated. 

Two MS-13 gang members and an underage teenager also linked to the gang, are accused of using sex to lure and kidnap a man at a hotel in New York State.

Billionaire Xiao Jianhua, born in China but a citizen of Canada, was violently abducted by Communist Chinese agents from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017. The Chinese tyranny held him incommunicado for five years, denying him access to Canadian consular services. In July he reappeared in a Shanghai courtroom, where he was quickly declared guilty of corruption, and on Friday he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A band of unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Catholic priest along with a seminarian in southern Nigeria, demanding a ransom of $120,000 for their release.

A Chicago cab driver accused of kidnapping a woman and sexually assaulting her has pleaded guilty in exchange for probation, according to a report published on Friday.