kidnappings

ONITSHA, Nigeria—Police in Nigeria have discovered the severed head of a state legislator who went missing last week in the southeastern state of Anambra, where the government accuses separatists of ...

WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang in connection with ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—American officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and ...

As many as 17 American missionaries, including women and children, were reportedly kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend, ...

KADUNA, Nigeria—Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive on Wednesday, nearly two months after ...

GUSAU, Nigeria—Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Five extended family members who had been living on a remote New Mexico compound where a 3-year-old ...

The husband of a Northern California woman revealed more details on his wife's three-week alleged abduction. Sherri Papini, ...

Police are looking for a couple suspected of murdering a California woman and taking off with her three ...

A K-9 unit and her handler saved a girl who was abducted in Southern California, police said this ...

Jason T. Simon, 38, is facing 12 felony child pornography charges and one charge of felony child sexual ...

A New York City nanny is accused of kidnapping a 3-year-old girl who was in her care, police ...

Carlie Trent, the girl who went missing for more than a week, will now go back to class at Hawkins ...

Carlie Trent, a 9-year-old Tennessee girl who went missing more than a week ago, was found on Thursday ...

A passerby in Austin, Texas stopped a man from kidnapping a 16-year-old girl on April 11, according to ...

Cui Aimin, a mother and a wife, has been locked in a brainwashing center for her beliefs.

South Korea confirmed Monday an additional 364 more people who were abducted by communist North Korean troops during ...

Levi Aron, 36, a hardware store sales clerk, was sentenced to 40 years for the kidnapping and murder ...

Three Europeans were released in exchange for three Islamists in West Africa, a negotiator told reporters Thursday. An Italian ...

A German engineer abducted in Nigeria was killed as authorities were trying to rescue him, it was reported.

What CIA operative was kidnapped, and tortured to death, by Hezbollah March 16, 1984?

What Mexican billionaire was kidnapped on March 14, 1994, and held for 106 days?

Both governments have assumed combative stances following the Mexican jail sentence of French woman, Florence Cassez.

Jaycee Dugard's alleged kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, were indicted in a California court this week for kidnapping ...

The mayor of Santiago, Edelmiro Cavazos has been found dead three days after he was kidnapped by gunmen ...

A recent miracle seems to have worked its way out through the social-networking website Facebook.

Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped an American tourist couple and their Yemeni driver Monday.