A Utah woman is lucky to be alive after she was allegedly kidnapped and held hostage by a man who may have shot at her as she was fleeing, KSL-TV reports.The 24-year-old victim told police that she had arranged to meet the man at a Salt Lake City hotel to consider buying shoes from him.At the …
Georgia police are search for a man who abducted a woman at gunpoint early Thursday morning and forced her to make several withdrawals from ATMs before shooting her and fleeing. The woman, who has not been named, was shot in the leg and was able to driver herself to a nearby hospital for treatment, according …
Missing teen alerted parents with cryptic text
Update December 20: An AMBER Alert for a missing 14-year-old girl was cancelled on Monday after authorities said the girl was found. Fairview Police said Monday afternoon that Hayley Giandoni and a 13-year-old runaway were found in Balch Springs, KTVT reported. Police said the investigation had linked three other juvenile runaway girls, between the ages …
Update: Police announced Barbara Sanders was found safe. Original Story: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an AMBER Alert for a 17-year-old girl they say was abducted earlier Monday in Memphis. Barbara Sanders is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. The suspect, 38-year-old Lafayette …
Authorities in North Carolina are looking for a 1-year-old girl with a medical condition believed to have been abducted by her non-custodial mother. Ava Pierce’s father reported the girl missing at 10:30 p.m. Monday night, saying her mother, 34-year-old Roxanne Michelle Parson, had taken the girl during a visit on December 1 and not returned …
A California man was arrested Saturday, charged with kidnapping and torturing his girlfriend for a month. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said the girlfriend, who was not named, had escaped from 29-year-old Saul Ortega’s home on Thursday but did not immediately call police because he had threatened her family. Fresno County deputies contacted their Stanislaus …
Chicago police are looking for three masked men who kidnapped a girl Saturday night. The girl, whose age was unknown, was walking near Austin High School while being followed by a four-door black sedan with tinted windows. When the girl walked under a viaduct, police said, three men in ski masks jumped out and forced …
A four-day manhunt for a fired Baltimore County police officer who kidnapped his two young children earlier this week ended Thursday with all three — and Robert Vicosa’s alleged accomplice — dead. Vicosa, Tia Bynum, and Vicosa’s 6- and 7-year-old daughters were found after a brief car chase that ended in a minor crash in …
Pennsylvania authorities are searching for a former cop who’s reportedly on the run after attacking his wife and kidnapping his two daughters. According to the York Daily Record, 42-year-old Robert Vicosa, identified as a former Maryland police officer who lost his job in August, is accused of physically attacking his estranged wife on Sunday. He …
Australian authorities confirmed that a mystery woman possibly involved in the kidnapping of Australian girl, Cleo Smith, has been ruled out. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 4-year-old Cleo told police that a female combed her hair and “looked after her” while she was held in a stranger’s home. Police arrested Terry Kelly, 36, last week and charged him with …
Cleo Smith, a 4-year-old Australian girl who was kidnapped and held hidden for 18 days, says a woman helped take care of her while she was held inside a locked home in Carnarvon. DailyMail reports that 4-year-old Cleo told police that a female combed her hair and “looked after her” while she was held in …
