Surveillance cameras reportedly captured the tense moments when a California gas station clerk helped a woman escape from men who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Per KCRA, Savannah Pritchett was working at Triple R Gas and Mart in Waterford Wednesday afternoon when a distressed woman came in asking for help. The woman said she was kidnapped …
Authorities in Florida say a kidnapping suspect was taken into custody after the alleged victim made a daring move that was caught on a veterinary clinic’s surveillance camera. According to the U.K. Independent, the unidentified woman passed a message to staff at the DeLand clinic informing them of her situation. “Call the cops,” she wrote. …
Prosecutors filed a federal kidnapping charge on Monday against a man who reportedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl on Independence Day, after meeting her online in February. FOX4 reports that 22-year-old Dechon White is accused of buying a one-way ticket to Minnesota with pre-planned intentions of taking a girl who had just turned 13 with him. The …
Mother Shanara Mobley reportedly cut ties with daughter Kamiyah, 20, for talking to her jailed abductor mom
Authorities in Mississippi say a Madison County man kidnapped his young daughter before killing her and himself a short time later. According to Mississippi News Now, 23-year-old Lavonte Lloyd allegedly traveled from his home to the home of the 1-year-old girl’s mother, Kimberly Outlaw, in Holmes County. Upon arriving, police say he kidnapped Outlaw and …
By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 has been denied early parole. The decision announced Monday night by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole was expected after Wanda Barzee, 72, …
A Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to snatch a 2-year-old boy from a stroller as his mother pushed him across an intersection. WPIX reports that Matthew Waly, 27, approached the 32-year-old mother at Prospect Park at around 9 p.m. and grabbed her stroller. The toddler’s father was nearby at the time …
One of the individuals convicted in connection with the high-profile 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart reportedly skipped her own parole hearing this week. According to KUTV, Wanda Barzee was expected to appear Tuesday morning for the hearing at the Utah State Prison. A board member said the 72-year-old is believed to have “refused to attend …
The biological mother of a Florida teen who was abducted at birth said she’s cut ties with her daughter for still pursuing a relationship with her kidnapper. Shanara Mobley, 36, told the Daily Mail that daughter Kamiyah, 19, has refused to sever ties with Gloria Williams—the woman who posed as a nurse and abducted her from …
A 30-year-old Louisiana man is accused of abducting a 9-year-old girl from her home Sunday and raping her. A warrant alleged that Denera Carter dropped off the victim at Livingston High School in New Orleans, where she was found walking barefoot at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. NOLA.com reported that Carter left the girl at the …
Two suspects are in custody following an alleged plot to kidnap a student and take him against his will to his native China. According to CBS News, Tianshu Shi was a flight school student in Redding, California, when police say an instructor and his assistant attempted to kidnap him from his home. The pilot, identified …
A group of Georgia shoppers successfully apprehended a man suspected of attempting to kidnap a young girl. According to WSB, the incident occurred at Town Center Mall in Cobb County this week. A witness recorded the aftermath of the alleged kidnapping in a video that shows shoppers jump to action in an attempt to stop …
