The FBI released surveillance footage Friday that appears to show a man abducting a little girl in broad daylight from a Chicago suburb. According to a statement from the agency, Bryan Protho, 38, allegedly snatched the child on December 20 as she walked toward 153rd Street and Burnham Avenue in Calumet City, Illinois, and loaded …
Authorities in Georgia say a stolen vehicle led to additional charges for a pair of teens when they discovered two children inside the SUV they took from a gas station earlier this week. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17-year-old Khyree Swift and an unnamed 16-year-old suspect participated in a crime during which the two small …
Authorities in Ohio have arrested a man accused of taking a 10-year-old boy hostage during an armed standoff with police that lasted more than an entire day. According to WXIX, the incident was finally resolved Sunday morning, when 31-year-old Donald Tobias Gazaway was arrested, though local officials admitted responding officers were unsure a peaceful resolution …
In Dec. 1983, Eleanor Williams, the mother a beautiful baby daughter, made an error in judgement that has caused her grief for 35 years. When a friendly, outgoing woman sitting next to her at a Washington D.C. train station asked to hold her baby, Williams obliged. She hasn’t seen her daughter since. The Washington Post reports …
Prosecutors in Utah argued this week that the two men accused of leading a cult in that state considered themselves to be married to each other’s young daughters. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a total of four girls were rescued from the Mormon polygamist sect’s compound last month. After an Amber alert was issued for two …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twentieth Century Fox Film says it is canceling the studio’s planned movie based on Jeffrey Toobin’s Patricia Hearst book “American Heiress.” Toobin’s non-fiction book chronicled the saga of Hearst’s kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and her eventual bank robbery conviction with the radical group. The studio announced the …
After learning last year that the woman she knew as her mother had actually abducted her as a newborn 18 years earlier, Kamiyah Mobley has taken the unexpected approach of emphasizing her kidnapper’s perceived qualities. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mobley was found safe in South Carolina last January after she was taken from a Florida …
A California woman convicted of abducting and killing a 3-week-old girl could spend the rest of her life behind bars for the crime, CBS News reports. A Los Angeles judge on Friday sentenced Giseleangelique Rene D’Milian to 25 years to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and attempted murder. The …
Kidnapper wanted $1 million he wrongly believed the victim buried in the desert
An acquaintance who lost an infant during pregnancy is now in custody facing murder charges
An quick thinking Arizona mom saved her child from a reported would-be kidnapper who tried to nab her child while she getting into her car. ABC15 reports that on Dec. 13, a woman was getting into to her car with her child, off of Gilbert Road and Southern Avenue, when she spotted a man inside her …
Three members of a Canadian family are recounting the “absolutely crazy” ordeal they say resulted in them being kidnapped and fed hallucinogens by a band of nude neighbors. As CBC reported, one member of the family said a woman approached their Alberta home Monday morning. She acted frantic, the individual said, and was soon joined …
