Category: Kidnapping

BOMBSHELL! New court filings claim Tad Cummins threatened Elizabeth Thomas, and that she didn’t want to go with him

Kidnapping

Anthony Thomas, kidnapped Tennessee teen Elizabeth Thomas’s father, has filed a petition, through his attorney, to depose witnesses who purportedly have knowledge of the relationship between Elizabeth and her suspected abductor Tad Cummins. On Thursday, Anthony Thomas’s lawyer filed a Petition for Perpetuation of Testimony at the Maury County Courthouse, appealing to the court to …

Police: Man kidnaps, assaults, tries to marry woman he met on Facebook

Kidnapping

April 2, 2017

Police: Man kidnaps, assaults, tries to marry woman he met on Facebook

A Florida college student reportedly traveled to Indiana to “steal” a woman, impregnate her, and force her into marriage, police said. An Indiana State Police trooper supposedly caught Kung Bik Cem, 19, trying to rape the woman in broad daylight in the backseat of his car. According to the Daily Journal, the 19-year-old told the trooper that …

Kidnapping

March 31, 2017

SPECIAL UPDATE: Elizabeth Thomas told friend she and Tad Cummins plan to head out West

-Elizabeth’s dad breaks down in tears at sighting; Jill Cummins reportedly files for divorce
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Woman smuggles pregnancy surrogate from Mexico, then holds her captive and starves her: Report

Kidnapping

March 28, 2017

Woman smuggles pregnancy surrogate from Mexico, then holds her captive and starves her: Report

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to forced labor after admitting that she smuggled a woman into the U.S. from Mexico for the purposes of a surrogate pregnancy. She is accused of holding her captive as a forced laborer, starving her, and abusing her. According to the New York Post, Esthela Clark, 47, of Jacksonville, admitted …

Kidnapping

March 21, 2017

BOLO: Two men try to abduct schoolgirl!

Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest

Kidnapping

March 20, 2017

Kidnapping victim uses insulin pump, escapes car trunk [VIDEO]

The dramatic escape was caught on camera

Kidnapping

March 17, 2017

“You treated me like an object, a toy, an animal”: Survivor of elaborate kidnapping plot delivers emotional testimony

DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the “hell that we have survived” in emotional testimony before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so elaborate and bizarre that police initially dismissed …