An aspiring California social media influencer who drew millions of views for an Instagram video claiming a Latino couple tried to kidnap her two young children has now been charged with making false statements to police in the case. Katie Sorensen faces two misdemeanor charges, Sonoma County prosecutors said Thursday, according to the Petaluma Argus-Courier. …
The “victim” of a kidnapping is behind bars in Mississippi after investigators determined there had been no abduction — just an attempt to extort money from the alleged victim’s father. The story began late Thursday night when a Virginia man contacted the Lee County Sheriff’s Department and said he had received a Facetime call showing …
A man deemed one of”the wealthiest man in Norway” was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death and disappearance of his wife. Mercury News reports that 69-year-old Anne-Elisabeth Hagen vanished on October 31, 2018 from her home in Fjellhamar, Norway. According to her family, someone left a ransom demand of $10.3 million, to be …
A Texas woman is among the most recent targets of a ‘virtual kidnapping’ scam that demands ransom for so-called kidnapping victims, who the scammers claim will be killed. According to KWTX, Kimberly Garcia of Temple, Texas was having coffee with her husband Sunday morning when she got an ominous text message, claiming that a loved …
