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 …
Two attackers are on the run after allegedly slashing a Texas man’s throat as he thwarted a potential kidnapping. Othon Maldonado and his wife, Sandra Martinez, pulled into a Houston Whataburger on December 18. They were reportedly exiting their car when two men armed with knives approached them. Martinez told KSAT that the suspects took her …
One man is behind bars while police search for another suspect after the pair allegedly threw an Arkansas woman into a freezing cold river after she witnessed a fatal shooting. ABC7 reports that a 42-year-old woman managed to swim her way out of the Arkansas River on early Monday morning. Someone heard her screams and called …
Four missing children from Arab, Alabama, were found safe and are on their way back to their grandmother’s house after their non-custodial parents reportedly kidnapped them. WHNT reports that Corbin, Alexander, Nicholas, and Ian Simmons disappeared on Dec. 9 from their grandmother’s home in Arab. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency issued a missing child alert shortly after …
In the middle of a bitter divorce, Tanya Zuvers waited for her three sons, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton, to return from a Thanksgiving outing with their father, John Skelton. Seven years later, John still claims he gave the children to a “group” to protect them from their mother—and Zuvers is left wondering if 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 …
An Alabama man with a previous attempted murder charge was arrested on Halloween night after he allegedly forced a woman into his trunk after robbing her home. The victim managed to pop the trunk open at a gas station, and in an incident caught on surveillance camera, climb her way out to safety. WFSA reports …
A Good Samaritan rescued an abducted Minnesota teen then reportedly took the reward check and handed it to the girl. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that three men kidnapped Jasmine Block, 15, and held her captive for nearly a month before she escaped on September 5. Earl Melchert, 65, was reportedly driving back to work …
A quick-thinking Ohio man is being applauded for thwarting an alleged kidnapping. FOX 19 reports that surveillance video captured the suspect, later identified as Jessie Woodard Jr. (pictured right), pulling an 11-year-old girl by the arm down a road in Golf Manor on Saturday. That’s when Nazier Elahee (pictured left) said he noticed something that prompted him to take …
The suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous
Authorities in New Hampshire said a woman tried to kidnap a 1-year-old baby on Saturday, after a man spotted her walking alone and offered her a ride. The Rochester Police Department reports that a male driver, 52, spotted Joanne Shaw, 25, of Gonic, walking by herself along Washington Street in Rochester. He asked the woman if …
The woman was allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted by a Georgia couple has spoken about the harrowing ordeal for the first time. As Crime Online previously reported, the 27-year-old victim was driving in a Publix grocery store parking lot on July 9 when she was approached by Rashada Hurley, 32. After rolling down her driver’s side …
