This is a list of kidnappings .
Famous kidnappings
- Sabrina Aisenberg- (1997) Was 5 months old, when she was kidnapped from her crib. She has never been found. Her parents believed someone kidnapped her, to raise her as their own.
- Humberto Alvarez-Machain, suspect in the murder of Enrique Camarena, kidnapped, allegedly by Americans, to bring him to trial in the United States.
- Taylor Behl, (13 October 1987 – 6 September 2005), a 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman found dead on 5 October 2005, in Mathews County, Virginia, after having gone missing on 5 September 2005
- Ingrid Betancourt, (2002), Colombian presidency candidate, by the FARC movement. She was freed 2008.
- Paul Vanden Boeynants, (1989), Belgian politician, kidnapped for one month, and released when a ransom was paid.
- Joseph Bonanno, (1964). The crime family leader was kidnapped by his own enforcer, along with his lawyer. Forced to make economic and retirement agreements with other mafia bosses, he and his lawyer were let go alive.
- James Brandon, was kidnapped in Iraq (2004), and released a few days later.
- Enrique Camarena, (1985), Mexican American DEA official, found dead.
- Danielle Erica Cramer, a missing 15-year-old girl, disappeared on 14 June 2006, in Bloomfield, Connecticut, was found locked in a small hidden room situated under a staircase on 6 June 2007.
- James Cross, British diplomat, and Pierre Laporte, Quebec provincial politician. Their kidnappings by the Front de libération du Québec set off the 1970 October Crisis. Cross was released; Laporte was murdered.
- Delimar Vera Cuevas was a ten-day-old baby in 1997 when she was kidnapped by a woman who set her house on fire to take her away. Six years later, her mother was very surprised to discover her at a birthday party.
- Sabine Dardenne (b. 28 October 1983) is a Belgian woman who was kidnapped and raped at age 12 by serial killer Marc Dutroux on 28 May 1996 while on her way to school. Rescued after 80 days, on 15 August 1996, together with also kidnapped 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez.
- Laetitia Delhez (b. 25 November 1981) is a Belgian woman who was kidnapped and raped at age fourteen by serial killer Marc Dutroux on 9 August 1996 in Bertrix. Sabine Dardenne had requested a companion because she felt so alone. She was rescued on 15 August 1996.
- James Lee Dozier, (1981), a US general working for NATO in Italy. He and his wife were kidnapped by the Red Brigades on 17 December 1981, and freed by a NOCS commando on 28 January 1982.
- Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, at the age of 11. She was found alive 18 years later, in August 2009. She has two children with the man who kidnapped her. She had her first when she was just fourteen years old. Her children believed Jaycee was their sister.
- Bobby Dunbar was a child who disappeared near Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on 23 August 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators found a child, claimed by Lessie and Percy Dunbar as their son, in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi, who was convicted of kidnapping. In 2004, further investigation by Dunbar's granddaughter led to conclusive DNA proof that the child in Walters' custody was not the Dunbar's son and that Walters had been wrongfully convicted.
- Arjan Erkel, a then-32-year-old medical aid worker for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) was kidnapped in Chechnya on 12 August 2002. Twenty months later he was released after the Dutch government paid a ransom of €1,000,000.
- Sano Fusako, a girl kidnapped in Niigata, Japan, on 13 November 1990 at age 10 and held captive for nine years, two months. She was found alive on 28 January 2000.
- Nina von Gallwitz, (1981), an eight-year-old German girl, was kidnapped on her way to school in Cologne on 18 December 1981, her parents paid a ransom of 1.5 million German mark. Nina was freed on 15 May 1982, at the rest area ‘Ohligser Heide’ after 149 days.
- Sergio Gomez, was kidnapped on December 2, 2007, by two businessmen and murdered the next day
- Robert (Bobby) Cosgrove Greenlease Jr. - the six-year-old boy was kidnapped and immediately murdered 28 September 1953 in Kansas City, Missouri by Bonnie Heady and Carl A. Hall. They then demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom from the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. Notable in the case was that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered.
- Brooke Hart, the son of a San Jose, California, businessman, was kidnapped and murdered. His kidnappers were lynched by a mob, the last public lynching in California (1933).
- Gerrit Jan Heijn, (1987), Dutch captain of industry and top executive of Ahold, Holland's largest retailer, brother of Albert Heijn; was kidnapped and killed in 1987 by Ferry E. The kidnapper pretended that his victim was still alive and asked for and received ransom; he was caught after spending one of the banknotes of the ransom, of which the numbers had been recorded. He served a prison sentence and is now free. It was observed with scorn that after his release he received over €300,000 back-payment of disability benefits for the time he was in prison (rules have since been changed, such payments are no longer possible).
- Shawn Hornbeck, was abducted in 2002 at the age of 11 and found alive at the age of 15 on 12 January 2007, after being held captive for more than 4 years. 13-year-old Ben Ownby was also found with him after having been missing for 5 days.
- Mary Jemison a 12-year-old white child taken in 1758 from her family by Seneca warriors. The only one not massacred in her family, Mary was adopted into the Seneca tribe and lived her whole life with the natives.
- Rolandito Salas Jusino 1999, playing, allegedly unsupervised, in a community park next to his house's backyard in the city of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. The case got very famous and he became an icon, though he was never found.
- Leszli Kálli, a Colombian-born author who was kidnapped on 12 April 1999, by virtue of the hijacking of the plane she was on. She was held for slightly more than a year by Colombian leftist guerrillas together with her father and the other passengers. She eventually published a novel about her experiences.
- Natascha Kampusch was abducted at age 10 in Austria in 1998 and held captive for the subsequent eight years until her escape in 2006.
- Hans van de Kimmenade 1999, a group of at least four armed (allegedly Arabian) men kidnapped this 17-year-old son of wealthy industrials from his estate in Helmond (the Netherlands). After the case got so much media attention, Van de Kimmenade was dropped off at a waterschap within 48 hours. No reason was given for his release. After months of research, the case appeared unsolvable.
- Polly Klaas was kidnapped and murdered by Richard Allen Davis in Petaluma, California, in October 1993. Davis's car got stuck in the mud a few miles from Polly's house. A helpful local police officer pulled him out of the mud but did not query his license number with the police computer system, nor did he hear the BOLO broadcast to all CHP radios reporting that Davis was wanted for a parole violation. Davis has been convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder and sentenced to death. BOLOs are now broadcast to all police radios: state, county, and municipal.
- Walter Kwok was kidnapped by the notorious gangster "Big Spender" Cheung Chi Keung, and was released seven days later without police intervention. Following his arrest in Guangzhou in 1998, Cheung confessed that he had put Kwok in a wooden container blindfolded for four days, and fed him regular meals of roast pork with rice, until the ransom of some HK$600 million was paid.
- Lee Kim Lai, (25 April 1978), 18-year-old Singapore police officer who was kidnapped from a sentry post and killed for his gun.
- Carrie Lawson, a young lawyer in Jasper, AL was kidnapped September 11, 1991 in possibly the most-infamously bungled case in FBI history. A ransom demand of $300,000 was made, which was paid by the family. The FBI inserted tracking devices in the money bag and on the delivery person, but both were on the same frequency and the FBI tracked the delivery person leaving the money drop by mistake. After later getting a break in the case, the FBI went to the home of suspect Jerry Bland, who refused entry, and while retrieving a search warrant left in the car, the suspect retreated inside and shot himself and took the information on her whereabouts to his grave. Neither she nor her remains were ever found. The ransom money was mostly recovered from the suspect's attic & vehicle.
- Peter Lorenz, German conservative politician and candidate for the mayor of West-Berlin, kidnapped in February 1975, only days before the elections. Possibly the first abduction of a politician ever in modern times. Was released unharmed after a week in exchange for five imprisoned leftist extremists, who were flown out to South Yemen. He won the majority of the votes while being abducted.
- Madeleine McCann, a 3-year old British girl missing, assumed kidnapped, from her holiday home in Praia de Luz, Portugal. She has not yet been found.
- Claudia Melchers, in The Netherlands (2005). A group of armed men broke into her house, tied up her husband an
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