Kidnapping

Diego Gettler, a man accused of trying to abduct a child from a Thornton, Colorado school, was identified to police by his own parents. More

September 28, 2022

Authorities said Savannah Graziano was wearing tactical gear as she exited a truck's passenger side and ran toward the sheriff's deputies. More

September 28, 2022

Sherri Papini pleaded guilty last spring under a plea bargain that also required her to pay more than $300,000 in restitution. More

September 19, 2022

Samuel Bateman, polygamous group leader on Arizona-Utah line, plead not guilty to tampering with evidence; he was stopped with young girls in a trailer. More

September 16, 2022

A Tennessee judge revoked bond Wednesday for a man charged with killing a Memphis woman who was abducted during a pre-dawn run near a university campus. More

September 7, 2022

Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. More

August 30, 2022

A judge began hearing evidence Monday to determine if five men will face trial for their alleged roles in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

August 29, 2022

A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home. More

August 23, 2022

Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020. More

August 22, 2022

Lawyers for two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called investigators to the witness stand Friday to try to raise questions about their tactics in 2020 and highlight scornful attitudes. The defense rested its case on the ninth day of trial. Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan .Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. declined to testify. More

August 19, 2022

FBI agent Tim Bates told jurors about a stop at a bridge near Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping. More

August 18, 2022

Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were “very eager” to move forward with the plan and expressed no reluctance, a key witness testified. More

August 17, 2022

Defense attorneys grilled an FBI informant Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor, questioning his motivation to get inside a band of anti-government extremists and the key steps he took to gather evidence. More

August 16, 2022

A judge overseeing the second trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took steps Friday to keep a lid on a defense lawyer's concerns about whether a juror will be fair. More

August 12, 2022

Two anti-government extremists, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., sought to spark a “second American revolution” by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a prosecutor told jurors, as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to shock the country into chaos before the 2020 election. More

August 10, 2022

Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic. More

August 9, 2022

The trial of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. means another public airing of secretly recorded conversations, text messages and chilling social media posts. More

August 8, 2022

Four men have been charged with murder for hire, conspiracy to kidnap resulting in death and kidnapping resulting in death. More

July 29, 2022

A judge on set Aug. 9 for a second trial for two men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

June 30, 2022

A man was fatally shot by deputies Saturday night after kidnapping two women and leading deputies in a chase across several counties. More

June 27, 2022

A husband and wife were rescued from a kidnapping suspect Friday morning while they were hiking in Colorado. More

June 23, 2022

The victim, who was driving the vehicle, intentionally committed a traffic violation and was pulled over by deputies. More

June 20, 2022

Colorado man Kyle Miotke has been arrested in Nebraska after he was found with a missing 13-year-old girl from Indiana. More

June 17, 2022

CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of torturing, raping and disfiguring a woman who was held captive in his Southern California home for six months pleaded not guilty to 10 charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Peter McGuire, 59, of Chino Hills entered pleas Monday to charges including kidnapping, mayhem and sodomy by use of […] More

June 14, 2022

Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her family's home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002. She was sexually abused for nine months until her rescue in Sandy in March 2003. More

June 6, 2022

Authorities arrested Kirby Calderwood, 32, in Ogden, Utah and charged him with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, kidnapping and tampering with physical evidence. Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, 38, of Homer, Alaska went missing in 2019. More

May 10, 2022

Police released a video showing the man walking down the sidewalk holding the baby carrier covered by a white blanket. More

April 26, 2022

Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it. More

April 18, 2022

Sherri Papini, California woman charged with faking her 2016 kidnapping, accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors and acknowledged she made up the story. More

April 12, 2022

Colorado man Shane Hammond convicted of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was walking home from school. More

April 12, 2022