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Guy Fakes Kidnapping to Avoid His Girlfriend

Law enforcement source calls him 'a total moron'

(Newser) - Talk about sad: A man bound himself with duct tape and claimed he'd been kidnapped only to avoid facing his girlfriend, the New York Post reports. New York police say they found Rahmell Pettway, 36, bound and looking beat up last week between two parked cars in Brooklyn. At...

French Hostages Falsely Reported Rescued

Family of 7 still in hands of kidnappers, say France, Cameroon

(Newser) - A French family abducted in Cameroon this week was reported to be "safe and sound and ... in the hands of Nigerian authorities," according to a Cameroon military officer, but now multiple sources including the BBC , Reuters , and France24 are reporting that's not true. France's foreign ministry...

French Family Kidnapped in Cameroon

7 victims abducted by gunmen near Nigeria

(Newser) - A French family has been kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, French president François Hollande says. The attackers were a "known terrorist group based in Nigeria," he adds, and probably took the family there. The seven victims included children. The attack comes just days...

Missing Russian Politician Found in Barrel of Cement

Ruling party member Mikhail Pakhomov said to have been killed over debts

(Newser) - Nearly a week after he was declared missing, a Russian lawmaker's body has turned up near Moscow—in an unidentified person's garage, squeezed into a barrel of cement. Mikhail Pakhomov, of the ruling United Russia party, was a member of the Lipetsk city parliament. "The nature of...

Mom of Ex-Hostage, 6: I Forgave Kidnapper

Jimmy Lee Dykes 'took care of Ethan': Jennifer Kirkland

(Newser) - Jennifer Kirkland quickly forgave Jimmy Lee Dykes for taking her child hostage in Alabama for almost a week, she says. Dykes, who cooked for Ethan Gilman and asked authorities to pass him a favorite toy, "took care of Ethan to the best of his abilities," Kirkland told Dr....

Missing Developer Found With 'Thief' Carved on Face

Kevin McGeever says he can't remember what happened

(Newser) - An Irish millionaire who vanished eight months ago has turned up disheveled on a country road saying kidnappers held him for ransom, the Guardian reports. Barefoot with the word "Thief" carved in his forehead, 68-year-old Kevin McGeever told Irish police that he couldn't remember what had happened or...

On Day He Died, Bus Driver Tried to Give Suspect Gift

Jimmy Lee Dykes, Charles Albert Poland, Jr., interacted that morning

(Newser) - News about the hostage situation in Alabama is hard to come by, but KAIT-8 has a bizarre update today: The morning Jimmy Lee Dykes allegedly shot and killed bus driver Charles Albert Poland, Jr., and took a little boy on the bus hostage , Poland had tried to give Dykes a...

Cops Pass Toys, Meds to 6-Year-Old Alabama Hostage

Suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes dodged court date in another shooting

(Newser) - The man suspected of holding a 6-year-old hostage in his Alabama bunker was due in court yesterday in a separate case: Jimmy Lee Dykes allegedly shot at his neighbors in a December property feud. A standoff between police and Dykes continues, with Dykes reportedly in the bunker with the boy....

Frenchwoman Freed From Mexico Prison After Outcry

Florence Cassez had been sentenced for kidnapping

(Newser) - A Frenchwoman whose 60-year Mexican prison sentence caused international controversy was released from jail yesterday. Florence Cassez was sentenced in 2005 for her role in a kidnapping gang after television showed her arrest as three victims were freed. But the segment was staged by police: In fact, she'd been...

Boy Kidnapped at 5 Turns Up Married, 24

Grandparents allegedly snatched Richard Landers Jr. in 1994

(Newser) - Nineteen years ago, the paternal grandparents of a 5-year-old boy allegedly kidnapped him. Now, Richard Landers Jr. has resurfaced, age 24 and married, in Minnesota, the Chicago Tribune reports. He lives under a different name, however—one provided by his grandparents when they took him and managed to stump police....

New Photos of Kidnapped American Released

US officials believe Iran knows where he is

(Newser) - The family of kidnapped former FBI agent Robert Levinson has released chilling photographs received in early 2011. The photos show Levinson, who disappeared in Iran while working as a private investigator in 2007, clad in an orange jumpsuit and holding signs with captions including, "I am here in Guantanamo....

Kidnapped Handyman Is Forced to Fix House: Cops
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Dec 9, 2012 11:11 AM CST

Kidnapped Handyman Is Forced to Fix House: Cops

He escapes, and couple is charged

(Newser) - And the crime-blotter gem of the day goes to San Jose, where police have charged a couple with kidnapping a handyman to fix stuff around their house, reports KGO via Gawker . Police say the couple beat up the man when he arrived and threatened him with more if he didn'...

Al-Qaeda Leader Urges Kidnapping of Westerners

al-Zawahri wants to use them to free jihadists

(Newser) - The leader of al-Qaeda has urged Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists, including a blind cleric serving a life sentence in the United States for a 1993 plot to blow up New York City landmarks. In an undated two-hour videotape posted this week on militant forums, Ayman...

Judge Agrees to Reopen OJ Case

Simpson's new lawyer: old lawyer did a bad job

(Newser) - OJ Simpson's robbery-and-kidnapping case isn't quite over after all, Radar reports. Now serving 9 to 33 years in a Nevada prison, the ex-football star has himself a new lawyer who persuaded a judge to reopen the case. Their argument: Simpson's former lawyer, Yale Galanter, was paid over...

Body Found Amid Search for Missing Colo. Girl

But police won't say if it belongs to 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway

(Newser) - Colorado police hunting for a missing 10-year-old girl have found a body about seven miles from where she disappeared, but they wouldn't say if it was hers. Indeed, at a brief press conference a police spokesman said the search for Jessica Ridgeway remains ongoing, the AP reports. The girl...

Book: Gadhafi Abducted Schoolgirls, Raped Them

Former Libyan leader turned girls into sex slaves, says author

(Newser) - We've already heard that Moammar Gadhafi liked sleeping with four or five women a day, but a new book claims that he would kidnap schoolgirls and rape them between reading his emails, the Daily Mail reports. In Prey: In Gadhafi's Harem by French reporter Annick Cojean, a girl...

Woman Wants to Marry Daughter's Suspected Killer

Says she's trying to find out what happened to 'Baby Kate' Phillips

(Newser) - Four-month-old "Baby Kate" Phillips vanished in June 2011 , and her disappearance remains the subject of a homicide investigation. Now her mother is planning to marry the man suspected of killing her. The accused, Sean Phillips, is also Baby Kate's father. Ariel Courtland says she is marrying Phillips not...

'Bomb' Strapped to Manager in LA Bank Robbery

She was ordered to rob bank or device would be detonated: cops

(Newser) - Two masked men kidnapped a Bank of America manager, strapped what they said was a bomb to her, and threatened to detonate it if she didn't rob her bank for them yesterday. She was driven to the bank after her kidnapping the previous night, and "was ordered to...

'Bride-Napping': A Wedding Craze With an Edge

Romanians love new custom of stealing her from the groom

(Newser) - Bride-napping sounds like a serious crime—except that Romanians like doing it every week as a means of spicing up ordinary weddings, the AP reports. Typically the wedding party will be in full swing when friends of the bride abduct her, take her to a popular tourist spot, and demand...

Levi Aron Gets 40 Years for Murder of Brooklyn Boy, 8

Aron's plea avoided life without parole in killing of Leiby Kletzky

(Newser) - A 37-year-old Brooklyn man got 40 years to life today for kidnapping, murdering, and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who got lost on his way home from religious day camp, reports the AP . Levi Aron had previously pleaded guilty in the death of Leiby Kletzky to avoid a trial and the...

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