The Latest Breaking News from Kidnapping

Experts say harsher parole rules won’t stop violent crime

For months, the heavily armed gang members in Savien, a rural community in Haiti’s rice-growing Artibonite Valley, had been ratcheting up their terror campaign. When they weren’t brandishing their weapons openly in the streets, they were kidnapping people for ransom or stoking fear with viral videos showing the slaughter of…

ATLANTA — A man walked into a Newnan bank last week and handed the teller a note that said, “Keep me safe.” Now, two men are charged with kidnapping him.

There is no indication that the law firm connection has anything to do with Fletcher’s murder, which investigators described as an ‘isolated attack by a stranger’

The 38-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday morning for his arraignment on murder charges in the abduction and death of the 34-year-old kindergarten teacher

The body of the kindergarten teacher was discovered on Monday afternoon in long grass behind a vacant apartment in south Memphis – more than 48 hours on from her violent abduction

Cleotha Abston has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher. Here is a timeline of events in the case

Cleotha Abston was convicted of kidnapping Memphis attorney Kemper Durand in 2000

Prominent Memphis businessman’s granddaughter was forced into a car and kidnapped during an early morning jog on Friday

Police confirmed that the human remains found on Monday afternoon in the 1600 block of Victor belonged to the 34-year-old mother-of-two who was violently abducted while out for a run on Friday

Abston appeared in court on Wednesday morning where he asked to be known by his paternal surname Henderson