The Latest Breaking News from Kidnapping

Man admits kidnapping kids for $1m ransom

Ji Jiang, who kidnapped two Melbourne children last year and demanded a $1 million ransom, will stand trial over allegations he assaulted their mother.

AAP · Jun 3, 2022

Man denies kidnapping charge in alleged murder-for-hire plot

A Colorado man has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping a man later found shot to death in a Vermont snowbank in 2018 in what prosecutors allege was a murder-for-hire scheme

The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2022

Nigerian property crime could be reduced if neighbourhoods were better designed

Nigeria has a very high crime rate. The Global Peace Index ranked it the world’s 17th least peaceful state. Discussion of crime in Nigeria tends to focus on insurgency, terrorism and kidnapping, but other types of crime are thriving too.

The Conversation · Jun 2, 2022

Appellate Court Upholds Trial Court's Rejection of "[Independent] Custody Investigator" Opinion

Among other things, the investigator "appeared to accept Father’s explanation that his 2003 kidnapping conviction based on allegations of domestic violence in a previous relationship was a misunderstanding, not the result of criminal conduct," "[finding] 'credible' Father’s explanation that he 'was unfairly incarcerated based on the lies of the victim…

Reason · May 29, 2022

Yasin Malik | The poster boy of separatism in Kashmir

The JKLF leader has a complex past of both fighting and engaging India, but he has remained a hardliner when it comes to his ideology 

The Hindu · May 28, 2022

Texas gunman dubbed 'Yubo school shooter' and threatened to murder before massacre

A 17-year-old girl met Salvadore Ramos on social media app Yubo said in the chatrooms he would 'threaten rape and kidnapping and murder' before the Texas school shooting

Daily Mirror · May 28, 2022

Chhattisgarh: 17-year-old detained for abducting toddler in Koriya

RAIPUR: Koriya police have arrested a juvenile for kidnapping a one-and-a-half-year-old boy by disconnecting the power supply of his home during night but fortunately, before he could cause hurt to the toddler, the juveniles was caught.

The Times of India · May 28, 2022

Court summons daughter of Jammu & Kashmir ex-CM, Rubaiya Sayeed in 1989 abduction case

JAMMU: A special CBI court here has summoned Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former JK CM and then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, on July 15 in a case related to her kidnapping in 1989. This is the first time Rubaiya Sayeed has been asked to appear in the case…

The Times of India · May 27, 2022

Migrant back home after 7 years in Mexico jail unsentenced

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a sentence

The Independent UK · May 23, 2022

Gujarat: Six get life for kidnapping, murdering publisher

AHMEDABAD: A Gandhinagar court sentenced six persons to life imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering a publisher, Navin Shah, in July 2017.

The Times of India · May 21, 2022