Rahmell Pettway of Brooklyn, New York, was so afra...  ...ne from home for two weeks that he staged his own kidnapping . He was found by a passer-by between two parked c...

Lynn Peters of Johannesburg, South Africa, sent out a Tweet that her boyfriend had been kidnapped Sunday night. He was put in the trunk of his own car by armed carjackers! However, the unnamed man was able to contact Pet...

The planned expedition led by Norwegian Jarle Andhoy was already shady, and now there's an unwilling member along for the ride. The yacht took off in a hurry as immigration officials arrived to investigate Andhoy at an A...

In 2009, Jesse Dimmick entered the home of Jared and Lindsay Rowley and held them at knifepoint for a couple of hours. The three watched the movie Patch Adams and had snacks. When Dimmick fell asleep, the couple escaped...

Anonymous is getting ready for the biggest fight of their group's history, ramping up to take on a Mexican drug cartel after one of their own was kidnapped by the drug lords. The Zetas are one of the biggest players in...

In 1976, three young men kidnapped a school bus fu...  ...r for the Woods family's attorneys, tracking down kidnapping victims to see if any would write letters of supp...

Spanish police have arrested an unnamed woman who...  ...have arrested an unnamed woman who faked her own kidnapping . She sent a photograph of herself with her hands...  ...in perfect health, was the supposed victim of the kidnapping ," the police statement said. At first she told...

In 1964, British PM Alec Douglas-Home was staying overnight at the home of Lord Hailsham in Scotland. In an astonishing security lapse, his bodyguards did not guard the door to the house. Left-wing college students, on...

What would you do if someone killed your child, an...  ...or is Bamberski - if he did do it - justified in kidnapping the alleged (Update 10/26/09: alleged/convicted -...

Holding a person for ransom makes big headlines, b...  ...stories that gripped the public in their time.The kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., so...  ...me, prompting the “Lindbergh Law”, which made kidnapping a federal crime. (Prior to, it was classified as...