During the Cold War, East Germany had very little money, because the Soviet Union had stripped the country of its assets. What they had plenty of were political prisoners, so there was a clandestine program to sell these...

A truck driver, hauling a load of frozen chicken,...  ...s employers at Dixie River Freight and demanded a ransom for the cargo. The company declined to pay, so th...

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Gizmo, a ringtail lemur kept as a family pet, was...  ...ssion. Investigators say Welborn thought he could ransom the animal, and had contacted its owner with info...

Arthur O'Neil of Mansfield, Massachusetts has been...  ...one. Then one of the flamingos reappeared with a ransom note written on it:"We have the flamingos....If y...

The owner of a seafood store in Wickford, Rhode Is...  .... He decided to release the lobster, but first ransom it to raise $2,500 for a local food bank. So if...