abduction – News Stories About abduction - Page 15

Aug 4, 2008 4:21 AM CDT

'Rockefeller' Forged New Phony Life

Kidnap dad created yet another identity in Baltimore: cops

(Newser) - Bogus blueblood Clark Rockefeller, who went on the lam after abducting his 7-year-old daughter during a custody dispute, was creating a new identity in Baltimore when he was arrested Saturday, reports the Boston Herald. He was using the name Chip Smith or sometimes Clark Rock, and had already been building...

Mom Begs: Bring Snooks Home

Aug 1, 2008 4:17 AM CDT

Mom Begs: Bring Snooks Home

Rockefeller's ex makes emotional video appeal

(Newser) - The ex-wife of fugitive millionaire Clark Rockefeller, the man on the run with their 7-year-old daughter, has videotaped an emotional appeal for the child's return. "Please, please bring Snooks back. There has to be a better way for us to solve our differences," pleads Sandra Boss, using the...

Missing Girl's Dad Bought Gold

Jul 31, 2008 4:41 AM CDT

Missing Girl's Dad Bought Gold

Converted cash to bullion to use anywhere in world, say cops

(Newser) - The wealthy businessman accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter has apparently exchanged cash for gold as part of his elaborate kidnapping plot, reports the Boston Globe. Clark Rockefeller, a man with a mystery history who lied about his connections to the Rockefeller family, can use the gold anywhere in the...

Accomplice Helping Cops
in Kidnap Case

Jul 29, 2008 5:22 PM CDT

Accomplice Helping Cops in Kidnap Case

7-year-old, father who lied about Rockefeller ties still missing

(Newser) - As more details emerge about the man thought to have kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter in Boston on Sunday, police said today the driver of the SUV used in the abduction is cooperating with the investigation, the Globe reports. Police believe Clark Rockefeller—one of several names the man uses—and...

Tsvangirai: Save
Yourselves,
Vote Mugabe

Jun 27, 2008 3:45 AM CDT

Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe

Sham election gets underway today

(Newser) - As Zimbabwe's sham run-off election for president began to get underway, even opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged supporters to vote for Robert Mugabe to save themselves from the violent intimidation orchestrated by the government, the Guardian reports. Mugabe's militia has conducted a terror campaign of murder, abduction, imprisonment and rape...

McCann Friend Says She Saw Maddy Abducted

Nov 16, 2007 3:30 PM CST

McCann Friend Says She Saw Maddy Abducted

Potential witness insists girl was taken, parents are innocent

(Newser) - A close friend of the McCann family says she saw a man carrying Madeleine McCann from the Portuguese resort where they were staying, the BBC reports. "I think it's important that people know what I saw because I believe Madeleine was abducted," said Jane Tanner, who agreed to...

Cops Will Name Me as Suspect: Maddy's Mom

Sep 7, 2007 4:11 AM CDT

Cops Will Name Me as Suspect: Maddy's Mom

Missing toddler's mother expects to be named a suspect

(Newser) - The mother of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, grilled for 11 hours by Portuguese police yesterday, expects to be named a suspect in her daughter's disappearance, according to a family spokesman. Kate McCann is "shocked and surprised" by the turn of events, said the friend. Her husband was expected...

Nigerian Kidnappers
Free Toddler

Jul 8, 2007 7:45 PM CDT

Nigerian Kidnappers Free Toddler

Girl in good health after 4 days in captivity

(Newser) - Four days after her terrifying abduction, a 3-year-old girl is back with her parents in southern Nigeria, "covered in mosquito bites" but otherwise OK, her father tells the BBC. Margaret Hill, who was snatched from a car at gunpoint on her way to school Thursday, was freed today and...

UK Toddler Kidnapped in Nigeria

Jul 5, 2007 7:06 AM CDT

UK Toddler Kidnapped in Nigeria

Five foreign workers were abducted yesterday

(Newser) - A three-year-old British girl was kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta today. The abduction comes after five oil workers were kidnapped yesterday. Militant groups who want a larger share of Nigeria's oil profits to go to the poor have taken more than 100 foreign hostages this year, the BBC...

Police Arrest Two in Case of Missing Maddy

Jun 29, 2007 4:53 AM CDT

Police Arrest Two in Case of Missing Maddy

Held in alleged plot to claim reward money

(Newser) - Police in Spain have arrested two people in an extortion plot connected to the disappearance of British tot Madeleine McCann. The pair, one of them an Italian man wanted in France for child abuse, were arrested near Gibraltar after trying to blackmail the McCann family, the Guardian reports. The four-year-old...