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Homeless man wearing blond wig, smeared makeup and pearls is busted for trying to kidnap child: cops
Joshua Freyermuth, 39, is accused of approaching the boy and his dog outside his Ohio home on Sunday and trying to lure him away, cops said.
Boy abducted from California in 1951 is found safe on East Coast more than 70 years later
Luis's niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin, stumbled across her long-lost kinship after taking an online DNA test in 2020 "just for fun," she said.
Mystery woman snatches baby from hospital SNCU in India
An investigation has been launched into the disappearance of an infant at a hospital in Bihar, India. Chilling surveillance footage shows an unidentified woman calmly walking into the Special Newborn...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs once bragged about torching victim's convertible with Molotov cocktail, kidnapped individual at gunpoint: feds
Sean “Diddy” Combs once bragged about torching a victim’s convertible with a Molotov cocktail after a gunpoint kidnapping weeks earlier, court papers say.
Migrant released at the border arrested for abducting teenager while posing as a cop: report
Jesus Enrique Ramirez Cabrera, an undocumented migrant who was released at the border last year, was arrested for abducting a teenage girl walking on her way to her Virginia high...
Florida Walmart shopper nearly kidnapped, stuffed into car trunk by knife-wielding sex offender while packing groceries: 'I'll slice your throat'
"He put something to my neck, which he says if you don’t stop this, I’m going to slice your throat."
Perv dies in car crash while fleeing from cops day after he kidnapped and molested 9-year-old girl
The young victim was inside a Key Food store at 213th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village around 7:20 p.m. when the creep approached her as her granny stopped...
Pedophile sentenced to 350 years in abduction, molestation of 5-year-old girl may be freed thanks to woke California law
A creep who was sentenced to 350 years in jail for abducting and molesting his friend's five-year-old daughter two decades ago may now be freed under a controversial California law.
Punk frontman accused of 'terrorizing' workers, tourists in Yosemite park
A maniac hardcore punk rock frontman allegedly terrorized tourists and workers around Yosemite National Park, demanding that a pregnant waitress' baby "belongs" to him as he wreaked havoc across two...
Calif. woman allegedly posed as 'Russian police' before trying to kidnap child in alley
A California woman was arrested after allegedly posing as Russian police and attempting to kidnap an 8-year-old child.
Homeless woman arrested for trying to snatch two toddlers from NYC playground: cops
A homeless woman with a lengthy rap sheet allegedly tried to snatch two toddlers from a Manhattan playground in a brazen, broad-daylight ordeal earlier this week.
Teen missing after ominously texting family that she was kidnapped outside NYC subway station: cops
The teen texted her family around 3 p.m., telling them she had been forced into a car by the men outside the Pitkin Avenue-Van Siclen Avenue subway station, cops said.
Mom in middle of divorce, custody battle kidnaps daughter, 4, and flees to cult compound: feds
A Utah mom is accused of kidnapping her 5-year-old daughter for over a year in the middle of a divorce -- taking the girl to a cult that touts bitcoin...
Missouri woman admits to slaughtering pregnant stranger, trying to steal unborn baby
“This horrific crime resulted in the tragic deaths of two innocent victims."
Hawaii man linked to 23-year-old tourist's rape and murder over 30 years ago kills himself before arrest
Hawaii Police matched the DNA of Albert Lauro, Jr., 57, with DNA evidence found on the slain body of Dana Ireland, who was killed in the Kapoho area of Hawaii’s...
Nursing student breaks her silence one year after kidnap hoax: 'Work is not finished yet'
Carlee Russell made headlines when she faked her own abduction last summer.
Arizona woman, 25, found dead and decomposing in car alongside her alleged stalker
25-year-old Doris Aguilar had apparently been shot by Juan Cuellar, 51, who then shot himself in the head, Local authorities told Arizona Family.
Girl, 15, escapes armed kidnapper by using cell phone as weapon in pulse-pounding scene
A brave teenager was able to fight off an armed kidnapper near a Los Angeles school by hitting him with her cell phone, according to media reports.
Alleged kidnap attempt at NYC day care was bizarre 'misunderstanding': school
An unsettling alleged attempted kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl from a Queens day care that had cops on the hunt for the apparent creep turned out to be a bizarre...
Homeless woman arrested for kidnapping little girl in Santa Monica
The little girl was found less than 30 minutes after she was supposedly taken.