On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began immediately after Dugard's disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated, even though several people witnessed the kidnapping.
Kayla Unbehaun found in North Carolina 6 years after abduction, recognized from 'Unsolved Mysteries' A girl who was abducted six years ago in Illinois by her non-custodial mother has been found safe in North Carolina.
Her real name was Jaycee Dugard. After 18 years in captivity, Dugard was finally free, and she would go on to tell the story of her time imprisoned by Garrido in the memoir A Stolen Life. Here's everything you need to know about the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.
In 2013, kidnapping victim Amanda Berry miraculously escaped from a boarded-up Cleveland home after nearly a decade of captivity and called 911. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told the dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and missing for 10 years.
The Kidnapping. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
Almost all kids kidnapped by strangers are taken by men, and about two thirds of stranger abductions involve female children. Most abducted kids are in their teens. Kids are rarely abducted from school grounds.
On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began immediately after Dugard's disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated, even though several people witnessed the kidnapping.
After being held captive for 18 years by a convicted child molester, Jaycee Dugard appeared to be alive and kicking, when police investigation closes in on her kidnapper. Jaycee Dugard was 11 years old when she was abducted.
Police identified the suspect as Jane Pyo, 33, of Washington, D.C. An official said Pyo and the family did not know each other. Pyo is facing charges of abduction, possession of burglarious tools, assault on law enforcement and trespassing, police said.
On July 1, 1874 two little boys were abducted in front of their family's mansion. It was the first kidnapping for ransom in the history of the United States, and would be the major event of its kind until the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. The boys were named Charley and Walter Ross; they were 4 and 6 years old.
Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.
After 51 years apart a Fort Worth family was reunited thanks to a DNA test. FORT WORTH, Texas - Fort Worth police have confirmed that Melissa Highsmith is, in fact, the 22-month-old baby kidnapped by her babysitter 51 years ago. Police completed DNA testing on Highsmith and released the results on Thursday.
At 11.24pm on 3 November 2021, police pulled Kelly over as he drove his car not far from where Cleo was being held captive. They pinned him down and arrested him before rescuing Cleo from a nondescript community housing duplex in Carnarvon – 75km south of the Blowholes campsite.
Melissa Highsmith, center, was reunited with her parents, Alta Apantenco and Jeffrie Highsmith, 51 years after she was kidnapped in Fort Worth, Texas.
Elizabeth Smart was just 14 when she was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002. She was found nine months later about 18 miles away from her home with her abductors. Now, nearly 20 years after she was rescued on March 12, 2003, Smart said she no longer feels fear as she marks her rescue.
On Monday morning, the victims — an infant girl, her parents and her uncle, were kidnapped from a Merced County business. They were identified as 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her mother, 27-year-old Jasleen Kaur, her father, 36-year-old Jasdeep Singh, and her 39-year-old uncle, Amandeep Singh.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were all kidnapped by Ariel Castro of Cleveland between 2002 and 2004. Berry escaped the house of horrors one day, with her child and called 911 to get help for the two others.
Two years after she went missing, a six-year-old girl has been found alive and in good health in a makeshift room underneath a staircase in a house in New York state, according to police who said they suspected she was abducted by her biological non-custodial parents.
Holly Clouse in an undated photo. The couple's family members had not heard from them since October 1980, according to the statement, while Baby Holly was left at a church in Arizona, Webster said. Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to that church, Webster said.
A 4-year-old girl who went missing two years ago was found alive Monday in a small town in New York state. Paislee Shultis was discovered by police in a dark, wet space under the staircase to the basement of a house with her biological mother, Kimberly Cooper.
Children under the age of 6 are most frequently targeted for family abductions and these often occur in the midst of bitter divorce or child custody battles between parents.
What is the most common age of an abducted child? Children aged 12 and over are the victims of kidnapping in more than 80% of the cases. Teen behavior and irresponsibility are often considered the culprit before officials consider abduction. This is not the case for children aged 12 and under.
Every year, about 600,000 persons are reported missing in the United States. California tops the list with 2,133 missing persons reported, followed by Florida with 1,252 and Texas with 1,246. These states have the largest populations in the US, which may contribute to the higher number of missing person reports.