63-year-old kidnap victim escapes trunk after car crashes into Seattle home
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63-year-old kidnap victim escapes trunk after car crashes into Seattle home

A kidnapping victim who was beaten, bound, and then forced into the trunk of his own car narrowly escaped after the suspected kidnappers crashed the vehicle into a residential home. The Seattle Police Department received multiple calls early Thursday morning that a car had crashed into a home in the…

Mexican authorities find Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018, returned to US
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Mexican authorities find Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018, returned to US

A Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018 was recently found in Mexico and returned to the US, according to the FBI. Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was kidnapped by her biological mother on Oct. 25, 2018, at a Vancouver, Washington, shopping mall, according to the FBI. She was found and safely recovered by…

Mexico kidnapping survivor Eric James Williams mourns ‘brothers’ killed by cartel: wife
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Mexico kidnapping survivor Eric James Williams mourns ‘brothers’ killed by cartel: wife

One of the survivors of the Mexico cartel kidnapping is mourning the loss of his two murdered friends — who he viewed as his “brothers,” his wife said Tuesday. Michelle Williams told CNN she was able to speak to her husband, Eric James Williams, shortly after police rescued him and…

Iowa gun-toting mother stops duo from kidnapping her son: reports
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Iowa gun-toting mother stops duo from kidnapping her son: reports

An armed mother in Iowa fended off two people who attempted to take her son while in a Des Moines skywalk, by drawing her gun, according to reports. Fox station KDSM in Des Moines, Iowa reported that two people, later identified as Michael Ernest Ross, 43, and Laurie Lynn Potter, 57, repeatedly…

Trio of ‘Wolverine Watchman’ convicted in Michigan gov kidnap plot
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Trio of ‘Wolverine Watchman’ convicted in Michigan gov kidnap plot

Three members of a fringe paramilitary group were convicted on Wednesday of aiding a plot to kidnap the Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over COVID-19 restrictions they viewed as oppressive.  The plotters – Paul Bellar, Joseph Morrison and Pete Musico – were convicted of trying to help Adam…

Eliza Fletcher suspect’s uncle says whole family is ‘wacky’
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Eliza Fletcher suspect’s uncle says whole family is ‘wacky’

An uncle of the convicted kidnapper now charged with snatching Eliza Fletcher has said his “whole f—ing family’s wacky” — and he’s convinced his nephew was involved with abducting the Tennessee heiress. “I’m 100% sure he had something to do with her abduction,” Nathaniel Isaac, 69, told DailyMail of his…

NYPD investigate girl who escaped kidnapping by ice cream truck driver in Staten Island
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NYPD investigate girl who escaped kidnapping by ice cream truck driver in Staten Island

A 10-year-old girl said she was abducted by an ice cream truck driver on Staten Island on Sunday, but was able to break free and call her mother, police said. The girl told officers that a man grabbed her wrist as she was heading into a deli near Harbor Road…