Prosecutor: Kidnapped women kept diaries
CLEVELAND — Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on
Kidnapping, rape suspect pleads not guilty
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man accused of holding three women captive for a decade was scolded repeatedly by a judge to raise his head and
DNA shows suspect fathered girl
CLEVELAND — A DNA test confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a house for about a decade: Kidnapping and
School secretary among three charged in kidnapping
JACKSON — One of three women accused in the kidnapping last week of a 6-year-old Kemper County girl was the secretary at her elementary school.
FBI: Ala. captor rigged bunker, waged ‘firefight’
As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage an underground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own, authorities say.
Authorities storm Alabama bunker, rescue kidnapped boy
Law enforcement officers stormed an underground bunker Monday in southeastern Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy and shooting his captor to death after they became convinced the child was in imminent danger, officials said.
Crawford man charged with kidnapping
A Crawford man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping after he allegedly abducted his girlfriend and held her against her will in early January.
Neighbors: Suspect in Ala. standoff was violent
Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago. It didn’t take long before he had developed a frightening reputation as a volatile man with anti-government views who threatened his neighbors at gunpoint and was viciously violent to wandering pets.
‘Legally dead’ man’s kidnapping trial delayed
A federal trial has been pushed back to August for a man who was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994 and surfaced years later as a suspect in the deaths of his Las Vegas girlfriend and her daughter.
Agent: Abduction of sisters planned for a year
A Mississippi man’s infatuation with a 12-year-old Tennessee girl led him to plot her abduction for a year and kill her mother and sister, according to testimony in court Monday.
FBI, police hunt kidnap-slaying suspect, 2 girls
Heavily armed FBI agents and authorities from Mississippi and Tennessee were searching woods and back roads for what they said was a dangerous man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.
Mom, daughter found dead; two sisters still missing
The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three daughters continued Tuesday after authorities said the mother and her oldest daughter were found dead in north Mississippi, behind a house the alleged kidnapper rented.
Alleged kidnapper was no stranger
A man accused of abducting a mother and her three daughters has been described as being like an uncle to the girls.
Kidnapping charges dropped against MSU students
Starkville Municipal Court Judge Rodney Faver Friday dismissed charges, stemming from a March 1 kidnapping, against three Mississippi State University students.
Three arrested in MSU kidnapping
Three fraternity members were arrested Friday and charged with kidnapping a female student in Starkville Thursday around 10 p.m.
MSU student charged in kidnapping hoax
The Mississippi State University student who fabricated her abduction Wednesday was charged Friday with filing a false police report.
Man sought for kidnapping found dead in Hamilton
According to Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley, an autopsy confirmed that Stephen Lynn Cronk’s death was due to complications from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Columbus man arrested for assault, kidnapping
A 33-year-old Columbus man has been accused of holding his girlfriend against her will by threatening her with a broken plate.
Columbus armed robbery, kidnapping suspects on the loose
Columbus police were still on the lookout this morning for suspects in a Sunday robbery and kidnapping. A Columbus man escaped from the trunk of his moving car early Sunday after he was robbed and kidnapped by two masked gunmen who are still on the loose.
Woman charged with kidnapping after showing up at boy’s home
A Columbus woman was arrested today for felony kidnapping after showing up at the home of the boy she was accused of taking days earlier.