After an early morning escape, a 17-year-old girl was able to call for help and successfully free the rest of her siblings who had been chained and bound.
On Friday, the decapitated body of a local businessman was found in Touws River after reports alleged he was kidnapped in Claremont.
Back in July Sadeck Zhaun Ahmed was tasered and thrown in the back of a bakkie in Salt River, and now the kidnappers want some serious cash for his return.
A video of a potential kidnapping at a Spur has gone viral, and it is a stern warning to parents to be vigilant at all times.
This one is rather tough to sum up, but it appears that a YouTube video might just hold the key to finding out the fate of a girl who’s been missing for seven years.
It’s the story that seems so far-fetched filmmakers were hesitant to take it on, but sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
We know that Brazil has a reputation for the odd kidnapping, but these criminals were aiming big when they took Aparecida Schunck last week.
A mother at Jozi’s Mall of the South has spoken of her shock after a stranger grabbed her child – take a look and see what you think.
In the weirdest instance of an attempted kidnapping, a man tried to take a young girl right from under her mother’s nose.
A husband’s nefarious plans backfired dramatically when his wife appeared at her own funeral. Looks like she’ll have the last laugh then.
It is not wrong to want to teach your kids valuable life lessons that will stand them in good stead. It is wrong to resort to criminal means to do so. Enter this family from Missouri.
Following the horrific beheading of journalist James Foley, the link between British expats and the Islamic State is being investigated after the video showed the executioner to be British.
Almost a week after being hi-jacked with his father, Mongezi Phike saw his mother on TV when she appeared on the Saturday night news. The appeal got straight to the very person she was hoping to find, her son.
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Boko Haram have released this video allegedly showing some of the hundreds of missing schoolgirls. They claim the girls have converted to Islam and have also clarified their demands in exchange for the girls.
This is something straight out of the Daily Sun. Bethany Arceneaux, 29, was kidnapped last Wednesday afternoon by her ex-boyfriend (and father of her son), Scott Thomas. Happily, her family was so determined to see her safe and sound that they executed a dangerous rescue mission by themselves.
Court documents filed this week recommend that a man going by the online moniker of ‘Fat Longpig’ should be jailed for 27 years for planning the kidnap, rape and eventual cannibalisation of children.
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Since the release of Amanda Berry and three other captives, gory details describing their time in captivity have emerged. The latest evidence to have been discovered includes ropes and chains from the home in Cleveland, Ohio where the women where being held.
When Charles Ramsey heard cries from his neighbour’s Seymour Avenue house on Monday, he ran to the rescue. But this Cleveland man is fast becoming famous for his snappy turn of phrase, more than anything else. The video of Ramsey’s statement has become a overnight sensation, hitting over 1,000,000 views in two days.
This hi-tech bracelet has mobile phone technology built in which can send prepared messages when the bracelet is triggered, using phone and sat-nav technology to warn of the wearer being in danger, and pinpoint their exact location. Distress alerts are sent as posts to Facebook and Twitter.
Late yesterday afternoon, and once more in the early hours of this morning, the hashtag #kidnapping began trending locally on Twitter. Multiple tweets claimed that a child had been kidnapped from the leafy Cape Town suburb of Newlands, and a red VW City Golf Velocity with the registration STW048GP was identified as the getaway car. It has since been debunked as a hoax. More after the jump.