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April Marie Tinsley (March 18, 1980 [2] – April 1, 1988) was an eight-year-old girl from Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 1988. Her killer left several anonymous messages and notes in the Fort Wayne area between 1990 and 2004, openly boasting about April's murder and threatening to kill again.
The two kidnappers were later arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder, and they were both sentenced to death in July 1992. However, Liow died from a heart attack in August 1993 while on death row , and thus Ibrahim became the sole kidnapper of the case to be officially executed on 29 July 1994 after failing to appeal his capital sentence.
Mark Bridger, a 46-year-old local man, was arrested on the afternoon of 2 October 2012, less than 24 hours after April went missing. He became a suspect in the case because he matched a description of the man and the vehicle, a left-hand drive Land Rover Discovery which an eyewitness had seen April entering following a conversation with the driver.
He was convicted of second-degree murder in April 2004 and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison — only to have the conviction overturned on Dec. 31, 2009.
Muller, who is already serving a 40-year prison term for the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Huskins that cops initially believed was a hoax, is accused of breaking into two other women’s ...
Ibarra was charged with one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, hindering an emergency telephone call ...
Date Victim(s) Abductor(s) Location Age of victim(s) Outcome Notes 2 April 1990 Humberto Álvarez Machaín: Bounty hunters Mexico: Released Alvarez-Machain, a suspect in the murder of Enrique Camarena, was kidnapped, allegedly by Americans to bring him to trial in the United States.
Muller was arrested for Huskins' kidnapping in June 2015 when he was identified as a suspect in a home invasion in Dublin, California. Muller pleaded guilty in 2016 to Huskins' kidnapping and in ...