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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Crime list This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions ...
Balascio has written a new book, "Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father." In it, Balascio details how she discovered her father’s true identity and the horrific crimes ...
The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Northern California woman in a case that became known nationwide as the "Gone Girl" kidnapping has now been charged with other ...
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.
Police at first believed her boyfriend carried out a fake kidnapping that was referred to as a real-life “Gone Girl” case in reference to the book and also hit 2014 movie starring Ben Affleck ...
Sidney Leonard Jaffe (December 22, 1924 – July 16, 2005) was an American-born Canadian businessman who was kidnapped from outside his Toronto home in 1981 by American bounty hunters Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear and transported to Florida after failing to appear for a trial there on charges of land sales fraud.