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Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981) [1] is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended. [2] Her captor, Thomas Hose, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison. [3]
Kozakiewicz had corresponded online with someone she thought to be a girl named "Christine." She continued to do so even after learning that "Christine" was actually a 31-year-old man. That man then introduced her to Scott Tyree, [ 10 ] a 38-year-old man who lived in Herndon, Virginia , in a Yahoo chat room . [ 6 ]
On October 15, 2018, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson abducted 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs after fatally shooting her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home just outside of Barron, Wisconsin, at 12:53 a.m. [3] Patterson took Closs to a house 70 miles (110 km) away in rural Gordon, Wisconsin, and held her in captivity for 88 days until she escaped on January 10, 2019, seeking help ...
The case is documented in the book Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box (1989), by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, [43] and referenced in Kathy Reichs's novel Monday Mourning (2004). [44] An updated version of Stan's story, Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life by Jim Green, was published in 2009. [45]
Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965. Jaycee Dugard, kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Antioch, California, US, 18 years, discovered on 26 August 2009. [29] [30]
Elizabeth Ann Smart, aged 14, was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell from her home in the Federal Heights neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah.She was held captive by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, and later, in San Diego County, California.
Within the bunker was a coffin-size soundproofed room containing a bed and television where Beers was chained. [6] Esposito would later tell police he had built the bunker specifically for Beers. Beers herself later recalled playing in the dirt displaced by the bunker as Esposito dug it a few years before the kidnapping.
Cheryl Gene Grimmer (30 October 1966 – disappeared 12 January 1970; declared legally dead 2011) was a three-year-old Australian toddler who was kidnapped from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, New South Wales, in January 1970.