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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]
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ]
John Thomas Jamelske (born May 9, 1935) is an American serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of girls and women and held them captive in a concrete bunker [1] beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, United States. Jamelske pleaded guilty to five counts of first ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. Journalist and humanitarian (born 1981) Amanda Lindhout Born (1981-06-12) June 12, 1981 (age 43) Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Occupation(s) Journalist, humanitarian, author Organization Global Enrichment Foundation Awards 2014 CBC Bookie Award for Best Canadian Nonfiction Doctor of Laws ...