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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 ...
April Sue-Lyn Jones [2] (4 April 2007 [3] – c. 1 October 2012) was a Welsh child from Machynlleth, Powys, who disappeared on 1 October 2012, after being sighted getting into a vehicle near her home. The disappearance of April Jones, aged five, generated a large amount of national and international press coverage.
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.
Perpetrator charged with second-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping after a plea deal in 2012. [95] Ame Lynn Deal: July 12, 2011 10 Phoenix, Arizona Solved Four perpetrators were charged with several counts of child abuse, and two of the perpetrators were charged with first degree murder. [96] Scott Dieter: August 7, 2011 11 [97]
Blake Britner plead guilty to a first-degree felony of aggravated kidnapping and was sentenced to 35 years behind bars on March 2, 2023. The courts have given him 651 days of time-served credit ...
At a lab, Edwards’ DNA and the genetic material at the crime scene matched, Oxygen.com reported. Edwards was arrested in Kentucky, where he had moved with his wife. He confessed to five murders.
Following a year-long manhunt which resulted in accomplices committing suicide upon arrest, Chen, who masterminded the kidnapping, was arrested on 18 November after taking the Alexander family hostage. Chen was convicted and executed on 6 October 1999. The incident has since received criticism for its inappropriate media coverage ethics.
Charles Wright, then a middle-school teacher in the Inglewood Unified School District, was arrested in early 2022 after DNA and fingerprint evidence linked him to the killing of Pertina Epps.