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  2. List of kidnappings - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of kidnappings: 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

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    Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. [3] Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered. December 1954 Unidentified 11-year-old girl John A ...

  4. List of kidnappings: 1900–1949 - Wikipedia

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    Her kidnapping was the oldest unsolved case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. [20] 4 June 1930 Asser Salo: Anti-communist Lapua Movement activists Vaasa, Finland 28 Released Asser Salo, a Finnish lawyer and politician, was kidnapped in Vaasa by activists of the anti-communist Lapua Movement on 4 June 1930.

  5. List of hostage crises - Wikipedia

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    1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir: Pahalgam, India 4 July 1995: Unknown Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis: Budyonnovsk, Russia 14 June 1995: 5 days Air France Flight 8969: Algiers, Algeria, Marseille, France 24 December 1994: 3 days 232 1994 kidnappings of western tourists in India: New Delhi, India 20 October 1994: 12 days 4 ...

  6. Kidnapping in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Teich was kidnapped in his driveway in the evening after work. His abductors demanded and received a $750,000 ransom before the police lost sight of the retrieval. Years later, two men were tried for the crime; however, only one was convicted and served time. At the time, the ransom was the largest sum in the US. May 19, 1977 Colleen Stan

  7. List of kidnappings: 1980–1989 - Wikipedia

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    The kidnapping began when the four perpetrators, already with a history of abduction and gang rape, attacked Furuta while riding home on her bike. She was held captive for 40 days in the house where Minato lived with his parents. [108] Torture over the subsequent days included gang-rape, starvation, forced alcohol ingestion, beatings, and burnings.

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  9. List of kidnappings: 1990–1999 - Wikipedia

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    Lawson was a young lawyer kidnapped in a case bungled by the FBI. A ransom demand of $300,000 was made, which was paid by the family. The FBI inserted tracking devices in the money bag and on the delivery person, but both were on the same frequency and the FBI tracked the delivery person, leaving the money drop by mistake.