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Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video thriller film starring Dennis Hopper, Zachery Ty Bryan, Morgan Fairchild and Debi Mazar. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan. [1] [2]
The kidnapper demands a $500,000 ransom and instructs Dave to signal his intention to pay by having a popular television host wear a white jacket on the next evening's broadcast. The police trace the phone call to a phone booth and arrive in time to find the kidnapper's cigarette still burning.
Ransom is a 1996 American action thriller film [5] directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon. The film stars Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Lili Taylor, Brawley Nolte, Liev Schreiber, Donnie Wahlberg and Evan Handler.
Kidnap was released on Digital HD via digital distribution through Amazon Video and iTunes on October 17, 2017, before receiving its physical release on DVD and Blu-ray on October 31. [25] In its first week, the film sold 47,629 DVDs and 33,521 Blu-rays as the sixth-most sold feature on both formats in the United States.
Jack McCullough, who changed his name from John Tessier, as he was known around the time of Maria's 1957 kidnapping and murder, was released from an Illinois prison in 2016, ending a nearly five ...
Matthew Muller, 47, is serving a 40-year sentence for the kidnap and rape of a Vallejo woman in 2015. Her abduction was initially thought to be a hoax, cynically dubbed the "Gone Girl" kidnapping ...
In the 1980s, a serial killer who local media named the Night Stalker, terrorized cities across L.A. County. Police eventually identified this violent criminal as Richard Ramirez, a drifter from ...
He was also sentenced twenty-five years to life for the kidnapping. [8] At the time, Charles Berkley, who was a former employee of Teich's, was still sought as a second suspect. Berkley was eventually found and charged in 1980; however, there was insufficient evidence to bring him to trial.