Missing Ill. Woman Escapes Kidnapper
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A truck dispatcher who said she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend managed to escape Saturday and ask for help at a convenience store, police said.
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Police are looking for a man described as a "person of interest," in the case of a 24-year-old woman who has been missing in the north Georgia mountains since New Year's Day, a Union County Sheriff's spokeswoman told reporters Thursday.
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A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a couple's home, police said. Two people who live at the home in West Hartford, Connecticut, were arrested. The girl probably was not kept in the secret room at all times, police said, but could not have unlocked the room from the inside. Based on her pale complexion, police speculated that she never went outside.
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A Lebanese hostage escaped from his  captors in the remote creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger  Delta and was not freed as his employer had said, the militant  group that seized the man said on Thursday.
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An escaped prisoner accused in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her loft was captured Saturday after authorities acting on a tip swarmed an apartment where he was discovered hiding in a closet.
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A Chicago-based National Guard unit ferried a Canadian woman to freedom yesterday after she said she was missing for 16 days in northern Iraq, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today.
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A newborn kidnapped from a Lubbock hospital by a woman wearing hospital scrubs was found safe Sunday about 100 miles away in New Mexico, and police had a suspect under arrest.
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A student missing for six days in Cambridge took a taxi to within 100 metres of her home before she vanished.
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Police combing through the house where Natascha Kampusch was held captive for 8 1/2 years said Tuesday they made an unusual discovery: Her captor, a communications technician, used an obsolete computer &#151; and his odd choice now threatens to complicate their investigation.
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Police have made in arrest in the disappearance of a 12-year-old Indiana girl who had been missing since Chritsmas Eve just before a body matching the girl&#39;s description was found by Marion County Police.
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Police stepped up their search for a missing drug sales representative after finding the 28-year-old woman's car near an abandoned building in Hammond, Ind.
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A kidnapped 14-year-old girl texts her mother from her keeper's cell phone. Authorities rescue her, using the message to help target their search area.
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A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said. Baby Mychel Darthard-Dawodu's security bracelet was removed, the hospital administrator said. Police are hunting the suspected kidnapper -- a 5-foot-3-inch African-American woman seen on security cameras in pink nurse's scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
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Two inmates, including one who was once accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's son, escaped Friday in a truck while working at a state prison ranch.
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A UMR professor s daughter is missing after stealing her mother s credit card to fly to the United Kingdom.
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A young Austrian woman whose kidnapper kept her locked away in a cell for years said Monday she lost faith in her country's judiciary after accusations surfaced that authorities ignored a tip that could have led to her captor.
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ELKHART, Ind. - A woman heading home from a store was surprised to find a man accusing her of stealing his van. The 71-year-old woman was leaving Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday with her great-nieces and great-nephews when a man walked in front of her van, forcing her to stop.