kidnapping/EVENT.csv

Date,Victim Name,Abductor name,Location,Age of victim,Outcome,Notes,Trigger
12 June 1977,Oklahoma Girl Scout murders,,"Mayes County, Oklahoma, US",,Murdered,"The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders is an unresolved crime that occurred at Camp Scott. The victims were three Girl Scouts, who were raped and murdered and their bodies left in the woods near their tent at summer camp.",Oklahoma Girl Scout murders
17 November 2004,Kaede Ariyama,Kaoru Kobayashi,"Nara, Japan",7,Murdered,"Abducted while walking home from school by convicted pedophile Kaoru Kobayashi, who murdered her and then dumped her body in Heguri, which was found on the same day. The murder caused a moral panic against otaku culture.",Kaede Ariyama
23 February 1958,Juan Manuel Fangio,Rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution,"Havana, Cuba",46,Released,"Five-time Argentine Formula One champion Fangio was kidnapped by rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution, which had been planned by one of Fidel Castro's right-hand men Faustino Perez, from a hotel in Havana, the night before the non-championship Cuban Grand Prix. The abductors had also planned to kidnap fellow driver Stirling Moss but was convinced by Fangio not to kidnap him. Fangio was taken to three separate houses and was offered various amnesties and even a radio for him to listen to the race going on. On midnight after the race, Fangio was dropped off at the Argentinian ambassador's home.",Juan Manuel Fangio
,Peter Weinberger,,"Westbury, New York, US",,,"LaMarca took the baby from his home for a $2,000 ransom. He told investigators he went to the first drop site the day after the kidnapping with the baby in the car, but was scared away by all of the press and police in the area. He drove away, abandoned the baby alive in some heavy brush just off a highway exit, and went home. A search of the area by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and Nassau County Police Department ensued.",Peter Weinberger
1 February 2002,Danielle van Dam,David Westerfield,"Sabre Springs, San Diego, California, US",7,,"Van Dam was abducted from her bed the night of 1–2 February; her body was found three weeks later in a remote area. Westerfield, a neighbor, was convicted of kidnapping and first degree murder, and sentenced to death for the crime.",Danielle van Dam
3 October 2000,Elhanan Tannenbaum,Hezbollah militants,"Dubai, United Arab Emirates",,Released,Polish-born Israeli businessman and drug dealer who was kidnapped by Hezbollah militants while conducting a supposed drug deal in Dubai. He was then held for three years before being released in a hostage exchange and returned to Israel.,Elhanan Tannenbaum
,Bardhyl Çaushi,Yugoslav militants,Serbia,,,"A Kosovo Albanian human rights lawyer and activist. Çaushi was abducted by Yugoslav forces and held in prisons in Serbia. Çaushi's fate was unknown until 2005, when his remains were found and identified.",Bardhyl Çaushi
22 August 2002,Michelle Knight,Ariel Castro,"Cleveland, Ohio, US",21,Rescued,"Knight was last seen when she left her cousin's house. Knight, along with Amanda Berry, Berry's child who was born in captivity, and Gina DeJesus, were found alive and in reasonable health within three miles of the site of their disappearances on 6 May 2013.",Michelle Knight
13 November 2019,Idris Khattak,Four unknown individuals,"Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan",,,Human rights activist who was detained and is currently scheduled to stand before a military trial for alleged espionage. His arrest is considered political in nature.,Idris Khattak
22 October 1989,Jacob Wetterling,Danny Heinrich,"St. Joseph, Minnesota, US",11,Murdered,Wetterling was kidnapped on his way home by a masked gunman.,Jacob Wetterling
10 June 1991,Jaycee Lee Dugard,Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido,"South Lake Tahoe, California, US",11,,"Dugard was kidnapped from a bus stop and held captive for 18 years. She was found alive by parole officers on 26 August 2009 due to a tip from campus police officers from the University of California, Berkeley. During captivity she gave birth to two children.",Jaycee Lee Dugard
21 January 2015,Noela Rukundo,Unidentified kidnappers,"Bujumbura, Burundi",,Released,"Burundian-Australian woman who was kidnapped on the orders of her husband, Balenga Kalala, who ordered that she be killed. However, her kidnappers refused to do so and instead released her, allowing Rukundo to return to Australia and confront her husband while he conducted her supposed funeral. He was later convicted for the crime and sentenced to 9 years imprisonment.",Noela Rukundo
26 November 2000,Leanne Tiernan,John Taylor,"Leeds, England",16,Murdered,"Tiernan was abducted and murdered while returning from a shopping trip. Her body was found on 20 August 2001 in a nearby woodland, and evidence led to Taylor's arrest. He was found guilty on 8 July 2002 and received two life sentences.",Leanne Tiernan
1979–1980 (exact date unknown),Eklutna Annie,Robert Hansen,"Anchorage, Alaska, US",Between 16 and 25,Murdered,"An unidentified female was kidnapped by a serial killer. She was described by her murderer as either a prostitute or a topless dancer who attempted to escape from a vehicle after she was abducted. The victim was then stabbed in the back and buried in Eklutna, Alaska. Her body was discovered on 21 July 1980, between a month and a year after her death.",Eklutna Annie
14 December 1976,Richard Oetker,Dieter Zlof,Germany,,Released,"Businessman and billionaire heir who was kidnapped by a Slovene-born mechanic, who kept him shackled inside a crate and gave him electrical shocks when he resisted. While Oetker was rescued 47 hours later and Zlof sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, the incident has left him with permanent injuries to his lung.",Richard Oetker
24 August 1983,Guillermo Patricio Kelly,Aníbal Gordon,Argentina,,Released,"Leader of the Nationalist Liberation Alliance from 1953 and 1955, noted for guiding the group into dropping its antisemitic practises. After being exiled from the country by the Perón government, he returned in 1983, only to be kidnapped and released a few hours later. Aníbal Gordon, a suspected member of a right-wing death squad, would later be convicted of this crime, among several others.",Guillermo Patricio Kelly
October 2004,Paul Taggart,,"Sadr City, Iraq",,Released,"American photographer who was held hostage by an unidentified group of Islamic militants and held for three days, whereupon he was released without harm.",Paul Taggart
9 September 1987,Gerrit Jan Heijn,Ferdi Elsas,"Bloemendaal, Netherlands",,Murdered,"Heijn was a Dutch businessman, the top executive of Ahold, Holland's largest retailer. He was killed shortly after his abduction. Elsas pretended the victim was still alive and received a ransom. He was caught after spending one of the banknotes of the ransom, whose numbers had been recorded. He was released in 2001 after serving a prison sentence but was killed in a road accident.",Gerrit Jan Heijn
6 January 2007,Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom,Five carjackers,"Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.",21 (Christian)23 (Newsom),Murdered,"Couple who were kidnapped by five assailants while driving to a friend's house party, who then proceeded to rape, torture and finally murder them. Each of the participants was convicted and given either long prison terms, life imprisonment without parole or in the ringleader's case, a death sentence.",Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
19 October 2005,Rory Carroll,,"Baghdad, Iraq",,Released,"Irish journalist and reporter who was abducted by an unknown group after doing an interview with a victim of Saddam Hussein's regime. Following lobbying from several organizations and both the Irish and Iraqi governments, he was released unharmed on the following day.",Rory Carroll
16 March 1978,Aldo Moro,Red Brigades,"Rome, Italy",,,"Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was captured by a Marxist-Leninist urban guerilla organization and killed almost two months later.",Aldo Moro
"May 28, 1980",Dorothy Jane Scott,,"Anaheim, California, US",,,"She was abducted in her own car from the hospital parking lot where her friend was getting a spider bite checked out. Her bones were found on 6 August 1984,",Dorothy Jane Scott
17 December 1981,James Lee Dozier,Red Brigades,"Verona, Italy",,Rescued,Dozier was a US general working for NATO in Italy. He and his wife were kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group,James Lee Dozier
18 January 2002,Celso Daniel,,"Jardins, Brazil",,Murdered,"Mayor of Santo André who was abducted by criminals and later killed, his body 8 days after his kidnapping. His murderers have never been identified, but the motive for the killing is suspected to be political in nature.",Celso Daniel
26 July 2015,Madyson Middleton,Adrian Gonzalez,"Santa Cruz, California, US",,,"Madyson ""Maddy"" Middleton, an 8-year-old girl then about to enter the fourth grade at a local Santa Cruz elementary school, was kidnapped in the Tannery Arts Center apartment complex by Gonzalez, a 15-year-old high schooler with whom she was acquainted. She had apparently been lured to the apartment by the teen, at which point he abducted, sexually assaulted and attempted to strangle her. He then placed her in a garbage can and stabbed her after it became apparent that she had survived, and the coroner's report indicated that she died of asphyxiation. Gonzalez was close by when Maddy's body was found in a recycling bin and cameras recorded him placing her there. He was quickly arrested and charged with the crimes upon investigation, and he soon confessed to Maddy's abduction, rape, and murder. As of the summer of 2020, the case continues to face a number of legal proceedings due to Gonzalez's age. California's Proposition 57 gives a presiding judge discretion over whether to try a juvenile as an adult, but other laws in the state impose statutory restrictions on such actions, and the legal course of the trial remains unclear.",Madyson Middleton
19 November 1988,Michaela Garecht,Unknown,"Hayward, California, US",,Unknown,"Garecht was abducted by a Caucasian male thought to be about 18–24 years old. She rode to a small neighborhood market on her scooter. When she tried to grab her scooter, a man forced her into his car.",Michaela Garecht
11 July 2011,Leiby Kletzky,Levi Aron,"New York City, US",,,Kletzky was kidnapped on his way home from day camp in his Hasidic Jewish neighborhood.,Leiby Kletzky
,Megan Kanka,Jesse Timmendequas,"Hamilton Township, New Jersey, US",,Murdered,"Kanka was lured into the home of a 33-year-old neighbor and convicted sex offender named Jesse Timmendequas, who proceeded to rape and murder her. Kanka's abduction and murder ultimately led to the passing of ""Megan's Law""; a federal law which requires authorities to make all information relating to convicted sex offenders.",Megan Kanka
27 December 1973,Thomas Niedermayer,Provisional IRA,"Belfast, Northern Ireland",,,"Niedermayer was a German national and the manager of a Grundig factory in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He died shortly after being abducted by the IRA from his home in Belfast.",Thomas Niedermayer
25 April 1978,Lee Kim Lai,"Ong Chin Hock, Yeo Ching Boon and Ong Hwee Kuan","Mount Vernon, Singapore",18,Murdered,Kim Lai was a police officer who was kidnapped from a sentry post and killed for his gun.,Lee Kim Lai
21 June 2013,Cherish Perrywinkle,Donald James Smith,"Jacksonville, Florida, US",8,,"Cherish Lily Perrywinkle had been with her mother, Rayne Perrywinkle, and two sisters at a Dollar General when they met Donald Smith, who took them to a local Walmart to shop with a gift card. Smith suggested that they get food at a nearby McDonald's and Cherish went with him, but surveillance cameras indicated that he left the store with her, after which she vanished. She was found the next day, having been sexually assaulted and strangled.",Cherish Perrywinkle
17 December 1968,Barbara Jane Mackle,Gary Stephen Krist and Ruth Eisemann-Schier,"Decatur, Georgia, US",20,Rescued,"Mackle was kidnapped and buried in a reinforced box with food, water, and air. She was rescued a few days later. She wrote a book about her experience that was later made into two TV movies.",Barbara Jane Mackle
14 April 1997,Pai Hsiao-yen,Chen Chien-hsing,"Taipei, Taiwan",,,"Hsiao-yen, the daughter of TV personality Pai Bing-bing was kidnapped on her way to school in Taipei. Following numerous unsuccessful ransom negotiations, due to heavy media coverage, Hsiao-yen was gang-raped and eventually murdered, with her body being discovered on April 28. Following a year-long manhunt which resulted in accomplices committing suicide upon arrest, Chen, who masterminded the kidnapping, was arrested on November 18 after taking the Alexander family hostage. Chen was convicted and executed on October 6, 1999. The incident has since received criticism for its inappropriate media coverage ethics.",Pai Hsiao-yen
1978,Doina Bumbea,North Korean government,"Pyongyang, North Korea (tricked into going to the city)",,Retained until death,Possibly kidnapped to provide wives to American defectors in North Korea to avoid them from marrying Korean women and having ethnically mixed Korean children. Bumbea was forcibly married to James Joseph Dresnok and died in Pyongyang in January 1997 from lung cancer.,Doina Bumbea
23 February 2006,Faddoul Brothers,"Twenty people arrested, including Lennon Gandica (material author)","Caracas, Venezuela",12 (Jason) 13 (Kevin) 17 (John Bryan),,"Young Venezuelans, children of a Canadian-Lebanese businessman, kidnapped along with their driver Miguel Rivas. Their murder caused nationwide outrage and mass protests occurred in Caracas against insecurity in the country.",Faddoul Brothers
15 October 2018,Jayme Closs,Jake Patterson,"Barron, Wisconsin, US",,Escaped,"Police responding to a 911 call from Closs' home found her parents shot to death. Closs was missing,",Jayme Closs
12 September 2005,Claudia Melchers,,"Amsterdam, Netherlands",,,"A group of armed men broke into Melchers' house,",Claudia Melchers
20 July 2014,Oron Shaul,Hamas,"near Shuja'iyya, Gaza Strip",,"Murdered, body taken hostage","Oron Shaul, a 21-year-old IDF sergeant, was kidnapped by members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade after an anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli army tank during the Battle of Shuja'iyya.",Oron Shaul
20 December 1984,Jonelle Matthews,Steven Pankey,"Greeley, Colorado",,Murdered,"After arriving home from performing in a holiday concert at IntraWest Bank of Denver as a member of Greeley's Franklin Middle School Choir, Jonelle arrived at her Greeley home after getting a ride from her friend DeeAnn Ross and DeeAnn's father. Shortly after receiving a phone call after 8.30 pm, she was discovered missing by her father an hour later. Her body was not found until July 24, 2019, nearly 35 years after the disappearance, with a gunshot wound to her head. Police later identified the kidnapper as Steven Dana Pankey, a former Greeley resident who ran for governor in Idaho in 2014 and 2018, and for lieutenant governor in 2010. On October 13, 2020, Pankey was indicted on charges of murdering and kidnapping Matthews, and is currently awaiting extradition from Idaho.",Jonelle Matthews
19 August 2004,Enzo Baldoni,Islamic Army in Iraq militants,"Najaf, Iraq",,,"Italian freelance journalist who was kidnapped by Islamist militants while in Iraq. His captors later filmed his execution, but his body was never recovered.",Enzo Baldoni
25 August 1969,Rosemary Calandriello,Robert Zarinsky,"Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, US",17,,"A girl was believed to be kidnapped and murdered by Zarinsky, who was later convicted of her murder, even though her body has never been located.",Rosemary Calandriello
7 February 2007,João Hélio,Five young males,"Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil",,Murdered,"Young boy who was riding in the back of his parents' car, when a group of armed carjackers broke in and stole the vehicle. While attempting to flee, they dragged the body along the pavements, mutilating it horribly. Each of the carjackers was later convicted and given long prison sentences.",João Hélio
,Danny Goldman,,"Surfside, Florida, US",,,"An intruder broke into the home of the Goldman family and demanded $10,000. When he did not get the money, he abducted Danny Goldman and said that he wanted $25,000 by the end of the day. The kidnapper never contacted the family and Goldman was never found. Speculation surfaced that organized crime was behind the kidnapping because Goldman's father was involved in several banks that were controlled by organized crime figures.",Danny Goldman
27 October 1989,Amy Mihaljevic,Unknown,"Bay Village, Ohio, US",,Murdered,The victim was lured by an unidentified assailant through telephone to run an errand for her mother. The girl had been seen meeting the subject at a plaza and was never seen alive again. Her body was found in 1990. The case remains unsolved.,Amy Mihaljevic
1974,Suzanne Marie Sevakis,Franklin Delano Floyd,"North Carolina, US",,"Raised by abductor, later killed","Suzanne Sevakis, going by the name of Tonya Hughes, was killed in an apparent hit-and-run in 1990. It was discovered following her death that her husband, who was much older, actually raised Hughes from an early age. DNA testing determined they were not biological relatives. Floyd gave inconsistent stories regarding how she came to be in his custody. Floyd is the prime suspect in Hughes's death. Sevakis' true identity remained a mystery until 2014, when DNA testing confirmed that Sharon Marshall was Suzanne Marie Sevakis. Floyd was married to Sevakis' mother when she was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a minor crime. He was left to care for her four children while she was incarcerated. After she was released, she found that the children and Floyd had disappeared. She found two children in the care of the local social services where he left them, but Suzanne and her younger brother were never found and the boy's fate remained unknown until 2019, when a man came forward believing he was the boy, which was confirmed by DNA testing in 2020. The mother attempted to file kidnapping charges but the local police declined, telling her that the child's stepfather had parental rights over the children.",Suzanne Marie Sevakis
12 September 1994,Michael Anthony Hughes,Franklin Delano Floyd,"Choctaw, Oklahoma, US",6,Unknown,"Hughes was abducted from his elementary school by his stepfather, Franklin Delano Floyd. Two months later, Floyd was arrested in Kentucky, but the boy was not with him. He has given inconsistent statements regarding the boy's whereabouts, but Hughes was never located. It was later discovered that Hughes' mother, Sharon Marshall, was not only Floyd's wife, but was actually raised by Floyd from an early age and was herself kidnapped by Floyd. She died when Hughes was two years old. Floyd is the prime suspect in her murder as well.",Michael Anthony Hughes
3 October 2011,Lisa Irwin,,"Kansas City, Missouri, US",10 months,,Irwin disappeared from her home in the early hours of the morning.,Lisa Irwin
30 July 1995,Sophie Hook,Howard Hughes,"Llandudno, Wales",,Murdered,"English girl who was abducted from a tent while camping in her uncle's garden, with her body found several hours later. Soon after, Howard Hughes, who would later revealed to be a prolific child rapist, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.",Sophie Hook
14 May 1995,Chadrel Rinpoche,,"Chengdu, China",,Unknown,"Gelug lama of Tibet who was abducted and placed under arbitrary house arrest by police officials. He reportedly died from a suspicious poisoning in 2011, but his remains have never been recovered.",Chadrel Rinpoche
18 October 2006,Altantuya Shaariibuu,"Abdul Razak Baginda, Azilah Hadri, Sirul Azhar Umar","Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia",,Murdered,"Mongolian former model Altantuya was abducted by Razak Baginda over alleged involvement of persons close to then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak. She was either murdered directly by explosives or being shot before blown up in a forested land near Subang Dam in Puncak Alam, by Azilah and Sirul, who were members of Malaysia's Special Actions Unit, the resulting trial and convictions attracting international attention. The exact mastermind of the murder remains unknown, but is widely speculated to be Najib, who has constantly denied relationship with Altantuya.",Altantuya Shaariibuu
20 September 1988,Tara Calico,Unknown,"Belen, New Mexico, US",,Unknown,Calico disappeared near her home after taking her usual bike ride. A missing persons poster claimed she was being followed by a 1953–54 Ford Pickup and was never heard from again.,Tara Calico
21 September 2015,Olu Falae,,"Akure, Nigeria",,Released,"Nigerian banker, administrator and politician who was kidnapped by unknown men on his 77th birthday, who held him for 100 million Naira ransom. After the payment of said ransom, he was released and returned home.",Olu Falae
28 December 1972,Pinhas Lavie,Black September Organization militants,"Bangkok, Thailand",,,"Israeli diplomat who served as the ambassador to Swaziland and the Dominican Republic who was abducted by Palestinian militants during the Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis. After 19 hours, Lavie and the other hostages were released from captivity in Egypt.",Pinhas Lavie
15 July 2002,Samantha Runnion,Alejandro Avila,"Stanton, California, US",,Murdered,Runnion was kidnapped from the front yard of her home. Her body was found one day later in Cleveland National Forest.,Samantha Runnion
5 September 2014,Eston Kohver,,Estonia,,,"Officer of the Estonian Internal Security Service who was accused by Russian forces of espionage, of which he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. His conviction was considered unlawful by other countries, and Kohver was eventually released in a prisoner exchange on September 26, 2015.",Eston Kohver
4 February 1974,Patty Hearst,Symbionese Liberation Army,"Berkeley, California, US",19,Stayed with abductors until arrested,"Hearst, an heiress to the Hearst Corporation mass media fortune, was kidnapped from her apartment by a left-wing guerilla group. She announced her allegiance to the group in April 1974, and on 15 April 1974 took part in a bank robbery. She is thought to have been a victim of Stockholm syndrome.",Patty Hearst
20 November 1990,John F. Grundhofer,,"Minneapolis, US",,,"Grundhofer was the chairman of Minnesota's second-largest bank. He was kidnapped from a downtown Minneapolis parking lot by a neatly dressed man whom authorities never found. He was bound, stuffed in a sleeping bag and left in a remote wooded area in Wisconsin, but escaped after approximately two hours of captivity.",John F. Grundhofer
29 March 2019,Samantha Josephson,Nathaniel Rowland,"Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.",21,Murdered,"Josephson, a senior college student who had gone drinking with friends, had mistakenly entered Rowland's car after believing he was her Uber driver. Her body was found 14 hours later, with numerous stab wounds. Rowland was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, and the case served as a pillar for the passing of Sami's Law in her home state of New Jersey.",Samantha Josephson
1983,Enrique Mansilla,,Liberia,,Released,"Argentine former racing driver and later diamond hunter who was kidnapped and held captive in Liberia, but later released without incident.",Enrique Mansilla
3 March 2021,Sarah Everard,Wayne Couzens,"London, England, UK",,,Everard disappeared in South London while walking home to Brixton Hill.,Sarah Everard
30 August 1990,Diana Turbay,Los Priscos,"Medellín, Colombia",,,"Colombian journalist who was kidnapped by associates of the Medellín Cartel, who had duped her into believing that she was going to interview guerilla leader Manuel Pérez. She was held in Copacabana until January 25, 1991, when she was killed during a botched rescue attempt by police.",Diana Turbay
20 April 1982,Peter Pocklington,Mirko Petrović,"Edmonton, Canada",40,,"Canadian entrepreneur who was taken hostage, along with his wife, maid and babysitter, by a Yugoslav immigrant who had planned to kidnap Pocklington's wife. After she escaped the others released, Petrović attempted to extort Pocklington's associates for a ransom, but was prevented from doing so after police went into the house and opened fire, wounding both him and Pocklington. Both men recovered, and Petrović was later deported.",Peter Pocklington
15 March 2004,Kriss Donald,Five Pakistani men,"Glasgow, Scotland",15,Murdered,Schoolboy who was abducted and subsequently stabbed to death by a gang of British Pakistani men. The racially-motivated murder sparked controversy for the lack of coverage in such cases.,Kriss Donald
5 September 2005,Taylor Behl,Benjamin Fawley,"Richmond, Virginia, US",17,,"Behl, a Virginia Commonwealth University freshman, was found dead on 5 October 2005, in Mathews County, Virginia, after having gone missing a month earlier.",Taylor Behl
20 October 1983,Colette Aram,Paul Hutchinson,"Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom",,,"A trainee hairdresser abducted, raped and strangled as she walked to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, on 30 October 1983. Her murder was the first case to be featured on the BBC television series Crimewatch. Aram's murderer, Paul Hutchinson, was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 January 2010.",Colette Aram
,Barbara Barnes,,,,,Victim was abducted after walking to school. Her body was found months later.,Barbara Barnes
23 August 1968,Roy Tutill,Brian Field,"Surrey, United Kingdom",,Murdered,"14-year-old Roy Tutill was abducted while hitchhiking in Surrey in 1968 and found raped and strangled three days later. The case was unsolved until 2001 (making it the oldest solved cold case in British history), when convicted sex offender Brian Field pleaded guilty based on DNA evidence. According to Field, he had drunkenly started touching Tutill's leg, at which point Tutill resisted and he proceeded to rape him before panicking and strangling him to death.",Roy Tutill
12 January 1987,Terry Waite,Islamic Jihad Organization,"Beirut, Lebanon",1763 days (almost 5 years),Released,Waite was the envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Lebanon in 1987; he was sent to negotiate the release of four British citizens but was kidnapped himself.,Terry Waite
21 May 2017,Thabang Makwetla,"Brandon Mashigo, Mojalefa Mathe, Motsepe Gidion and Ben Kutumela","Johannesburg, South Africa",,Released,"Politician and member of the African National Congress who was abducted by four armed men and threatened to hand over his personal belongings. After withdrawing money from his bank account, Makwetla was released unharmed. The incident caused a stir among the country's prominent politicians, and the four offenders were eventually apprehended and awaiting trial for the case.",Thabang Makwetla
2 April 2004,Gina DeJesus,Ariel Castro,"Cleveland, Ohio, US",14,Rescued,"Just over nine years after DeJesus' abduction, on 6 May 2013,",Gina DeJesus
May–July 1983,Newton County John Does,Larry Eyler,"Lake Village, Indiana, US",,Murdered,"Two teenagers/young men murdered by a serial killer in the early 1980s. One of these individuals has been identified as 19-year-old John Brandenburg. The second individual was described by Eyler as being in ""his late teens or early twenties"". He specifically stated this decedent had been murdered in July 1983.",Newton County John Does
2 March 1998,Natascha Kampusch,Wolfgang Přiklopil,"Vienna, Austria",10,Escaped,Kampusch was abducted on her way to school and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper for more than eight years. She escaped aged 18 on 23 August 2006.,Natascha Kampusch
13 December 1992,Nissim Toledano,Four Hamas members,"Lod, Israel",,Murdered,"Senior Sgt. Toledano, an Israeli border policeman, was kidnapped while walking from home to attend his job. He was held in captivity by four members of Hamas, who demanded that their leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin be released. The request was refused, and Toledano's body was found two days later. All four of his killers were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment, and the case led the Israeli government to organize a crackdown on Palestinian fundamentalists.",Nissim Toledano
5 October 1975,Lesley Molseed,Ronald Castree,"Rochdale, Manchester, United Kingdom",11,Murdered,"Lesley Molseed was abducted, raped and stabbed to death on 5 October 1975 by Ronald Castree. An intellectually disabled man named Stefan Kiszko was convicted after being coerced into confessing by the police, but his conviction was eventually overturned. Castree was identified through DNA evidence in 2006, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",Lesley Molseed
29 December 1969,Muriel McKay,Arthur Hosein and Nizamodeen Hosein,"Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom",,Murdered,"Trinidadian brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein attempted to kidnap Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of tycoon Rupert Murdoch, for a £1 million ransom, but abducted the wife of Murdoch's deputy chairman, Alick McKay, instead. During the investigation, many attempts were made to find the victim – family friends even consulted the psychic Gerard Croiset to help – but the body of Mrs. McKay was never found as was presumed murdered.",Muriel McKay
February 2018,Moataz Wadnan,Egyptian government,Egypt,,Detained,Journalist for HuffPost Arabi who was arrested and is currently in state custody,Moataz Wadnan
30 June 1994,Rosie Palmer,Shaun Armstrong,"Hartlepool, England",3,Murdered,"Palmer was abducted and murdered shortly after buying an ice pop close to her home. Her body was found three days later in Armstrong's flat, who was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment on 28 July 1995.",Rosie Palmer
25 June 2008,Brooke Bennett,,"Randolph, Vermont, US",,,"Brooke Bennett was lured into the home of Michael Jacques, her uncle, by a teenage acquaintance who had been previously sexually assaulted by Jacques. Bennett was then kidnapped, drugged, raped, and murdered, and her body buried in a makeshift grave about a mile from Jacques' home. There were initial claims that Bennett had been the victim of a fictitious sex ring called ""Breckinridge"", but Jacques was arrested and subsequently pleaded guilty to the crime, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.",Brooke Bennett
15 September 1981,Ursula Herrmann,Werner Mazurek (but see below),"Schondorf, West Germany",,Died,"Ursula Herrmann, a 10-year-old schoolgirl, was abducted on her way home from a gym class. Her family received a ransom demand for 2 million Deutsche Marks, but the kidnapper or kidnappers cut off all communications before arrangements were made for delivering the money. Several days later, Ursula was found dead in a box buried in a nearby forest. The box had been stocked with enough food and drink to last a number of days but it had inadequate ventilation, and the child is believed to have died in a matter of hours; some evidence suggests she may have been dead before being locked in. Despite an extensive investigation, no culprit was apprehended at the time. In 2007, police and prosecutors renewed their investigation into Werner Mazurek, who had been a suspect at the time and had been directly implicated by an alleged accomplice, who had, however, quickly retracted his confession and witness statement and had since died. Based on this statement and circumstantial evidence, Mazurek was convicted in 2010 of kidnapping resulting in death and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mazurek continues to protest his innocence, and the victim's family have not accepted Mazurek's guilt. The family have attempted to force a new inquiry, but the case is officially closed. Since the crime was not deemed to have been a murder, it would by now have been prescribed.",Ursula Herrmann
13 December 1983,Christopher Walden,John Joubert,"Papillion, Nebraska, USA",12,,Walden disappeared while walking to school. Walden's snow covered body was found two days later 5 miles (8 km) from town by 2 hunters. He had his throat cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated.,Christopher Walden
29 August 1984,Elisabeth Fritzl,Josef Fritzl,"Amstetten, Austria",18,Released,"Elisabeth was held captive in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the large family house by her father, Josef Fritzl, who physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her numerous times during her imprisonment.",Elisabeth Fritzl
7 December 2003,Daniel Morcombe,Brett Peter Cowan,"Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia",13,,Morcombe was abducted while waiting to catch a bus under an overpass. Previously convicted child sex offender Brett Peter Cowan was charged in August 2011 for Morcombe's abduction and murder before a search site was established in remote bushlands near the Glass House Mountains for his body. Skeletal remains were eventually found and DNA tests confirmed that the bones belonged to Morcombe.,Daniel Morcombe
4 February 2004,Carlie Brucia,Joseph P. Smith,"Sarasota, Florida, US",,Murdered,"Brucia was abducted and murdered after being taken from a car wash, which had been filmed by security cameras.",Carlie Brucia
October 1973,Bobi Sourander,Chilean Armed Forces,"Santiago, Chile",,Released,"Finnish-Swedish journalist for Dagens Nyheter who was imprisoned for two weeks after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. He was later released without incident, but subsequently expelled from the country.",Bobi Sourander
17 July 1982,Krista Harrison,Robert Anthony Buell,"Marshallville, Ohio, U.S.",,Murdered,The victim was abducted by van at a park near her home. She was found six days later. Buell was convicted in 1984.,Krista Harrison
September 1981,Sidney Jaffe,Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear,"Toronto, Canada",,Released,"American-Canadian businessman who was kidnapped by two bounty hunters and returned to Florida, where he was tried in absentia for failing to appear for land sales fraud.",Sidney Jaffe
9 July 2004,Leigh Matthews,,"Morningside, Johannesburg",21,,"The day after Matthews' 21st birthday, Moodly kidnapped her from the Bond University campus. After collecting the negotiated ransom, Moodly shot and killed Matthews in fear that releasing her might lead to his capture.",Leigh Matthews
24 May 1986,Michelle Dorr,Hadden Clark,"Silver Spring, Maryland, US",,,A girl was kidnapped while playing outside her home.,Michelle Dorr
9 August 1996,Laetitia Delhez,Marc Dutroux,Belgium,14,Rescued,"Dutroux kidnapped Delhez after another victim, Sabine Dardenne, had requested a companion because she felt so alone. They were rescued on 15 August 1996.",Laetitia Delhez
6 January 1995,Melanie Carpenter,Fernard Auger,"Surrey, British Columbia, Canada",,Murdered,"Carpenter was abducted from a Fleetwood Town Centre tanning salon,",Melanie Carpenter
,John E. Irving,,New Brunswick,,,Canadian businessman who was kidnapped by  an armed gunman and held hostage for ten hours before being rescued unharmed.,John E. Irving
24 February 2005,Jessica Lunsford,John Couey,"Homosassa, Florida, US",,Murdered,"Lunsford was abducted from her home in the early morning. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later murdered by 46-year-old Couey, who lived nearby. The media covered the investigation and trial of her killer extensively. On 24 August 2007, a judge in Inverness, Florida sentenced Couey, a convicted sex offender, to death for the kidnapping, sexual battering, and first-degree murder of Lunsford. However, Couey died of natural causes in 2009, before his sentence could be carried out.",Jessica Lunsford
18 November 2001,Alexandra Flores,David Santiago Renteria,"El Paso, Texas, U.S.",,Murdered,"Abducted while wandering around a Walmart by a convicted sex offender, who proceeded to rape and murder her. Flores' body was found the next day. Renteria was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.",Alexandra Flores
19 November 2006,Ammar al-Saffar,"Several men in police cars and pick-up trucks, some of whom were wearing uniforms","Baghdad, Iraq",,,"Al-Saffar was the deputy health minister of Iraq. He had lived in exile in Britain for 16 years before returning to his country following the deposition of Saddam Hussein as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On 19 November 2006 witnesses reported seeing several men, some of whom were wearing uniform, arriving in police cars and pick-up trucks to seize him, and he has not been seen again since. An attempt on his life had previously been made in 2004 and he is believed to have been murdered. He had been working on exposing corruption in the ministry of health and in 2007 another deputy health minister, Hakim al-Zamili, and the former head of security at the health ministry, Brig Gen Hamid al-Shammari, were charged with his murder. However, the trial collapsed.",Ammar al-Saffar
7 July 1960,Graeme Thorne,Stephen Leslie Bradley,"New South Wales, Australia",,Murdered,"Graeme's parents, Bazil and Freda Thorne, won the £100,000 Opera House Lottery (at that time, the names of winners were published). Five weeks later Stephen Leslie Bradley abducted Graeme and demanded a ransom. He was killed and dumped, the partially decomposed body being discovered on 16 August. The case led to tighter rules about the publication of the names of lottery winners.",Graeme Thorne
27 May 2011,Saleem Shahzad,ISI operatives (alleged),"Islamabad, Pakistan",,,"Investigative journalist who was abducted, tortured and killed, presumably by ISI agents, for his writings criticizing the government and raising questions about kidnappings of fellow journalists.",Saleem Shahzad
26 December 1965,Franca Viola,Filippo Melodia and associates,"Sicily, Italy",,Released,"Italian woman who was kidnapped by mafioso Filippo Melodia, to whom she was previously engaged by force. She was held captive by him and his associates, with him raping her on multiple occasions. Even after her release, Viola was ostracized as she had refused to marry him in a ""rehabilitating marriage"", with the case serving as a stepping point for changes in law regarding bridal kidnappings.",Franca Viola
23 September 1992,Džamba,,"Belgrade, Serbia",,,"Known as ""The Don of Dorćol"", Džamba was a Yugoslavian gangster based in Belgrade. On the day of his disappearance, he had attempted to enter a casino while in a drunken state, for which he was beaten up by casino guards and thrown out, but he was never found. It is suspected that he was killed, but the prime suspect in the case was himself killed in 1997.",Džamba
23 February 2002,Íngrid Betancourt,Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,Colombia,,Rescued,"Betancourt, a presidential candidate, was kidnapped and held captive until 2008.",Íngrid Betancourt
2 October 1989,Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve,ELN guerillas,"Arauquita, Colombia",,,"Roman Catholic priest and staunch opponent of the ELN who was abducted and killed on October 2, 1989. His remains were located the next day next to the Venezuelan border.",Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve
1971,Anton Foek,,Chile,,,"Surinamese-born Dutch freelance journalist who was kidnapped and tortured by agents of the Chilean government, but was later released and kicked out of the country when Augusto Pinochet came to power.",Anton Foek
,Na-young,,"Ansan, South Korea",,,"Elementary school student who was kidnapped and thereby assaulted by a repeat sexual offender. The case sparked huge controversy, inspiring the 2013 film Hope.",Na-young
,Argentino del Valle Larrabure,People's Revolutionary Army,"Villa María, Argentina",,,"Argentine military officer who was captured by People's Revolutionary Army members during an assault. He was held in detention for 372 days, until he died in unclear circumstances.",Argentino del Valle Larrabure
4 March 2008,Lauren Burk,Courtney Lockhart,"Auburn, Alabama, U.S.",,,"Auburn University freshman who was kidnapped at gunpoint by a recently discharged veteran who was on a months-long violent crime spree. During the trip, her kidnapped robbed, stripped her naked and finally shot her in the lung, causing serious injuries from which Burk would succumb to in the hospital. Lockhart was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death for her murder.",Lauren Burk
10 September 1971,Lynn Eusan,,"Houston, Texas, U.S.",22,,"African-American University of Houston student and activist who became the first black Homecoming queen in the Southern United States. She was last seen alive waiting for a bus stop, and was later found deceased in a stranger's car. The man, Leo Jackson, Jr., claimed that she had stabbed herself. He was charged, but later acquitted of her murder, and Eusan's case remains unsolved.",Lynn Eusan
February 1996,Tanya Nicole Kach,Thomas Hose,"McKeesport, Pennsylvania, US",15,,She was manipulated at her high school by on staff security guard Thomas Hose and eventually convinced to run away with him.,Tanya Nicole Kach
30 January 2010,Naga Vaishnavi,,"Andhra Pradesh, India",,Murdered,Vaishnavi was kidnapped,Naga Vaishnavi
4 June 2010,Kyron Horman,,"Portland, Oregon, US",,,"Horman disappeared when he did not return home from Skyline Elementary School. Local and state police along with the FBI conducted an exhaustive search for the boy and launched a criminal investigation, but have not uncovered any significant information regarding his whereabouts.",Kyron Horman
1 June 1984,Mark Tildesley,Sidney Cooke,"Wokingham, Berkshire, England",7,Murdered,"Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, during the evening. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.",Mark Tildesley
30 October 1989,Lee Iseli,Westley Allan Dodd,"Portland, Oregon, US",4,Murdered,"Lee Iseli was abducted, sexually abused and strangled by serial killer Westley Allan Dodd in Portland, Oregon. According to Dodd's own testimony, he resuscitated Iseli after killing him and then asphyxiated him again, but more slowly.",Lee Iseli
5 October 2012,Jessica Ridgeway,Austin Sigg,"Westminster, Colorado, US",10,Murdered,Jessica Ridgeway was a 10-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered on 5 October 2012 while walking to school.,Jessica Ridgeway
1 March 2018,Ezzat Ghoniem,Egyptian government,Egypt,,Detained,"Lawyer and human rights activist arrested and kept in detention for an alleged ""human rights terrorism"" plot to overthrow the government. He is currently held in the Tora Prison.",Ezzat Ghoniem
18 August 2007,Adnan Patrawala,,"Mumbai, India",,Murdered,"The son of a businessman, Patrawala was kidnapped for ransom by an unknown abductor, who murdered him the following day after the case began to gain publicity. Five people were accused of the crime, but all were acquitted, with Patrawala's murder remaining unsolved.",Adnan Patrawala
1998,Mary Quin,,Yemen,,,"American-New Zealand national and chief executive of Callaghan Innovation who was kidnapped with others from her tourist group by Islamic militants. She later escaped, and her kidnappers were later arrested.",Mary Quin
2 June 2017,Stanislav Aseyev,Donetsk People's Republic,"Donetsk, Ukraine",,Released,"On 2 June 2017, the freelance journalist Stanislav Aseyev was abducted. Initially, the de facto DNR government denied knowing his whereabouts but on 16 July, an agent of the DNR's ""Ministry of State Security"" confirmed that Aseyev was in their custody and that he is suspected of ""espionage"". Independent media is not allowed to report from the ""DNR""-controlled territory.",Stanislav Aseyev
18 February 2014,Hailey Owens,Craig Michael Wood,"Springfield, Missouri, US",,Murdered,"Hailey Owens had been walking home from a friend's house when a man in a truck pulled over, called her, and asked for directions. As she approached him, he grabbed her, threw her into his truck, and sped away. Her body was found in the home of 45-year-old Craig Michael Wood, in Springfield. She was raped and shot in the back of the head. Wood was found guilty of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death by lethal injection.",Hailey Owens
30 April 1997,Zephany Nurse,Lavona Solomon,"Cape Town, South Africa",2 days,,"Zephany was taken shortly after birth and raised by the kidnapper's family as one of their own. She was found when her biological sister started at the same school, and friends commented that they looked like sisters.",Zephany Nurse
16 March 1991,Jessica Keen,"Marvin Lee Smith, Jr.","West Jefferson, Ohio, U.S.",,Murdered,"Student who was abducted, raped and killed at a cemetery. Her body was discovered two days later, and her killer arrested in 2008.",Jessica Keen
17 January 1996,José Antonio Ortega Lara,ETA,"Burgos, Spain",,,"On 17 January 1996 José Antonio Ortega Lara was kidnapped in the garage of his home in Burgos when he was returning from his work in the prison of Logroño. Days later, ETA said they were responsible for the kidnapping and demanded the transfer of ETA prisoners to Basque prisons in exchange for his release.",José Antonio Ortega Lara
30 September 1997,Walter Kwok,Cheung Chi Keung,Hong Kong,,Released,"Kwok was kidnapped by the notorious gangster ""Big Spender"" Cheung Chi Keung",Walter Kwok
11 July 1985,Suzanne Marie Collins,Sedley Alley,"Millington, Tennessee, U.S.",,Murdered,"USMC lance corporal-in-training who was kidnapped while jogging near Naval Support Activity Mid-South. Her body, showing signs of rape and blunt force trauma, was found the next day. Sedley Alley, was subsequently arrested, convicted and executed in 2006.",Suzanne Marie Collins
6 January 1981,Marion Crofts,Tony Jasinskyj,"Aldershot, England",,Murdered,"Abducted, raped and beaten to death while cycling to a clarinet lesson. Her case remained unsolved until 1999, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to former lance corporal Tony Jasinskyj, who was subsequently convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",Marion Crofts
3 May 2007,Madeleine McCann,Christian Brueckner,"Praia da Luz, Portugal",3,Unknown,"McCann, a British girl, disappeared aged almost 4 from her family's holiday apartment. Her parents were out eating at a bar with friends, having left McCann and her two younger siblings alone in the apartment. Brueckner was linked to the crimes when investigators discovered swimsuits. Using information from a cell tower, investigators discovered that on the night Madeleine disappeared a call was made to Brueckner's cellphone approximately one hour before she went missing. That data linked him to the crime.",Madeleine McCann
20 June 2016,Alayna Ertl,Zachary Todd Anderson,"Watkins, Minnesota, US",,Murdered,Ertl was abducted and her body was located nine hours later in a wilderness park.,Alayna Ertl
4 September 2010,Umar Cheema,,Pakistan,,,"Investigative reporter for The News International who was abducted, beaten, flogged and sexually assaulted by an unidentified group of men, who he claimed to be ISI operatives who had targeted him due to his journalistic work.",Umar Cheema
5 June 2002,Elizabeth Smart,Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Eileen Barzee,"Salt Lake City, Utah, US",14,Rescued,"Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom, and was found alive nine months later in a suburb of Salt Lake City on 12 March 2003.",Elizabeth Smart
6 May 2005,Mary-Ann Leneghan,Six men,"Reading, England",,,"Leneghan and a friend were kidnapped from Prospect Park by a group of six men who drugged, tortured and raped both of them. Leneghan was killed and her body found the next day, while her friend survived despite being shot in the head.",Mary-Ann Leneghan
3 May 1999,Hans van de Kimmenade,Four unknown men,"Helmond, Netherlands",,,"A group of at least four armed (allegedly Arabian) men kidnapped van de Kimmenade,",Hans van de Kimmenade
6 April 2001,Anne Sluti,"Anthony Steven ""Tony Zappa"" Wright","Kearney, Nebraska, US",,,"Sluti was kidnapped from a mall parking lot in April 2001, taken out of state, and raped for six days before Wright surrendered to police.",Anne Sluti
12 August 2002,Arjan Erkel,Three gunmen,"Makhachkala, Russia",,,"Erkel was a medical aid worker for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) when he was kidnapped. Twenty months later he was released after the Dutch government paid a ransom of €1,000,000.",Arjan Erkel
6 April 1986,Anthonette Cayedito,Unknown,"Gallup, New Mexico, US",9,Unknown,Cayedito was kidnapped from her home. She was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries a few years after her disappearance. It is believed that she phoned 911 a year after her kidnapping in a desperate attempt to be rescued. She may have also been seen by a waitress in Carson City a few years later. The girl has never been located.,Anthonette Cayedito
12 April 1999,Leszli Kálli,Guerrillas,Colombia,,,"Kálli was abducted by virtue of the hijacking of the plane she was on. She was held for slightly more than a year by Colombian leftist guerrillas along with her father and almost 3 dozen other passengers. She published a novel about her experiences. While some passengers were released quickly, many of the hostages were released only whenever their specific ransom was paid. The last hostage, Gloria Amaya de Alfonso, was not released until 22 November 2000, 19 months after the hijacking.",Leszli Kálli
20 May 1990,Susan Poupart,,"Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, US",,,"The victim was abducted and murdered. Three are considered primary suspects, but the murder remains unsolved.",Susan Poupart
20 October 2003,Cecilia Zhang,Min Chen,"Toronto, Canada",9,,"Chen abducted Zhang from her home in the middle of the night and killed her. Her body was found on March 27, 2004. Chen claimed her death was an accident, but was later sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for her murder.",Cecilia Zhang
11 September 1995,Jimmy Ryce,Juan Carlos Chavez,"Redland, Florida, US",9,,"Ryce was supposed to be coming home from school but never came back. Juan Carlos Chavez took responsibility and led police to the body he had sexually assaulted, decapitated, and dismembered.",Jimmy Ryce
,Cory Quirino,,"Laguna, Philippines",,,"Filipino TV host and broadcaster who was abducted by five armed gunmen who killed her driver. She was eventually rescued when the getaway car ran into a police roadblock, and her kidnappers fled the scene.",Cory Quirino
20 September 1985,Ellen Blau,Faryion Wardrip,"Wichita Falls, Texas, US",21,Murdered,Blau was abducted after working as a waitress.,Ellen Blau
1 January 2002,Alicia Kozakiewicz,Scott Tyree,"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US",13,,"Kozakiewicz was groomed over the Internet and eventually lured into meeting Tyree, who forced her into his vehicle and took her to his home in Virginia. She was held captive, shackled, raped, and tortured for four days in Tyree's basement, and he broadcast his actions via live streaming video. One viewer of Tyree's live streams reported his actions anonymously to the FBI, who tracked down Kozakiewicz and freed her. Kozakiewicz has become a motivational speaker and an advocate for missing persons.",Alicia Kozakiewicz
22 July 2002,Erica Pratt,Edward Johnson and James Burns,"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US",7,,Pratt was forced into a car from a street. She escaped by gnawing through duct tape used to keep her bound and by smashing a window.,Erica Pratt
16 June 2004,Sean Goldman,Bruna Bianchi Carneiro Ribeiro,Brazil,,,"An international child abduction case. Goldman was abducted from the United States by his Brazilian mother when she took her son to her native country, ostensibly for a two-week vacation. She refused to return to the United States with her child and successfully filed for a divorce. Four years later, Goldman's mother died while giving birth to a child with her second husband. He was returned to his father in 2009.",Sean Goldman
4 August 1987,Carlina White,"Annugetta ""Ann"" Pettway","New York City, US",19 days,Raised by abductor,White was taken from Harlem Hospital Center as an infant and raised by Pettway. She was reunited with her family,Carlina White
4 December 1972,Steven Stayner,Kenneth Parnell and Ervin Edward Murphy,"Merced, California, US",,,"Stayner was kidnapped on his way home from school. He was raised as Parnell's son for seven years until Parnell abducted another child, Timmy White, in 1980. The two boys escaped on 1 March 1980.",Steven Stayner
9 June 1995,Morgan Nick,,"Alma, Arkansas, US",,,"Nick was at a baseball game with her mother. She was last seen at her car after catching fireflies with her friends, and she was also seen talking to a man who police believe was her abductor. She has not been found; her mother started a foundation to help families with missing children.",Morgan Nick
2 July 2018,Alesha MacPhail,Aaron Campbell,"Airdrie, Scotland",,Murdered,"Abducted from her grandparents' house by an English-born teenager, who subsequently raped and murdered her. Her body was found two hours after her abduction, and the killer, Aaron Campbell, was arrested three days later. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",Alesha MacPhail
20 November 2012,Jersey Bridgeman,Zachary Holly,"Bentonville, Arkansas, US",,Murdered,"Jersey Bridgeman was kidnapped from her home after Holly, who had been babysitting her, had put her to bed. She was sexually assaulted and suffocated. Authorities later found her in a vacant home nearby. Holly was arrested and charged with capital murder, rape, kidnapping and residential burglary, subsequently convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. David and Jana Bridgeman, Jersey's father and stepmother, had previously pled guilty on child abuse charges.",Jersey Bridgeman
9 February 1960,Adolph Coors III,Joseph Corbett Jr.,"Morrison, Colorado, US",,Murdered,"Corbett attempted to kidnap Coors on a single-lane bridge outside of Morrison, Colorado, but a struggle ensued and Corbett shot Coors twice in the back, killing him. Corbett then dumped Coors' dead body near Pikes Peak and mailed a ransom note demanding $500,000. That night, Corbett mistakenly believed he was being watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and left Denver the following morning. He was captured nine months later in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and convicted of first degree murder.",Adolph Coors III
2 September 1957,Judge Edward Aaron,Ku Klux Klan members,"Birmingham, Alabama, US",,,"African-American handyman who was abducted, beaten and tortured by seven KKK members who left him for dead. Aaron was rescued the same day, and several of his attackers convicted later on. His case inspired the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.",Judge Edward Aaron
30 September 1986,Mordechai Vanunu,Mossad,"Rome, Italy",31,Released,"Vanunu, an Israeli nuclear whistleblower, was lured to Italy from London,",Mordechai Vanunu
29 October 1981,Tina Harmon,Robert Anthony Buell,"Lodi, Ohio, US",,Murdered,"Harmon was abducted while away from her home in Creston, Ohio. She was found raped and strangled five days later. Her murder remained unsolved until 2011, when DNA from the scene was matched to Robert Buell. It is unknown if Buell was the only person involved in her murder.",Tina Harmon
,Edward Bartels,,"Dubuque, Iowa, US",,,"Edward Bartels was a doctor working in Dubuque, Iowa, who was abducted by drifter Victor Feguer, who intended to steal drugs from him. Feguer lured Bartels to his boarding house by claiming that a woman was suffering from a medical emergency before abducting him and taking him to Illinois, where he shot Bartels in the head and dumped his body in a cornfield.",Edward Bartels
23 May 2017,Chito Soganub,Maute group militants,"Marawi, Philippines",,Rescued,"Roman Catholic priest who was kidnapped along with 23 others by militants during the Battle of Marawi, during which he appeared in propaganda videos and was forced to convert to Islam. He and a teacher from Dansalan College successfully escaped captivity on September 17, and were located and rescued by military officers shortly after.",Chito Soganub
3 July 2005,Ihab el-Sherif,,"Baghdad, Iraq",,Murdered,"Egyptian ambassador to Iraq who was abducted by Islamist militants on July 3, 2005, while he was buying a newspaper in Baghdad. Four days later, a video was posted on the internet in which el-Sherif's captors claimed that he had been killed for having ties with Israel, and his death was later confirmed by the Egyptian government.",Ihab el-Sherif
9 August 2009,Zarema Sadulayeva,,"Grozny, Russia",,Murdered,"Russian children's activist who, together with her husband Alik Djabrailov, kidnapped by gunmen while driving in their car. A day later, the pair were later found shot to death.",Zarema Sadulayeva
12 September 2015,Seya Sadewmi,Saman Jayalath,"Kotadeniyawa, Sri Lanka",,Murdered,"Sri Lankan child who was abducted, raped and murdered near her home. Her naked body was found in a canal the next day. Several men were erroneously arrested, before the actual killer was connected to the crime via DNA evidence. Saman Jayalath was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death.",Seya Sadewmi
15 November 1977,Megumi Yokota,North Korea government,"Niigata Prefecture, North Korea",13,,"Megumi Yokota is a Japanese woman who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977, when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student. She was one of at least 17 Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The North Korean government has admitted to kidnapping Yokota, but has said that she died in captivity. Yokota's parents and others in Japan have publicly expressed the belief that Yokota is still alive in North Korea and have waged a public campaign seeking her return to Japan.",Megumi Yokota
6 July 1983,Tammy Lynn Leppert,,"Rockledge, Florida, US",,,Leppert was a former child actress and model who disappeared in unknown circumstances.,Tammy Lynn Leppert
10 July 1998,Kamiyah Mobley,Gloria Williams,"Jacksonville, Florida, US",,Raised by abductor,Mobley was abducted from hospital at eight hours old. She was reunited with her birth parents in January 2017 following DNA testing.,Kamiyah Mobley
6 October 2016,Kim Kardashian,Five unknown men,"Paris, France",,Released,"While attending Paris Fashion Week, Kardashian was supposedly robbed by five unknown individuals, who held her at gunpoint in her Paris apartment. The men fled, and she later managed to free herself. The incident was met with skepticism by media outlets, who suggested that it could've been staged, prompting Kardashian to file a lawsuit which was ultimately dropped.",Kim Kardashian
31 December 2009,Masego Kgomo,Brian Mangwale,"Soshanguve, South Africa",,Murdered,Masego was kidnapped for a Muti killing by Brian Mangwale. It is believed that she may have been gang raped before being taken to the sangoma.,Masego Kgomo
27 September 1966,Allen Redston,,"Curtin, Australia",,Murdered,"Schoolboy who disappeared while going toward a friend's house, where they planned to spend a day at Curtin Tip. Redston's body was found on the next day, wrapped in a blanket, near the location. He had been bound and strangled, but nobody was ever arrested in his murder.",Allen Redston
13 February 1976,Victoria Montenegro,Argentine Armed Forces,"Buenos Aires, Argentina",13 days,,"Daughter of People's Revolutionary Army dissidents who was kidnapped and raised by an army colonel, while her parents were killed. A DNA test established her true identity in 2000, and the colonel was imprisoned. Since then, Montenegro has entered politics and become vice-president of the Kolina party.",Victoria Montenegro
6 May 1997,Kerry Whelan,Bruce Burrell,"Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",,,"A woman was believed to have been murdered by her employer. Her body has never been found, but Burrell was convicted in 2006 during his second trial.",Kerry Whelan
5 September 1977,Hanns Martin Schleyer,Brigitte Mohnhaupt and the Red Army Faction,"Cologne, Germany",,,"Schleyer, a German manager, was kidnapped by the extreme-left militant organisation Red Army Faction, carried out by Mohnhaupt.",Hanns Martin Schleyer
1 October 1993,Polly Klaas,Richard Allen Davis,"Petaluma, California, US",12,,"Klaas was kidnapped from her home and later strangled. Her abductor's vehicle got stuck in the mud a few miles from Klaas' house. A local police officer pulled him out of the mud, but did not query his license number with the police computer system, nor did he hear the BOLO (be on the lookout) broadcast to all CHP radios reporting that Davis was wanted for a parole violation. Davis has been convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder and sentenced to death. BOLOs are now broadcast to all police radios: state, county, and municipal.",Polly Klaas
20 August 2007,Nurin Jazlin Jazimin,Unknown,"Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia",7,,"Jazlin went missing on August 20, 2007, after she had gone to a wet market near her house to buy a hair clip. Her body was found 28 days later, on September 17, in a gym bag was left in front of a shop lot in Petaling Jaya, with a cucumber and an eggplant stuffed inside her genitals. CCTV footage of her abduction and the abandoning of the bag were obtained but the perpetrators were never identified and apprehended.",Nurin Jazlin Jazimin
6 October 2002,Shawn Hornbeck,Michael J. Devlin,"Richwoods, Missouri, US",,,"Hornbeck was kidnapped while riding his bicycle near his home. He was sexually assaulted and tortured by his kidnapper, Michael Devlin, eventually promising the man to not run away in exchange for Devlin keeping him alive. Hornbeck was given a large amount of freedom, and told neighbors he was being home-schooled. After four years, Devlin was losing sexual interest in him, and so kidnapped another boy, William ""Ben"" Ownby, with Hornbeck in the car to keep him quiet. The police investigated Devlin and spoke to Hornbeck, but the teenager gave his name as Shawn Wilcox and claimed to be only staying with Devlin while his father was on a business trip. The next day, the police spoke to Devlin again, telling him they were going to check Devlin's pick-up's tires against tracks found at the scene of Ownby's kidnapping. Devlin then admitted that he had both Hornbeck and Ben in his apartment, alive. When Shawn was asked his name again without Devlin in the room, he told the police he was Shawn Hornbeck.",Shawn Hornbeck
13 April 2011,Holly Bobo,"Arrests have been made, no convictions","Darden, Tennessee, US",20,,"Bobo was witnessed by her brother walking into the woods outside their family home with a man wearing camouflage. Three years later, in 2014, four men were arrested for varying degrees of involvement in the kidnapping, and are awaiting trial. A woman has alleged that she saw a video of Holly Bobo tied up and crying, although the video has not been located. Bobo's body was found in September 2014.",Holly Bobo
17 November 1996,Kara Rudd,Joseph Kondro,"Longview, Washington, US",,,"Kara Rudd was taken to a swimming hole in Germany Creek by Kondro, who knew both Rudd and her mother, and then to an abandoned house near the Columbia River. Once there he raped and strangled her, after which he placed her body in an abandoned Volkswagen vehicle in a ravine. Kondro aroused investigators' suspicions after sightings of his car near where Rudd had disappeared, and from indications of a struggle due to visible scratches on his person from a girl's long nails. The Volkswagen acted as a refrigerator, preserving enough forensic evidence to allow for Kondro's arrest and conviction. Kondro was also suspected in the prior kidnappings, sexual assaults and murders of two eight-year-old girls: Rima Traxler, also from Longview, and Chila Silvernails, from nearby Kalama. Although he did not admit to Silvernails' murder, he eventually confessed to Traxler's as part of a plea deal that avoided the death penalty, explaining that he had learned of the young girl's ""safety password"" provided by her mother, which he used to deceive her into coming with him. He was sentenced to a term of 55 years' incarceration, and died in prison. Kondro was dubbed ""The Longview Serial Killer"" by author Lori Carangelo, and Rudd's and Traxler's abductions and the detective work that apprehended Kondro featured in several true crime documentaries, including On the Case with Paula Zahn (episode ""Broken Trust"") and Cold Case Files (""Unicorns and Alligators"").",Kara Rudd
6 November 1984,Kylie Maybury,Gregory Keith Davies,"Preston, Victoria, Australia",6,Murdered,"Schoolgirl abducted on the night of the Melbourne Cup Day in 1984. Her body, showing signs of rape and strangulation, was found the next day. Her case remained unsolved until 2017, when convicted sex offender Gregory Keith Davies was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.",Kylie Maybury
28 May 1996,Sabine Dardenne,Marc Dutroux,Belgium,,Rescued,"Dardenne was kidnapped and raped by Dutroux, a serial killer, while on her way to school. She was rescued after 80 days, on 15 August 1996, with 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, who had also been kidnapped.",Sabine Dardenne
19 May 1977,Colleen Stan,Cameron Hooker,"Red Bluff, California, US",20,,Stan was kidnapped by Hooker while hitchhiking.,Colleen Stan
20 February 1974,J. Reginald Murphy,William A. H. Williams,"Atlanta, Georgia, US",,Freed,"American publisher and business executive who was kidnapped and held for $700,000 ransom. After it was paid two days later, Murphy was released and his kidnapper was released, but a motive for the crime was never established.",J. Reginald Murphy
3 December 2008,Jestina Mukoko,Zimbabwe state agents,"Harare, Zimbabwe",,Released,"Zimbabwean human rights activist who was detained for alleged ""anti-government demonstrations"". She was released on bail in March 2009, and the charges dropped in September of that year.",Jestina Mukoko
14 January 1989,Paul Vanden Boeynants,Patrick Haemers and his gang,Belgium,,Released,"Vanden Boeynants, a Belgian politician was kidnapped,",Paul Vanden Boeynants
8 September 1992,Pam Basu,Rodney Eugene Solomon and Bernard Eric Miller,"Savage, Maryland, U.S.",34,,"Basu, who was driving her 2-year-old daughter to preschool, had her car jacked by two assailants who tride to speed away. However, Basu's arm was stuck in the seatbelt, resulting in her being dragged and eventually killed. Solomon was later sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, while Miller, a minor, was sentenced to life imprisonment.",Pam Basu
28 January 2018,Rachael Anderson,Anthony Pardon,"Columbus, Ohio, U.S.",24,Murdered,"American aspiring funeral director who was held in her own house by repeat sexual offender Anthony Pardon, who tortured, raped and ultimately strangled her. Her body was found the next day, and Pardon was soon arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",Rachael Anderson
1994,Betty Lalam,Lord's Resistance Army militants,"Amuru District, Uganda",14,,"Schoolgirl who was abducted during a campaign of abductions of young children by members of the Lord's Resistance Army. After being held in captivity and forced to watch numerous tortures and killings, Lalam escaped in April 1995. Since then, she has become a teacher and a director at the Gulu War Affected Training Center.",Betty Lalam
27 March 2009,Sandra Cantu,Melissa Huckaby,"Tracy, California, US",,,"Several days after Cantu went missing on 6 April, a suitcase was discovered in a pond containing her body.",Sandra Cantu
18 November 1974,Eduardo Romualdez,,"Washington, D.C., U.S.",,Released,"Filipino Ambassador to the United States who was held hostage at the Philippine Embassy by a gunman who demanded that his son be issued an exit visa and allowed to leave the country. After a 10-hour standoff, Romualdez was released without harm following negotiations with his abductor.",Eduardo Romualdez
16 October 2021,Cleo Smith,Terence Darrell Kelly,"Gascoyne, Australia",4,,"Smith disappeared from her family's tent at a campsite, and remained missing for 18 days until 3 November. She was found alive by police at Kelly's house after mobile phone evidence determined that he had visited the campsite.",Cleo Smith
12 August 2012,Hüseyin Aygün,PKK militants,"Ovacık, Turkey",,Released,"CHP politician and lawyer who was kidnapped by PKK militants while travelling along a highway. While his aides were immediately released, he was held in detention for two days before being released without harm.",Hüseyin Aygün
3 April 2016,Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,Iranian government,"Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran",,Released,"Iranian-British journalist convicted on charges of ""plotting against the government"". Released on 16 March 2022 after six years of detention in Iran.",Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
26 January 1966,The Beaumont Children,Unknown,"Glenelg, South Australia","9, 7, 4",Unknown,"The Beaumont children were three siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia on Australia Day 1966 in a suspected abduction and murder.",The Beaumont Children
24 February 2014,Antonio Cermeño,,"Miranda, Venezuela",,,"Venezuelan boxer and two-time world title champion who was kidnapped together his wife by unidentified assailants in east Caracas. While his wife escaped, Cermeño was unable to, and his body was found just a day later along a highway.",Antonio Cermeño
8 August 1973,Kim Dae-jung,Members of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA),"Tokyo, Japan",,Released,"After attending a meeting with the leader of the Democratic Unification Party in the Grand Hotel Palace in Tokyo, the future president was abducted by a group of unidentified men as he walked out of the room. He was taken into another room where he was drugged unconscious. The kidnappers intended to throw Kim into the sea and drown him while boarding a boat from Osaka to Seoul, but this was abandoned when the Japanese Navy made pursuit of the kidnappers' boat. Kim was released back in Seoul five days after the kidnapping.",Kim Dae-jung
18 October 2014,Donna Eastwood,Joshua Caird,"Dartford, England",,Murdered,"Englishwoman who was kidnapped by her neighbor after attending a friend's birthday party. Her burned out remains were found on the same day. Caird was subsequently arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",Donna Eastwood
3 June 1997,Shannon Verhage,Marvin Gabrion,"Cedar Springs, Michigan",11 months,Unknown,"Shannon and her mother, Rachel Timmerman, were last seen leaving on a date with an unknown co-worker of Timmerman. The co-worker was later linked to a man named Marvin Gabrion, whom Rachel was preparing to testify against for raping her the previous year. Rachel's body was later found floating in Oxford lake. Gabrion is on death row for the murder. Shannon has never been found.",Shannon Verhage
1 October 1996,Jakub Fiszman,Rainer Körppen and Sven Körppen,"Eschborn, Germany",,,"Fiszman, a millionaire, was held for ransom.",Jakub Fiszman
27 February 1975,Peter Lorenz,Movement 2 June,"West Berlin, West Germany",,,"Lorenz, German conservative politician and candidate for the mayor of West Berlin, was kidnapped only days before the elections.",Peter Lorenz
27 February 2014,Benjamín Galván Gómez,Los Zetas gang members,"Tamaulipas, Mexico",,,"Businessman, PRI politician and mayor of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas between 2011 and 2013. Frequently threatened due to his anti-organized crime sentiment, Galván was abducted from a drugstore on February 27, 2014. His mutilated corpse was found the next day, and positively identified a month later. Several suspected Los Zetas members were arrested for his murder, but all were killed before they could go to trial.",Benjamín Galván Gómez
2 July 2020,Patricia Alatorre,Armando Cruz,"Bakersfield, California, US",,,"Alatorre disappeared on July 1 around 11:30 p.m. near Hosking Avenue and Wible Road, with Bakersfield Police Department believing that Alatorre was a runaway until surveillance footage showed a white older model pickup truck at the area.",Patricia Alatorre
28 December 1992,Katie Beers,John Esposito,"Long Island, New York, US",,,"Two days before her tenth birthday, Beers was lured into the home of John Esposito, a friend of her family. She was held captive inside a concrete bunker underneath Esposito's garage.",Katie Beers
10 July 1997,Miguel Ángel Blanco,ETA,"Ermua, Basque Country, Spain",,Murdered,"On 10 July 1997, Spanish politician of Partido Popular Miguel Ángel Blanco was kidnapped by the terrorist group ETA which threatened to assassinate him unless the Spanish Government started to transfer all ETA prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country within 48 hours. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in demonstrations all throughout Spain, demanding the release of Miguel Ángel. But 50 minutes after the deadline expired, at 16:50 of 12 July, he was shot in the back of the head.",Miguel Ángel Blanco
25 May 1979,Etan Patz,Pedro Hernandez,"New York City, US",,Murdered,"Etan walked to the school bus stop by himself, but did not arrive at school. The search for him brought attention to child abduction in the United States, and he was the first missing person to be pictured on a milk carton. The anniversary of his disappearance is International Missing Children's Day. Pedro Hernandez was charged with Etan's murder, but his 2015 trial ended in a hung jury.",Etan Patz
3 November 1981,Marcy Renee Conrad,Anthony Jacques Broussard,"Milpitas, California, U.S.",14,Murdered,"High school student who was abducted, raped and killed by another student, who then dumped her body in a ravine, but brought several students to view the body. Two days later, he was denounced and arrested.",Marcy Renee Conrad
19 March 2014,Serhiy Hayduk,Pro-Russian security services,"Sevastopol, Ukraine",,Released,Ukrainian Navy commander who was tortured by pro-Russian security forces who had taken over the Navy's headquarters in Sevastopol. He and several others were released on the following day on orders from the Russian Defense Minister.,Serhiy Hayduk
c. 23 February 1983,St. Louis Jane Doe,,"St. Louis, Missouri, US",,Murdered,The decapitated body of a girl was found on 28 February 1983.,St. Louis Jane Doe
13 November 1990,Sano Fusako,Nobuyuki Satō,"Niigata, Japan",10,,Fusako was abducted after a baseball game and held captive for slightly over nine years. She was found alive on 28 January 2000.,Sano Fusako
9 June 1996,Melanie Hall,"Unknown white male described as approximately 27 (53 in 2022), 5ft 10ins, of medium build, with dark brown hair and eyes and wearing a brown silk shirt and flashy gold watch","Cadillacs nightclub, Bath, United Kingdom",25,,"Melanie Hall disappeared from Cadillacs nightclub in Bath after talking and dancing with an unknown man. Several witnesses reported seeing a woman matching Hall's description later arguing with a man outside the club and being coaxed reluctantly into a car park. In 2009, Hall's remains were found next to a slip road of the M5 motorway near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. Her murder remains unsolved, although in 2013 police revealed that a white Volkswagen Golf GTi cabriolet may have been involved in her abduction.",Melanie Hall
18 September 1983,Danny Joe Eberle,John Joubert,"Bellevue, Nebraska, USA",13,,Eberle disappeared while delivering the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.,Danny Joe Eberle
18 June 1988,Marie Wilks,,"Tewkesbury, England",22,Murdered,"Pregnant woman who was abducted by an unidentified assailant while using the emergency telephone. Her body was found two days later, but her murder is unsolved. A man, Eddie Browning, was originally convicted of her abduction and murder but was released on appeal in 1994 after 5 years imprisonment.",Marie Wilks
16 July 2021,Selsela Alikhil,,"Islamabad, Pakistan",,,"Daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan who was forcefully abducted and tortured by an attacker who picked her up in his taxi. She was later released, and her case is currently under investigation.",Selsela Alikhil
29 June 1991,Sheree Beasley,Robert Selby Lowe,"Rosebud, Australia",,Murdered,The child was abducted while riding her bike unsupervised.,Sheree Beasley
13 January 1996,Amber Hagerman,,"Arlington, Texas, US",,Murdered,"Hagerman was kidnapped while riding her bike near her grandparents' home. She was found four days later by a hiker and his dog, naked in a creek bed. An autopsy revealed she had been alive for two days, and then had been raped and had her throat slit. Although a $75,000 reward was offered for information leading to Hagerman's killer, he was never found.",Amber Hagerman
20 June 2006,Frauke Liebs,,"Paderborn, Germany",,"Dead, cause of death could not be determined",Frauke Liebs disappeared on 20 June on her way home from a pub.,Frauke Liebs
14 January 1975,Lesley Whittle,Donald Neilson,"Highley, England",17,Murdered,"Whittle was an heiress kidnapped from her home by Neilson, also known as the ""Black Panther"". Her body was found on 7 March 1975, hanging from a wire in a drain shaft in Bathpool Park, Staffordshire. Neilson was captured and convicted, and died in December 2011 while serving life in prison.",Lesley Whittle
19 February 2008,Shannon Matthews,Michael Donovan and Karen Matthews,"Dewsbury, England",,,"Matthews was abducted and held captive for 24 days by Donovan, the uncle of her mother, Karen Matthews', boyfriend. After her rescue by police it was found that Karen had helped plot the kidnapping in an attempt to gain reward money.",Shannon Matthews
1 October 2012,April Jones,Mark Bridger,"Machynlleth, Wales",5,,"Jones was lured into a van by Bridger, and a massive search was conducted to find her.",April Jones
2 April 1990,Humberto Álvarez Machaín,Bounty hunters,Mexico,,,"Alvarez-Machain, a suspect in the murder of Enrique Camarena, was kidnapped, allegedly by Americans to bring him to trial in the United States.",Humberto Álvarez Machaín
29 April 2011,Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb,Syrian government,"Daraa, Syria",,,"Syrian boy detained by government officials while attempting to break the Siege of Daraa. After his detention, Al-Khateeb was viciously tortured and eventually killed, before his mutilated body was returned to his family.",Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb
18 March 1964,Marise Chiverella,James Paul Forte,"Hazleton, Pennsylvania, US",,Murdered,"Chiverella was abducted while carrying canned goods for her teacher, with Forte raping and strangling her before dumping her body in a coal-mining pit. The murder remained unsolved until 2022, when Parabon NanoLabs used DNA left by Forte to identify him as the killer. He could not be arrested, as he had died in 1980.",Marise Chiverella
19 October 2004,Margaret Hassan,Unknown,"Baghdad, Iraq",,Murdered,Hassan was kidnapped and later killed on 8 November by terrorists.,Margaret Hassan