All news on the topic: abduction

Mothers escaping domestic violence who retain their children abroad without consent would be criminalized for the first time under a new law.

A woman accused of stalking the parents of Madeleine McCann allegedly left voicemails requesting a DNA test from the mother of the missing girl, a court heard.

A nine-year-old boy was nearly abducted off the street by a man who then followed him, according to police.

Emergency services were dispatched to Carntyne Road after the alarm was raised at approximately 5:30 PM on Saturday.

Muriel McKay was 55 when she was kidnapped by brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in 1969 and died in the incident, but her body has never been found

The six worshippers and teacher, members of the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart, were kidnapped from outside a school in the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons has said it is believed that Don Steven McDougal was the last person to have seen missing Audrii Cunningham, 11, in Livingston, Texas

Footage of person of interest in the disappearance of Audrii Cunningham, Don Steven McDougal, has been published showing the 42-year-old arrested by members of the police

A harrowing warrant showed that the abused pregnant woman texted Carter, 'I'm dying' and he responded with 'Quit the dramatics'

Footage from inside a Miami Beach pharmacy on Thursday allegedly shows Nicolas Sternman, the suspected kidnapper snatching up a 4-year-old boy by the neck

An expat who lived in Praia De Luz at the time Madeleine McCann went missing has told of a conversation that could shed more light on the case. It is the latest piece of evidence in the hunt for Maddie, who went missing 17 years ago this May

An unlikely piece of evidence led a winding pathway to find a story of bloody revenge at the heart of a tragic missing persons' case in Sacramento.

Joseph Ruiz allegedly attempted to kidnap a young, 11-year-old girl in broad daylight just before 8am Friday - cops say he left his vehicle and tried to grab the girl as she was walking to school

Morgan Nick was just six years old when she disappeared without a trace from a Little League game in Alma, Arkansas, in 1995, and while a person of interest has been named, nobody knows what happened to the young girl

Leah Mullins, 14, was last spotted getting into a darkly-coloured estate car close to a pub on Sherston high street in the Cotswolds, before being found in a residence in a different country last night

Fifteen masked men broke into the ranch complex of former British Honorary Consul Colin Armstrong, 78, on Saturday morning and kidnapped the millionaire and his Colombian girlfriend

Colombian-born Katherine Paola Santos is being quizzed by police as it emerged UK intelligence services are assisting in the hunt for the 78-year-old who was abducted by more than 15 armed gangsters

Colin Armstrong, former honorary consul of the United Kingdom in Guayaquil, was abducted in on Saturday from a farm he owned and now police are questioning his partner

Alex set off for the UK last Sunday in the hopes of getting a set of new identity papers because he was desperate to get back to education and lead a "normal life", according to a French family

Fifteen criminals are said to have stormed Colin Armstrong's home, which is known as the Rodeo Grande ranch, in the Ecuadorian province of Los Rios before kidnapping him and his wife

The death of activist and comedian Tou Ger Xiong has left his community in Minnesota reeling. He was warned about the rise of kidnappings in Colombia but didn't think it would happen to him

Scott Eby confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year-old girl in 2010 - not before the victim’s father had wrongly gone to prison for the same crime. 13 years later, Eby has now died in prison

WARNING, DISTRESSING DETAILS: Tara Calico disappeared while out on a bike ride, something she did daily, in Belen, New Mexico, with no trace of her until a Polaroid photo many believed showed her was found thousands of miles away in Florida

Detectives from the Major Crime Team have not yet confirmed the woman's identity, but confirmed that her body was discovered in a car park in Hertfordshire