Kidnapping

Carlee Russell’s former boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons denied knowing about her kidnapping hoax and shut down rumors he was the reason she disappeared over his alleged involvement with a stripper.

He called it “Operation Take Over,” with a list that included a chilling reminder to go after women who wouldn’t be missed to avoid “any kind of an investigation,” according to the FBI.

Amid the ongoing investigation of Carlee Russell’s mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons has spoken out to ask “everyone to stop bullying her” online.

A man accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old at a Miami apartment complex was arrested after the young girl was able to fight him off, police said.

Ring video captured cries for help during what police are calling an attempted kidnapping in Miami Sunday morning.

A prosecutor says a hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county.

A prosecutor says a hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county.

Prosecutors say Rafael Banda asked the kidnapped woman to help dismember the dead body of a woman inside the home, NBC 7’s Amber Frias reports.

A man arrested Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman inside a home with a dead body in it appeared in court on Friday. 

NBC 7’s Amber Frias spoke with neighbors of the suspect, including one who claims he knew the accused killer.

A man who allegedly abducted a woman in a South Bay neighborhood this week held her captive, threatened her with a gun and sexually assaulted her in a home with a dead body in it was behind bars Thursday.

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four Americans thought to be kidnapped in an attack in Mexico on Friday.

New Jersey officials claim the woman suffered abuse and isolation at the hands of a man she met as “Brett Parker” last February in New Mexico, nearly on the opposite coast of where she would escape his control one year later.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming has the latest on what investigators are calling an attempted child abduction.

A group of middle school students reported a hooded man driving a black SUV try to kidnap a boy Tuesday morning in Lakeside, according to the Lakeside Union School District.

Blake Gilley, 38, said his children told him that they were instructed not to interact with others. Their mother has been accused of kidnapping.

A memorial continues to grow outside the burnt Riverside home where the Winek family lived for more than 20 years. Three members of the family were murdered and the house was set ablaze after a law enforcement officer in Virginia who had been “catfishing” a teen in the family killed them, and kidnapped the girl.

A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.  

A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.