Kidnapping

An autopsy report shows that a Tennessee kindergarten teacher who police said was kidnapped during a pre-dawn run and then killed earlier this month died from a gunshot wound to the head.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is searching across the county and beyond for a three-year-old boy who was kidnapped from Vista on Monday.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis provided details on Tuesday on the grim discovery of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body the night before and the arrest of a suspect in her murder.

Cleotha Abston, 38, “has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis Police Department statement said Sunday. 

Police said a homeless woman snatched their 2-year-old son from his babysitter while she was buying him ice cream.

It was a terrifying moment for these parents at Grape Day Park. NBC 7’s Dave Summers has the story.

News agencies report that an 83-year-old missionary nun from Louisiana has been released nearly five months after she was kidnapped from her bed in the west African country of Burkina Faso.

Folks in the Pacific Beach community are looking for other avenues to safety. NBC 7’s Dave Summer has the story.

San Diego Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect in an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault in Pacific Beach last Saturday, reports NBC 7’s Dana Griffin.

San Diego Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect in an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault in Pacific Beach last Saturday.

The woman who was seen screaming, bloodied, for help was found safe — along with the truck and driver. Somehow, the situation only got more confusing. And now we get this reveal.

An 18-month-old girl and her mother who were kidnapped over the weekend were found safe, according to Pico Rivera Sheriff’s Station Deputies.

A 23-year-old woman suspected of impersonating a nurse and trying to snatch a newborn from its mom at Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley was being held Friday in lieu of $1 million bail.

Police said a Rialto teen girl was rescued from a New York residence after a 24-year-old man she met on the internet allegedly kidnapped her and held her against her will.

Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home.

UPDATE, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976 was recommended for parole with the support of two of the victims.

The search for Miguel Anthony Rendon, who went missing in Tijuana in 2020, took a tragic, final turn when his body was found in the city. His mother said his remains were delivered to her in a large, cardboard box just after her birthday.

A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years ago has been arrested.

A New York girl who was reported missing from her Tompkins County home in July 2019, when she was 4 years old, has been located safely, police in Ulster County’s Saugerties department said Tuesday.