Two former cops will go on trial in November for the alleged kidnapping of a teenager.

Crown names gang ghost unit as 'hired muscle' in kidnap of woman found bound and gagged.

A mother-of-two and a transgender prostitute have each been sentenced to jail.

A 15yo student's ordeal with her teacher traverses nine states and ends in a rustic cabin.

Elizabeth Thomas didn't show any signs of emotional distress when authorities found her.

North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners.

Sordid allegations regarding the alleged drug history of kidnap victim emerge.

Porirua locals want a mental health respite service moved after an alleged kidnap bid.

A 32-year-old man is accused of trying to snatch a Whitby toddler last week.

Julie-Ann Torrance today pleaded guilty on three charges but is still defending three counts.

Woman allegedly held against her will in Queensland tried to call family.

As she lay in the basement beaten and cable-tied, the Dome Valley victim thought she could hear one of her alleged attacker's children running around upstairs.

Naked, beaten and bound, the Dome Valley victim lay in a basement as she listened to her captors decide what to do with her body.

She had a bullet hole in her head, and another in her chest, both of which appeared to have been fired at close range.

A friend of a woman charged with attempted murder says her mate showed her photos on a phone of the victim's face bruised after a bashing.

The Dome Valley victim was smashed in the head at least seven times, a court has heard.

Lying still on the side of the road, the Dome Valley victim looked like a pile of rubbish, a court has heard.

A teenager was left for dead after a meth-fuelled attack, a jury has heard.

Surveillance video shows a mother's attempt to hand her toddler to a drive-thru worker as she battles the child's father who allegedly kidnapped her.

A grieving Russian mother has called for the death penalty to be reinstated after her daughter was allegedly killed by a family friend.

Since the FBI's "Top Ten" most wanted list was first created in 1950, 512 fugitives have been listed on it. Only 10 of them have been women.

A father and son accused of raping a teenage girl over a three-year period have made it clear that they don't have faith in the law or in the people who practice it.

A newborn baby who was kidnapped from a Florida hospital 18 years ago has been found alive and well in South Carolina.

A Chicago judge has denied bail for four teens who filmed themselves beating a mentally ill youth, saying she believes they were "a danger to yourself and society".

A child recovery specialist arrives in New Zealand today to start sniffing around for clues as to the whereabouts of missing 6-year-old Que Langdon.

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Keith Papini has revealed further gruesome details of the moment his wife was found on the side of a freeway after her alleged abduction.

The Sherri Papini investigation has taken another disturbing twist as suspicion builds about the original crime scene.

More disturbing details have been revealed about the alleged torture of Californian mum Sherri Papini, who had a "message" branded on her.

Police investigating the bizarre kidnap and torture of Sherri Papini say her husband released 'unique' details they didn't want made public.