Seven Haitian gang leaders are being indicted and charged for their role in kidnapping U.S. citizens in Haiti in recent years, including the kidnapping of 16 American missionaries in 2021.

A man who was vacationing in Cancun claims that he was kidnapped by his taxi driver before being mugged and beaten by a group of men with machetes who left him for dead in Mexico.

A man in Missouri was arrested and charged on Tuesday with keeping a woman hostage for a month and raping and sexually assaulting her during the time.

A young woman in Colorado has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly restraining her Tinder date with duct tape and stabbing him several times.

A 15-year-old girl managed to escape from her kidnapper after she tricked him into going into a cafe in Hawaii.

Two individuals, including a former dean of a Missouri boarding school, were charged with violating a restraining order by allegedly forcibly taking a teenage boy across state lines to force him to attend the boarding school.

Jason Lipscomb, a 21-year-old North Carolina man, was shot and killed by police officers for allegedly kidnapping two kids from a daycare center.

A woman reportedly posed as a nurse and tried to kidnap a newborn child at a hospital in California.

A Florida man who was shot in the head while getting arrested was charged on Wednesday after he took his therapist hostage before proceeding to rape and sexually assault her for hours in his home.

The abduction and kidnapping of the wife of a Norwegian billionaire may be linked to a cryptocurrency scam as well as a false identity that may hold clues as to the woman's location.

A woman was saved from being kidnapped by her alleged boyfriend after a fast-food employee discovered a note she wrote along with other wrappers.

A baby in California that was abducted and kidnapped was found on Tuesday after an extensive search by the police, with three suspects being arrested for the alleged crime.

A 33-year-old Indian man was sentenced to the death Wednesday for the 2019 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.

Frederick Newhall Woods, 70, has been approved for parole after spending four decades in prison for kidnapping and burying 27 children alive in 1976.

On Tuesday, a Manhattan grand jury indicted a 22-year-old woman who reportedly took a would-be suitor hostage for more than 12 hours, a near-death experience for the victim, according to prosecutors.

Paislee Shultis, a girl who went missing two years ago, was found alive on Monday in her father's family home, hidden in their basement with the mother who kidnapped her.

A German TV documentary crew reportedly handed evidence to the police that places pedophile and rapist Christian Brueckner at the scene of the crime when Madeleine McCann was abducted in 2007.

Authorities have confirmed that their operation took a tragic turn after the twin of the suspect they were pursuing reportedly “brandished a firearm at responding law enforcement,” prompting local cops to return fire, which eventually killed Deaughn Willis on Saturday.

Police nabbed a deranged Utah man, who is accused of staging a hostage drama, where he held a woman captive for several weeks in sheer desperation to force her to fall in love with him. 

Joe Francis, the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" is accusing his ex-girlfriend Abbey Wilson of kidnapping their children to Mexico and preventing him from seeing them this Christmas.

Based on police logs, the woman in the Uber cab dozed off in the backseat of the green Toyota Camry and woke up while the driver was sexually assaulting her. 

A 19-year-old Bloomington man, who eluded jail for some time after attacking a 13-year-old girl when he was 17, has been accused of trying to get a cellmate to torture, disable, and kill 14 people, including his victim's parents. 

A Utah man, who allegedly held his wife captive, tortured, and raped her in their home, is also accused of the gruesome murder of his 99-year-old grandmother, according to charging documents filed Wednesday.

James Phelps and Timothy Norton, the men charged with Cassidy Rainwater’s kidnapping, have been slapped with murder raps on Wednesday for killing the Dallas County woman after police revealed information on how the duo schemed and executed her murder.

A serial rapist was thrown to jail facing a slew of charges after police uncovered that he held a woman against her will since Nov. 1, torturing her in increasingly deranged ways, including forcing her to drink WD-40, a chemical that removes rust and penetrates oil. 

Terry Kelly, an Australian man with a doll obsession, has been arrested on Wednesday and charged with the kidnapping of 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who has been missing for 18 days.

An Indiana woman is behind bars facing a slew of felony charges after an alleged threesome set up on a dating app turned into the horrific rape and murder of her two victims, one of whom was declared “deceased and beyond help” after being brutally beaten to death.

A Vermont man may rot in jail for life after admitting he paid for the services of a Venezuelan woman, instructing her to kidnap a "slave” and take a sick video of the victim while he was being beaten, tortured, and suffocated to death.

Police have rescued a 15-year-old girl from Rajasthan after she was reportedly abducted and sold off for marriage for 60,000 rupees (US$800).

A Missouri home, where a missing woman believed to have been kidnapped was kept half-naked in a cage, was ravaged by flames at an unincorporated Ozarks community in Missouri on Monday. Unfortunately, the victim has yet to be located.