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.

A serial killer may rot in jail for life after he emotionally confessed on Tuesday to the grim rape-slay of three women that rocked the Springfield community in 2018.

A Queens man will serve a 30-year jail term following his sentencing on Thursday, after he was found guilty of shoving his savagely beaten ex-flame in a red suitcase before dumping the still-breathing woman on a Connecticut roadside in 2019.

Eitan Biran, 6, has been flown in a private jet to Israel amid a bitter custody battle among his family.

A Santa Barbara father is facing a possible death penalty over the heinous murders of his two children in Rosarito, Mexico, last month. The man reportedly mounted the killings because he believed they carried "serpent DNA," according to a new San Diego federal jury indictment filed on Wednesday.

A Parlier, California man wanted for a brutal spate of criminal offenses has died while in police custody on Saturday afternoon after a struggle with Fresno Police officers during his arrest. 

The Tulsa Police Department apprehended an Oklahoma governor candidate on Monday after he was accused of kidnapping and raping a woman, who applied to a Craigslist job post to be in his campaign team, in Oklahoma City on Sunday.

An American Indian husband has been sentenced to 33 years in prison due, in part, to additional Indian Country convictions at trial after he kidnapped his ex-wife at gunpoint before assaulting her in April 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office on Tuesday.

A pastor was reportedly killed by kidnappers according to his son who was released after a ransom was paid in Kogi State.

A man charged with the kidnapping and killing of an Amish teenager last year in Lancaster County has admitted to the crime.

Police arrested a New York woman who threatened to stab officers with a broken pipe used to smoke meth on Monday.

One of Higashiomi man Yuki Shimada's seven acquaintances charged over his death has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison, the Otsu District Court upheld on Wednesday.

A woman allegedly held captive for three days by a man she met on Tinder was aided by an Oakland local when no one else came to check on her.

A Chinese couple's search for their long-lost son finally came to an end after 24 years after police were able to locate the man based on the description given by his family.

Springfield Police have found a missing Cochran, Georgia 13-year-old girl in Springfield on Saturday following a four-day interstate search after a registered sex offender she met online allegedly abducted her and took her 700 miles away from her home.

A Highland Park, New Jersey man has been apprehended by police in Tennessee after he allegedly snatched his 2-year-old son from his mother's care on Friday. The matriarch was subsequently found dead in the forests of the Volunteer State, authorities confirmed on Sunday.

A woman’s remains discovered in Nevada earlier this year has been positively identified as a New Mexico woman missing since 2019, the Farmington Police Department released on Friday.

He told the police that he wanted to sell a car and discussed the matter with a friend.