All news on the topic: abduction

Charlotte Sena was last seen riding her bike in Loop A of Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York state, at 6.15pm yesterday - she was reported missing at 6.45pm when her bike was found by her traumatised family

Families of the missing were out protesting after seven boys were abducted by armed men while they were enjoying a weekend away at a remote ranch in the north-central state of Zacatecas

The 11 men are said to have “intercepted” the 12-year-old girl at a cultural event she was attending with her family in the Bolivian city off Oruro, before plying her with alcohol, taking her to a remote area and raping her

A Turkish radio DJ was tortured and killed, then dumped in nearby woodland in a horror case. According to friends, the victim had been acting strangely since he return from holiday in Turkey in summer 2022

Christian Brueckner is being probed over the British youngster’s 2007 disappearance in Portugal, and he was already awaiting trial for a string of rapes and child sexual assaults

Shaniya Davis was given to Mario Andrette McNeill by her own mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, to settle a £150 debt. Days after going missing, the little girl was tragically found dead

The little girl's parents had a brilliant system in place to ensure she would always know when someone was genuine or not when they were picking her up

Mayor Maruca Méndez and her husband Fernando Lopez Lopéz were accused of pocketing funds, thought to be more than £275,000, destined for impoverished communities in Mexico's Chiapas mountains

A nurse who was kidnapped for two weeks with her daughter has been released, and has now told her captors she would willingly treat them if they needed - and even that she wants to hug them in heaven

Alix Dorsainvil and her young child, who were kidnapped in Haiti have been safely released, according to El Roi Haiti, the organisation she worked for as a nurse and community worker

Russell Cook, 26, said he was kidnapped on day 102 out of his 240-day fundraiser run through Africa - he said the men were armed with machetes but he eventually 'made it out'

Negasi Zuberi has been accused of kidnapping a Washington state woman and imprisoning her in a cinderblock cell before she beat hear hands bloody breaking the door down and escaping

Negasi Zuberi allegedly snatched the woman off the street in Seattle before driving her 450-miles to his rented Oregon home where he imprisoned her in a makeshift cinder block cell

The victim managed to escape after beating her hands bloody on the doors of her cinderblock prison in the Oregon home of suspect Negasi Zuberi. He is accused of impersonating a police officer and kidnapping the poor woman

US nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her child daughter has been kidnapped in Haiti while working as a nurse in the troubled country - her final Facebook post is a haunting image including a depiction of Jesus at her shoulder

Verity Bolton was supposedly taking her two kids, eight and 10, camping. However, they never arrived back at their father's when they said they would, sparking a huge search of the Canadian wilderness

Carlee Russell's kidnapping claims are being met with doubt and online harassment due to suspicions arising from her leaving behind her expensive wig

Carlee Russell, who went missing for two days earlier this month, has been sacked from her job in Alabama. She claims she was kidnapped, but police found no evidence she was

Monica De Leon Barba, who was kidnapped in Mexico eight months ago, has been safely released by her captors and is en route to the United States, while the FBI continues investigating

Harlow Darby Freeman was sat in the back of the family's Lexus SUV when her dad ran into a friend's house quickly in Parrish, Alabama, but was found safe in the car 14-hours later nearby

The girl was playing outside with her six-year-old sister who returned home to tell their mum that a man had taken her older sister, less than an hour later the young girl's body was found nearby

Suzy, 25, vanished when she went to show a client who had given the name Kipper around a flat in Fulham, south west London, in 1986

Cops in Michigan are still hunting for missing toddler Wynter Cole Smith as her grandmother says her family have gone through an 'emotional rollercoaster.' A man has been arrested

The infant was snatched after his mother - named only as Erika - got off a bus in Chamilpa, Mexico, on a main road - and police are yet to find the tot or the kidnappers in the six days since

As the two-year search for missing seven-year-old Tennessee girl Summer Wells continues, her father Don Wells suggests a fresh theory as the family's thoughts clash with police hypotheses