LANCASTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two teenage boys in Pennsylvania are heroes after they reacted quickly to help save a five-year-old girl from a kidnapper. According to Fox4KC.com the girl was playing outside of her home when she disappeared. The young girls mother called police after she disappeared from playing outside. The police and Lancaster community came […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade issued a YouTube video Monday night in which they thanked the public for the encouragement and financial support that is allowing them to restart their lives. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight broke their public silence in the 3-minute, 30-second […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home and raping them over a decade was given a late summer trial date Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, appeared in court for a brief hearing as Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Russo said he was aiming to begin the trial by […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ariel Castro, accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade, pleaded not guilty Wednesday, and the defense hinted that it would like to avoid trial with a plea agreement if the death penalty were ruled out. Attorney Craig Weintraub addressed the death penalty issue after his client, […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A high-school teacher from Alabama is accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl from school in Mississippi, sending a frightening text message to the child’s mother and paying to keep her overnight in a hotel. U.S. Attorney Gregory Davis says a federal magistrate in Jackson denied bond Thursday to 54-year-old Jesse Mae Pollard, […]
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a man boarded a school bus, shot the driver several times, then removed a 6-year-old passenger and ran. The Dale County Sheriff tells WBMA-TV that the man shot the driver Tuesday after he refused to let the child off the bus. The bus driver later died […]
Instead of taking a fake sick day, a San Antonio woman chose to fake her kidnapping to skip work. Sheila Bailey Eubank is facing aggravated perjury charges after she claimed a man jumped in her car and held her at knifepoint. Police found the 48-year-old woman tied up with a rope in her car. Investigators […]
Dominique jokes with the crew about The Houston’s new show, the woman who faked her abduction to miss work, and much more on the TJMS.
A 425-pound gang member is facing kidnapping charges in Orange County. Victor Joseph Espinoza has been charged with felony false imprisonment for allegedly grabbing a 10-year-old boy on a bike trail near Delhi Park in Santa Ana. Police said that the 55-year-old gang member tried to grab the boy on Sunday as the victim was […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A tip led police to rescue a deaf, mute man from a locked basement where he had been kept for months while his captor spent his Social Security checks, authorities said Thursday. William Richardson, 63, told police he was hungry and had been punched, beaten and threatened during four months in the […]
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed on Monday, a security official and the kidnapper told The Associated Press. Rev. Michel Louis, 61, and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse, both Boston-area residents, had been kidnapped from a bus […]
BOSTON (AP) — While family and church members prayed Sunday for the Boston Pentecostal pastor kidnapped with two others in Egypt, their abductor said he has had conversations with intelligence officials about their release. Jirmy Abu-Mashu told The Associated Press he kidnapped the Rev. Michel Louis and two others off a bus on a road […]
