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He’s the first kid to be featured on the side of a milk carton—and his father thinks he knows who abducted him from a New York City street in 1979.

From “comely heiress” to “armed terrorist,” an overview of the Patty Hearst kidnapping published weeks after her debut as a bank robber.

Meet Rick Strawn, the man who’ll abduct your problem child for a fee.

Rohde was kidnapped while reporting in Afghanistan. His story—in five parts—in his own words.

Elizabeth Smart, age 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in a Salt Lake City suburb. She was found nine months later with an itinerant preacher and his wife. Theories on why it took so long.

Several American men working in the oil industry are kidnapped on the job in Ecuador.

Did Bruno Hauptmann really kidnap the Lindbergh baby? An overview of the case amidst a bunch of arguing scholars.