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Family of kidnapper: System failed him - Coloradoan Travis Kness admits to kidnapping his ex-girlfriend, but his family says he doesn't fit the mold of a criminal and believes mental health facilities passed him through the system instead of helping him. The 32-year-old Loveland man kidnapped Rosanna ...
U.S. forces and Afghan police kill over 20 Taliban - Boston Globe KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led soldiers, backed by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban fighters in two separate clashes, officials said on Sunday. A U.S. military statement said its forces killed more than 10 ...
Bars that were bases for sex ring still open for business - Houston Chronicle A 16-year-old called police for help from this house in Jacinto City, saying she was being held captive somewhere but didn't know the address. She was found in March. For years, Gerardo Salazar played the Romeo in dusty Mexican villages, trolling ...
US unemployment hits 5-year high - Independent The U.S. lost more jobs than forecast in August and the unemployment rate climbed to a five-year high, heightening the risk that the economic slowdown will worsen. 14:32 UK mum charged with kidnapping daughter 14:20 McCann criticises detective's book ...
Gladding Sentenced To 25 Years In Kidnapping, Slaying - Hartford Courant MIDDLETOWN - The man who kidnapped and killed Jason Argersinger in a crime that rocked the shoreline in the winter of 2005 left the courtroom Friday when it was time for the dead man's mother to speak. But Noah Gladding's absence didn't stop Mary ...
Kidnapping case registered against Chiranjeevi - Rediff Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi [ Images ] has landed in trouble over an inter-caste marriage as the police have registered a case of kidnapping against him, based on the complaint of the bride's parents. But the bride Nalini, an engineering ...
Police: Bombs explode at Afghan police HQ, 6 dead - Newsweek Recommended (6) The Taliban's No. 2 cash source: ransom kidnapping Afghanistan: The Taliban Targets Kabul How the Kabul Embassy Attack Could Affect the Region Inside the Prison Escape Jeffrey J. Schloesser: Rebel Quell The Taliban's Great Escape Two ...
Mexicans protest crime at soccer match - Portland Tribune MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Mexican soccer fans dressed in white at an international game in the Azteca Stadium on Saturday to protest rising crime and a brutal drug war that has killed more than 2,700 people this year. At least ...
Twin blasts hit Afghan police HQ - The Independent Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside the headquarters of the main police station in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar today, causing casualties, two sources told Reuters. A senior border police commander, Abdul Razaaq, was among the ...
UK mum charged with kidnapping daughter - Independent Shannon Matthews' mother has faced new charges over the abduction of her daughter. 15:10 British youth's handwriting becoming illegible 15:03 About half our crops at risk due to rain 14:32 UK mum charged with kidnapping daughter 14:20 McCann ...
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"child abduction" - Live Search News Law enforcement encourages parents to be proactive in keeping kids ... - Kenai Peninsula Clarion Thirty years ago to the day, Amy and Scott Fandel went missing from their home in Sterling. Amy was a blond-haired, brown-eyed 8-year-old and Scott, who was 13, had brown hair and blue eyes at the time of their disappearance. The two were last seen ...
Golden Gate man guilty of child?s 2003 abduction, abuse - Naples Daily News The opening day of courtroom proceedings in the case of the State of Florida versus William Salisbury began Wednseday. Salisbury faces charges of kidnapping and child abuse on two young boys in Collier County in 2003. NAPLES ? A Collier Circuit ...
Late delivery stops Redflex - Knoxville News Sentinel Maybe FedEx should have run the red lights. City of Knoxville officials say they will not consider renewing a contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., which operates the city's automated red-light enforcement cameras, after the company's new ...
Experience is More Than a Punched Amtrak Ticket - American Thinker Critics from both political parties having doubts about Sarah Palin have seized upon her limited experience. But what kind of experience are they talking about? Normally level headed pundits like Mort Kondracke and former Clintonites like Dee Dee ...
A moral "Compass" - Salon A Salon photo composite of "The Golden Compass" and the Catholic League's Bill Donohue. Dec. 4, 2007 | This Sunday morning, I will take my eldest daughter, Lucy, nearly 8, to Mass at our church down the street, as I do every week. Afterward, I will ...
The big picture - UNICEF This map does not reflect a position by UNICEF on the legal status of any country or territory or the delimitation of any frontiers. After a bloody conflict Sierra Leone is experiencing a steady improvement in its security and political situation ...
Four Recently Recovered Missing Children Make 99 Recoveries for ... - CSR Wire (NYSE: CPS) ADAM program, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), continues to assist in the recovery of missing children nationwide. Four missing children were recovered during the last quarter of 2007 ...
Locating a person - US Embassy Tokyo In an emergency the Embassy or our Consulates will attempt to locate Americans who are believed to be in Japan and are not in communication with family or friends. Inquirers should be aware, however, that the Privacy Act prevents divulgence of ...
Nationwide cellphone alert system in the works - WZZM 13 Federal regulators as early as Wednesday are expected to take a major step toward development of a nationwide emergency alert system that would send text messages to cellphones and other mobile devices wherever a crisis occurs. Lack of a simple way ...
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara  Out of seemingly small events are sometimes born great historical moments. The case of young Edgardo Mortara is one. In 1858 the 6-year-old Jewish boy was taken from his parents' home in Bologna, Italy, by agents of the Papal inquisition. The year before, seriously ill, Edgardo had been secretly baptized, by the Mortaras' Catholic servant (or so she claimed); it was against the law for baptized Christians to be raised by Jews, and so, in the eyes of the Church, the kidnapping was only just. Secular Italians did not agree, and thus was set in motion a series of reforms that ended the Church's temporal power in Italy and forged the creation of a liberal, near-democratic state. For his part, young Edgardo became a priest and lived in a Belgian abbey until 1940--just before the invading Germans began to deport and execute all those tainted with Jewish blood. David Kertzer has shaped a remarkable narrative from almost forgotten events.Author: David I. Kertzer Paperback: 368 pages Company: Vintage (1998-06-30) (1998-06-30) ISBN: 0679768173 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.99 Used Price: $3.00 Introduction to Executive Protection, Second Edition  Stimulating the reader to review and reevaluate traditional strategies and develop independent and adaptable approaches to the ever-present and unpredictable threat of attack, Introduction to Executive Protection, Second Edition goes a step beyond the basic foundational concepts of the original. Exploring the psychology, philosophy, and professionalism of the modern close personal protection agent, the author discusses the successes, failures, improvements, and adaptations of veterans in the field. He gives practical, common sense advice for the day-to-day habits of the professional as well as instructing in the necessary interpersonal skills that are crucial to the job.Author: Dale L. June Hardcover: 480 pages Company: CRC (2008-01-17) ISBN: 1420043455 List Price: $89.95 Amazon Price: $67.00 Used Price: $65.99 Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind (Norton Professional Book)  An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents.Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the other parent. This book examines the impact of PAS on adults and offers strategies and hope for dealing with the long-term effects. Author: Amy J. L. Baker Hardcover: 304 pages Company: W. W. Norton (2007-04-15) ISBN: 0393705196 List Price: $32.00 Amazon Price: $25.60 Used Price: $26.61 Stolen in the Night: The True Story of a Family's Murder, a Kidnapping and the Child Who Survived  Joseph Duncan had been convicted of raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy in Tacoma, Washington. On the Internet he proudly boasted of his perversions. But the system turned Duncan loose, and no one would stop him from committing an even more horrifying act... This time, he prepared meticulously. He chose his getaway car. He chose his murder weapon and loaded a video camera. Then, when he saw young Shasta and Dylan Groene playing outside their Idaho home, he struck—killing their mother and her boyfriend, and their older brother…and vanishing into the night with Shasta and Dylan. Detectives pored over the bloody murder scene. The FBI scrambled to find the children and the abductor. And even when Duncan was finally located, the story was not yet over: Dylan was still missing…and the depth of one man’s evil was still coming horribly to light…. Author: Gary C. King Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages Company: St. Martin's Paperbacks (2007-02-06) (2007-02-06) ISBN: 0312942052 List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $2.95 Used Price: $0.01 Evil Summer: Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks (Elmer H Johnson & Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology)  In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping and murder of Franks by two University of Chicago students, Nathan “Babe” Leopold and Richard “Dickie” Loeb, both from families of privilege. In this new examination of the crime, author John Theodore takes readers into the minds of the two criminals as he focuses on three months in 1924. Theodore covers the killing, the confessions, the defense, and the sentencing surrounding the horrific murder, placing the killers’ actions and Clarence Darrow’s historic defense into the context of 1920s Chicago. Theodore deftly investigates the psychological dimensions of the crime, revealing the murderers’ fantasies, relationships, sexuality, and motives. The author examines the killers’ past, outlining Loeb’s obsession with detective fiction and crime and his editorial on random killing—written at age nine—and Leopold’s nightly master-slave fantasies and fascination with Nietzsche. Evil Summer, which includes twenty-three illustrations, meticulously traces the murder from inception to confession, including such details as the special-delivery ransom letter sent to Jacob Franks and the discovery of Leopold’s horn-rimmed eyeglasses lying on a railroad embankment near Bobby’s dead body. Theodore re-creates such scenes as the convergence of hundreds of people in front of the Franks home, Bobby’s body lying in a small white casket in the library, and Loeb being voyeuristically drawn to the home while Bobby’s classmates carry the casket to the hearse. Worldwide press coverage reflected the public fascination with the case in what was then called “the trial of the century.” The story became a media circus: Chicago’s six daily newspapers battled vigorously for readers, two Daily News cub reporters became part of the story, and the Chicago Tribune carried a voting ballot asking readers whether radio station WGN should broadcast the courtroom spectacle. The changing drama was delivered to Chicagoans every morning and evening, and the public feasted on every press run. More than a crime story, Evil Summer illuminates the dark side of American life in the 1920s, including the excesses of privileged youth, the troubled childhoods, the random victimization, the anti-Semitism, and the sexuality. Author: John Theodore Hardcover: 232 pages Company: Southern Illinois University Press (2007-10-04) (2007-09-07) ISBN: 0809327775 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.65 Used Price: $15.99 Letters to My Mother: A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom  On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family.
Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an international symbol in the struggle for liberty and the fight against barbarity. Before being captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), she was a voice of hope for the Colombian people, leading a courageous fight against political corruption, violence, and illegal detentions.
Presented in this small, poignant book is Betancourt’s letter to her mother printed in English, French, and Spanish. From the depths of the Colombian jungle, Betancourt’s words are an impassioned declaration of love to those dearest to her.
In addition to this letter is a response to Betancourt written by her children, who since they were teenagers have rallied public support for their mother’s release. With a preface by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Letters to My Mother conveys a powerful message of love for family and country, and a heartrending plea for freedom. Author: Ingrid Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt, Melanie Delloye-Betancourt Hardcover: 96 pages Company: Abrams Image (2008-05-01) ISBN: 0810971275 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $5.67 Used Price: $5.67 An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President  On February 29, 2004, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The president was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, by American soldiers and flown to the isolated Central African Republic. In An Unbroken Agony, best-selling author and social justice advocate Randall Robinson chronicles his own cross-Atlantic journey to rescue the Haitian president from captivity in Africa while also connecting the fate of Aristide’s presidency to the Haitian people’s century-long quest for self-determination. Author: Randall Robinson Paperback: 304 pages Company: Basic Civitas Books (2008-05-05) ISBN: 0465070531 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.70 Used Price: $8.45 Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey  Glen Heggstad is an adventure motorcyclist who seeks out and rides the most rugged places on the planet. He has been a Hell's Angel and a martial arts competitor, but no amount of training or experience was able to prepare him for what he became while riding to the southern tip of South America: a prisoner. This book is the shocking travelogue of Heggstad's journey through Central and South America, including his capture by Colombia's rebel ELN army, and the eventual realization of a dream. Follow along on his exciting, round-trip to the tip of the world, made all the more amazing by its intermission at the hands of terrorists. Heggstad was ripped from his motorcycle, robbed of everything, and forced to march through strange jungles with assault rifles in his back. He was fed only small amounts of rice and water and forced to carry heavy equipment, heavy packs, and heavy doubts about his future. Even with all the hand-to-hand and sophisticated combat training Heggstad possessed, it was his shrewd thinking, precise planning, and a "do-or-die" last act of desperation that eventually secured his freedom. Author: Glen Heggstad Hardcover: 276 pages Company: Whitehorse Press (2004-07-26) ISBN: 1884313493 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $16.47 Used Price: $15.65 Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith 
In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had disappeared without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Two years later, for the first time, Beth Holloway steps forward in this astonishingly candid and inspirational memoir to tell of her harrowing ordeal and her never-ending belief in the power of faith that gave her hope against all odds. Natalee's senior class picture was splashed across the front pages of the country's newspapers and on television. Desperate for a clue as to her daughter's whereabouts, Beth and an army of faithful volunteers searched tirelessly for the missing eighteen-year-old. In their pursuit of Natalee, they encountered many roadblocks. As the horror stretched out, Beth stood on her foundation of faith, which at times was all she had to give her strength against a barrage of unbearable questions with no answers. Natalee's disappearance remains unsolved and her location unknown to this day. Beth's search continues. Author: Beth Holloway Hardcover: 256 pages Company: HarperOne (2007-10-01) (2007-10-02) ISBN: 0061452270 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $4.62 Used Price: $4.48 News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International)  During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medellín drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars' worth of cocaine. They weren't likely to be arrested at home, but if extradited and tried in America, they would spend the rest of their lives in prison. Escobar and his colleagues tried to a cut a deal with the government. Then Escobar decided that a little extralegal pressure--i.e., terrorism--could do no harm. In short order he had 10 prominent Colombians kidnapped; most were journalists, and all had professional or personal ties to the pro-extradition movement. Ultimately two of the hostages were shot. The remaining eight were released in a trickle, as the drug traffickers began to break ranks and surrender. So ended at least one episode in what Gabriel García Márquez calls "the biblical holocaust that has been consuming Colombia for more than twenty years." García Márquez was originally invited to write about the kidnapping by Maruja Pachon, who spent six months in captivity. As he began to write, however, he realized that her story was inseparable from that of the other nine victims. The result is a meticulous, sobering, and suspenseful book. It is, of course, a work of reportage, which puts a lid on the author's penchant for magic realism. But in the hands of a writer like García Márquez, truth makes fiction look paltry indeed. |