Benjamin Obadiah Foster (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Grants Pass Police Department 'Extremely Troubling': Police Hunting for Torture Suspect Who Was Convicted of a Similar Crime Just 2 Years Ago “We are using every piece of technology available to locate this man,” the chief of police said. “And I'll leave it at that.” By The Associated Press January 26, 2023
Chayantorn Tongmorn / ShutterstockCommentary Mother Thwarts Scary Kidnapping Attempt - The 'Big Turning Point' Was When She Pulled Out Her Gun A lawfully-armed mother kept her child from being abducted, then security guard and police took care of would-be kidnappers. By Elizabeth Delaney January 17, 2023
NBC4 Columbus / YouTube screen shot Heroic Woman Tricks Alleged Kidnapper Into Car, Takes Her on Nightmare Ride She'll Never Forget "I’m still in shock," Belmar said. "I’m still in shock, because I’m still saying I cannot believe I had a fugitive in my car." By Andrew Jose December 28, 2022
News & Observer / Twitter Carjacking Suspect Arrested After Kid Sitting in the Back Seat Takes Action Quick-thinking boy saves himself and his brothers from terrifying incident involving alleged drunk carjacker on a drug run. By Elizabeth Delaney December 26, 2022
@901Lulu / Twitter; @HowertonNews / Twitter Athena Strand Murder Case Takes Shock Turn as Accused FedEx Driver Reveals His Reasoning Police have released the arrest warrant affidavit for Tanner Horner, who has confessed to kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand. By Carson Choate December 10, 2022
@23andMeResearch / Twitter screen shot 'Couldn't Stop Crying': Man Shocked When 23andMe Results Match Him with 2 Unknown People, Then He Sees Why Fifty-one years after their daughter's kidnapping, a father's 23andMe results reunited him with their missing child. By The Associated Press November 29, 2022
Clever 10-Year-Old Boy Comes Up With Genius Plan to Outsmart Potential Kidnapper The unfamiliar woman approached the boy, asked where his family was, and said that he should come with her. By Amanda Thomason November 18, 2022
MattGush / Getty Images 'Gut Instinct' Overtakes Gun-Toting Hero After Hearing a Child Being Kidnapped - Turns Tables on Kidnapper A Georgia man responded when he heard a child screaming for help, and held the man who had taken the child to the woods until police arrived. By Jack Davis November 13, 2022
Barnaby Chambers / ShutterstockCommentary Child Ripped from Car and Forcibly Moved to Woods Before Hands Close Around His Neck... But an Armed Citizen Was Silently Watching 'The kidnapping stems from him forcibly moving the kid from one spot to the other the way he did,' police said. By George C. Upper III November 8, 2022
Lacey Police Department / Facebook 'There Was Just Constant Screaming': Wife Escapes After Husband Allegedly Kidnaps, Stabs and Buries Her Alive She ran up to a home and started banging on the door, covered in dirt, terrified, with pieces of duct tape still clinging to her. By Amanda Thomason October 21, 2022