NBC’s Richard Engel & Team Freed After Five Days Held Captive Engel said that they were traveling with Syrian rebels when a group of about 15 gunmen “jumped out the trees and bushes” and captured them. Read more More
MLB Catcher Wilson Ramos Rescued After Kidnapping Ordeal in Native Venezuela The men who abducted Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos have been caught stealing. The two-day kidnapping ordeal ended on Friday when the rescue mission by Venezuelan police commandos succeeded after an exchange of heavy gunfire. Read more More
Washington Nationals Catcher Wilson Ramos Kidnapped in Native Venezuela The 24-year-old touted backstop was back home to play 10 games for the Aragua Tigers when four armed men approached his home and took him away in an SUV. It appears to be the first kidnapping case involving an MLB player. Read more More
Yes I Was, Maury. And Yes I Did. So Maury can’t do his infamous “You are not the father” schtick every single day of the week. Sometimes he has to branch out a little, cast a wider net and catch some oddly specific fish. Seriously, how oddly specific can you get? Read more More
3 Arrested for Holding 4 Mentally Disabled Adults Captive Sometimes it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia. Four mentally handicapped adults described as having the mental capacity of 10-year-olds were rescued after police found the foursome chained to a boiler and locked in a 15-by-15-foot subbasement. Read more More
Jaycee Dugard Files Suit Against U.S. Government for Lack of Parole Supervision Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, and for the next 18 years she endured horrific abuse and neglect at the California home of of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Dugard has filed a lawsuit against the federal government for their neglect. Read more More
Child Murderer Receives Compensation from German Court After Police Threat A German man convicted of killing an 11-year-old boy just got paid, son, courtesy of a Frankfurt court. The court ruled that 36-year-old Magnus Gaefgen “deserved compensation” for a “police officer’s threat of violence during an interrogation.” Read more More