Category Archive for : ‘ABDUCTION KIDNAPPING’

CNN/Ralph Ellis 10/14/15 Anthony Joseph Palma, 56, was arrested Monday and charged with kidnapping and first degreemurder of 8 year old Kirsten Hatfield in May 1997.  Kirsten disappeared from her home inMidwest City, the second grader’s bedroom window was cracked and her underwear was found inthe backyard.  The child has never been found.  Palma is a former neighbor of thegirl.  Thanks to DNA evidence, police were able to make the arrest.  Lab techniciansdiscovered blood from the window sill and the girl’s underwear came from an unknownmale.  Investigators ran that DNA

aol.com 7/13/15 Channing Galbraith, 29, was arrested for sexual assault of a child last July.  he iscurrently being held on a $100,000 bond for kidnapping.  A smoke break for, CourtneyBest, a Texas pizza shop employee, led to the quick rescues of the missing boy when shespotted the suspect’s car.  She said, I stepped outside, I was standing by the trash can, andI seen a white car pull up, and I just happen to take my phone with me cause we don’t look at ourphones at work, and I looked down, and

Newsday/Bridget Murphy 6/16/15 Daniel Miller, a 48 year old Inwood man, pleaded guilty to charges that included hiring ahit man to kill a 17 year old teen he sexually abused in 2012 and was sentenced to a 9-year prisonsentence Tuesday.  Miller drugged and sexually abused the boy that worked in his religiousbook store.  While in jail, he admitted to trying to hire someone to kill the boy to keep himfrom testifying against him.  He pleaded guilty to a total of 41 charges, includingkidnapping, sexual abuse and conspiracy to commit murder. 

The New York Times 6/21/2003 Claude Solomon, a 26 year old man from Baldwin, was arrested on Thursday and accused ofkidnapping a 19 year old woman in Queens, then raping her in his car and videotaping theattack.  Solomon told the woman he was a police officer and showed her his dead father’s NewYork City transit police badge.  He is charged with second degree kidnapping, sodomy, rape andcriminal impersonation.  Solomon picked up the woman near Queens Plaza around 3:30 a.m.Thursday.  She agreed to go with him, but once in the car,

Aol.com

3/12/15

The 15 year old boy arrested in connection with an attempted kidnapping in Spraguehad previously been investigated a year ago for allegedly trying to lure a minor. The sheriff’soffice forwarded a report accusing the boy of luring an 11 year old boy, but the prosecutor’soffice decided not to file charges in that case. The previous incident also occurred in Sprague.Meanwhile, residents of Sprague expressed relief Thursday that an arrest has been made in theattempted kidnapping of a 22 month old toddler from a city park, which drew wide attention after

Newsday/John Riley

2/28/15

Pedro Hernandez, the 53 year old man accused of murdering 6 year old Etan Patz in1979, gave no reason for his sudden decision to strangle Etan. He volunteered that it wasn’tsexual. Hernandez tearfully confessed after six and a half hours of interrogation. Later, as avideo camera recorded his words, Hernandez insisted the boy was still alive when he encased him ina plastic garbage bag and a cardboard box, then abandoned him in an alleyway in Manhattan. I knowI did what I did, but he was alive, Hernandez insisted, weeping,