Category Archive for : ‘ABDUCTION KIDNAPPING’

abcnews.com/Yunji DeNies, Pierre Thomas, Michael S. James and Colleen Curry 5/10/12 Two Tennessee girls missing since their mother and sister were murdered were rescued todayin Mississippi, where their suspected abductor, Adam Mayes, apparently shot himself to death. Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain, ages 12 and 8, were rescued by units with the Mississippi HighwayPatrol.  Mayes, 35, who is suspected of abducting them and killing JoAnn and Adrienne Bain,was found after he shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead in an areahospital.  JoAnn and Adrienne were killed in their Tennessee

Huffingtonpost.com
9/10/12
Franklin B. Davis, a 30 year old Texas man accused of raping a 16 year old girl, used socialmedia to lure her to a meeting, abduct her from her school and drive her to a river, where hekilled her to keep her from testifying against him.  Davis was charged with capital murder inthe death of Shania Gray.  Gray was last seen alive Thursday afternoon at Hebron HighSchool.  Her body was found Saturday in a secluded area near the Trinity River.
(Texas)

Gilroy.Patch.com/Jacob Bourne 7/24/13 The Sierra LaMar murder and kidnap case was delayed in a San Jose courtroom Tuesday to nextmonth as prosecutors sift through evidence still coming in from law enforcement agencies. Murder defendant Antolin Garcia Torres, 21, was charged back on Mary 31, 2012, with murder andkidnapping with special circumstances after 15-year-old Sierra vanished outside her home nearMorgan Hill on March 16, 2012. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Garcia Torres on May 21 of last yearafter detectives reported finding DNA believed to be Sierra’s inside his red VolkswagenJetta.  Prosecutors have combined the

huffingtonpost.com 9/4/13 Ariel Castro, 53, faced four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape in connection tothe disappearance of three women held for a decade in a home in Cleveland.  Police believethat Amanda Berry, 27,Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, about 23, were held against their willin Castro’s house since their teens or early 20s.  The kidnapped women and a six-year-oldgirl, believed to be Berry’s, were rescued Monday after Berry kicked through a locked screen doorand called 911 on a neighbor’s phone. On August 1, Castro was sentenced to

Huffingtonpost/Frank Eltman and Ula Ilnytzky 9/5/13 Sal Inghilleri, 55, was convicted in 1994 for sexually abusing 9 year old Katie Beers in1992, before family friend John Esposito kidnapped her and kept her in an underground concretechamber for 16 days.  His attorney said that there was no reason to fear the convicted childmolester because he so dislikes prison that he would do anything to avoid being near kids. The last thing he wants to do is go back to jail, said defense attorney Mary Elizabeth Abbate ofDeer Park.  I think if he

foxnews.com
7/6/12
Brandon Scott Lavergne, a 33 year old registered sex offender, has been booked on a chargeof first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in connection with the disappearance last May ofMickey Shunick, a Louisiana college student who went missing May 19.  Lavergne was convictedin 2000 of aggravated oral sexual battery.  He was released in 2008.
(Louisiana)