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By Pete Kotz in Sex crimes, kidnapping
Wednesday, Aug. 25 2010 @ 3:16PM
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​The unnamed woman was arrested in Lexington County, South Carolina on July 31, charged with her second DUI, driving with no insurance and a suspended license, drug possession and hit and run. Needless to day, she was in quite a bit of shit...

By Pete Kotz in Video archives, kidnapping
Tuesday, Aug. 24 2010 @ 5:10AM

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​He took over a tourist bus with 25 hostages in the Philippines. By the time it was all over, nine hostages were dead with another eight in the hospital. Mendozo was killed when police stormed the bus with tear gas and flash grenades...

By Pete Kotz in Stupid Criminals, kidnapping
Monday, Aug. 23 2010 @ 2:00PM
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​Tiffiny Bray was engaged to be married. But that didn't stop the Fletcher, Oklahoma woman from deciding she'd have one last fling with another man. On July 20, she borrowed the truck of her fiance, Chad McGuire, to go shopping in Lawton, Oklahoma, but she never returned...

Tags: Oklahoma, Texas
By Pete Kotz in homicide, kidnapping
Monday, Aug. 16 2010 @ 11:31AM
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​Cassidy Blankenbaker, an eighth grader from Ramona, California, flew to Amarillo, Texas with her brother to visit her grandmother. 63-year-old Sharrel Blankenbaker picked them up at the airport to do a little shopping before heading to her home in Felt, Oklahoma...

By Pete Kotz in drugs, kidnapping
Wednesday, Aug. 11 2010 @ 12:12PM
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​There are a few rules to live by when vacationing internationally: Do not try to smuggle nine pounds of weed into Bali. Avoid being kidnapped by 150 Rwandan rebels. And never hang out with a pack of gang rapists at Buckingham Palace. TruTV has the story.

Tags: TruTV
By Pete Kotz in Sex crimes, kidnapping
Tuesday, Aug. 10 2010 @ 11:02AM
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​She left Eugene, Oregon on a May day in 1977, hoping to hitchhike her way to northern California to visit a friend. But when she was picked up by Cameron Hooker and his wife Janice, they had very different ideas. TruTV has the story.

By Pete Kotz in kidnapping, missing persons
Thursday, Aug. 5 2010 @ 12:49PM
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​UPDATE: U.S. Marshals captured Roy Elwell at a relative's trailer home outside Louisville last night. Though he has yet to be charged in Britney's kidnapping, she admits to willingly being with Elwell to party, but he then turned on her, beating and sexually abusing her. See update after the jump...

Tags: Kentucky
By Pete Kotz in assault, kidnapping
Monday, Aug. 2 2010 @ 1:14PM
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​All was not right in the household. It seems Georgia Fenn's two roommates believed she'd slept with one of the women's former boyfriends. So they decided to make her pay for her sins in the most extreme way -- with 18 hours of non-stop torture...

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By Cory Zurowski in kidnapping, missing persons
Friday, Jul. 23 2010 @ 1:10PM
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Twelve-year-old Amber White is now in the safety of her family's mobile home in Shreveport, Louisiana since she was found earlier this week after a three-day abduction. But new details of her ordeal have emerged. See update after the jump...


Tags: Louisiana
By Pete Kotz in Bad Moms, kidnapping
Thursday, Jul. 15 2010 @ 12:42PM
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​Elizabeth Denman of Lake Ozark, Missouri wasn't taking her medicine for a bipolar disorder. She also has drug problems. And to top it all off, she'd hooked up with dirtbag Mark Cochran, a sex offender with a previous conviction for incest...