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2 days ago · A woman kidnapped outside of her Northern California home made a daring escape by hiding inside a gas station bathroom, not far from an area known as “Murder Mountain.”

A kidnapped 12-year-old North Carolina girl who’d fallen prey to her alleged abductor on Snapchat was found alive in the repeat sex offender’s crashed car, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Princeton University doctoral student Elizabeth Tsurkov was held hostage in Iraq for 903 days, enduring torture and isolation after being kidnapped by an Iran-backed militia.

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Apr 7, 2026 · American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, has been released by her abductors.