Early last week, Maine, US-born journalist David Rohde, a reporter for The New York Times, managed to successfully escape the grasp of his Taliban captors, in Afghanistan, and to safely return home. Most of the world did not learn about his capture until he succeeded in making his daring escape, and there's a go... |
29 June 2009
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Recent studies show that people are less likely to recognize kidnapped children from beautiful pictures than from images depicting them as dirty or sad. When a kid goes missing, usually the police show around pictures of the victim in a happy stance, as these images usually come from the family and depict happy momen... |
29 October 2008
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Kimberly Jernigan, a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina, was arrested by the New Castle County Detectives after she tried to kidnap her ex-boyfriend using a gun, duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. The two had engaged in a relationship after virtually meeting in the social network Second Life. Jernigan, whose avata... |
26 August 2008
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Reigh Rockeffeler, also known as Snooks, is a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped by her father, right during his visitation hours, as he shared custody rights with the mother. After the FBI reported that the man kidnapped his daughter and made a clean escape in an SUV, injuring in the process a social worker whose rol... |
4 August 2008
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I'm sure we all knew Jennifer Lopez was not exactly the world's most reasonable person - in fact, as it came out on various occasions, she apparently fancies herself quite the diva. And I mean "Naomi Campbell"-style diva - well, maybe not throwing Blackberry phones at anyone's head but certainly acting... |
1 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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