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Garridos Confess to Kidnapping Jaycee Dugard

Lawyer hopes Nancy will avoid life sentence

(Newser) - Phillip and Nancy Garrido have confessed to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her for 18 years, Nancy's defense attorney says. The confession was made in an effort to reduce Nancy's sentence, the Los Angeles Times reports: Authorities have offered her a plea deal of nearly 242 years to life,...

Is Madeleine McCann in US?
 Is Madeleine McCann in US? 
Feb 18, 2011 12:19 PM CST

Is Madeleine McCann in US?

One sleuth believes pedophile ring took her to America

(Newser) - Nearly four years after her disappearance, an amateur investigator believes he knows where Madeleine McCann is: the US. Marcelino Italiano has told police that a Portugal-based pedophile ring likely snatched the little girl and smuggled her out of the country, and he tells the Sun he has been twice attacked...

Facebook Plea for Missing Twins

Girls, 6, last spotted sobbing on Corsican ferry

(Newser) - A heartsick Swiss mother has turned to Facebook in a plea to the public to help find her young twin daughters, missing since they were snatched by their suicidal father. Alessia and Livia Schepp, both 6, were last spotted crying on a ferry to Corsica with their dad after he...

Kidnap Victim Now Estranged From Birth Parents

Birth mother says Carlina White has distanced herself

(Newser) - The story of the 23-year-old who found her birth parents after being kidnapped as a baby may not have such a happy ending. Carlina White, who was raised as Nejdra Nance, has distanced herself from her biological family, her mother said this morning on Today . When they were first reunited,...

Hunt on for Suicide Dad's Twins
 Hunt on for Missing Twins 

Feb 7, 2011 2:35 AM CST

Hunt on for Missing Twins

Father tells wife he can't live without them

(Newser) - European police are frantically searching for 6-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father was found dead. Matthias Kaspar Schepp, 43, of Switzerland, apparently committed suicide after taking his daughters in the midst of a marital dispute, according to investigators. He threw himself in the path of an oncoming train...

'Kidnap Mom' Surrenders
 'Kidnap Mom' Surrenders 
Jan 23, 2011 4:24 PM CST

'Kidnap Mom' Surrenders

Ann Pettway turns self in on parole violation charge

(Newser) - Ann Pettway, the woman who raised kidnapped child Carlina White as her own for 23 years, surrendered to authorities today, the AP reports. Police, who are considering whether to prosecute the kidnapping, had a warrant for Pettway on a parole violation charge, since the terms of her probation did not...

Cops Seek Missing 'Kidnap Mom'

Arrest warrant issued for parolee Ann Pettway

(Newser) - North Carolina cops are looking for Ann Pettway, the woman who raised a girl stolen from a Harlem hospital at 19 days of age, and now they're armed with an arrest warrant, reports the New York Post. Pettway, a convicted embezzler on parole, has been missing ever since 23-year-old Carlina...

After 23 Years, Kidnapping May Still Be Prosecuted

Detectives say criminal case a possibility in case of 'Carlina White'

(Newser) - Nejdra Nance—or, as her biological parents know her, Carlina White—has been reunited with her real family after 23 years , but the story is far from over. While her appearance answers a lot of questions for her biological family and Nance herself, it raises others—the most pressing of...

Kidnapped Baby Found 23 Years Later

'Our baby girl is home,' says Nejdra Nance's grandma

(Newser) - A sickly infant snatched from her Harlem hospital crib has been located—23 years after she was kidnapped. Nejdra Nance of Atlanta contacted the distraught mom who always thought her daughter was alive. Nance spotted photos of missing "Carlina" online and thought they looked amazingly like her own baby...

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