Kidnapping

Kidnapping is an unlawful transportation, asporation and confinement of taking a person against their will.

Motives

• Ransom
• Human trafficking
• Sexual assault
• Murder
• Bride kidnapping (forcing marriage)
• Tiger kidnapping (force the victim to do the kidnappers bidding)
• Dognapping(kidnapping someones dog or other pet)

Currently kidnapped

1980s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Age	Kidnapper	Missing from
Johnny Gosch	November 12, 1969	September 5, 1982	12	Unidentified	West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Anthonette Cayedito	December 25, 1976	April 6, 1986	9	Unidentified	Gallup, New Mexico, U.S.

1990s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Age	Kidnapper	Missing from
Morgan Nick	September 12, 1988	June 9, 1995	6	Unidentified	Alma, Arkansas, U.S.
Adam, Trevor, and Mitchell O'Brien	October 28, 1982 (Adam) May 8, 1985 (Trevor) November 29, 1991 (Mitchell)	November 9, 1996	14, 11, 4	Gary O'Brien	Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mikelle Biggs	1987/1988	1999	11	Unidentified	Mesa, AZ

2000s

Name	Born	Disappered	Age	Kidnapper	Missing from
Madeleine McCann	May 12, 2003	May 3, 2007	3	Christian B	Praia da Luz, Portugal

2010s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Age	Kidnapper	Missing from
Kyron Horman	September, 2002	June 4, 2010	7	Unidentified	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton	Unknown	November 26, 2010	9, 7, 5	John Skelton	Morenci, Michigan, U.S.
Alessia & Livia Schepp	October 7, 2004	January 30, 2011	6	Mathias Schepp	Saint-Sulpice, Vaud, Switzerland
Timmothy Pitzen	2004	May 11, 2011	6	Unidentified	Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
Lisa Irwin	2010	October 4, 2011	10 (months)	Unidentified	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.

2020s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Age	Kidnapper	Missing from
Óscar Denis	October 2, 1946	September 9, 2020	74	Paraguayan People's Army	Concepción, Paraguay

Survived kidnappings

1970's

Name	Born	Disappeared	Found	Kidnapper	Location
Steven Stayner	April 18, 1965	December 4, 1972	March 1, 1980	Kenneth Parnell	Merced, California, U.S.
John Paul Getty III	November 4, 1956	July 10, 1973	December 15, 1973	'Ndrangheta	Rome, Italy
Patricia Hearst	February 20, 1953	February 4, 1974	September 18, 1975	Symbionese Liberation Army	Berkeley, California, United States
Colleen Stan	December 31, 1956	1977	1984	Cameron Hooker	Red Bluff, California, U.S.

1980's

Name	Born	Disappeared	Found	Kidnapper	Location
Timothy White	November 1, 1974	February 14, 1980	March 1, 1980	Kenneth Parnell	Merced, California, U.S.
Jody Plauché	1973	February 19, 1984	February 29, 1984	Jeff Doucet	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

1990s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Found	Kidnapper	Location
Jaycee Dugard	May 3, 1980	June 10, 1991	August 26, 2009	Phillip Garrido	Pittsburg, California, U.S.
Katie Beers	December 30, 1982	December 28, 1992	January 13, 1993	John Esposito	Bay Shore, New York, U.S.
Thomas Hargrove	March 3, 1944	September 23, 1994	August 22, 1995	FARC	Cali, Colombia
Natascha Kampusch	February 17, 1988	March 2, 1998	August 23, 2006	Wolfgang Přiklopil	Vienna, Austria
Jhon Frank Pinchao	Unknown	November 1, 1998	April 28, 2007	FARC	Mitú, Vaupés, Colombia

2000s

Name	Born	Disappeared	Found	Kidnapper	Location
Elizabeth Smart	November 3, 1987	June 5, 2002	March 12, 2003	Brian David Mitchell & Wanda Barzee	Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Shawn Hornbeck	1990/1991	October 6, 2002	January 12, 2007	Michael J. Devlin	Richwoods, Missouri, U.S.
Shasta Groene	?	May 16, 2005	July 2, 2005	Joseph E. Duncan III	Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki	Unknown	July 3, 2009	October 18, 2009	Janjaweed	North Darfur, Sudan

2010s

Name(s)	Born	Disappeared	Found	Kidnapper	Location
Michelle Knight Amanda Berry Gina DeJesus	April 1, 1981 (Knight) April 22, 1986 (Berry) February 13, 1990 (Dejesus)	August 22, 2002 (Knight) April 21, 2003 (Berry) April 2, 2004 (Dejesus)	May 6, 2013	Ariel Castro	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Jayme Closs	July 13, 2005	October 15, 2018	March, 2019	Jake Patterson	Barron, Wisconsin, U.S.

Deaths from kidnappings

1930s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.	June 22, 1930	March 2, 1932	20 months	Bruno Hauptmann	Hopewell Township, New Jersey, U.S.

1950s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Emmett Till	July 25, 1941	August 28, 1955	14	Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam	Money, Mississippi, U.S.

1970s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Charles Dean and Neal Sharman	Unknown	December 14, 1974	24 (Dean) 23 (Sharman)	Pathet Lao	Vientiane, Laos
John Dawson Dewhirst	1952	c. August 1978	26	Khmer Rouge	Phnom Penh, Cambodia

1980s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Adam Walsh	November 14, 1974	July 27, 1981	6	Ottis Toole	Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena	July 26, 1947	February 9, 1985	37	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo & Rafael Caro Quintero	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Junko Furuta	January 18, 1971	January 4, 1989	17	Junko Furuta's Murderers	Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Jacob Wetterling	February 17, 1978	October 22, 1989	11	Danny Heinrich	Paynesville, Minnesota, U.S.
Amy Mihaljevic	December 11, 1978	October 27, 1989	10	Unidentified	Bay Village, Ohio, U.S.
Melissa Brennen	April 12, 1984	December 3, 1989	5	Caleb Hughes	Lorton, Virginia, U.S.

1990s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
William R. Higgins	January 15, 1945	July 6, 1990	45	Hezbollah	Beirut, Lebanon
Ebony Simpson	August 6, 1983	August 19, 1992	9	Andrew Garforth	Bargo, New South Wales, Australia
James Bulger	March 16, 1990	February 12, 1993	2	Robert Thompson and Jon Venables	Liverpool, England, U.K
Charlie Keever & Jonathan Sellers	November 1, 1979 (Keever) April 18, 1983 (Sellers)	March 27, 1993	13 (Keever) 9 (Sellers)	Scott Erskine	San Diego, California, U.S.
Mary Eileen Sarmenta & Allan Gomez	?	June 28, 1993	?	Antonio Sanchez	Calauan, Laguna, Philippines
Karmein Chan	5 November 1977	April 13, 1992	13	Mr Cruel	Templestowe, Victoria, Australia
Polly Klaas	January 3, 1981	October 1, 1993	12	Richard Allen Davis	Petaluma, California, U.S.
Miguel Ángel Blanco	May 13, 1969	July 13, 1997	29	ETA	Basque Country, Spain
Marijoy & Jacqueline Chiong	?	July 16, 1997	?	Francisco Juan Larrañaga	Cebu, Philippines
Matthew Shepard	December 1, 1976	October 12, 1998	21	Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson	Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S

2000s

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Iriana DeJesus	January 30, 1995	August 3, 2000	5	Alexis Flores	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Holly Jones	September 14, 1992	May 12, 2003	10	Michael Briere	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Morcombe	December 19, 1989	December 7, 2003	13	Brett Peter Cowan	Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Nick Berg	April 2, 1978	May 7, 2004	26	Al-Qaeda	Baghdad, Iraq
Jessica Lunsford	October 6, 1995	February 27, 2005	9	John Couey	Homosassa, Florida, U.S.

2010's

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Kayla Mueller	August 14, 1988	February 16, 2015	26	The Islamic State	Raqqa, Syria
Hania Aguilar	March 21, 2005	November 27, 2018	13	Michael Ray McLellan	Lumberton, North Carolina, U.S.

2020's

Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Kidnapper	Location
Faye Marie Swetlik	June 13, 2013	February 10, 2020	6	Coty Scott Taylor	Cayce, South Carolina, U.S.