Kidnapping

Fifty years ago, a teenaged heiress with a famous last name was kidnapped from her California apartment by armed terrorists. What followed was one of the most confounding crimes in American history.  

Five men have been charged after an alleged kidnapping attempt at a Sydney unit where police allegedly found $1 billion worth of cocaine in one of the biggest drug busts in the state's history.

The man kidnapped the children of a former boss and demanded a $1 million ransom.

Jiangang Ji kidnapped the children of his former boss before demanding a $1 million ransom as part of a revenge plot.

A Melbourne schoolgirl says she is afraid to go out in public after a man allegedly attempted to abduct her during a school excursion last month. 

Colombian authorities are still looking for the father of English Premier League star Luis Diaz, after he was kidnapped near his home.

Vision a defence lawyer fought to keep secret is released, showing two service station attendants being taken hostage near Newcastle, and one faking pregnancy in order to be freed.

Jiangang Ji faces up to 25 years' jail over the 2021 incident, where he kidnapped the two young children of his ex-boss and sparked a major police investigation.

Holly Willoughby announces she is stepping down from her presenting role on daytime programme This Morning, days after a man was charged in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and murder her.

A shopping centre security officer appears in UK court charged with soliciting another man to murder This Morning television host Holly Willoughby.

The search for fugitive gunman Stanley Turvey is over after police shot him dead at Ardmona, near the northern Victorian city of Shepparton.

Phillip Mehrtens was working for an Indonesian airline when he was kidnapped by the insurgent group West Papua National Liberation Army at Nduga airport six months ago.

The CCTV footage shows Tarikjot Singh in the aisles of a Bunnings store, purchasing items before he buried alive his ex-girlfriend Jasmeen Kaur in the Flinders Ranges in March 2021.

The FBI is looking for more potential victims after a woman kidnapped and locked in a makeshift cell by a man posing as an undercover police officer managed to escape.

Tarikjot Singh, who abducted his ex-girlfriend Jasmeen Kaur from her Adelaide workplace and then buried her alive in the Flinders Ranges, is jailed for the murder, with the sentencing judge saying he could not find words to describe the young woman's final moments.

There are cautious hopes a trip by Indonesia's President to Papua could help speed up the release of a New Zealand man held hostage for five months.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo's trip to Papua's regional capital Jayapura is officially related to a festival, but it comes as his government tries to use what it calls "cautious" negotiations to free Philip Mark Mehrtens.

Young murder victim Jasmeen Kaur, 21, was forced to endure an "uncommon level of cruelty" after she was abducted by her ex-partner, who buried her alive, an Adelaide court is told.

The SUV travelled south to the Gold Coast, where it came to a stop at a carpark along Smith Street in Parkwood.

Two men have been charged with torture and deprivation of liberty after two people were allegedly kidnapped in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park.

A group of bandits that kidnapped an Australian professor in the PNG Highlands appears to have struck again, this time snatching and assaulting a group of women and girls. Warning: Readers might find the details in this story distressing.

A court refuses Kirt Field bail after hearing the 37-year-old, who has been charged with more than 20 offences, is a flight risk.

Police say a man has turned himself in after a call for information about an alleged abduction of a toddler from a park in Yinnar, two hours south-east of Melbourne, but he has since been released.

An elderly Perth doctor who had been held captive in West Africa after being kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been released more than seven years later.

Friend of Dr Kenneth Elliott's friend says they've been praying and hoping for this great news for the last seven years.