Kidnapping

Hoover police are consulting with the district attorney's office over the possibility of pushing criminal charges against Russell for faking her kidnapping.

David Zandstra ministered in churches across California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas between 1965 and 2005.

Russell's attorney sent a statement to the Hoover Police Department on behalf of his client, in which Russell said her kidnapping story was a "mistake."

Russell's boyfriend, Thomar Simmons, appears to have deleted most of the images of the two of them from his social-media profiles.

On the day she went missing, Russell searched "do you have to pay for an amber alert?" and "how to take money from a register without being caught?"

After Russell's return on Saturday, many members of the public have asked for clarity about what happened during the 48 hours she went missing.

Residents of the area where Russell disappeared want to know if a kidnapper is on the loose in the community.

The teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted for a month in Texas. A man and a woman have been charged with one count each of aggravated kidnapping.

While Russell's boyfriend has mentioned a "kidnapper," the absence of police action suggests that she was not abducted, Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek.

Criminal justice professor Joseph Giacalone told Newsweek that what police are not doing is more telling than what they've made public regarding Carlee Russell.

Antonio Monroe, 44, was charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder following the discovery of the girl's body.

An Amber Alert was issued on Sunday for Lillie May Anderson, urging Texans to keep an eye out for the child or the suspect's vehicle.

The 11-year-old girl in New Jersey was able to flee on foot after being lured into a man's vehicle and driven two miles away.

The suspect and the victim reportedly knew each other prior to the incident but had not spoken in a year.

The baby was taken during a carjacking, according to Texas police.

Detroit Police Captain Donna McCord said suspect Jamere Miller got into the victim's car and forced her to move a seat over before driving off with her inside.

The FBI believes that Monica de Leon Barba's kidnapping was a targeted abduction and she may still be alive.

The girl was first reported missing in Dallas two weeks ago and was just found over 1,000 miles from home.

Police said: "The victim was provided with limited food and no bathroom facilities."

Cartel members handed over five men alleging they were responsible for a kidnapping and said they had broken rules about respecting the lives of the innocent.

FBI Seattle said they believe the child was kidnapped by her biological mother in 2018 and since being discovered in Mexico has been taken back to the U.S.

Nearly 200 U.S. citizens die in Mexico on average every year, a large percentage of which are ruled homicide.

Representative James Comer said Donald Trump intended to bomb fentanyl and crystal meth labs while he was president but the military chose not to do it.

"We don't meddle to try to see what U.S. criminal gangs distribute fentanyl in the United States," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.

Sam Bateman allegedly conspired to kidnap minors with three of his wives while in jail. He also had sexually explicit conversations with minors.

The U.S. State Department issued travel advisories for six Mexican states after four Americans were kidnapped in Tamaulipas on Friday.

Four Americans were reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint over the weekend, and their whereabouts remain unknown.

Over 50 percent of women don't feel safe walking alone. One woman with her own terrifying tale spoke to Newsweek about nearly being kidnapped on her daily walk.

The offensive linesman, who may have played on February 12, is alleged to have raped and kidnapped a woman in December 2019, in Ohio, when he was a student.

The kidnapping and torture suspect has several charges of domestic abuse in his criminal record and left his victim with seven broken ribs and two black eyes.