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Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body.

Elizabeth Smart to work as ABC commentator focusing on missing persons, child abduction cases.

An investigation in Spain into the disappearances of newborn children from 1950 to 1990 has involved allegations of abductions and the existence of criminal networks.

Jaycee Dugard, who gave birth to two girls fathered by the captor who kidnapped her as a child, said she is amazed at her newfound freedom, in excerpts released on Thursday from her first interview.

An unused, unstamped train ticket helped lead to charges against a Seattle man in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old girl in 1957.

In the newly unsealed transcript of her grand jury testimony, Jaycee Lee Dugard recounts her abduction and captivity and explains why she never tried to escape. At times, the voice is young and terrified — an 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped during the last week of school, raped for years and kept in line under threat of pain.

Searchers in western Tennessee kept looking Thursday for a nursing student who was last seen being dragged from her house by a man wearing camouflage in what authorities say may have been a home invasion and abduction.

Six people are jailed in connection with the abduction, torture and murder of a restaurant worker whose severed thumb was found three days after he was kidnapped.

A man who rescued an 8-year-old girl who had been abducted by a stranger has told how he was "beyond scared" as he forced the kidnapper's truck to stop.

Iranian Shahram Amiri's reappearance was as mysterious as his disappearance.