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One of two people charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart pleads  guilty to federal charges.

The first images are emerging of an adult Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped when she was 11 and allegedly held captive for 18 years by a couple in an elaborate compound hidden in the backyard.

A suspect has been arrested in the 1990 abduction and rape of an 8-year-old Texas girl, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Houston, Texas, office said. The victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She recently shared her story with CNN in hopes of someday bringing her attacker to justice.

The lawyer for a Northern California woman found alive 18 years after she was kidnapped says his client has mixed emotions surrounding ...

Investigators found another bone on property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido on Friday, as they scoured the yard for possible clues to the abductions of two other girls about 20 years ago ...