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Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded guilty Thursday to the kidnapping and sexual assault of Jaycee Dugard, whom they held captive from age 11 through 29, the El Dorado County, California, district attorney said.

Orange County prosecutors Monday filed additional charges against a professional clown arrested Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a girl nine years ago.

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 federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday morning convicted a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher of kidnapping and repeatedly raping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, rejecting arguments by the defense that Brian David Mitchell was insane at the time of the crimes.

The jury is expected to begin deliberations late Thursday in the trial of a homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002.

The father of three missing Michigan boys has been charged with three counts of parental kidnapping, police said Tuesday.

Man who was declared legally dead 16 years ago in Mississippi is arrested in the kidnapping of a dead Las Vegas girl whose body was found in Louisiana woods.

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.

An 8-year-old girl who was abducted by a stranger while playing outside a Fresno home escapes from her captor after a 'good Samaritan' driver recognizes the suspect's vehicle and cuts it off, police say.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been indicted in the kidnapping case of Jaycee Dugard and will be arraigned Friday on the charges, sources confirmed to KCRA 3.