True Kidnapping

This audiobook is all about mass disappearances which have occurred in history. These events run the gamut from entire villages whose inhabitants disappeared to a flight of military planes gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle.

When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.

In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up, and one posited that Lindbergh actually killed his own son and fabricated the entire kidnapping to mask the deed.

Tara is on her way to pick up both her children from the airport following a visit with their father in America, but within seconds, her happiness is replaced by the shocking realization that only her daughter returned. Tara’s world is shattered as she’s thrust into the American legal system, determined to fight for her son.

In July 2002, the Eastlake police discovered a decomposed body in a modest studio apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. It appeared to be a suicide by firearm. The man was Joseph Newton Chandler III, a retiree whom neighbors and former colleagues described as quiet, secretive, and strange. But as the investigation progressed, less and less about Joseph's life and identity made sense. In 2018, thanks to scientific advances in DNA, the man's true identity was finally discovered: Robert Ivan Nichols.

One hot summer, two young children disappeared from their first-floor apartment in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported them missing to the police. Later that day, the body of four-year-old Missy was found in a vacant lot, showing signs of having been strangled. The body of five-year-old Eddie, Jr., was found several days later.

In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and locked in a closet. The perps - a career bank robber, a petty thief, and his 19-year-old never-been-in-trouble Mormon wife - quickly become the targets of the biggest manhunt in Northwest history. The caper plays out like a Hollywood thriller with countless twists and improbable developments. Perhaps the most astonishing thing of all, though, is how it all ends.

Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children - until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA.

On the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, not all is paradise in this high-stakes, action-packed romantic suspense. He'll risk his life for her . . . but will he risk his heart? Jiang Ying Yue assumed her kidnapping was random, that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. After all, who would...

Real heroes aren't born, they're made K9 handler Arin Siri doesn't like taking orders, and she works best when it's just her and her dog King out in the field. But when she discovers a wounded soldier of fortune during a Search and Protect mission, she has no choice but to get him to safety. The...

Left is the true story of a million-dollar kidnapping gone wrong and the elusive hunt for the criminal mastermind behind it all. From murdering his best friend to high-speed chases, breaking out of prison, and cold-blooded guile, this is the story of international fugitive Hossein Nayeri, as told by Lieutenant Ryan Peters of Orange County.

Es beginnt als harmlose Wanderung im idyllischen Boquete: Lisanne Froon und Kris Kremers, zwei junge Niederländerinnen, brechen zu einer Tour auf dem malerischen Pianista Trail auf. Als die beiden nicht zurückkehren, setzt eine beispiellose Suchaktion ein: Einheimische, Polizei, Rettungskräfte - ganz Panama scheint in Bewegung. Nach qualvollen zehn Wochen wird ein Rucksack im Flussbett des Río Culebra gefunden - kilometerweit vom ursprünglichen Wanderweg entfernt. Die Erleichterung über den Fund währt kurz.

Jede Episode beleuchtet neue Facetten des Falls und trennt Fakten von wilden Gerüchten. Der Fall Kris und Lisanne beflügelt die Fantasie von Internet-Detektiven weltweit, die ihre eigenen, oft bizarren Theorien entwickeln. Die Untersuchung folgt den Spuren der Unfalltheorien und zeigt auf, warum selbst erfahrene Wanderer an den offiziellen Erklärungen zweifeln.

He was a trusted neighbor, a respected businessman, and a smiling clown who entertained children. But beneath the floorboards of his quiet suburban home, a nightmare festered. When police entered 8213 Summerdale Avenue in 1978, they expected answers about a missing teenage boy. What they found was a house of horrors. One body. Then another. Then another. By the end of the excavation, the remains of twenty-six young men and boys had been pulled from the crawl space.

Australia's most prolific serial sexual killers met in prison. They were a complete contrast: Christopher Worrell, the charismatic psychopathic youngster; and James Miller, the older and socially awkward loner. For Miller, it was love at first sight. They developed an ominous sexual bond–proving that opposites can attract–and then kill. Once free, the inseparable tag team slayed as many people as notorious Australian serial killer Ivan Milat. Whereas Milat took a year to murder seven victims, the duo achieved the same in seven short weeks … the last four killed in only six days.

It is plausible that Donald Henry Gaskins was born a psychopath; it may also be said that his life experiences helped turn him into a sociopath. The Meanest Man in America earned the title of the most prolific serial killer in South Carolina’s history. Although it was never confirmed, Gaskins claimed to have murdered more than 100 people, with some reports as high as 181.

Der Fund des Rucksacks und der menschlichen Überreste von Kris und Lisanne schockiert die Welt und wirft mehr Fragen auf, als er beantwortet. In dieser Episode tauchen die Autoren tief in die offiziellen Ermittlungen ein, die von Anfang an von unerklärlichen Fehlern geprägt sind. Der forensische Bericht aus den Niederlanden enthüllt erschreckende Details: Die Mädchen könnten elf Tage nach ihrem Verschwinden noch gelebt haben, ihre Handys wurden auf mysteriöse Weise bedient, die auf eine Benutzung durch Dritte hinweist.

Die letzten Antworten liegen im Verborgenen - bis jetzt. Dies ist die vierte und letzte Episode von Verschollen in Panama . In dieser Hörbuch-Serie rollen die Autoren Christian Hardinghaus und Annette Nenner einen der mysteriösesten Cold Cases neu auf und beleuchten die unzähligen Ungereimtheiten im Fall Kris Kremers und Lisanne Froon. In dieser abschließenden Folge stehen Antworten und Fragen im Raum, die nach all den Jahren immer noch zweifelhaft sind.

Four Years in a Cave documents a painful, real life-experience of an elementary school teacher who survives a brutal, barbaric, and tribally-charged military purge of the 1980s in Zimbabwe. A secretly selected and specially trained brigade abducts the teacher from a minority tribe, falsely accusing him of collaborating with dissidents seeking to destabilize the regime dominated by the majority tribe. The teacher is savagely tortured but he manages to escape and hide in a remote cave for four years.

Een boek vol inspirerende levenslessen en strategieën om uitdagingen te overwinnen, veerkracht te ontwikkelen en positiever in het leven te staan, gebaseerd op Natascha Kampusch' ervaring als overlever van een langdurige gevangenschap Natascha Kampusch is tien jaar oud als ze op weg naar school wordt ontvoerd door Wolfgang Priklopil. Hij houdt haar gevangen in een keldertje van amper vijf vierkante meter. Pas achtenhalf jaar later, tijdens een onbewaakt moment, ziet Natascha kans te vluchten. Maar de nachtmerrie is nog niet voorbij.