kidnapping

Provides a detailed account of the 1874 kidnapping and ransom of a boy named Charley Ross, who was taken from his family's front yard in Philadelphia while the city was preparing for the nation's centennial celebration, describing the wide-spread media attention on the case, and discussing the efforts of the Philadelphia and New York police departments, elicit American citizens, and others to recover the child.

Discusses the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, how two policewomen discovered who she was and the trial that followed for Phillip Craig Garrido, the man who kidnapped her eighteen years earlier.

Jaycee Dugard chronicles the eighteen years she spent in captivity, describing what happened after she was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991, the abuse she endured, the birth of her two daughters, the events leading up to her release, and her struggle to adjust to life once she was reunited with her family.

Annie O'Sullivan spends a year being held captive by a madman in a remote mountain cabin, and as she recounts the experiences of her captivity and escape to her psychiatrist, she begins to put the pieces of her life back together.

Provides an account of the abduction of six-year-old Adam Walsh from a Sears store in 1981, and tells how after twenty-seven years of investigation, Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews was able to identify Adam's kidnapper and killer.

A graphic novel story that provides the details of the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and the investigation and arrest that followed.

Recounts the true story of James Annesley, who was kidnapped at age twelve by his uncle and sold into indentured servitude in America for twelve years before managing to escape, return to England, and bring his uncle to justice.

Former federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert describes his experiences after being kidnapped on January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, by thugs who wanted to use his ATM card, and who decided to hold onto him a while longer after learning the size of his bank account.

Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

On his way to medical school in England, sixteen-year-old Peter McCall is kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom.