Kidnapping

Student abducted by former teacher Tad Cummins opens up in first on-camera interview, says she was forced by gun to flee with him

 Student abducted by former teacher Tad Cummins opens up in first on-camera interview, says she was forced by gun to flee with him
Kidnapping

In her first on-air interview, Tennessee girl Elizabeth Thomas sat down to discuss what happened before, during, and after the 38 days her former teacher, Tad Cummins, reportedly abducted her. Elizabeth was just 15 when she disappeared from her Columbia, Tennessee, home in March 2017. Her disappearance sparked an AMBER Alert and a nationwide hunt after …

Elizabeth Smart says abductor Wanda Barzee still carries husband’s disturbing ‘Book of Revelations’ that details kidnapping, raping girls: Report
Kidnapping
September 18, 2018

Elizabeth Smart says abductor Wanda Barzee still carries husband’s disturbing ‘Book of Revelations’ that details kidnapping, raping girls: Report

In her first sit-down interview since the news of her abductor’s upcoming prison release, Elizabeth Smart shared additional details on kidnapper Wanda Barzee, some of which have never been heard before. “…Just the feeling that kind of radiated from her. It just was dark. And it was evil. And I just knew that she — …

‘I hope the state puts her in a mental hospital!’ Family of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper won’t take her in, daughter reacts to ‘surprising’ prison release
Kidnapping
September 16, 2018

‘I hope the state puts her in a mental hospital!’ Family of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper won’t take her in, daughter reacts to ‘surprising’ prison release

Kidnapper Wanda Barzee apparently won’t be staying with family members upon her prison release this week, according to a relative. Barzee, 72, has completed a 15-year sentence in connection with the 2002 kidnapping of then-teen Elizabeth Smart, but the abductor could now faces additional issues: finding a home upon her release. Her new residence will …

VIDEO: Quick-thinking cashier saves kidnapped sex assault victim from captors, police say
Heroes
July 16, 2018

VIDEO: Quick-thinking cashier saves kidnapped sex assault victim from captors, police say

Surveillance cameras reportedly captured the tense moments when a California gas station clerk helped a woman escape from men who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Per KCRA, Savannah Pritchett was working at Triple R Gas and Mart in Waterford Wednesday afternoon when a distressed woman came in asking for help. The woman said she was kidnapped …

Adult ‘friend’ faces felony kidnapping charge after reportedly abducting, having sex with AMBER Alert girl he met online
Kidnapping
July 10, 2018

Adult ‘friend’ faces felony kidnapping charge after reportedly abducting, having sex with AMBER Alert girl he met online

Prosecutors filed a federal kidnapping charge on Monday against a man who reportedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl on Independence Day, after meeting her online in February. FOX4 reports that 22-year-old Dechon White is accused of buying a one-way ticket to Minnesota with pre-planned intentions of taking a girl who had just turned 13 with him. The …

Elizabeth Smart kidnapper denied early prison release
Kidnapping
July 3, 2018

Elizabeth Smart kidnapper denied early prison release

By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 has been denied early parole. The decision announced Monday night by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole was expected after Wanda Barzee, 72, …