Mom of Elizabeth Thomas violently abused her, court docs allege
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Kidnapping
April 25, 2017
Girl, 8, fights off would-be kidnapper who put bag over her head
An 8-year-old Chicago girl managed to fight off a man who knocked her off her bike and tried to abduct her. WLS-TV reported that the girl was playing outside of her grandmother’s house Sunday afternoon when the incident occurred. The unidentified man is said to have pushed her off her bike and threw a bag …
Kidnapping
April 19, 2017
Two Missouri men accused of kidnapping, raping woman with autism
Two men—one who is an undocumented immigrant—allegedly kidnapped an autistic woman and sexually abused her for several days. KYTV reported that the 22-year-old victim left her Greene County, Missouri, residence early on April 15 and family members discovered her not far away outside a mobile home on April 17. Leaving an unintelligible note behind, the woman …
Kidnapping
April 7, 2017
Elizabeth Thomas, Tad Cummins airport sighting is false alarm, as deputies race to Milwaukee airport
Police raced to Milwaukee airport on Thursday after a passenger reported a sighting of missing Tennessee teen Elizabeth Thomas, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. A passenger aboard a flight from Milwaukee to Minneapolis reported seeing Thomas and Tad Cummins, her former teacher-turned-abductor on Thursday afternoon. The tip sent authorities …
Kidnapping
April 6, 2017
BOMBSHELL! New court filings claim Tad Cummins threatened Elizabeth Thomas, and that she didn’t want to go with him
Anthony Thomas, kidnapped Tennessee teen Elizabeth Thomas’s father, has filed a petition, through his attorney, to depose witnesses who purportedly have knowledge of the relationship between Elizabeth and her suspected abductor Tad Cummins. On Thursday, Anthony Thomas’s lawyer filed a Petition for Perpetuation of Testimony at the Maury County Courthouse, appealing to the court to …
Kidnapping
April 2, 2017
Police: Man kidnaps, assaults, tries to marry woman he met on Facebook
A Florida college student reportedly traveled to Indiana to “steal” a woman, impregnate her, and force her into marriage, police said. An Indiana State Police trooper supposedly caught Kung Bik Cem, 19, trying to rape the woman in broad daylight in the backseat of his car. According to the Daily Journal, the 19-year-old told the trooper that …
Kidnapping
March 31, 2017
SPECIAL UPDATE: Elizabeth Thomas told friend she and Tad Cummins plan to head out West
-Elizabeth’s dad breaks down in tears at sighting; Jill Cummins reportedly files for divorce
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Kidnapping
March 28, 2017
Woman smuggles pregnancy surrogate from Mexico, then holds her captive and starves her: Report
A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to forced labor after admitting that she smuggled a woman into the U.S. from Mexico for the purposes of a surrogate pregnancy. She is accused of holding her captive as a forced laborer, starving her, and abusing her. According to the New York Post, Esthela Clark, 47, of Jacksonville, admitted …
Kidnapping
March 21, 2017
BOLO: Two men try to abduct schoolgirl!
Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest
Kidnapping
March 20, 2017
Kidnapping victim uses insulin pump, escapes car trunk [VIDEO]
The dramatic escape was caught on camera
Kidnapping
March 17, 2017
“You treated me like an object, a toy, an animal”: Survivor of elaborate kidnapping plot delivers emotional testimony
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the “hell that we have survived” in emotional testimony before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so elaborate and bizarre that police initially dismissed …
Kidnapping
March 13, 2017
Kidnapped Florida mom found alive and safe but possibly injured; husband arrested
Alisa Summers’s husband Trevor has been uncooperative with police
