Kidnapping
51kidnapping — At early common law:–the forcible abduction or stealing of a man, woman, or child from his own country and sending him into another; an aggravated species of false imprisonment. 1 Am J2d Abduct § 1. The offense under statutes generally: the… …
52kidnapping — noun (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment • Syn: ↑snatch • Derivationally related forms: ↑snatch (for: ↑snatch), ↑kidnap …
53Bride kidnapping — Thought to be a bride kidnapping in progress in Central Asia, circa 1870 Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice throughout history and around the world in which a man abducts the woman he… …
54Lindbergh kidnapping — Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Born June 22, 1930(1930 06 22) Englewood Bergen, New Jersey Died March 1, 1932(1932 03 01) (aged 1) Hopewell, New Jersey …
552006 Fox journalists kidnapping — Fox News Channel journalists Olaf Wiig (1975 ), a New Zealand photojournalist, and Steve Centanni, an American reporter, were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip by the Holy Jihad Brigades, a previously unknown group of Palestinian militants, from their… …
56Baghdad kidnapping of Iranian diplomat (February 2007) — Armed gunmen kidnapped Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary of the Iranian embassy, as he drove through Karrada district in central Baghdad, Iraq on 6 February 2007. The gunmen wore uniforms of the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion uniforms.… …
57Mary McElroy (kidnapping victim) — Mary McElroy (c. 1907 January 21, 1940) was an American kidnapping victim. She was the daughter of Henry F. Judge McElroy, City Manager of Kansas City, Missouri. The 1996 Robert Altman film Kansas City was based loosely on the kidnapping.[1]… …
58faux kidnapping — (FOH kid.nap.ing) n. A fake kidnapping staged to look like a real kidnapping. Example Citation: Adam Thick assures me this is not a hoax. No, no, he says. We ll come out and kidnap you. Trust me. He sounds sincere. Trust would seem to be… …
59Totic kidnapping — in April of 1993 were series of kidnapping of Croatian Defence Council (HVO) officers allegedly by Muslim forces presented by the Defence case during Kupreškić trial in ICTY against Croat soldiers accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity …
60George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping — The kidnapping of nine year old George Weyerhaeuser in 1935 shocked the city of Tacoma, Washington. The son of prominent lumberman J.P. Weyerhaeuser, George lived and eventually became Chairman of the Weyerhaeuser Company.BackgroundOn May 24,… …
