kidnapping
Cry-Baby of the Week: A Woman Faked Being Kidnapped to Get Out of Going to Work
Also this week: Some college freshman refused to read a book because it has sex in it.
A Bachelor Party Prank Went Very, Very Wrong When the Cops Responded to the Groom’s ‘Kidnapping’
A fake kidnapping in Canada brought some real cops to the door.
We Spoke to Frontline Photojournalist Lynsey Addario About Fear and Female Resilience
"At a certain point when you're being held hostage, you don't have power to do anything. The only power you have is to listen to your captors and do what they ask you to do."
The Time John Waters’s Girls Escaped a Kidnapping
In this excerpt of Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, two men abduct three actresses who have starred in several of John Waters's classic movies.
Mexican Drug Cartels Are Using Social Media Apps to Commit Virtual Kidnappings
Facebook and WhatsApp are being used to trick people into ponying up cash for safe relatives.
Rockets and Revenge - Part 4
VICE News speaks with the grieving father of the murdered Palestinian teen.
Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine
Simon Ostrovsky tells the full story of his abduction in Eastern Ukraine.
Growing Opium Is All the Sinai Bedouins Have Left
If you can't get a job, you might as well harvest drugs.
Gay Syrians Are Being Blackmailed, Tortured and Killed by Jihadists
Many are forced to flee Damascus for Beirut, but life is hardly safer there.
Talking To Somalia's 'Most Notorious Pirate'
He was arrested by the Belgian police yesterday. We spoke to him before that though.
Watching Your Dad Get Kidnapped by America Sucks: Meeting the Son of Abu Anas al-Libi, Who Was Abducted in Libya This Week
Meeting the son of Abu Anas al-Libi, who was abducted in Libya this week.
More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
The threat of being taken hostage is the most powerful weapon against reporters and the truth.