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Prosecutors say a California man who ordered a Lyft driver at gunpoint to make a trip from Maryland to a Washington, D.C., apartment has been found guilty.
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Read More »Brothers, ages 14 and 12, accused of abducting 2 children in Md.
LOTHIAN — A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old boy have been accused of abducting two young children from a playground in Anne Arundel County and tying them up in a nearby barn. County police say the suspects are brothers and have ...
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Read More »Suspect’s uncle is focus of investigation into 1975 slayings
WASHINGTON — A day after charges were announced in the 40-year-old kidnapping and slayings of two sisters from Maryland, investigators are turning their attention to the suspect’s uncle and others they say were involved in the crime and subsequent cover-up. ...
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Read More »Opening statements start in rabbi’s kidnap conspiracy trial
Rabbi Mendel Epstein, who is accused of employing a kidnap team to force unwilling Jewish husbands to grant their wives a religious divorce, or 'get,' faces charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.
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Read More »Rabbi accused of running divorce kidnap team heads to trial
Prosecutors allege Epstein's team would use brutal methods, including martial arts beatings, handcuffs and electric cattle prods, to torture the man into granting the divorce.
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Read More »MARCUS LYNCH v. STATE OF MARYLAND
Appellant contends the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions of either rape or kidnapping and that the circuit court abused its discretion in failing to give a modified Allen charge to the jury.
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Read More »Search for Vi Ripken’s kidnapper continues
The $100,000 reward for information about perpetrator remains even as the trail has gone cold.
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Read More »Does Ky. killer get new sentencing hearing?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed unsure Wednesday on whether it should order a new sentencing hearing for a man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in Kentucky. The justices heard arguments over Robert Keith Woodall’s ...
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Read More »Ripken family offers $100K reward in kidnapping
Cal Ripken Jr. announced a $100,000 reward Thursday for information that helps lead to the capture and conviction of the person who abducted his mother a year ago. Vi Ripken was taken from her Aberdeen home at gunpoint on July ...
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Read More »Man to be sentenced in Md. kidnapping case
ROCKVILLE — A man convicted of kidnapping a woman and her 20-month-old son and driving them from Baltimore to Bethesda is scheduled to be sentenced. Prosecutors are seeking a 40-year prison term for 24-year-old Terron White, who’ll be sentenced Friday ...
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