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Convincing children that their parents don't love them is a brutally effective way to secure children's allegiance. Steven Stayner was kidnapped in Merced, Calif., in 1972, at age 7. For seven years, he lived with his abductor as a son, going to a public high school, often left alone but never escaping. According to Sharon Carr Griffin, a friend of Stayner's who is writing a book about his life, Stayner's kidnapper told him that his dad had died and his mother had signed custody of Stayner over to the kidnapper. "If you can convince a child...
...hours after Kampusch escaped. Christoph Feurstein, the journalist who conducted her television interview, says Kampusch is angry at her father for speaking on her behalf to the media; he told an interviewer that she would celebrate her captor's death. Kampusch, in fact, visited the morgue and saw her abductor before he was buried, and told the world she mourned his death...
...would be dealt with by the police or resolved in court. He and his crew recently rescued a coal-mine owner in Xi'an who had been kidnapped by a colleague who believed he was owed money. After the rescue, they convinced the victim to make peace with his abductor by paying him $50,000. A real estate developer in Shanghai hired Ding when locals protesting outside his office became a nuisance. "We went with six people and negotiated a settlement without a fight," says Ding. "People know us by reputation. It's like when a country has nuclear weapons...
...have been kidnapped near her apartment, police say, then in Abduction Story 2.0 changed the location to another part of town. Police also reviewed a store videotape that showed her a few weeks earlier buying rope, duct tape, cough medicine and a knife--the very items she said her abductor had used to kidnap her. An analysis of Internet searches on her computer found information about woodsy areas in the vicinity and a weather report for the week. Last Friday acting Madison police chief Noble Wray concluded, "We do not believe there is a suspect at large, period...
...National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) offers these guidelines: law enforcement confirms a child has been abducted law enforcement believes the circumstances surrounding the abduction indicate that the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death there is enough descriptive information about the child, abductor, and/or suspect1s vehicle to believe an immediate broadcast alert will help...