- Lisa Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, is a United States Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. She was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard the Space Shuttle during mission STS-121 in July 2006. She was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. On February 5, 2007, Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Florida, … - Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress and occasional actress. The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause. Apprehended after having taken part in a bank robbery with other SLA members, … - Ali Mohamed
Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, also known as Ali Mohammed (b. 1952) is an acknowledged Al Qaeda operative who was charged with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States' embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and officers or employees of the U.S. government on account of their official duties, to murder and kidnap, … - Brian David Mitchell
Brian David Mitchell (born October 18, 1953) is a suspect in the 2002 Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case. He and his wife Wanda Ileen Barzee, have been indicted by a Utah grand jury for kidnapping Smart from her Salt Lake City, Utah home, and keeping her in their custody until the following year, when she was discovered. His trial on these charges has been postponed indefinitely, following a court ruling that he is not mentally competent to stand trial. - Kim Sun-Il
Kim Sun-il (September 13, 1970 - c. June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator working in Iraq for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the United States military. Kim was fluent in Arabic, holding a graduate degree in that language from Seoul's Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in February 2003. He also had degrees in English and theology, and had hoped to become a Christian missionary in the Middle East. - Roy Hallums
Roy Hallums (born June 23, 1948) is an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq in November 2004. He was held in Iraq for 311 days and freed in September 2005, making his captivity the longest for any of the foreigners taken hostage in Iraq. - John McCarthy
John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born November 26 1956) is a British journalist who was kidnapped by Iranian terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and held hostage for more than five years. McCarthy, of Irish Catholic extraction, is known as Britain's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, having spent over five years in captivity until his release on August 8, 1991. He shared a cell with the Northern Irish Protestant, Brian Keenan, for several years. - John Couey
John Evander Couey (born September 19, 1958) was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering nine-year old Jessica Lunsford in February 2005, in Florida. Lunsford's disappearance and Couey's subsequent confession and trial received extensive media coverage. A jury recommended that Couey recieve the death penalty. Couey maintains that he is innocent. - Johnny Gosch
John David "Johnny" Gosch (born November 12, 1969) was a 12-year-old paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa when he disappeared on September 5, 1982, presumably kidnapped. His case and the subsequent publicity played an important part in the growing public awareness of missing children cases in the 1980s. His mother, Noreen Gosch, maintains that Johnny Gosch escaped from his captors and visited her in 1997, but fears for his life and lives under an assumed identity. - Pierre Laporte
Pierre Laporte, was a Canadian politician who was the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of the province of Quebec at the time he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the terrorist group, the Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front). Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was a journalist with "Le Devoir" newspaper from 1945 to 1961, and was known for his crusading work against the government of Quebec's then-Premier Maurice Duplessis. - Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw is a British businessman who spent several months as a hostage during 2002. Shaw, originally from Cowbridge in South Wales, was working as an adviser to the Agro-Business Bank in Tbilisi, Georgia, when he was kidnapped on June 18, 2002, the day before his six-year contract was due to end. He was held underground for several months before escaping in early November. - Ahmed Qusai Al-Taayie
Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie (b. ca. 1965) is a Iraqi American United States Army linguist soldier, who was kidnapped on October 23, 2006 in Baghdad. - Moninder Singh Pandher
Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Subhash Kohli (alias Surendra) are the prime accused in the Noida serial killing of around twenty people, mostly children, from Nithari village in Sector 31 of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. In a media report, Surendra has confessed to the kidnap, rape and murder of least eight children, however, reports indicate that more than twenty children are missing and might be victims also. - Santa Muerte
Saint Death, otherwise known as "Santa Muerte", "La Santísima Muerte", and as "Doña Sebastiana", is a pseudo-religious figure who receives petitions for love, luck, and protection. Saint Death is depicted by means of both male and female representations. In some Mexican traditions, most notably among the descendants of Austrian immigrants, Saint Death is believed to be the wife of Krampus. - Brent Bennett
Brent Bennett is a former U.S. Army paratrooper who was convicted by an Afghan court on September 15, 2004 for participating in torture and kidnapping, and for running a private jail in Kabul. Bennett and his associate Jonathan Idema had been operating as independent security contractors in Afghanistan, but had been representing themselves the American and international media, members of the U.S. military, … - Robert Hansen
Robert C. Hansen (b. February 15, 1939, in Estherville, Iowa) is an American serial killer who flew his victims into the Alaskan wilderness and hunted them down like wild game. Robert Christian Hansen, who as a child was small and sickly with perpetual acne and a severe stutter, spent much of his early life as a loner and a target for bullying from his peers and his strict, domineering father. He married in 1960. - Cecilia Cubas
Cecilia Cubas, the daughter of former Paraguayan President Raúl Cubas, was found dead on February 16, 2005, underneath a house near Asunción, nearly five months after she was kidnapped. Cecilia Cubas, 32, was abducted by gunmen two blocks from her home in Asunción in September 2004, sparking a massive search by security forces who hoped to rescue her alive. - Juanita Nielsen
Juanita Nielsen was an Australian publisher, heiress to the Mark Foys retail fortune. In the 1970s Nielsen was the publisher of "NOW", an alternative newspaper in the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross, New South Wales, where she lived, and she was involved in a campaign against a proposed development project in the suburb. - Marc Carbonneau
Marc Carbonneau is a convicted terrorist and taxi driver. Carbonneau, Quebec, Canada, is a left-wing political activist who advocated violence. He was a member of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) that was responsible for a decade of bombings and robberies during the 1960s and whose actions percipitated what became known as the October Crisis. A member of the FLQ's Liberation Cell that included Louise Lanctôt, Jacques Cossette-Trudel, Jacques Lanctôt, … - Bobby Greenlease
Bobby Greenlease (1948-1953) was the son of millionaire car dealer Robert Cosgrove Greenlease, Sr. The elder Greenlease had made his fortune helping to introduce General Motors vehicles to the Great Plains in the early decades of the 20th Century. He owned dealerships from Texas to the Dakotas. In September 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was kidnapped from an exclusive Kansas City prep school and brutally murdered across the state line in Johnson County, Kansas. - Marlene Lawston
Marlene Lawston (born January 25, 1998 in Westchester, New York) is an American child actress. She debuted in the 2005 movie "Flightplan", in which she plays "Julia," the kidnapped daughter of Kyle (Jodie Foster). Marlene recently played "Julie Grant" in the "Law & Order" episode "Thinking Makes It So." and is expected to be in the of the kid version of Yasmin in the Direct-to-Video Bratz Kidz: the Movie upcoming in spring 2007. - Peter Wong
Peter Hing-kwei Wong (nickname Pei Dan Wong (皮蛋黃) is a sports commentator in Hong Kong. He hosts a wide variety of programs, including soccer, basketball,baseball, American football, tennis and boxing. He is famous for his odd catchphrases during programs, such as "There are only two possbilities for penalty: in or not" and "Who're the best friends of goalkeepers in the match? Of course the posts and the bar!". - Bernard Lortie
Bernard Lortie of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a member of the Chenier Cell of the Front de Libération du Quebec (FLQ) terrorist group who were responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberies in the Province of Quebec. During what became known as the October Crisis, on October 5, 1970 members of the FLQ's Liberation Cell kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner James Cross, … - Joseph Corbett Jr.
Joseph Corbett, Jr., a former Fulbright scholar, became the 127th Fugitive named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, placed there March 30, 1960 for the kidnap and subsequent murder of Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Beer fortune. A nationwide manhunt was conducted that spanned from California to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and eventually to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. - Joachim Kroll
Joachim Kroll (April 17, 1933 - July 1, 1991) was a German serial killer and cannibal. He was known as the Ruhr Cannibal ("Ruhrkannibale"), and the Duisburg Man-Eater ("Duisburger Menschenfresser"). He was convicted of eight murders but confessed to a total of 13. Born the son of a miner in Hindenburg, a town in Upper Silesia (then Germany, now Poland), Kroll was the last among eight children. - Howard Galganov
Howard Galganov was briefly a political activist and radio personality in Montreal during the late 1990s. He made headlines in Quebec for being a vocal and confrontational opponent of the Charter of the French Language and Quebec nationalism as one of the most prominent leaders of the short-lived “angryphone” movement. - Surender Koli
Surender Koli is an accused serial killer in India. He and Moninder Singh Pandher are accused of murdering and then raping 17 children in the Noida serial killings. His name is also given as Subhash or Surendra Kohli. In a media report it has been claimed that Surender has confessed to the kidnap, rape and murder of least eight children, however, reports indicate that more than twenty children are missing and might be victims also. - Colin Thatcher
Wilbert Colin Thatcher (born 25 August 1938 in Toronto) was a Canadian politician famous for his involvement in the murder of his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson. Colin Thatcher was the son of Wilbert Ross Thatcher, premier of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1971. After his father's death in mysterious circumstances in 1971, Thatcher cultivated his own interest in politics. In 1975 he won the provincial riding of Thunder Creek on the Liberal Party ticket, … - Louise Lanctôt
Louise Lanctôt, born March 24, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a convicted terrorist and writer. A political activist for the cause of Quebec independence from Canada, Louise Lanctôt was an active member of the radical Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale political party that later merged with the Parti Québécois. She was also a member of the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist organization and is the sister of convicted terrorist, Jacques Lanctôt, … - Pierre Vallières
Pierre Vallières, was a Québécois journalist, and writer. He was considered an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Vallières was born in the east end of Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Longueuil-Annexe, on the south-shore of Montreal, an area considered one of the most disadvantaged of the metropolitan region. - Gianmario Roveraro
Gianmario Roveraro (born May 24 1936 - died ? July 5, 2006) was an Italian banker who founded Akros Finanziaria. He went missing on July 5, 2006 following an Opus Dei meeting. It is thought that he was kidnapped, although no ransom was made. He contacted his family twice: once to call his wife and tell her he had to resolve an issue in Austria and later to request 1 million euros. He was interviewed about the collapse of Italian food giant Parmalat, … - Airat Vakhitov
Airat Vakhitov, also spelled Ayrat Wakhitov is a Russian who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. Vakhitov is a Muslim from a Turkic ethnic group. He was repatriated with six other Russians in February 2004. On May 15 2006 the Department of Defense released its first full official list of all the Guantanamo detainees who were held in military custody. Airat Vakhitov's name is not on that list. - Michael Briere
Michael Briere is a Canadian convicted of rape and murder. Originally from Montreal, in 2003 Briere lived in downtown Toronto, where he worked as a software developer. On May 12, 2003 he kidnapped Holly Jones, a 10-year old girl who happened to be walking outside his house. He then sexually assaulted and killed her. After dismembering her body, he attempted to discard the remains by sinking them in Toronto Harbour; however, they were found the next day. - Jennifer Carol Wilbanks
The Runaway Bride case refers to Jennifer Carol Wilbanks an American who ran away from home on April 26, 2005, in an effort to avoid her wedding with John Mason, her fiancé, on April 30. Her disappearance from Duluth, Georgia, sparked a nationwide search and intensive media coverage. On April 29, she called Mason from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and falsely claimed that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a Hispanic male and a white woman. - José Luis Cabezas
José Luis Cabezas was an Argentine news photographer who worked for "Noticias", a leading news magazine. On 25 January 1997, Cabezas was murdered at Pinamar, Argentina's most exclusive beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean, visited by politicians, businessmen, actors, sports figures and other high-profile celebrities. Cabezas was kidnapped as he left a birthday party thrown for Oscar Andreani, a postal service mogul. - Victor Samuelson
Victor Samuelson was a business executive who was kidnapped by Argentine guerrillas in 1974. On March 13, a U.S. oil company paid US$14.9 million for his release. He was finally released on April 29. - Adam The Leper
Adam the Leper was the leader of a fourteenth-century robber band, operating in the south west of England in the 1330s and 1340s. Like the north Midlands bandits Eustace Folville and James Cotterel, he and his gang specialised in theft and kidnap. Unlike these contemporaries, he seems to have concentrated mainly on urban centres. His men would apparently enter a town while a fair was in progress and the place would be conveniently filled with 'strangers'. - Helen Betty Osborne
Helen Betty Osborne, or Betty Osborne (1952 - November 13, 1971), was a Cree Aboriginal woman from Norway House reserve who was kidnapped and murdered while walking down Third Street in The Pas, Manitoba on the evening of November 13, 1971. - Alfredo Harp Helú
Alfredo Harp Helú is a Mexican, from lebanese origin,billionaire, and with a net worth of $1.6 billion (in US dollars) ranked 413 on Forbes Magazine list of "The World's Richest People" in 2005. Born in Mexico City, Helú is the ex-owner of the biggest Latin American and Mexican bank, Banamex (now part of Citigroup), and owner of the telecommunication company, Avantel, the second largest telephone company in Mexico. - Kermit Smith Jr.
Kermit Smith, Jr., was executed on January 24, 1995 in North Carolina for the kidnap, rape, and murder of a 20-year-old college cheerleader. He is one of only a few white criminals since 1976 to have been executed for murdering a black victim.
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