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Jaycee Dugard, a Northern California woman who was kidnapped at 11 years old and held captive for almost two decades, will apparently release a biography published by Simon & Shuster this summer, Fox40.com reported. “A Stolen Life,” a 256-page memoir, will have a July 12th release, and was written solely by Dugard.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded guilty Thursday to the kidnapping and sexual assault of Jaycee Dugard, whom they held captive from age 11 through 29, the El Dorado County, California, district attorney said.

A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probation violation charge Sunday, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby....

Federal investigators joined local law enforcement in an effort to track down and prosecute Ann Pettway, who is suspected in the 1987 abduction of Carlina Renae White, according to a law enforcement source.

A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday morning convicted a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher of kidnapping and repeatedly raping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, rejecting arguments by the defense that Brian David Mitchell was insane at the time of the crimes.

The jury is expected to begin deliberations late Thursday in the trial of a homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002.

The father of three missing Michigan boys has been charged with three counts of parental kidnapping, police said Tuesday.

A man who rescued an 8-year-old girl who had been abducted by a stranger has told how he was "beyond scared" as he forced the kidnapper's truck to stop.

An 8-year-old girl who was abducted by a stranger while playing outside a Fresno home escapes from her captor after a 'good Samaritan' driver recognizes the suspect's vehicle and cuts it off, police say.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart is competent to stand trial, paving the way for him to face charges nearly eight years after the girl was snatched from her bedroom....