Family Kidnappings | featured news

Police say Joshua Hakken tied his mother-in-law up around 6:00 a.m. last Wednesday in Tampa and drove off with the two children, who were still in their pajamas. After ditching a black pickup truck that was later recovered by police, the Hakkens apparently boarded a blue 25-foot sailboat and left John's Pass Marina in Madeira Beach, Fla., bound for Cuba.

A mother and her 7-year-old son have been reunited five years after the boy was kidnapped by his father and taken to Mexico, authorities said.

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

A Boston jury rendered a guilty verdict in the Clark Rockefeller trial, convicting the German-born man of kidnapping his daughter during a supervised visit last summer. His ex-wife, Sandra Boss, a Harvard-educated executive at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., testified that she believed her husband's stories about his past for much of their 12-year marriage. It was only when she hired a private investigator during their 2007 divorce that she realized he "was not the person he'd said he was," she said.