kidnappings

Flotsam & Jetsam

Phillip Garrido’s Backyard Of Horrors

11:51AM Andrew Belonsky | This here’s the California backyard where Phillip Garrido, who’s living residence is to the right, kept Jaycee Dugard prisoner for 18 years. He obviously gave a hoot about building codes. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Jaycee Dugard Found After 18 Years, Thanks To Abductor’s Idiocy

11:32AM Andrew Belonsky | Phillip C. Garrido’s one sick son of a bitch. He even puts sicko Austrian man Josef Fritzl to shame. For the past 18 years, Garrido spent his time tending to one Jaycee Dugard, whom he brazenly kidnapped back in 1991. More »
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What Was The Real Reason For The NYT Kidnapping News Blackout?

1:40AM John Cook | Did the New York Times want to keep reporter David Rohde’s kidnapping in Afghanistan quiet because they feared for his safety, or because they didn’t want to drive up his ransom price? Rohde himself has suggested the latter. More »
People

David Rhode Is Free From Taliban Kidnapping

2:00AM Foster Kamer | After being held hostage by the Taliban for seven months in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter David Rhode escaped from a compound to freedom. He apparently just “climbed over the wall” but still: badass happy ending! [NYT]