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Carlee Russell’s Case Shares Eerie Similarities to Well-Known Kidnapping Hoaxes
A press conference from the Hoover Police Department leaves many believing Carlee Russell faked her alleged abduction.
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12-Year-Old Va. Boy Jumps Out of Car Moving 60 MPH to Escape Armed Abductor
Antwaun Jones is his own hero. The brave 12-year-old boy jumped out of a rapidly moving vehicle to escape a man who had forced him into the car at gunpoint. According to WTVR-TV, Antwaun was walking to the park to meet a friend Sunday afternoon in Kenbridge, Va., when a man pulled up in a…
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I Want Better for Halle Berry
Earlier this summer, Halle Berry downplayed her greatest achievement as an actor. Speaking at a panel at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June, Berry addressed the 2016 Oscar nominations, which were widely criticized for their lack of diversity, and while doing so, she shooed away the significance of her 2002 Oscar win…
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Ala. Kidnap Victim Used Insulin Pump to Escape Locked Trunk
An Alabama nursing student is sharing the harrowing story of how she was kidnapped and then made a daring escape after she used the light from her insulin pump to find the latch of the trunk she was locked in before jumping out to safety. According to NBC News, 25-year-old Brittany Diggs was kidnapped last…
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Kamiyah Mobley, Kidnapped in 1998, Found Alive and Well 18 Years Later
In 1998 a woman posing as a hospital worker walked into the University Medical Center, now known as U.F. Health Jacksonville (Fla.), and told a new 16-year-old mother that her daughter, Kamiyah Mobley, who was just hours old, had a fever and needed to be treated. The woman left the mom’s recovery room and walked…
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Uber Driver Arrested in Kidnap, Assault of Female Passenger Who Blacked Out at DC Bar
A Washington, D.C.-region Uber driver was arrested in Prince George’s County, Md., after allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a female passenger who had passed out at a D.C. bar, Fox5DC reports. According to the report, on the night of Oct. 18, a friend of the alleged victim called an Uber to take her home after she had…