kidnapping

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Allen also appeared in several TV movies, including “Scream, Pretty Peggy” and “The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case,” notably sharing the screen with Bette Davis and Anthony Hopkins, among others.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

As the house was burning, a member of the WhatsApp group "Investigating Fear of Kidnapping" posted a voice note.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

Kidnapping accessory charges have been dropped, and the Missouri Circuit Court's public information officer said "there was no kidnapping."

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2023

In “The Kidnapping Club,” the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2020

At first, Magdalys had just sent him along a random series of turns in case Riker or any of his Kidnapping Club tried to follow them.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older