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On Friday, exactly six months after Nancy Guthrie was abducted, police released two ransom notes in the hope that they would help identify her kidnappers.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

On Monday night, the CBS affiliate in Tucson received an online ransom note on the station’s tip line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Six months after the publicly released two previously withheld ransom notes while the family renewed its plea for anyone with information to come forward.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Savannah Guthrie has said some ransom notes sent to the family were believed to be fake.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

But the intermediary made it clear that Pike would share this information under one condition: that he be paid a king’s ransom.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

It was definitely not cheap paying off these pirates, whether it was ransoms or tariffs.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Details about the release of the 100 schoolchildren remain unclear, including whether it was secured through negotiation or by force, and whether any ransoms were paid.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Paying ransoms has been made illegal in Nigeria, although there are allegations this ban has been widely ignored.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

The payment of ransoms has been outlawed in an attempt to cut the supply of money to the criminal gangs, but it has had little effect.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

The King of England had ordered that there were to be no ransoms in hit sort of battle.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

King Richard was captured on his way back from the Middle East and ransomed for 150,000 silver marks—approximately three times the annual income of the English Crown.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

When Lele Pons was 5 years old, she and her mother, who is Italian and a pediatrician, were kidnapped and ransomed, a common occurrence in some parts of Latin America.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019

Anticipating that the Abu Sayyaf may soon demand the German to be ransomed off, Tan appealed for people to follow the Philippine government’s no-ransom policy.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2016

Her cousins would be ransomed too, as would Tris Botley and a few more of her company, those whose kin had coin enough to buy them back.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The Talmud, a set of commentaries on the Torah, specifically condones ransoming of hostages as a communal responsibility, and many ancient scholars considered being hostage a fate worse than death.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Experts say the trend towards ransoming sensitive private information could affect companies not just operationally but through reputation damage.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2021

Beric also promises to reunite Arya with her mother and brother in Riverrun, albeit by ransoming her off.

From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2019

Simone’s situation sounds dramatic enough to hold an episode of “Homeland” — in fact, the ransoming of Carrie Mathison’s top-secret computer files drove a plot point on the Showtime series last season.

From Fox News ● Oct. 12, 2018

Apart from the business-like way in which towns were pillaged, the custom of ransoming prisoners imported a very definite commercial element into knightly life.

From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton