About three-quarters of child-abduction murders happen in the first three hours, according to a 2006 U.S. Justice Department report.
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But most long-term nonfamily-child abduction cases, unfortunately, do not have such happy endings.
Ali Babitu Kololo denied the abduction of 56-year-old Judith Tebbutt, and a charge of robbery with violence.
Quality journalism cannot flourish if media practitioners are constantly under the threat of intimidation, illegal arrest, abduction, hostage-taking, sexual attack, especially on female journalists, and above all murder.
Thousands of people protested across the country to demand tougher rape laws and faster judgements in sexual abuse and rape cases after the abduction and gang-rape of the student in Delhi in December.
Whatever Russia's real intentions, Mr Maskhadov also has plenty of home-grown enemies, thanks to the self-compounding problems of poverty, unemployment, crime and abduction, which have been spreading across the north Caucasian chain of semi-independent territories.
Detectives said a number of women had come forward through a Facebook page set up to raise awareness of Mrs Meagher's disappearance to tell of attempted abduction in the area - but none was reported to police.
Meanwhile, the police are still trying to live down accusations of incompetence over their slowness or failure to solve a number of high-profile crimes, most notably the abduction and murder of the daughter of TV celebrity Pai Ping-ping.
Al-Jubouri also was involved in the abduction of Tom Fox, one of four men from the Chicago, Illinois-based peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams, who was found fatally shot in Baghdad in March 2006, Caldwell said.
Senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was convicted of murder, abduction, rape and torture, and sentenced to death.
Martin was arrested in 1996 and convicted in 2004 of complicity in the starvation deaths of the two eight-year-olds kidnapped by Dutroux and of helping him in the abduction of a number of others.
This is thought to be the first high-profile abduction of a child in the eastern Balkan country.
Mr. Abe has defined the abduction issue as a foreign-policy priority, vowing to resolve it during his tenure.
Keyes, 34, was set for a March trial in federal court in the abduction and killing of 18-year-old Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig.
This long involved young men trying to catch the eye of women, typically by donning fancy dress (in the cold war a favourite was the garb of Soviet border guards) or through good-natured abduction often in combination.
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Evrard, 61, was found with a five-year-old boy within a few hours of the boy's abduction, police say.
Two other defendants, Fernandes's ex-wife Dayanne Rodrigues and an ex-lover, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, face charges of abduction and false imprisonment.
Although much is still not yet known about this case, it recalled a series of recent high-profile child abduction cases.
In Illinois, Shannon Wilfong is charged with child abduction, allegedly having forced 6-year-old Richard K. Wilfong Chekevdia to live in seclusion and be hidden, at times in crawl spaces and the attic, for nearly two years, according to court documents.
Since then there have been very few high-profile cases--the 1974 snatching of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst and the 2003 bungled abduction of hedge fund manager Edward Lampert among them.
Al-Taie was last seen four months after his abduction in a video posted on the Internet by a Shiite militant faction called the Ahl al-Bayt Brigades, which is linked to Asaib Ahl al-Haq.
Mr Yusuf says it is clear from the facts that these are not professional kidnappers - the gangs who make abduction for ransom a regular trade in Pakistan.
Some escape, but it is estimated that about 70% of Mr Kony's 4, 000-strong force are victims of abduction.
Meanwhile, five men have arrived in court for a hearing in the case of the abduction, gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old, a case that shocked India.
Until Schilling's abduction, there was reason to believe that the four-month crisis was nearly over.
The report, an investigation of the abduction and execution, plots the alleged involvement of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the murder of Mr. Pearl.
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They received three-year sentences for minor offences of abduction and wrongful confinement.
Like Lehane's "Mystic River, " it involves the abuse and abduction of a child (before he became a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with abused children).
He is charged with four counts of kidnapping, covering the three initial abduction victims and Jocelyn, Ms Berry's six-year-old daughter, who was apparently conceived and born in captivity.
Tensions continued to rise with the kidnapping earlier this month of dozens of Sunnis by the Lebanese Shia al-Mekdad clan in retaliation for the abduction of one of their members in Syria.
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