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.
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.
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.
Keyes, 34, was set for a March trial in federal court in the abduction and killing of 18-year-old Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig.
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.
Until Schilling's abduction, there was reason to believe that the four-month crisis was nearly over.
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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The court had earlier heard from Zahid Mohammed, 22, newly released after serving half of a five-year sentence for his part in the abduction of Kriss.
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Seventy-four of them face serious charges such as murder and abduction.
When then-U.S. Ambassador Philip Habib was informed of the abduction, he warned Park that he would face severe repercussions from the United States if Kim were killed.
The police were eventually called in and after a few more hours, Funches-Wade was ultimately arrested and charged with two counts of attempted child abduction, two counts of unlawful visitation interference and one count of resisting arrest.
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Such activities, co-ordinated by Leicestershire police, have included translators, family liaison officers, child abduction experts and specialist sniffer dogs, but there have been little or no new initiatives in the last few weeks.
The warrants were issued after a 17-year-old cousin of Mr Fernandes told police that he had taken part in Ms Samudio's abduction with a friend of the footballer, Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao.
At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.
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