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Kidnapping

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Garrick "Joker" Hastings: Ties Up Hooker, Beats Her, Sets Her on Fire

    Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who told friends he had beaten and burned a prostitute for ripping him off. Garrick "Joker" Hastings said the woman had robbed him of $6,000, so he had her kidnapped and taken to a Channelview trailer where he beat "the prostitute with a metal rod, tied her up ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2012

    Owen Laukkanen: The Professionals

    Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who told friends he had beaten and burned a prostitute for ripping him off. Garrick "Joker" Hastings said the woman had robbed him of $6,000, so he had her kidnapped and taken to a Channelview trailer where he beat "the prostitute with a metal rod, tied her up ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    Baroque on the Border

    Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who told friends he had beaten and burned a prostitute for ripping him off. Garrick "Joker" Hastings said the woman had robbed him of $6,000, so he had her kidnapped and taken to a Channelview trailer where he beat "the prostitute with a metal rod, tied her up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Heather Daughdrill: Busted for Sexing Teen Boy She Met at Bible Camp (w/ Video)

    Heather Daughdrill faces charges.​A 28-year-old Lake Charles-area woman faces a bevy of charges after Louisiana police said she repeatedly had sex with a 13-year-old boy who she met at the Bible camp where she was a teacher/aide. According to the Sulphur Daily News, Heather Daughdrill initiat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 17, 2011

    A Lonely Place to Die

    Heather Daughdrill faces charges.​A 28-year-old Lake Charles-area woman faces a bevy of charges after Louisiana police said she repeatedly had sex with a 13-year-old boy who she met at the Bible camp where she was a teacher/aide. According to the Sulphur Daily News, Heather Daughdrill initiat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Elizabeth Ramon: Kidnaps Her Girlfriend When She Tries to Break Up with Her

    Elizabeth Ramon: Breaking up is hard to do.​What do you do when your girlfriend says she wants to break up with you? We're guessing your first 35 guesses did not include "kidnap her." But that's because you're not Elizabeth Ashley Ramon of Needville, who has been charged with kidnapping for d ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Hide and Seek

    Fourteen-year-old Andrew Mosier was abducted last August. It wasn't by aliens.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    San Antonio Kidnapping Turns Out to Be Inception-Like Non-Event

    Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?​All San Antonio was aghast this morning at what looked like a dreadful crime: 28-year-old Adam Richardson told police that three to five armed intruders had broken into his apartment overnight and dragged his dad and sister off. He told police the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010

    Lucio

    Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?​All San Antonio was aghast this morning at what looked like a dreadful crime: 28-year-old Adam Richardson told police that three to five armed intruders had broken into his apartment overnight and dragged his dad and sister off. He told police the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    DPS Tells Christmas Shoppers To Avoid Mexico, In Case You Were Considering It

    Feliz Navidad, but watch out for kidnappers​Cross off all those kitschy souvenir knick-knacks you were planning on giving away for Christmas. (Do they still sell those taxidermied frogs playing saxophone?) The DPS is officially warning shoppers to avoid Mexico. Just visiting is out, too. "Me ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2010

    Kathryn Casey: The Killing Storm

    Feliz Navidad, but watch out for kidnappers​Cross off all those kitschy souvenir knick-knacks you were planning on giving away for Christmas. (Do they still sell those taxidermied frogs playing saxophone?) The DPS is officially warning shoppers to avoid Mexico. Just visiting is out, too. "Me ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2010

    Asylum Denied

    Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    Seized

    Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

  • News

    June 17, 2010

    The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

    A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Sake Sundays: Yojimbo

    A lone samurai faces down a violent gang

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Kidnapping: Ace Atkins on Infamous

    ​Novelist Ace Atkins is in town to promote his newst book Infamous, an account of Machine Gun Kelly and his wife Kathryn's 1933 kidnapping of Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman.  While the couple did get $200,000 in ransom, the kidnapping was more a comedy of errors than a precisely pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Damond Castle Discovers Pimpin' Ain't Easy

    ​Damond Castle dreamed of becoming a pimp. And while the 30-year-old calls himself "HoMoney" on his MySpace profile it seemed that his stable might have been a little skimpy two years ago. That was when, according to court testimony at his aggravated kidnapping trial last week in Bryan, he attemp ... More >>

  • News

    July 9, 2009

    Kidnapped

    Texan Larry Plake went out to one offshore oil job too many and ended up held for ransom in the Nigerian jungle.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Violence And Kidnapping In Nigeria Makes Its Way To Houston Courtrooms

    photo courtesy of beckstir01 Kidnappings, pipeline bombings and vigilantism has become a way of life for both offshore oil workers stationed along the coast of Nigeria as well as the oppressed native insurgency groups who carry out the violence. (Check out this week's feature about one Texan's re ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    Tale of the 12-Year-Old

    photo courtesy of beckstir01 Kidnappings, pipeline bombings and vigilantism has become a way of life for both offshore oil workers stationed along the coast of Nigeria as well as the oppressed native insurgency groups who carry out the violence. (Check out this week's feature about one Texan's re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Shuck U: How to Open an Oyster

    Scrub the oyster under running water to remove any mud. Never submerge an oyster in water--it will expel all the delicious oyster liquor. The pointy end of an oyster is the bill. The rounded end is the hinge. To shuck the oyster, hold it down on a table or work surface using a towel to protect yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Inside Africa: Three Hidden Wars

    Journalist and former detainee Paul Salopek talks about the wars in Africa

  • Calendar

    October 23, 2008
  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008
  • Blogs

    October 9, 2007
  • Film

    September 13, 2007

    Manda Bala

    Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

  • Calendar

    September 6, 2007

    Mark Gimenez

    The Color of Law author does it again

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    The Compleat Complete

    The Color of Law author does it again

  • Dining

    February 22, 2007

    THE TAVERN ON GRAY'S

    SWEATING COLOMBIAN

  • Film

    June 22, 2006

    Deep Doo-doo

    A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Road Signs

    Or, how I became the most wanted man in Texas

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    For Whom the Belt Tolls

    The curse of the area rocket men continues with California convictions

  • Film

    December 7, 2000

    Hostage Crisis: Day 143

    Proof of Life kidnaps the audience and makes it beg for mercy

  • Culture

    September 14, 2000

    Lost Boys

    These Orphans are not just a couple of dirty frat boys.

  • Film

    August 17, 2000

    Fringe Radical Cineasts

    Rallying all film rebels, John Waters's Cecil B. Demented cries, "Fassbinder or die!"

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    God Only Knows

    Dismembered bodies. Gold booty and an ex-con's grudge. A trial rips into the mysteries of the disappearance of atheist icon Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

  • Film

    April 16, 1998

    The Lying Game

    Dismembered bodies. Gold booty and an ex-con's grudge. A trial rips into the mysteries of the disappearance of atheist icon Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Looking for Laura

    First Friendswood rallied to find Laura Smither. Then it rallied to find her killer.

  • Film

    February 19, 1998

    Unconventional Wisdom

    In Four Days in September, the political is personal

  • Film

    November 7, 1996

    Mel as Mogul

    Gibson's star power drives Ransom

  • Film

    December 29, 1994

    The Joy of Being Stupid

    Gibson's star power drives Ransom

  • Film

    January 27, 1994

    Innocent on the Lam

    Gibson's star power drives Ransom

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