★ Kidnap (II)

‘The DNA that was found on the screw in the box definitely didn’t belong to Mazurek.’ ibid. lady

‘The search produced a tape deck which is likely the device used during the ransom calls.’ ibid. rozzer

‘It’s impossible to draw the conclusion that any particular devide was used.’ ibid. older brother

‘In 1982 someone claimed to have dug a hole in the forest at Mr Mazurek’s behest.’ ibid.

‘Then he recanted his confession.’ ibid. man

‘The accused insisted on his innocence to the last.’ ibid. news

‘Barbara Zipser’s analysis revealed that Mazurek is most likely not the author of the ransom notes.’ ibid. older brother

‘The two pupils were questioned about finding the wire but were never suspected of having committed the crime.’ ibid. man

‘A young person was involved in the planning.’ ibid. Barbara Zipser

‘The father of this pupil owned companies that developed special varnishes.’ ibid.

It became clear that my sister had been anaesthetized.’ ibid. older brother

‘It’s possible it was this particular deck but it could equally have been one of any number, and we don’t know what that number is, of other decks.’ ibid. audio expert

It’s one of the greatest alien abduction stories of all time. In 1975 six men in north-east Arizona witnessed their crew-mate kidnapped by an UFO. But was Travis Walton really taken by aliens or did his crew-mates have something to do with his disappearance? Alien Abduction: Travis Walton, Discovery 2023

The story became an international sensation … November 5 1975 outside of Snowflake, Arizona … ‘The men started seeing a light through the trees.’ ibid. witness

Travis Walton may have disappeared without a trace but there is evidence that something very strange happened in those woods … A high level of radiation at the alleged UFO site. ibid.

Curious out-of-towners crop up among the search parties. ibid.

Five of the six men passed the lie detector test outright … [and [one] inconclusive. ibid.

Wandering the road for what feels like hours … Travis struggles to piece together his experience. ibid.

The Nordics step in and overpower him with superhuman strength. ibid.

How did Travis survive for those five days? ibid.

My girlfriend got kidnapped last night. American Nightmare I: Part One: The Boyfriend, Aaron’s 911 call, Netflix 2024

3.04 p.m.: Denise Huskins has been missing for ten hours. ibid. Aaron in rozzers’ station

He said, We have a problem; this was meant for Andrea. ibid. Aaron recounts ordeal

The kidnapper takes Denise away. And then sedatives I’m out. ibid.

This is really rare to have a kidnapping at all. ibid. reporter

We are looking at suspicion falling on the boyfriend. ibid.

I found out my fiancée Andrea was cheating on me. The rejection wreaked me. ibid. Aaron

He’s been down there for 18 hours. And they are making him the fall guy. ibid. defense dude

Goggles … wetsuit … this is insane. ibid.

Hi, my name is Denise Huskins. I have been kidnapped. Otherwise, I’m fine. ibid. call from Denise to reporter

They actually let her go. I thought I would never see her again. ibid. Aaron

Denise needs to talk to police … Who’s really behind all this? I’ve never ever heard of a case where the kidnappers drop their victim at the front door of their family’s house. ibid. Defense

When we got to the house he says he isn’t going to dehumanise me, but he still raped me. So how can I possibly trust he’s not going to kill me? American Nightmare II: Part Two: Gone Girl, Denise

The Vallejo police department is throwing you under the bus. ibid. brief to Denise

And I realise they are looking at her like she’s a piece of trash, like she’s a criminal. ibid. brief

Her life is basically destroyed. ibid.

There is no-one protecting us. ibid. Aaron

They are actually telling me they kidnapped Denise … Here is Denise’s apparent kidnapper angry that’s she’s been branded a liar ... ibid. Journalist

Dublin, California, 10 weeks after Denise’s kidnap: ‘They are out there right now. My husband is fighting with them. They have our daughter.’ American Nightmare III: Part Three: The Others ****** mother’s 911 call

Matthew Muller: He was very quiet, composed, no emotion … He looks relatively normal. ibid. lady rozzer

And then almost by accident we find out that the lead case agent, David Sesma, used to date my ex, Andrea, who was the intended target of this whole thing. ibid. Aaron

We’re just two people going against the FBI. ibid.

I knew there was another victim out there and I had to find out who she was. ibid. lady rozzer

The police weren’t taking this very seriously. ibid. victim

The Mare Island creeper is Matthew Muller. Holy shit. ibid. lady rozzer

Denise and Aaron were telling the truth. I’m floored. ibid. reporter

If they’d actually monitored his [Aaron] phone, they could have saved me form the second rape. ibid. Denise

The police refused to follow the evidence, and the media laughed along the way. ibid.

Matthew Muller was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison for kidnap, robbery and rape. ibid.

It’s late at night in Oklahoma City in April of 1990. Two or three guys are in a truck driving along the road and they see some kind of debris. And they see off the side there’s a body. And it appears to be a young woman, a long-haired woman. And they call an ambulance. Girl in the Picture, Netflix 2022

An all-points bulletin, all the agencies in Oklahoma, on the lookout for a young boy by the name of Michael Hughes who had been taken by a man claiming to be the boy’s father Clarence Hughes … Clarence Hughes’s real name was Franklin Delano Floyd. ibid. rozzer

There were real questions about the death of the boy’s mother who died 40 years before. ibid.

She [Sharon Marshall] told me her mother was hit by a car on a bridge and died when she was in the second grade. ibid. teenage friend

When Michael was missing it was all over the news. ibid.

They got married under the new names in New Orleans. Which means this man married his daughter. It was unbelievable. ibid. rozzer

What happened to Sharon Marshall in this time period between high school until she was found dead on the side of the road? Her death was suspicious but there was no proof Floyd killed her. ibid.

He had a history of abduction, rape and violence. ibid.

He had killed Cheryl Commesso ... guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. ibid.

I shot him [Michael] twice in the back of the head to make it real quick. ibid. Floyd to FBI agents

We now know who she is: Suzanne Marie Sevakis. ibid. woman

Well, I was coming back from a netball match last night, and then um there was this man standing by his car with his boot open. And then he came up to me and um pulled back his hands … and then I saw the knife … Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes I, victim, BBC 2024

Hundreds of thousands of unsolved rape and sexual assault cases are lying dormant in police archives across the UK. One major crime unit has launched a pioneering and investigative project. They are reviewing more than 5,400 unsolved sexual offences from the last 50 years. ibid. captions

2 sexual assaults from 2002 … by the same man … The offender in Operation Reactivate is not on the National DNA database, but it is still possible to search the database for his close relatives. The team has narrowed down the list to the 21 most likely family members. ibid.

The defendant received 8 years for each offence [concurrent]. ibid.

Alec Housden, Harpenden: 3 offences between 2002-2004 involving 3 teenage girls. Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes II

The DNA match connects Alex Housden to the first two attacks. But there is no DNA evidence connecting him to Georgia’s attack. ibid.

Alex Housden is responsible for all three attacks. ibid.