In the 1980s Muslim extremists kidnapped seventy westerners off the streets of war-torn Lebanon. Journalist Terry Anderson would become the longest held hostage in American history. Hostage Beirut documentary
In 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon, and America established a military presence that supported the Christian minority. ibid.
Two months into his captivity Anderson became aware of another hostage on the other side of the wall: it was CIA Station Chief William Buckley. ibid.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Anderson’s kidnapping. ibid.
Waite decided to stay in Anderson’s old apartment in Beirut in the hope that the kidnappers would contact him. ibid.
Terry Anderson was moved more than twenty times over the years. ibid.
Now the kidnappers told Waite they would release their hostages if these seventeen terrorists were freed from the Kuwaiti prison. ibid.
Westerners began disappearing again including Irish teacher Brian Keenan and British journalist John McCarthy. ibid.
Only a few steps away from the other hostages Terry Waite was in solitary confinement. His perceived link to the Iran/Contra scandal angered the kidnappers, and he was kept in isolation for three and a half years. ibid.
John McCarthy 5 years 4 month in captivity. Released August 1991. ibid.
Terry Waite 4 years 9 months in captivity. Released November 1991. ibid.
10th April 1990: Teddy Wang’s routine is about to be violently interrupted. The gang works fast; in almost no time the kidnappers have Teddy on a boat and out to sea. The Double Kidnap of Teddy Wang
This wasn’t the first time Teddy Wang had been kidnapped. ibid.
Nina decided to pay. ibid.
There were several other kidnappings among Hong Kong’s elite. ibid.
The kidnappers were asking for a staggering sixty million dollars. ibid.
Police rounded up all the suspects in Hong Kong. ibid.
Not one but three conflicting wills emerged. ibid.
Dubai: one of the world’s most glittering cities. Its ruler Sheikh Mohammed [al Maktoum] is one of the richest heads of state in the world. Three years ago the Sheikh’s 32 year old daughter Latifa tried to escape. But she was captured. Now, Panorama can reveal that a year after she disappeared Latifa began recording video messages. This is the story of what happened to Latifa and the lies told to the world. Panorama: The Missing Princess, BBC 2021
‘Behind that modern facade there is no tolerance of dissent.’ ibid. Ken Roth, executive director Human Rights Watch
Latifa and Tiina [Jauhiainen] managed to get out of Dubai and board a yacht. The plan was to cross the Indian Ocean then fly to the United States where she would try to claim political asylum. ibid.
At around midnight on 4 March 2018 Latifa was taken off the boat. Tiina and the crew were held in a UAE high security jail for two weeks. ibid.
It’s a story that’s transfixed most of us but which has largely been told through leaks, spin and innuendo. Panorama: Mystery of Madeleine McCann, BBC 2007
They’d eaten here every night of their holiday and their friends. They can’t see the front or the side of the apartment but they can see part of the back. Though even that view was partially obscured by bushes. ibid.
He [Gerry] closes the bedroom door and leaves through these patio doors. ibid.
‘That person was carrying a child.’ ibid. Jane
Gerry McCann says he had closed the bedroom door but Mat Oldfield says he finds it open. ibid.
There was more and more focus on Kate and Gerry McCann. ibid.
We would have to accept that Kate and Gerry having just been involved in the death of their daughter then got ready for a night out, were first at the table and then had a meal with friends as if nothing had happened. ibid.
It is five years since a little girl vanished without trace on a holiday in Portugal. Why has Madeleine McCann never been found? Panorama: Madeleine: The Last Hope? BBC 2012
Operation Grange – set up after a direct request from David Cameron. ibid.
Four separate investigations by private detectives have been funded by the Find Madeleine Campaign. ibid.
All four couples had left their children sleeping unattended. ibid.
It was at 10 p.m. on May 3rd when Kate McCann made the seventy-metre walk to check on her children. ibid.
[Robert Morat] was questioned for nineteen hours before he was released. ibid.
Portuguese public opinion hasn’t changed. ibid.
It’s taken years for the McCanns to secure a British police review of the investigation. ibid.
Next Thursday Madeleine McCann will have been missing for five years. ibid.
When Madeleine McCann disappeared the whole country willed her to be found. But the spotlight soon turned on her parents: they were accused of faking an abduction and hiding Madeleine’s body. For 16 years they’ve lived under constant suspicion. Now we can reveal how the police force that made Kerry and Jerry McCain suspects have said sorry. Panorama: Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleiene McCann? Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2023
Portuguese police now suspect this man abducted and killed Madeleine McCann. And the German authorities are building a case against him. ibid.
The case against Christian Bruckner and the German investigation that has stretched across the Portuguese Algarve. ibid.
These children are hiding in the basement of a church in Ukraine. Russian forces found them then they disappeared. Thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia since the war started. Panorama: Putin & Ukraine’s Stolen Children, BBC 2023
A trail of evidence that leads to the heart of power in Putin’s Russia. ibid.
The minor Madeleine died in apartment 5a ... A simulation of an abduction took place ... Kate and Gerry McCann are involved in the concealment of the corpse of their daughter. Portuguese police internal memo
I’m in a hotel in Jalalabad. The reason that I’m here is that the Taliban have invited me to film their training camps. The Kidnap Diaries (based on the journals of Sean Langan), BBC 2012
We are fighting for our rights. There can be only one winner. The Taliban. Do you know why? We are not afraid of death. ibid. Taliban bloke
Friday March 28th: what a day – Taliban, guys, blindfolded, expecting a bullet in the head but I’m here. ibid.
Toilet rolls to make you feel more bloody comfortable, yes? ibid. Taliban bloke
We’ve got to get out. They are going to kill us. ibid. Sammy
The Sharia found you innocent. They decided you really are a journalist not a spy. ibid. Taliban bloke
You get to live, Sean. ibid.
I just want to go home. ibid. Sean
The incredible story of a kidnapping in Nebraska. Crime Stories: Trail of Clues, 2004
Anne [Sluti] is only seventeen years old. ibid.
Anne Sluti had been beaten and abducted from the parking lot of a mall in Carni, Nebraska. ibid.
Anthony Zappa was in custody. By morning America is electrified at the image of Anne Sluti free at last. ibid.
A college student disappeared without a trace. But the deeper investigators go the stranger the case becomes. A cool Saturday in March: university of Wisconsin student Audrey Seiler is reported missing. Nobody has seen her in more than twenty-four hours. Crime Stories: Tracing Audrey
Madison seems to breathe a collective sigh of relief with her safe return ... There is no evidence of sexual assault. ibid.
She tells police an intruder entered her off-campus apartment at about two in the morning. She says she’d been studying by herself when a man dressed all in black entered through the unlocked door ... He forced her into a dark blue or black vehicle. ibid.
Police are starting to question Audrey’s story. ibid.
In 1992 twenty-five-year-old Stephanie Slater was kidnapped and locked inside a coffin for eight torturous days. Her attacker Michael Sams had already killed before. Crimes That Shook Britain: Stephanie Slater
He wanted £175,000 in return for her life. ibid.
The kidnapper has successfully fled with £175,000 and the police have no trace on him. ibid.
Stephanie Slater arrives on her doorstep alone. ibid.
Now there was a place in Shemlon where the daughters of the Lamanites did gather themselves together to sing, and to dance, and to make themselves merry.
And it came to pass that there was one day a small number of them gathered together to sing and to dance.
And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to return to the city of Nephi, yea, and also fearing that the people would slay them, therefore they durst not return to their wives and their children.
And having tarried in the wilderness, and having discovered the daughters of the Lamanites, they laid and watched them;
And when there were but few of them gathered together to dance, they came forth out of their secret places and took them and carried them into the wilderness; yea, twenty and four of the daughters of the Lamanites they carried into the wilderness.
And it came to pass that when the Lamanites found that their daughters had been missing, they were angry with the people of Limhi, for they thought it was the people of Limhi. Book of Mormon: Mosiah 20:1-6
Lindbergh’s baby Charles junior was found dead six weeks later ... Some people believe that Hauptmann was no more than a bit player in the case, and that the person who should have been held to account was none other than Lindbergh himself. Conspiracy: Lord Lucan Dossier, Channel 5 2015
Eugenics: A child who was rapidly developing serious deformities ... many of the body’s internal organs were missing ... could a loving father really murder his own son? ibid.