kidnapped+people


 * __Famous Kidnappings__**

__** Aimee Semple McPherson**__ Aimee Semple McPherson, a well known evangelist and media celebrity, was allegedly kidnapped on May 18 1926. McPherson had gone to South Park Beach with her secretary for a swim, but soon after arriving she was nowhere to be found. It was assumed that she had drowned. However, a ransom note was sent to McPherson's mother, demanding half a million dollars. The note stated that if the ransom was not paid, McPherson would be sold into slavery. McPherson's mother did not pay the ransom, believing her daughter was dead. But on June 23 1926, McPherson appeared out of the desert into a small Mexican town. McPherson claimed she had been kidnapped, drugged, tormented and held for ransom in a shack by two people, Steve and Mexicali Rose. She stated that a young couple on the beach had asked her to pray for their sick child, but then shoved her into a car and drugged her with chloroform. She also said that she escaped from her captors and walked for 13 hours through the desert to freedom. Yet her shoes showed no signs of a 13 hour walk, the shack she was allegedly tortured in was not found, and she had reappeared in a full suit of clothes, but when she had disappeared she was in a swimsuit. The case went to court, but was dismissed as there was lack of evidence to prove McPherson had been kidnapped.



A five year old boy of Pakistani heritage named Sahil Saeed was kidnapped on March 4, 2010. Sahil and his mother, father and siblings live in Britain. Sahil and his father had spent 2 weeks visiting Sahil's sick grandmother in Jhelum, Pakistan, and were geting ready to come home when a gang attacked them. According to Sahil's father, four masked men armed with guns and grenades swooped down on them. The gang held Sahil, Mr Saeed and some of their relatives hostage, demanding money and jewellery.When it became clear that the Saaeds could not meet the robbers demands, the gang snatched Sahil, demading £110,000 pounds for his safe return. Sahil's family were told, "Deliver £110,000 in cash to an address in an as-yet-unspecified European country and the boy will be returned alive. Fail, and the boy would be killed." Kidnapping is a growing problem in Pakistan, where people who live in the West are perceived as rich. Their children are kidnapped and held for ransom, as the gangs wrongly believe it will be easy for their families to pay the ransom. Pakistani, UK, French and Spanish police officers were all involved in this investigation and were successful in getting Sahil back. Rumors were spread that Sahil's father or someone in his family was part of the kidnapping, but these rumors were proved untrue by police and detectives and the real kidnappers were soon found. Police say that Mr Saeed had paid the £110,000 ransom in France, Paris and that they had used surveillance cameras to see the recipients of the money. The recipients were tracked down, and eventually captured. Sahil was freed, and £105,000 pounds were recovered from the ransom.
 * __Sahil Saeed__**

Madeline McCann disappeared on the evening of 3 May, 2007, while on holiday in Portugal with her parents and siblings. The 4 year old British girl went missing from an unlocked apartment, while her parents were away at a resturant. Madeleine's parents had left the children in bed and had taken turns to check on them during the night. When a friend of the McCanns came to check on the kids at 21:30, he said that he had only seen the twins through the open bedroom door, but had just assumed that Madeleine's bed was out of sight. When Kate, Madeleine's mother, came to check on the children at about 22:00, she saw that Madeleine's bed was empty and started screaming, "They've taken her, they've taken her Madeleine's gone!" The police and the resort manager were quickly alerted of what had happened. One of the McCanns friends, Jane Tanner, said that she had seen a man carrying a child down the road next to the McCanns apartment at approxiamately 21:20. Police didn't have many leads on where Madeleine had gone so attempts on finding her were not successful. Madeleine's parents were regarded as suspects, but there was not enough proof to support this theory. A number of people have been interviewed but there is still barely any information to suggest where little Madeleine has gone. It is likely that Madeleine has been killed, but her parents refuse to give up on finding her. There have been over 40 reported sightings of Madeleine but police have still not found her. This case has become quite famous over its extensive media coverage and mystery. No one where Madeleine has gone and she is missing to this day. __Jaycee Lee Dugard__ Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991. She was 11 years old when she was first kidnapped. She was kidnapped from a school bus stop, close to her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for 18 years, until August 26, 2009, when Jaycee and her daughters appeared in the office of her alleged kidnapper’s parole officer in California. Their unusual behavior led to an investigation, identifying that it was Jaycee, who went missing 18 years before. It was found that Phillip Garrido (who had a previous history of kidnapping and sexual assault), and his wife Nancy Garrido kidnapped Jaycee and are now in jail awaiting trial. Later it was found that she had two daughters with a man who kidnapped her, and had a first child at age 14. Her daughters believed that Jaycee was their sister.
 * __Madeli[[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:zb125RsCcTXQbM:http://campaignme.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/madeleine_mccann-2.jpg width="222" height="196" align="left" link="imgres?imgurl=http://campaignme.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/madeleine_mccann-2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://campaignme.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/&usg=__aqHxhpPfieiS0lToMIXKYfnA4bY=&h=404&w=468&sz=39&hl=en&start=1&itbs=1&tbnid=zb125RsCcTXQbM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=128&prev=/images?q=madeleine mccann&hl=en&tbo=1&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2009-23,GGLG:en&tbs=isch:1"]]ne McCann__**