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Ariel Castro Pleads Not Guilty

Faces more than 300 counts, including murder, rape, kidnapping

(Newser) - Ariel Castro pleaded not guilty to more than 300 counts this morning, a raft of charges that included two counts of aggravated murder, 139 counts of rape, and 177 counts of kidnapping. The murder charges are tied to his termination of one of the women's pregnancies. Castro was silent...

165 People Held in Grimy House for Weeks Freed

Mexican soldiers came to aid of group, which had been trying to reach US

(Newser) - Mexican soldiers have freed 165 people kidnapped while attempting to reach the US, the country's Interior Ministry says. The group, which included 150 from Central America, 14 from Mexico, and one from India, was held for weeks in a packed, filthy house in the city of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz,...

Mexico City Mystery: How Did 12 Youths Just Vanish?

Parents say cops are ignoring alleged kidnapping due to poor background

(Newser) - A mysterious case persists in Mexico City, where a dozen young people seem to have simply vanished from a bar in broad daylight. Their parents say police haven't done enough since their children—the youngest of whom is 16—went missing early May 26, because they come from a...

Maine Man's Plan to Be Hero Ends With Dead Teen

Kyle Dube charged with kidnapping, murder in death of Nichole Cable

(Newser) - A twisted story out of Maine, where police say one man's plan to play the hero ended with the death of a 15-year-old girl. Kyle Dube, 20, allegedly planned to kidnap a teen, who he would then "find." Police say he set up a fake Facebook account...

Kidnappers Tortured Victim, Also Gave Him Cake: Cops

They're accused of holding businessman in Queens for 32 days

(Newser) - It was a bizarre and brutal kidnapping that lasted more than a month, but at least it has a happy ending. Police say the kidnappers grabbed a 52-year-old businessman in Queens as he was walking to his car last month and brought him to a neighborhood warehouse, reports the Daily ...

Teen Faked Own Kidnapping Over Bad Grade: Cops

Aftab Aslam, 19, didn't want to tell parents he was failing English: police

(Newser) - A 19-year-old college student was flunking English again, so he did what any struggling student fearful of mom and dad's wrath would do: faked his own kidnapping, police say. Aftab Aslam's parents got a text saying the Georgia Gwinnett College student had been kidnapped; if they called police,...

Rapist May Be Sentenced— Even Though He's Dead

Former cop Anthony Orban killed himself following conviction

(Newser) - A former police detective was convicted of kidnapping and rape last year—but before he could be sentenced, he committed suicide. But he's not off the hook: A California judge could still sentence Anthony Orban despite his death. "The only reason he is not here is because he...

New Suspects Found in McCann Case

Police probe reveals new names, but will Portugal investigate?

(Newser) - And the search for Madeleine McCann is on again: Police have produced a new list of suspects in the case of the toddler who went missing in Portugal in 2007, following a lengthy and expensive new review, the Telegraph reports. "There is more than a handful of people of...

Mom Rams Suspect's Car After Daughter Is Taken

5-year-old is safe; suspect is in custody

(Newser) - An amazing story out of Albuquerque, where police say a mother foiled the kidnapping of her young daughter by giving chase in her car. She eventually rammed the suspect's vehicle with her own. A suspect is in custody, and he matches the description of an assailant in a previous...

Castro Served Women Cake on Abduction Anniversaries

And reportedly passed them food through holes in door

(Newser) - Neighbors have told the media that Ariel Castro was often spotted carrying bags of McDonald's into the house, ostensibly to feed his captives. Today, more sick details of how he sustained the women are emerging. The New York Post reports that he passed them food through holes in a...

Castro Would 'Test,' Punish His Captives

Amanda Berry thought his slip Monday was another trick

(Newser) - One reason it took the women in the Cleveland kidnapping case so long to escape to the world just outside their door? Ariel Castro would "test" them for just such a scenario, reports CNN . According to a law enforcement source, he would pretend to leave the house then return...

Ariel Castro Arraigned, Bail Set at $8M

Bond set at $2M for each case

(Newser) - Ariel Castro has been arraigned on charges of rape and kidnapping days after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home. Castro appeared in court this morning. He looked down at the ground for nearly the entire proceeding, biting his collar and signing documents with...

Gunmen Kidnap Ex-Pakistan PM's Son at Election Rally

Guard killed, 5 wounded in gun attack

(Newser) - Gunmen have attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province and abducted the son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani officials say. Unknown attackers stormed the rally in the town of Multan, opened fire, and seized Ali Haider Gilani today, a police official says. "One...

Castro Bizarrely Involved in Search for Missing Women

And he wasn't the only Castro to factor into the aftermath of the vanishings

(Newser) - If you thought the twisted details of the Cleveland case ended with yesterday's news of reported sightings of naked women in Ariel Castro's backyard, well, steel yourself: New reports reveal Castro bizarrely and brazenly inserted himself into the search for one of the missing girls. The latest:
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Cleveland Neighborhood Has Another Still-Missing Teen

Fate of Ashley Summers still a mystery

(Newser) - Amid the many emotions swirling around the Cleveland kidnapping case , there must, for one family, be a kind of disappointment that one more captive wasn't rescued from that house. Ashley Summers disappeared in 2007 at age 14 in the same Cleveland neighborhood where Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus vanished,...

One of the Missing Women Knew Her Captor: Family

More details on their years in captivity

(Newser) - Horrifying details are emerging in the case of three women found after vanishing a decade ago in Cleveland: Family members of Gina DeJesus say she actually knew suspect Ariel Castro; he was related to her best friend (he is possibly the friend's father; in another twist, his son once...

Cleveland Suspect's Son Wrote Article About Captive

Young Castro quoted Gina DeJesus' mom

(Newser) - A strange twist in the Cleveland kidnapping: Ariel Castro—the man arrested yesterday after three women kidnapped a decade ago escaped his home —has a son of the same name who wrote a 2004 newspaper article about the disappearance of one of those women, Gina DeJesus. The younger Ariel...

Child in Cleveland Home Is Captive's Daughter: Cops

Press conference also reveals suspect once left child on a bus

(Newser) - Cleveland officials held a press conference today about the case of the three women found alive after a decade of apparent captivity , even as Mayor Frank Jackson admitted that there were "several unanswered questions: why were they taken, how were they taken, and how [did] they remain undetected in...

Vanished Woman's 911 Call: 'I'm Here, I'm Free Now'

Police say Cleveland women were likely tied in captivity

(Newser) - Police have released a frantic 911 call made by one of three women found alive in a Cleveland home yesterday after disappearing a decade ago. "Help me, I am Amanda Berry," she tells police. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years, and...

Girl's Alleged Kidnapper Captured in Mexican Rehab

Tobias Summers charged in abduction, rape of Northridge 10-year-old

(Newser) - Authorities have captured a fugitive they believe kidnapped and raped a 10-year-old California girl who vanished from her bedroom in March and was found in a parking lot 10 hours later, bruised, barefoot, and disoriented, the FBI announced today; cops had called it an "unspeakably traumatic attack." Tobias...

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