Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story began in 1986, when Jacobs' sister, Bobbie Jean Hogan, enlisted him to kidnap Urdiales from her Conroe, Texas, apartment. Urdiales was the former wife of Hogan's boyfriend. She had upset Hogan by badgering her former husband for child-support money. At Hogan's prompting, Jacobs adbucted Urdiales from her apartment in Conroe, then took her to a wooded area where he joined his sister Bobbie. Urdiales was killed with a gunshot to the head, and her body buried in a sleeping...
...Excluding the three presidential assassinations, the tragic Lindbergh kidnap-murder, and probably, but not certainly, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, few, if any, American crime stories so completely engrossed the public press, so totally grasped the attention of the American people as did the trial...of Harvard Professor John White Webster at the halfway mark of the 19th century," Sullivan wrote...
...under orders not to interfere. U.S. forces on the island, meanwhile, increased to 6,000, including about 1,800 Marines who moved ashore at Cap-Haitien in the north. BTW: A U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press that American commandos had been in Haiti for weeks, set to kidnap Haiti's de facto ruler, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, during an invasion...
Brown bears. Bighorn sheep. Elk. But also gray-banded king snakes. Ducks. Spiders. Butterflies. Of all God's creatures, great and small, there are apparently few that enterprising Americans are unwilling to slaughter or kidnap in the country's national parks. Poaching in the parks has been a problem since they were founded in the 19th century, but never like this, says Grosz, echoing colleagues across the U.S. "I've been in the business for 30 years, and the problem is definitely at its worst," he says. "They're taking everything." Wildlife-enforcement officials estimate that there...
...other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex remake of Rebel Without a Cause, stars Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written...