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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Garrido Search Turns Up Human Bone Fragment

Searchers picking through a pair of properties outside Antioch connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido reported Monday that they had found a bone fragment, but it is not clear whether it is human, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2009

UC Berkeley Officers' Alert Action Uncovers 18-Year Kidnap Victim

The timeline of the steps the two officers took came into sharper focus following Garrido's arrest, as university leaders, law enforcement officials and the media credited Lisa Campbell, the manager of special events, and Ally Jacobs, a campus police officer, with closing the 18-year-old case.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 4, 2009

L.A. Police Rescue Hostage in Riverside County

Los Angeles police on Monday rescued a hostage who had been shot in the stomach and held in a Riverside County home in a suspected kidnapping-for-ransom, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 16, 2009

Immigration Authorities Sorting Out Houston Freeway Kidnap Drama

An alleged abduction in southwest Houston earlier this week appears to be part of human smuggling operation that was thwarted when the victim jumped from his kidnappers' car on a freeway near downtown.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 12, 2008

Officers Rescue California Kidnap Victim, 75, After Two-Day Ordeal

A 75-year-old woman was freed from a harrowing ordeal Wednesday morning after being kidnapped from her La Mesa home and found gagged with tape and tied up in the back of her station wagon, according to sheriff's detectives.

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Articlesby Ramesh NybergApril 1, 2007

The Murder of Sara Tokars

The homeowner and a friend went to where the boys pointed to a van across the field and made a horrifying discovery. When they opened the door, the body of a young woman, her head almost completely blown apart, fell out.

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Articlesby Shelly Feuer DomashOctober 1, 2002

Snatched! Rescuing Stolen Kids

To anyone casually tuning into American TV or perusing a major U.S. newspaper, it looked like the country had been beset by an epidemic of kidnapped children.

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Articlesby Donna Lea HawleyMarch 1, 1996

Enforcing Visitation Rights

The law may support the non-custodial parent's right to visitation, but it is usually very time consuming, expensive and difficult to enforce. Often the father's problems start with the wording of the custody order, which is greatly compounded by the mother's lack of cooperation. Unless there's been child abuse accusations, the mother's actions are usually aimed at hurting the father. But in the long run, it's the children who suffer.

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