TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newton, Michael
TI  - The encyclopedia of kidnappings.
SN  - 816044872
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Checkmark Books
KW  - Abduction
KW  - sears
KW  - Kidnapping
N2  -  Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mystery;  Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figures;  King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192;  Missisippi White Knights of the Ku Lux Klan, perpetrators of the infamous kidnap and murder of the three civil rights volunteers during the freedom Summer of 1964;  Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heist;  Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc;  the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979;  The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military junta; Provides a cross section of kidnappers and their victims, and explores the details and circumtances surrounding each kidnapping case.  Topics include the American Embassy Hostage Crisis
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