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100 _aNewton, Michael
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245 4 _aThe encyclopedia of kidnappings. /
_cMichael Newton.
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bCheckmark Books,
_cc2002.
300 _avii,
_b373 p. : ill.
_c28 cm.
520 _a Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mystery
520 _a Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figures
520 _a King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192
520 _a 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
520 _a Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heist
520 _a Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc.
520 _a the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979
520 _a The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military junta
520 _aProvides 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
650 _aAbduction
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650 _aKidnapping
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