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2002 Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38

1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

1992 Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67

1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists

1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed

1989 Stephane Steinier, Belgian journalist, kidnapped and murdered

1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

1988 U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed

1987 Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered

1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon

1986 U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut

1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon

1984 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered

1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)

1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam

1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped

1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance

1980 John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83

1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found

1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped

1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris

1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped

1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found

1976 Francis E Meloy, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed

1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland

1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin

1974 Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA

1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped

1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped

1967 Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria

1967 Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61

1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris

1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped

1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped

1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels

1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey

1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son

1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped

1905 Duncan Macrae, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actor, Casino Royale, Kidnapped

1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco


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