List of long-term false imprisonment cases
This is a list of notable long-term false imprisonment cases.
Cases involving children imprisoned by relatives
Alba Nidia Álvarez , Mariquita, Colombia, 25 years,[ 1] [ 2] "Anna" , Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, United States, 6 years, discovered on 6 February 1938.Arthur Labinjo-Hughes , Solihull, West Midlands, England, 1 year, discovered in June 2020.[ 3] Blanche Monnier , Poitiers, France, 25 years, discovered on 23 May 1901.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] Byron Anthony McCane II , Oklahoma , United States, 2 years, discovered in 1983.Drenthe hermits family of six children, Ruinerwold , the Netherlands, at least 9 years, discovered in October 2019.[ 7] [ 8] Elisabeth Fritzl and her children , Austria, 24 years,[ 9] Elizabeth Wesson, her sisters, her children, her nieces and her nephews , Fresno, California, US, 26 years, discovered on 12 March 2004."Genie" , Arcadia, California, United States, 13 years,[ 10] Jeffrey Baldwin , Toronto, Canada, 4 years, discovered on 30 November 2002.[ 11] Jürgen Bartsch , Langenberg, Germany, 6 years.[ 12] "M" and her children , Moe, Victoria, Australia, 28 years, discovered in February 2007."Laura" Mongelli , Turin, Italy, 25 years, discovered on 27 March 2009.Lucero case , Argentina, 20 years, discovered in May 2009.[ 13] [ 14] Lydia Gouardo , Val-de-Marne, France, 28 years, discovered on 20 November 1999.[ 15] Rader/Beighley case, Pennsylvania, United States, 1 year.[ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
Rosalynn McGinnis, Missouri , United States, 19 years, escaped in 2016.[ 19]
Sheffield incest case , UK, 25 years, discovered in November 2008.Schollenberger Case , Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States, 10 years, discovered in May 2020.[ 20] South Wales paternal sex abuse case , South Wales, UK, 20 years, discovered in October 2019.[ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] Turpin case , Perris, California, United States, 29 years,[ 25] [ 26] [ 27] Viktoria, Katharina, and Elisabeth (Linz sisters) , Linz, Austria, 7 years.[ 28]
Cases involving abducted children
Jayme Closs , kidnapped after her parents' murder and held for 88 days, discovered on 10 January 2019.Murder of Sylvia Likens , a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965.Jaycee Dugard , kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Antioch, California, US, 18 years, discovered on 26 August 2009.[ 29] [ 30] John Jamelske , serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of girls and women and held them captive in a concrete bunker beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, US. All five of his victims were from different ethnic origins and most from different age groups.Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby, kidnapper Michael J. Devlin , Kirkwood, Missouri, US, 4 years, discovered on 12 January 2007.[ 31] Florence Sally Horner , kidnapper Frank La Salle, Camden, New Jersey, US, 1 year 9 months, discovered on 22 March 1950.[ 32] Tanya Nicole Kach , kidnapper Thomas Hose, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, US, 10 years, discovered on 21 March 2006.[ 33] [ 34] [ 35] Natascha Kampusch , kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil, Vienna, Austria, 8 years, discovered on 23 August 2006.[ 5] Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus , kidnapper Ariel Castro, Cleveland, Ohio, US, 9 to 11 years, discovered on 6 May 2013.[ 36] [ 37] [ 38] Katya Martynova and Lena Samokhina, kidnapper Viktor Mokhov , Skopin, Ryazan, Russia, 3 to 4 years.[ 39] [ 40]
Anna Saito, kidnapper Kabu Terauchi, Higashi-Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 2 years.[ 41] [ 42]
Fusako Sano , kidnapper Nobuyuki Satō, Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 9 years, discovered on 28 January 2000.[ 43] Santa Ana kidnapping accusation of 15-year-old girl , held by Isidro Garcia, Santa Ana, California, US, 10 years, discovered on 19 May 2014.[ 44] [ 45] Elizabeth Smart , kidnappers Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Diego County, California, US, 9 months, discovered on 12 March 2003.[ 46] Steven Stayner , kidnappers Kenneth Parnell and Ervin Murphy, Merced, California, US, 7 years, discovered on 1 March 1980.[ 47] 7-year-old girl kidnapped by a school bus driver in Medellin , Colombia , in early 2012. Escaped in February 2024 after being held captive for 12 years.[ 48]
Cases involving sexual slavery of children
Cases involving adults
Kaspar Hauser , Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years.[ 50] Marvin L. Maple , US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier.Colleen Stan , US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984.Alexander Komin , Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov Oblast, Russia.[ 51] Omar bin Omran , Algeria , held captive for 26 years.[ 52]
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