List of long-term false imprisonment cases
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This is a list of notable long-term false imprisonment cases.
Note: this list does not include prisoners of war or conflict.
Cases involving children imprisoned by relatives
[edit]- Alba Nidia Álvarez, Mariquita, Colombia, 25 years,[1][2] discovered in March 2009.
- "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] discovered on 26 April 2008.
- 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] discovered on 4 November 1970.
- 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] discovered on 14 January 2018.
- Viktoria, Katharina, and Elisabeth (Linz sisters), Linz, Austria, 7 years.[28]
- Fred West
Cases involving abducted children
[edit]- 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]
Cases involving sexual slavery of children
[edit]Cases involving adults
[edit]- Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years.[49]
- 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.[50]
- Omar bin Omran, Algeria, held captive for 26 years.[51]
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