Putting a family back together when a stolen brother returns.

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Modern Love: A Brother, Lost and Found: Modern Love

Gunmen abducted Shahbaz Ali Taseer, the son of Salman Taseer, a slain former governor from the eastern city of Lahore, on Friday.

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Son of Assassinated Pakistani Governor Is Kidnapped, Police Say

A group of armed men on Saturday abducted an American citizen who worked for a private company from his residence in Lahore.

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American Kidnapped From Home in Pakistan, Police Say

An Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic group said Thursday it had kidnapped the man and threatened to execute him.

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Hamas Says It Found Body of Italian Activist

Nancy Garrido confessed Monday to kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and keeping her imprisoned for 18 years. Philip Garrido, her husband and a convicted sex offender, was sentenced to 440 years to life in prison for not only the kidnapping, but also…

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Attorney: Dugard Kidnapper Confesses

Mr. Getty, a grandson of the oil baron once believed to be the richest man in the world, achieved tragic notoriety in 1973 when he was kidnapped by Italian gangsters.

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J. Paul Getty III, 54, Dies; Had Ear Cut Off by Captors

The woman who raised Carlina White has told the F.B.I. that she kidnapped the girl from Harlem Hospital.

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Woman Admits to Kidnapping Baby in 1987

A woman who the authorities believe took a 3-week-old baby girl from Harlem Hospital 23 years ago was arrested on federal kidnapping charges in Bridgeport, Conn.

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Woman Is Arrested in Kidnap Case

A reunion ended one of the New York Police Department’s most baffling missing-persons cases.

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Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

Érika Gándara, police chief of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos, disappeared in December, an ominous punctuation mark on a town’s wave of terror.

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Bit by Bit, a Mexican Police Force Is Eradicated

A case against a relief worker stems from whether a 15-month-old baby died or was kidnapped at a hospital after the earthquake in January.

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U.S. Worker Held in Haiti on Kidnapping Charges

A federal jury in Utah has reached a verdict in the kidnapping trial of a homeless preacher accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart.

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Jury reaches verdict in Elizabeth Smart case

From the small mountain of diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks is now slowly putting up at their website, one significant historical document has so far gotten only scant mention. It’s dated February 6, 2007 and directed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It reflects a meeting between John M. Koenig, the senior career diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, and Rolf Nikel, the deputy national security advisor for Germany. The subject was the criminal investigation into the kidnapping and torture of Khaled El-Masri, a German greengrocer from the town of Neu-Ulm, seized in a case of mistaken identity. Koenig, aware that German prosecutors had issued arrest warrants against thirteen U.S. government agents who were involved in El-Masri’s abduction and torture, and that an effort would shortly be made to enforce them internationally, was pressing the German government to block this effort. It would have a “negative impact on our bilateral relationship,” he apparently told Nikel. While Koenig mouthed formulas about respect for the “independence” of the German criminal justice system, he noted that there was also a “political” element—unlike their colleagues in Italy and Spain, German prosecutors are subject to direction by the government on a political basis. Though this cable is framed in typically diplomatic politesse, the underlying message seems clear: it was a demand that Chancellor Merkel’s government intervene to block the criminal investigation, coupled with a threat of negative consequences if it failed to do so. . . .

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SCOTT HORTON—The El-Masri Cable

A couple who had been kidnapped by Somali pirates and held in captivity for more than a year were released, Somali officials said.

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Pirates Free Kidnapped Couple

Oddly, many abductors file tax returns. But privacy laws prevent the I.R.S. from sharing them with investigators.

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I.R.S. Sits on Data Pointing to Missing Children