In , Stan was allowed to leave the house, getting a job as a motel maid, eventually calling Hooker to tell him she was leaving and going home. He was sentenced to years in prison, where he remains today. Stan recently spoke out about her time in captivity, saying she has lived a happy life since. Esposito held Beers in a tiny underground bunker for 16 days. After Esposito, who had a friendly relationship with Beers prior to the kidnapping, was questioned, he eventually confessed and led police to the bunker.
In , more than 20 years later, Beers publicly addressed the kidnapping for the first time in a memoir, Buried Memories.
She said she had been abused in her past by her godmother and her husband, Linda and Sal Inghilleri, who kept the child from school and treated her as their servant in their squalid hovel of a home. Sal Inghilleri also raped Katie. After she was found, she was placed with a foster family -- Beers now says she "owes them my life. It's with me every day, but it's something I've learned to cope with.
On November 3, , year-old Kala Brown, a South Carolina woman, was found chained in a metal storage container after she had been missing for nearly three months.
She had been found on the property of Todd Kohlhepp, a registered sex offender who was then charged with her kidnapping. The connection between Brown and Kohlhepp wasn't random: She and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, who disappeared around the same time as her, had been hired to do odd jobs for him.
In an interview on Dr. Phil following her rescue, Brown said that Kohlhepp shot Carver in front of her, killing him, before he forced her into the storage locker. The discovery of Brown led authorities to identify Kohlhepp as a serial killer. He subsequently pleaded guilty to seven murders over a year-period.
She would be held in captivity for nine months and raped repeatedly. Elizabeth shared the bedroom with her sister, Mary Katherine Smart: She witnessed the abduction and pretended to be asleep but woke her parents up later when she felt it was safe to do so.
In October of that same year, Mary Katherine, who had thought the voice of her sister's abductor sounded familiar, realized where she had heard it before: It was the voice of Mitchell, who had called himself "Emmanuel" and had been hired by the Smarts to help out around their house. Mitchell and Smart were eventually found in Sandy, Utah.
Mitchell was convicted on kidnapping charges and sentenced to life in prison in His wife, Wanda Barzee, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in the kidnapping. In the years since the ordeal, Smart, now 29, has reclaimed her life as an inspirational speaker, author and advocate. She is the mother of two children.
Cummins allegedly "groomed" Elizabeth and earned her trust prior to the alleged abduction. In addition to homework help, Anthony said Cummins "[gave] her money, bought a microwave so she would heat food up in his room [and] try and get her out of trouble. In late April of , the pair was discovered in a remote California cabin after a tipster became suspicious and alerted authorities. In , year-old Kozakiewicz was a frequent user of internet chat rooms.
In one, she met someone who she assumed was a boy her age who shared her interests. After talking online for eight to nine months, Kozakiewicz met him on the streets near her home -- and discovered her online friend was actually a year-old named Scott Tyree. The stunning discovery this week of three women who vanished a decade ago has led to the arrest of three brothers in Cleveland, Ohio. But a number of other cases through the years have shown that abductors often subject their captors to mental abuse to hold children for years and convince them not to attempt a getaway.
In Canada, there have been few cases of strangers abducting children and keeping them hostage for years, although there have been some cases of horrific abuse, including the case of two boys in Blackstock, Ont. Here are five recent high-profile cases from around the world of children being kidnapped and held as long as 24 years without detection.
Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was abducted in the middle of the night at knifepoint from her parents' Utah home. She was held captive by a street preacher named Brian David Mitchell who dressed her in white, religious robes and forced her into a polygamous marriage with his wife Wanda Barzee.
For nine months, she was forced to consume drugs and alcohol and raped nearly daily. She was finally discovered in March when an alert passerby saw her walking down the street with Mitchell and Barzee.
Mitchell was eventually handed two life sentences without parole. Barzee was sentenced to 15 years. Natascha Kampusch. Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped at age 10 in March on her way to school in Vienna. She was held for more than eight years in a secret cellar in the small town of Strasshof and was repeatedly beaten, starved and forced to do housework half-naked.
In a book she wrote later, Natascha said her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, was paranoid, unpredictable and cleanliness-obsessed. He also admired Hitler and considered himself an Egyptian god. When police arrived hours later to arrest Priklopil, he committed suicide by stepping in front of a train.
Elisabeth Fritzl. During her captivity, she was repeatedly raped by her father Josef and gave birth to seven children. One of the children died shortly after birth and Josef burned the body.
Three of the middle children lived relatively normal lives upstairs in the home, looked after by Fritzl's wife, Rosemarie. She had been tricked into thinking that Elisabeth had run away and returned periodically to dump her newborn children on their doorstep. The other three children were kept in the cellar and never allowed to leave. The family was eventually found when Josef allowed Elisabeth to take her oldest daughter to hospital after she became seriously ill with an infection and malnutrition.
Fritzl was soon arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for both the confinement and the death of the baby boy. His wife was never charged. Jaycee Dugard. Jaycee Dugard was 11 when she was kidnapped in on her way to school. During her captivity, Jaycee gave birth to two daughters.
When he requested a permit for a religious demonstration, a background check revealed he was on parole and investigators were called to his home where they discovered the backyard cell. Dugard was locked in a makeshift recording studio by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, in the backyard of their home. Renamed "Allissa," Dugard soon realized the major motive for her abduction: She was raped repeatedly by Phillip, which resulted in two pregnancies. At age 14, Jaycee gave birth to her first child, a daughter; three years later, at age 17, she gave birth to a second daughter.
Dugard spent more than 18 years in captivity with the Garridos, who fed her countless lies and largely prohibited her contact with the outside world. During that time, she wrote in a journal frequently, documenting deep depression, fear, loneliness and feelings of being "unloved. Dugard didn't know how to leave, and after years of lies from her captors about her family's lack of love for her, she wasn't even sure whether she had anyone to flee to.
On August 24, , Phillip visited the UC Berkeley campus with his and Jaycee's two daughters to inquire about holding a religious event. Suspicious of his behavior, the UCPD special events manager had another officer conduct a background check, which revealed that Garrido was on parole for kidnapping and rape and was a registered sex offender. They followed up by calling Garrido's parole officer, who was surprised to learn that Garrido had children.
On August 26, Garrido attended a parole meeting with Nancy, Dugard and their daughters. Garrido insisted that Dugard and the young girls were relatives, and Jaycee, who called herself "Allissa," initially covered for him.
Eventually, Garrido broke down and confessed to his crimes, enabling Dugard to reveal her true identity. Shortly thereafter, Phillip and Nancy Garrido were charged with 29 felony counts, including rape and false imprisonment.
Additionally, Phillip Garrido was named a person of interest in another California kidnapping case. In March , in an interview with Diane Sawyer, she spoke about her recent activity, discussing her happiness to be back with her family and her struggle with "learning" how to be free.
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