these cases brought a nation together in
grief and fear welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down ten
infamous kidnappings that held America
hostage number ten Elizabeth Smart this
is one of the few kidnapping stories
with a happy ending
smart was snatched from her home in an
affluent neighborhood as her sister
pretended to sleep nearby she gave
police clues and after nine months
Elizabeth was located alive and returned
to her family we’re here to announce
officially that we have found Elizabeth
Smart and that she is here and well and
healthy in our station her abductors
were convicted of kidnapping rape and
burglary and smart later became an
activist and contributor to ABC News
number nine Carlina white 19 day old
Carlino was taken from a hospital while
she recovered from a high fever
her abductor raised her under an assumed
name and four years Carlina never knew
the truth but when she began to suspect
something was wrong she contacted the
authorities and soon realized she was
not who she thought in 2011 her identity
was confirmed and Carlina white was
reunited with her biological parents
number eight Johnny Gosch after Johnny
went missing while delivering newspapers
he became the poster boy for missing
kids whisperings of underage sex rings
surfaced but remained unsubstantiated in
1997 Johnny’s mother claimed to have
been visited by her son but her
reliability was questioned the case made
headlines again in 2006 when she
received photographs allegedly showing
him bound and gagged
Johnny’s abduction served to bring
similar cases into the national
spotlight
number seven Amber Hagerman while police
were called within eight minutes of this
nine year olds abduction as she biked
near her grandparents home it was too
late four days later the girl who came
to be known as Arlington’s child was
found dead and her killer was never
located but she didn’t die in vain Amber
Alert was established in her name as a
child abduction alert system that saved
countless other children although her
baby did not come home others have
thanks to Amber Alerts now issued nation
why’d Glenda witson likes to tell her
granddaughter she made a difference
number six
Jaycee Lee Dugard as this fifth grader
walked to the school bus she was
approached by a car hit with a stun gun
and grabbed during her 18-year
imprisonment she bore two children by
her captor and abandoned the idea of
escape when police found her in 2009 she
suffered from Stockholm Syndrome and
refused to reveal herself however she
and her daughter’s finally reunited with
her family and the kidnappers went to
jail
number five Patty Hearst this case of
Stockholm Syndrome was even more famous
the 19 year old granddaughter of
newspaper magnate William Randolph
Hearst was snatched by the Symbionese
Liberation Army it was just a pathetic
mediocre sort of after spasm of the best
part of the 60s the release of their
jailed brethren or the distribution of
food to the needy where the guerrilla
groups demands and while the Hurst’s
largely complied Patty joined the SLA a
year and a half after her abduction
she was arrested with the group and
served 22 months in jail number 4
Natalie Holloway Dutch citizen Joran van
der Sloot became the prime suspect after
this teen went missing on her grad trip
he led authorities and Holloway’s family
on a wild goose chase by confessing and
retracting statements though some
labelled this a case of missing white
woman syndrome Natalie was never found
and theories about her fate continued in
2012 van der Sloot was jailed for the
murder of another girl number three
Charles Lindbergh jr. when famed aviator
Charles Lindbergh’s 20 month old son was
snatched from their home it became one
of the century’s most well known crimes
the pricey ransom was paid
but the Lindbergh baby was found dead
two months after he was taken Bruno
Hauptmann was captured tried convicted
and executed for the crime but
proclaimed his innocence until the day
he died I want to tell the people of
America absolute innocence number 2 Adam
Walsh leads quickly ran dry once
six-year-old Adams remains were
discovered weeks after he was grabbed
from a department store his father John
Wall
advocated for victims rights and started
hosting America’s most wanted to catch
predators nationally the code add a
missing child safety program was named
in Walsh’s memory as was the Adam Walsh
Child Protection and Safety Act this
case was closed in 2008 with convicted
killer oddest tool taking the blame I
learned one tough lesson when I went to
work on July 27th and 1981 take it one
day at a time
number one Etan Patz this six-year-old
was abducted the first time he walked
the two blocks to his bus stop alone the
manhunt was fierce and Eitan became the
first missing child on a milk carton but
he was never found police reopened the
case in 2010 and eventually arrested a
suspect but doubt was cast on his guilt
to commemorate the date of a tonn’s
disappearance May 25th was designated
missing Children’s Day a tonn’s case was
a case that changed America millions of
parents sat at home and thought there
but for the grace of God goes my child
grief and fear welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down ten
infamous kidnappings that held America
hostage number ten Elizabeth Smart this
is one of the few kidnapping stories
with a happy ending
smart was snatched from her home in an
affluent neighborhood as her sister
pretended to sleep nearby she gave
police clues and after nine months
Elizabeth was located alive and returned
to her family we’re here to announce
officially that we have found Elizabeth
Smart and that she is here and well and
healthy in our station her abductors
were convicted of kidnapping rape and
burglary and smart later became an
activist and contributor to ABC News
number nine Carlina white 19 day old
Carlino was taken from a hospital while
she recovered from a high fever
her abductor raised her under an assumed
name and four years Carlina never knew
the truth but when she began to suspect
something was wrong she contacted the
authorities and soon realized she was
not who she thought in 2011 her identity
was confirmed and Carlina white was
reunited with her biological parents
number eight Johnny Gosch after Johnny
went missing while delivering newspapers
he became the poster boy for missing
kids whisperings of underage sex rings
surfaced but remained unsubstantiated in
1997 Johnny’s mother claimed to have
been visited by her son but her
reliability was questioned the case made
headlines again in 2006 when she
received photographs allegedly showing
him bound and gagged
Johnny’s abduction served to bring
similar cases into the national
spotlight
number seven Amber Hagerman while police
were called within eight minutes of this
nine year olds abduction as she biked
near her grandparents home it was too
late four days later the girl who came
to be known as Arlington’s child was
found dead and her killer was never
located but she didn’t die in vain Amber
Alert was established in her name as a
child abduction alert system that saved
countless other children although her
baby did not come home others have
thanks to Amber Alerts now issued nation
why’d Glenda witson likes to tell her
granddaughter she made a difference
number six
Jaycee Lee Dugard as this fifth grader
walked to the school bus she was
approached by a car hit with a stun gun
and grabbed during her 18-year
imprisonment she bore two children by
her captor and abandoned the idea of
escape when police found her in 2009 she
suffered from Stockholm Syndrome and
refused to reveal herself however she
and her daughter’s finally reunited with
her family and the kidnappers went to
jail
number five Patty Hearst this case of
Stockholm Syndrome was even more famous
the 19 year old granddaughter of
newspaper magnate William Randolph
Hearst was snatched by the Symbionese
Liberation Army it was just a pathetic
mediocre sort of after spasm of the best
part of the 60s the release of their
jailed brethren or the distribution of
food to the needy where the guerrilla
groups demands and while the Hurst’s
largely complied Patty joined the SLA a
year and a half after her abduction
she was arrested with the group and
served 22 months in jail number 4
Natalie Holloway Dutch citizen Joran van
der Sloot became the prime suspect after
this teen went missing on her grad trip
he led authorities and Holloway’s family
on a wild goose chase by confessing and
retracting statements though some
labelled this a case of missing white
woman syndrome Natalie was never found
and theories about her fate continued in
2012 van der Sloot was jailed for the
murder of another girl number three
Charles Lindbergh jr. when famed aviator
Charles Lindbergh’s 20 month old son was
snatched from their home it became one
of the century’s most well known crimes
the pricey ransom was paid
but the Lindbergh baby was found dead
two months after he was taken Bruno
Hauptmann was captured tried convicted
and executed for the crime but
proclaimed his innocence until the day
he died I want to tell the people of
America absolute innocence number 2 Adam
Walsh leads quickly ran dry once
six-year-old Adams remains were
discovered weeks after he was grabbed
from a department store his father John
Wall
advocated for victims rights and started
hosting America’s most wanted to catch
predators nationally the code add a
missing child safety program was named
in Walsh’s memory as was the Adam Walsh
Child Protection and Safety Act this
case was closed in 2008 with convicted
killer oddest tool taking the blame I
learned one tough lesson when I went to
work on July 27th and 1981 take it one
day at a time
number one Etan Patz this six-year-old
was abducted the first time he walked
the two blocks to his bus stop alone the
manhunt was fierce and Eitan became the
first missing child on a milk carton but
he was never found police reopened the
case in 2010 and eventually arrested a
suspect but doubt was cast on his guilt
to commemorate the date of a tonn’s
disappearance May 25th was designated
missing Children’s Day a tonn’s case was
a case that changed America millions of
parents sat at home and thought there
but for the grace of God goes my child
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