List of kidnappings: 1950–1969

The following is a list of kidnappings that occurred between 1950 and 1969, summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions, claimed hoaxes, suspected kidnappings, extradition abductions, and mass kidnappings.

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Date	Victim(s)	Abductor(s)	Location	Age of victim(s)	Outcome	Notes
1950–	South Koreans abducted by North Koreans	Agents and soldiers	South Korea	Various	Various	Approximately 84,532 South Koreans were taken to North Korea during the Korean War. Since the war's armistice in 1953, about 3,800 people have been abducted.
21 February 1951	Luis Albino	unknown	Oakland, California, United States	6	Found alive (2024)	Albino was playing at a park with his older brother when a woman approached them and offered him candy to go with her. In 2024, he was found to be alive and living in the East Coast after his niece took an at-home DNA test.
October 1952	Betty Alexander	unknown	Glasgow, Scotland, UK	4	Murdered	Alexander was kidnapped and murdered in Glasgow.
28 September 1953	Robert "Bobby" Cosgrove Greenlease Jr.	Bonnie Heady and Carl A. Hall	Kansas City, Missouri, US	6	Murdered	Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered.
December 1954	Unidentified 11-year-old girl	John A. Bennett	Wals-Siezenheim, Austria	11	Survived	Bennett, a U.S. soldier stationed in Salzburg, abducted an 11-year-old girl while heavily intoxicated and looking for a brothel and raped her before strangling her and throwing her into a stream. She survived the assault and Bennett was sentenced to death by a court-martial.
15 June 1955	Curtis Chillingworth	Floyd Holzapfel, Bobby Lincoln, Joseph Peel	Manalapan, Florida	58	Murdered	Circuit court judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie were abducted from their home by Floyd Holzapfel and Bobby Lincoln, who later testified that they had thrown them into the sea with lead weights tied to their feet on orders from Joseph Peel, a municipal judge who Curtis Chillingworth was investigating for corruption.
	Marjorie Chillingworth			47
28 August 1955	Emmett Till	Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam	Drew, Mississippi, U.S.	14	Murdered	Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's home by two white men, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, after Bryant's wife, Carolyn, accused Till of harassing her. Milam and Bryant beat and tortured Till, possibly with help from accomplices, before shooting him in the head and sinking his body into the Tallahatchie River.
4 July 1956	Peter Weinberger	Angelo LaMarca	Westbury, New York, US	1 month	Murdered	LaMarca took the baby from his home for a $2,000 ransom. He told investigators he went to the first drop site the day after the kidnapping with the baby in the car, but was scared away by all of the press and police in the area. He drove away, abandoned the baby alive in some heavy brush just off a highway exit, and went home. A search of the area by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and Nassau County Police Department ensued. An FBI agent spotted a diaper pin, then the decomposed remains of Peter Weinberger. The Weinberger case also resulted in new legislation, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which reduced the FBI's waiting period in kidnapping cases from 7 days to 24 hours. LaMarca was executed via electric chair on 7 August 1958.
28 December 1956	Barbara Grimes	Unknown	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	15	Murdered	The Grimes sisters were taken while returning home from the cinema after a screening of Love me Tender. Their bodies were found in January of the following year; although an autopsy found that they had been killed five hours after they disappeared, numerous witnesses attested to having seen or been in contact with the girls long after their supposed deaths. The perpetrator or perpetrators remain unidentified.
	Patricia Grimes			12
2 September 1957	Judge Edward Aaron	Ku Klux Klan members	Birmingham, Alabama, US	34	Rescued	African-American handyman who was abducted, beaten and tortured by seven KKK members who left him for dead. Aaron was rescued the same day, and several of his attackers were later convicted. His case inspired the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.
3 December 1957	Maria Ridulph	Unknown	Sycamore, Illinois, U.S.	7	Murdered	Maria Ridulph was abducted by a man calling himself "Johnny" while playing with her friend Kathy Sigman in December 1957. Her skeletal remains were found in Woodbine in April of the following year. Jack McCullough, a known sex offender living in the area, was eventually convicted of the murder in 2012; however, he was exonerated four years later when it was proven that he was in Rockford when the crime took place. The true perpetrator was never found.
23 February 1958	Juan Manuel Fangio	Rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution	Havana, Cuba	46	Released	The night before the non-championship Cuban Grand Prix, five-time Argentine Formula One champion Fangio was kidnapped by rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution. The abduction was planned by one of Fidel Castro's right-hand men, Faustino Perez, from a hotel in Havana. The abductors had also planned to kidnap fellow driver Stirling Moss, but Fangio had convinced the abductors not to. He was taken to three separate houses, and was offered various amnesties, including a radio to listen to the race. At midnight after the race, Fangio was dropped off at the Argentinian ambassador's home.
24 April 1959	Mack Charles Parker	A lynch mob	Poplarville, Mississippi, U.S.	22	Murdered	Parker, a black man, was accused of raping a pregnant white woman named June Walters. Two days before his trial was set to begin, a mob of white locals stormed the jail and dragged Parker out before taking him up to the Pearl River Bridge on the Mississippi-Louisiana border, where he was shot and thrown in the river. His body was found in the river on 4 May.
1960	CK Tang	Armed gang	Singapore	59	Released	The Chinese businessman was kidnapped by four armed thugs, but was freed unharmed within 84 hours after the family reportedly paid S$150,000 in ransom.
9 February 1960	Adolph Coors III	Joseph Corbett Jr.	Morrison, Colorado, US	44	Murdered	Corbett attempted to kidnap Coors on a single-lane bridge outside of Morrison, Colorado, but a struggle ensued and Corbett shot Coors twice in the back, killing him. Corbett then dumped Coors' dead body near Pikes Peak and mailed a ransom note demanding $500,000. That night, Corbett mistakenly believed he was being watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and left Denver the following morning. He was captured nine months later in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and convicted of first degree murder.
7 July 1960	Graeme Thorne	Stephen Leslie Bradley	New South Wales, Australia	8	Murdered	Graeme's parents, Bazil and Freda Thorne, won the £100,000 Opera House Lottery (at that time, the names of winners were published). Five weeks later Stephen Leslie Bradley abducted Graeme and demanded a ransom. He was killed and dumped, the partially decomposed body being discovered on 16 August. The case led to tighter rules about the publication of the names of lottery winners.
11 July 1960	Edward Bartels	Victor Feguer	Dubuque, Iowa, US	34	Murdered	Edward Bartels was a doctor working in Dubuque, Iowa, who was abducted by drifter Victor Feguer, who intended to steal drugs from him. Feguer lured Bartels to his boarding house by claiming that a woman was suffering from a medical emergency before abducting him and taking him to Illinois, where he shot Bartels in the head and dumped his body in a cornfield.
29 July 1960	Carole Sgritta	Richard Delage	Westchester County, New York, US	24	Murdered	A Long Island schoolteacher abducted and murdered by Richard Delage. Her body was discarded in the New Croton Reservoir. She had been shot four times in the head with a revolver.
17 December 1960	Abebe Aregai	Unknown	Ethiopia	57	Murdered	An Ethiopian military commander who fell victim to the 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt.
22 August 1961	Michael Gregsten	James Hanratty	Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire, UK	36	Murdered	On 22 August 1961, Michael Gregsten and his mistress Valerie Storie were sitting in Gregsten's car in Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire, when a masked man holding a gun approached them and hijacked the car, forcing Gregsten to drive away up the A6 and keep driving until 1.30am the next day, when he tied Storie's hands behind her back, shot Gregsten in the head and raped Storie. The man then forced Storie to drag Gregsten's body out of the car, shot her five times and drove off. Storie survived after being taken to hospital. Their abductor, James Hanratty, was executed by hanging on 4 April 1962.
	Valerie Storie			23	Survived
22 October 1962	Carol Ann Dougherty	Unknown	Bristol, Pennsylvania, US	9	Murdered	Carol Dougherty was abducted by an unknown assailant on her way to the library from home. She was later found inside St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church, which she herself had frequented before, having been raped and strangled. Although there have been several suspects and leads on the perpetrator in the intervening years, the crime remains unsolved.
3 March 1963	Lois Ann Jameson	Ernesto Miranda	Phoenix, Arizona, US	18	Released	Jameson was abducted near a bus stop while returning from work. Miranda drove her twenty minutes out of town before raping her and driving her back, whereupon she was released. Miranda was arrested ten days later and convicted of kidnapping and rape, but had his conviction overturned in Miranda v. Arizona due to a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights. A second jury later convicted Miranda and he was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years.
9 March 1963	Karl Francis Hettinger	Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith	Bakersfield, California	28	Escaped	Los Angeles Police Department officers. Both men were kidnapped by criminals Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith on 9 March 1973 and driven to an onion field near Bakersfield, California. Campbell was shot, while Hettinger managed to escape to a farmhouse where he called for help.
	Ian James Campbell			31	Murdered
1 May 1963	Yoshie Nakata	Kazuo Ishikawa	Sayama, Japan	16	Murdered	16-year-old Yoshie Nakata was abducted on her way home from school. A ransom note was delivered to her family later that night, but attempts to deliver the ransom failed and Nakata was found raped and murdered three days after her abduction. Farm worker Kazuo Ishikawa, a member of the discriminated burakumin caste, served 31 years in prison for the crime.
31 May 1963	Margaret Guyan	Henry John Burnett	Aberdeen, Scotland	Unknown	Rescued	Guyan's estranged husband, Henry Burnett, abducted her from her flat with a shotgun after she tried to leave him, in the process killing her brother Thomas. Burnett attempted to flee with Guyan in a car he had stolen, but was intercepted by police after driving 15 miles and surrendered peacefully, releasing Guyan unharmed. Burnett was later hanged for murdering Thomas Guyan.
August 1963	Kenneth Abrahams	South African Police	Botswana	c.27	Released	Abrahams, Beukes, Shipanga and a fourth individual, Paul Smit, were arrested in Ghanzi because of their actions in recruiting soldiers for SWAPO's military wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia. All four were released by the South African Police after twenty days of captivity.
	Hermanus Beukes			50
	Andreas Shipanga			31
18 March 1964	Marise Chiverella	James Paul Forte	Hazleton, Pennsylvania, US	9	Murdered	Chiverella was abducted while carrying canned goods for her teacher, with Forte raping and strangling her before dumping her body in a coal-mining pit. The murder remained unsolved until 2022, when Parabon NanoLabs used DNA left by Forte to identify him as the killer. He could not be arrested, as he had died in 1980.
27 April 1964	Paul Joseph Fronczak	Unknown	Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, US	1 day	Found	Fronczak was one day old when he was abducted from the Michael Reese Hospital by an unknown woman posing as a nurse. A year later, a baby believed to be Paul was found outside a variety store in Newark, New Jersey, and was subsequently given to the Fronczaks. In August 2013, DNA testing determined that the child found was not Paul, leading to the case's re-opening On 18 December 2019, it was announced that the real Paul Joseph Fronczak had been identified as a 55-year-old man who asked to remain anonymous.
2 May 1964	Henry Hezekiah Dee	James Ford Seale	Roxie, Mississippi	19	Murdered	Two black 19-year-olds who were abducted by Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale, who mistakenly believed that they were civil rights activists. Seale and several accomplices drove them to a farm in the Homochitto National Forest and beat them with sticks before duct-taping their hands and mouths and driving 100 miles to the Old River in Louisiana, where Seale attached weights to their feet and threw them into the river to drown. Seale was eventually found guilty of the crime in 2007.
	Charles Eddie Moore			19
21 June 1964	James Chaney	Ku Klux Klan, Neshoba County Sheriff's Office	Neshoba County, Mississippi	21	Murdered	Three civil rights activists who were abducted and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office while campaigning for African-American voting rights during Freedom Summer. Eight of the perpetrators were convicted or pleaded guilty at a Federal trial in 1967, including the Klan's national leader Samuel Bowers, and a ninth, Edgar Ray Killen, was convicted of the manslaughter of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner forty-one years later.
	Andrew Goodman			20
	Michael Schwerner			24
2 December 1964	Julia Taylor	Raymond Leslie Morris	Bloxwich, West Midlands, U.K.	9	Survived	Nine-year-old Julia Taylor was lured into a car by a man claiming to be a friend of her mother on 2 December 1964 and driven to a pile of slag heaps near Bentley, where she was raped, strangled and thrown in a ditch. She was found alive by a cyclist fifty minutes later; had this cyclist not come across her and called an ambulance, she likely would have died of exposure within 20 minutes. Police linked Taylor's abduction to the later Cannock Chase murders, and Taylor identified the man convicted of the murders, Raymond Leslie Morris, as her abductor five years later.
14 July 1965	Missy Crimmins	Alice Crimmins (alleged)	Queens, New York City	4	Murdered	The Crimmins children were reported missing from their family apartment on 14 July 1965. Missy Crimmins was found strangled in a vacant lot later that day, and Eddie Jr. was found dead in another lot five days afterwards. The children's mother, Alice Crimmins, stood trial in 1968. It was alleged by the prosecution that she had killed Missy, then she and an unidentified accomplice had disposed of the body before taking Eddie Jr. up to where his body was found and killing him too to conceal the crime. Crimmins was convicted of Eddie Jr.'s murder and Missy's manslaughter after two trials; her murder conviction was later reversed due to insufficient evidence and prosecutorial misconduct, and she would serve four years in prison for Missy's manslaughter.
	Eddie Crimmins Jr.			5
24 July 1965	Richard P. Keirn	North Vietnamese soldiers	Hanoi, Vietnam	40	Released	A fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Keirn was taken prisoner in July 1965 after his aircraft was shot down during the Vietnam War. He had previously been a prisoner of war in World War II. Keirn was later repatriated to the United States as part of Operation Homecoming.
8 September 1965	Margaret Reynolds	Raymond Leslie Morris	Aston, Birmingham, U.K.	6	Murdered	The first victim of the Cannock Chase murders committed by serial killer Raymond Leslie Morris. She was abducted by Morris while walking to school in the afternoon, having returned home for lunch, and was found raped and murdered on 12 January 1966 near the body of another victim, Diana Tift.
26 December 1965	Franca Viola	Filippo Melodia and associates	Sicily, Italy	17	Released	Italian woman who was kidnapped by mafioso Filippo Melodia, to whom she was previously engaged by force. She was held captive by him and his associates, with him raping her on multiple occasions. Even after her release, Viola was ostracized as she had refused to marry him in a "rehabilitating marriage", with the case serving as a stepping point for changes in law regarding bridal kidnappings.
30 December 1965	Diana Tift	Raymond Leslie Morris	Walsall, West Midlands, U.K.	5	Murdered	The second victim of the Cannock Chase murders committed by serial killer Raymond Leslie Morris. She was abducted by Morris while walking home from her grandmother's house and was found raped and murdered on 12 January 1966 near the body of another victim, Margaret Reynolds.
26 January 1966	The Beaumont Children	Unknown	Glenelg, South Australia	9, 7, 4	Unknown	The Beaumont children were three siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia on Australia Day 1966 in a suspected abduction and murder. The regular and widespread attention given to the case, its significance in Australian criminal history, and the fact that their disappearance has never been explained, has led to the story being continually revisited by the media.
3 February 1966	Robert T. Hanson	Unknown	Vietnam	Unknown	Remains released	Two American pilots who crashed a plane in the Vietnam War, and were captured and served years in a POW camp before being released.
	Gerald Coffee	Survived		Unknown	Survived
28 March 1966	Danny Goldman	Unknown	Surfside, Florida, US	17	Unknown	An intruder broke into the home of the Goldman family and demanded $10,000. When he did not get the money, he abducted Danny Goldman and said that he wanted $25,000 by the end of the day. The kidnapper never contacted the family and Goldman was never found. Speculation surfaced that organized crime was behind the kidnapping because Goldman's father was involved in several banks that were controlled by organized crime figures.
27 July 1966	Brenda Sue Brown	Earl Parker and Thurman Price (both alleged)	Shelby, North Carolina, US	11	Murdered	An 11-year-old schoolgirl whose bludgeoned body was discovered close to her home on the evening of her disappearance. A deathbed confession from one of her alleged murderers, Earl Parker, resulted in the arrest of the second alleged perpetrator, Thurman Andrew Price. Parker's deathbed confession was ruled admissible in court; however, Price died in 2012 while awaiting trial.
August 1966	Robert Hugh Brand	Kenneth McDuff and Roy Dale Green	Everman, Texas, U.S.	17	Murdered	Brand, Dunnam and Sullivan were abducted by Kenneth McDuff and Roy Dale Green while standing beside Brand's parked car on a baseball field in Everman, Texas. All three were ordered at gunpoint into the trunk of their car, which was driven to another location. Sullivan was later ordered into the trunk of McDuff's vehicle, and the boys shot to death. Sullivan was subsequently raped by both men, then strangled to death with a broomstick.
	Johnny Marcus Dunnam			15
	Edna Louise Sullivan			16
27 September 1966	Allen Redston	Unknown	Curtin, Australia	6	Murdered	Schoolboy who disappeared while going toward a friend's house, where they planned to spend a day at Curtin Tip. Redston's body was found on the next day, wrapped in a blanket, near the location. He had been bound and strangled, but nobody was ever arrested in his murder.
19 November 1966	Phan Thi Mao	David Gervase, Steven Cabbot Thomas, Cipriano Garcia, Joseph Garcia	Cat Tuong, Phu My District, Vietnam	21	Murdered	Vietnamese woman who was abducted from her village by four U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War and repeatedly raped before being stabbed and shot to death by one of the soldiers, Steven Cabbot Thomas, in order to conceal the crime. Her body was buried on Hill 192.
March 1967	Unnamed 13-year-old girl	Stanley Bernson	Chattaroy, Washington, U.S.	13	Released	In March 1967, Stanley Marvin Bernson, an American murderer and self-confessed serial killer, abducted a 13-year-old girl and drove her around Chattaroy, an unincorporated area northeast of Spokane. The girl was returned to her home after suffering a head injury, which Bernson claimed was caused by a wrench hitting her when he crashed his car into a ditch. Bernson was given a six-month suspended sentence later that month.
6 April 1967	Doug Hegdahl	Vietnamese militiamen	Gulf of Tonkin	20	Released	Doug Hegdahl, a 20-year-old United States Navy petty officer second class, was knocked off the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin and subsequently held as a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War. On August 5, 1969, Hegdahl was released along with two other POWs as a propaganda move by the North Vietnamese.
26 June 1967	Maggie de la Riva	Jaime José, Basilio Pineda Jr., Rogelio Cañal, Edgardo Aquino	New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines		Released	De la Riva was abducted by four students from wealthy and influential families who forced her car off the road, dragged her into their car and gang-raped her before releasing her with a threat to kill her with an acid attack if she went to the police. All four rapists were sentenced to death; one committed suicide on death row in 1970, and the other three were executed on 17 May 1972.
19 August 1967	Christine Darby	Raymond Leslie Morris	Walsall, West Midlands, U.K.	7	Murdered	The third and final victim of the Cannock Chase murders committed by serial killer Raymond Leslie Morris. She was abducted by Morris while playing with her friends under the pretext of showing him the way to Caldmore Green. She was found raped and murdered three days later. Her murder was linked to the earlier murders of Margaret Reynolds and Diana Tift in 1965. Morris was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for Darby's murder in 1969.
26 January 1968	Linda Katherine Slawson	Jerry Brudos	Portland, Oregon, US	19	Murdered	On January 26, 1968, Linda Kay Slawson disappeared whilst selling encyclopedias in southwest Portland. Jerry Brudos told investigators that he had invited Slawson inside, before killing her and throwing her body into the Willamette River. Her remains were never found. Brudos pleaded guilty to three other murders, but the charge against him relating to Slawson's disappearance was dropped due to a lack of evidence.
23 August 1968	Ong Beang Leck	Lee Chor Pet, Lim Kim Kwee, Ho Kee Fatt, Richard Lai Choon Seng and Chow Sien Cheong	Singapore	19	Murdered	19-year-old Ong Beang Leck, the fourth child of a local millionaire, was abducted by four kidnappers into a car, with three of them using weapons, including a screwdriver and hammer, to brutally assault Ong before killing him. The four, together with a fifth person, also extorted a S$20,000 ransom from the victim's family after the murder. Following police investigations, the suspects were arrested in both Malaysia and Singapore, and the body of Ong was recovered from a manhole at Jurong. Lee, Lim and Ho, the trio who were identified as the ones who directly killed Ong, were hanged on 27 January 1973 for murder while Lai (who acted as the driver) and Chow (the fifth man) were each jailed for four years for negotiating and possessing the ransom money.
23 August 1968	Roy Tutill	Brian Field	Surrey, United Kingdom	14	Murdered	14-year-old Roy Tutill was abducted while hitchhiking in Surrey in 1968 and found raped and strangled three days later. The case remained unsolved until 2001 (making it the oldest solved cold case in British history), when convicted sex offender Brian Field pleaded guilty based on DNA evidence. According to Field, he had drunkenly started touching Tutill's leg, at which point Tutill resisted and he proceeded to rape him before panicking and strangling him to death.
26 November 1968	Jan Susan Whitney	Jerry Brudos	Interstate 5, Oregon, US	23	Murdered	On 26 November 1968, a car belonging to 23-year-old Jan Susan Whitney broke down on Interstate 5 between Salem and Albany. She was later encountered by Jerry Brudos, who claimed that he was able to fix her car but would need to drive to his home to collect his tools, to which Whitney agreed. When they parked in his driveway, Brudos entered the rear of the vehicle and asked her to close her eyes and say how to tie a shoelace without opening her eyes or moving her hands. She agreed to this challenge and Brudos subsequently strangled her from behind with a leather strap and raped her. He then engaged in necrophilia with her corpse before throwing her corpse into the Willamette River.
17 December 1968	Barbara Jane Mackle	Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann-Schier	Decatur, Georgia, US	20	Rescued	Mackle was kidnapped and buried in a reinforced box with food, water, and air. She was rescued a few days later. She wrote a book about her experience that was later made into two TV movies.
27 March 1969	Karen Elena Sprinker	Jerry Brudos	Salem, Oregon, US	18	Murdered	On 27 March 1969, 18-year-old Karen Elena Sprinker was abducted at gunpoint outside the parking lot of a Meier & Frank department store whilst en route to meet her mother for lunch; she was then abducted at gunpoint by Jerry Brudos. Brudos was dressed as a woman during the attack. Brudos took her to his garage, made her try on his collection of undergarments and pose whilst he photographed her before raping her and strangling her by her neck from a pulley. Brudos later committed necrophilia acts with her body. He later tied her body to a six-cylinder car engine with a nylon cord and threw it into the Willamette River.
23 April 1969	Linda Dawn Salee	Jerry Brudos	Portland, Oregon, US	22	Murdered	On 23 April 1969, 22-year-old Linda Dawn Salee was abducted by Jerry Brudos on the grounds of the Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. Brudos took her to his garage where he raped and strangled her before playing with her corpse. Afterwards, Brudos tied her body to a car transmission with a nylon cord before throwing her into the Willamette River.
20 May 1969	Alex Rackley	George W. Sams Jr., Warren Kimbro, Lonnie McLucas	New Haven, Connecticut	19	Murdered	Rackley, a Black Panther Party member suspected of being a government informer, was abducted by fellow Black Panthers Sams, Kimbro and McLucas, who tortured him for two days at the Panther headquarters in New Haven until he confessed to betraying the party. He was then taken to isolated wetlands near Middlefield, where he was shot by Kimbro and McLucas. Rackley's body was disposed of in the Coginchaug River.
25 August 1969	Rosemary Calandriello	Robert Zarinsky	Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, US	17	Murdered	Calandriello is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by Zarinsky, who was later convicted of her murder, even though her body has never been located.
4 September 1969	Charles Burke Elbrick	Revolutionary Movement 8th October Marxist political organization	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	61	Released	An American diplomat kidnapped by the Revolutionary Movement 8th October; he was held hostage for 78 hours before he was released in exchange for 15 unnamed political prisoners and the publication of the group's manifesto.
31 October 1969	Pamela Hobley	Unknown	Oscoda, Michigan, US	15	Unknown	Two teenage girls were believed to have been kidnapped prior to a scheduled party after a football game. Both are presumed dead.
	Patricia Spencer			16
29 December 1969	Muriel McKay	Arthur Hosein and Nizamodeen Hosein	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	55	Murdered	Trinidadian brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein attempted to kidnap Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of tycoon Rupert Murdoch, for a £1 million ransom, but instead abducted the wife of Murdoch's deputy chairman, Alick McKay, instead. During the investigation, many attempts were made to find the victim – family friends even consulted the psychic Gerard Croiset to help – but the body of McKay was never found and was presumed murdered. In early 1970 the Hosein brothers were caught and convicted of kidnapping and murder.