Kos: It was here that a 21-month-old British child Ben Needham disappeared from a remote country lane on a blisteringly hot afternoon ten years ago. Since then there have been hundreds of sightings all over the world. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s1e3: Ben Needham: Somebody Knows, ITV 2001
Growing up on Staten Island, Barbara and I had often heard the legend of Cropsey. For the kids in our neighbourhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels beneath the old abandoned Willowbrook mental institution. He would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Cropsey, 2009
Jennifer Schweigger: disappeared 9th July 1987 … ibid.
Andre Ward worked as a orderly at the Willowbrook state school from 1966 to 1968. For years he lived in numerous makeshift camp sites in the woods surrounding Willowbrook. ibid.
Rand was convicted of kidnapping but the murder charge was dismissed after jurors couldn’t reach a verdict. Rand was sentenced 25 years to Life. ibid.
They looked at other missing children from Staten Island. ibid.
While some residents were convinced of Rand’s guilt others were not so sure. ibid.
‘Evilness sells: that’s the name of their game.’ ibid. Rand
‘When children go missing and they’re abducted we know that 44% of them are killed within the first hour and 73% within the first three hours. And then you have 99% within the first 24 hours. The Murder of Sarah Payne: A Mother’s Story, Laura Richards, criminologist, Channel 5 2017
Princess Anne has it all: wealth, power, love, until a bad man tries to kidnap her … In the front seat beside the chauffeur sits the princess’s only security guard … A white Ford Escort swerves in front … he rushes the Royal car. Royal Inquest s1e1: Hunted Royal/The Queen’s Visitors, 2009
‘Ian Ball was a total loony’ … He is 24, living on welfare … Sirens are wailing; help in on the way. ibid.
[For] the settlers along the American frontier it was the ultimate horror, a fate worse than death to be carried off by Indians. But for more than two centuries it happened to thousands of men, women and children. What was their fate? In Search of History s1e6: Captives, History 1996
Adoption was an ancient custom. ibid.
‘The act of capture is nearly always extraordinarily gentle.’ ibid.
The kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart I, television news, CI 2018
I wasn’t just raped, I was chained up, I was starved, I was denied water, I was denied food. ibid. Smart
Terror, boredom and rape. ibid.
Complete hopelessness, despair. ibid.
He raped me. And I was devastated. ibid.
I’ll kill you. I’ll kill your family. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart II, Smart’s account of kidnapper’s threats
We actually tied him in to three other rape cases in the area. ibid. rozzer
Brian David Mitchell’s ex-wife called America’s Most Wanted. ibid. host
Elizabeth, is it really you? ibid. dad
15-year-old Elizabeth Smart was found alive today … ibid. television news
A secret society of criminals: kidnapping for ransom ... often for years. John Dickie, This World: The Mafia's Secret Bunkers, BBC 2013
This is the Persian Empire known today as Iran. For twenty-five hundred years this land was ruled by a series of kings, known as Shahs. In 1950 the people of Iran elected Mohammad Mosaddegh, the secular democrat, as prime minister ... But in 1953 the US and Great Britain engineered a coup d’etat that deposed Mosaddegh. Argo 2012 starring Alan Arkin & Ben Affleck & Bryan Cranston & John Goodman & Tate Donovan & Clea DuVall & Christopher Denham & Scoot McNairy & Kerry Bishe & Rory Cochran & Victor Garber, director opening commentary
The United States’ government has just sanctioned a science fiction movie. ibid. boss
The Iran Hostage Crisis ended on January 20 1981, when all remaining hostages were released. They spent 444 days in captivity. ibid.
The car’s waiting outside. You’ll walk between us saying nothing. North by Northwest 1959 starring Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint & James Mason & Jessie Royce Landis & Leo G Carroll & Josephone Hutchinson & Philip Ober & Martin Landau & Adam Willims & Edwart Platt et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, Grant nabbed in hotel
Whoever it was that took your wife didn’t just pick your name out of a hat. They must have had some idea you kept that kind of cash in the house. A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014 starring Liam Neeson & Dan Stevens & Boyd Holbrook & Olafur Darri Olafsson & Brian Astro Bradley & Mark Consuelos & David Harbour & Adam David Thompson & Sebastian Roche & Laura Birn et al, director Scott Frank
Keep teasing me like that, you’re going to drive me crazy. Hard Candy 2005 starring Ellen Page & Patrick Wilson & Sandra Oh & Jennifer Holmes & Erin Kraft & Gabe Kerr & Cori Bright et al, director David Slade, him to her
Jeff, play time is over. Now it’s time to wake up. ibid. her to him
Cameras, computers, they let you hide, don’t they? It’s so safe. ibid.
It’s just so easy to blame a kid, isn’t it? ibid.
[discovers photographs] This is what they make those federal laws for, Jeff. This is actually sick. ibid.
You’re going to be sorer than you’ve ever been before. ibid. castrates him
When your job is to find people who are missing, it helps to know where they started. I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. Gone Baby Gone 2007 starring Casey Affleck & Michelle Monaghan & Morgan Freeman & Ed Harris & John Ashton & Amy Rian & Madeline O’Brien & Amy Madigan & Titus Welliver & Slaine et al, director
If we don’t catch the abductor by day one, only about 10% are ever solved. ibid. rozzer Doyle
Throughout the whole region the search continues for little Filippo, kidnapped in Milan. The police are following new leads which seem to be promising. I’m Not Scared 2003 starring Giuseppe Cristiano & Mattia di Pierro & Giulia Matturo & Aitana Sanchez-Gijon & Dino Abbrescia & Diego Abatantuono & Fabio Tetta & Stefano Biase & Fabio Antonacci et al, director Gabriele Salvatores, television news
Rumour has it that somewhere in this bog lie the remains of one of the world’s greatest racehorses: Shergar. Shergar disappeared one winter’s night in 1983 at the height of the trouble taken from its stable by an armed gang, never to be seen again. Now 35 years on Ireland is in a very different place. Searching for Shergar, BBC 2018
After a couple of impressive wins Shergar was chosen as the stable’s Derby runner. ibid.
‘He was one of the best horses over the last 100 years.’ ibid. Lester Piggott
The King George was the first time the shareholders got to see their asset in action. ibid.
1982 was Shergar’s first breeding season and mares were flown in from all over the world. He covered 44 mares at a staggering £80,000 a time. ibid.
‘There was a knock on the door and these gangsters came in with guns.’ ibid. head lad
‘There was a demand for a substantial multi-million-dollar ransom’ … Paul was being held in the remote southern province of Calabria … The kidnappers posted the ear to a leading Rome newspaper … Getty paid two million dollars. The Gettys: A Tragedy of Riches, 1995
July 10th 1973: He’s been kidnapped, Paul. Little Paul your grandson in Rome. All the Money in the World 2017 starring Michelle Williams & Christopher Plummer & Mark Wahlberg & Romain Duris & Timothy Hutton & Charlie Plummer & Charlie Shotwell & Andrew Buchan & Marco Leonardi & Nicolas Vaporidis, director Ridley Scott, Nancy
To be a Getty is an extraordinary thing. I know that because my grandpa told me so. You see my grandpa wasn’t just the richest man in the world, he was the richest man in the history of the world. ibid. Paul’s commentary
But if you can count your money, you’re not a billionaire. ibid. Getty senior
You are a Getty, Paul. You have a destiny. ibid.
Getting rich is easy. I mean any fool can get rich. And any number of fools do. But being rich – that’s something else. ibid.
Shall we cordon off the area? 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis I, rozzer in jam-jar, opening scene, BBC 2018
Good morning, minister. We’ve just received a telex from Gladbeck. Bank robbery with hostages. ibid. civil servant
Let’s shoot our way through the front. ibid. rozzer
We’re talking about people’s lives! ibid. chief rozzer
There’s no work for people like me, and no morality or that kind of shit. I want to get ahead. I want to live. 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis II, gangsta to press
We only have the right ammunition for a shot to the head. ibid. sniper’s coordinating rozzer