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A man was arrested after his parents turned him in for allegedly attempting to abduct a ten-year-old girl outside her school in Thornton, Colorado.

Newly released surveillance footage shows Cleotha Abston, 38, allegedly cleaning a dark-colored SUV hours after mother and teacher Eliza Fletcher, 34, was kidnapped early Friday morning. She was officially confirmed dead Tuesday morning after her body was discovered on Monday.

Cleotha Abston, 38, the suspect in the abduction and murder of Eliza Fletcher, 34, was convicted of kidnapping a Memphis-based attorney in June 2000.

The body of heiress and kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher, 34, was discovered on Tuesday morning, according to the Memphis Police Department. The recent discovery comes after Sunday’s arrest of a suspect in connection to the case whose charges have been upgraded to first-degree murder.

A suspect was charged on Sunday in the abduction of Memphis, Tennessee, teacher Eliza Fletcher who disappeared Friday.

A teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, was abducted while jogging on Friday and family members have offered a reward in the case.

Amnesty International reported Wednesday that 109 women remain unaccounted eight years after the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a state-run secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.

Unidentified armed bandits kidnapped Father Felix Zakari Fidson in northern Nigeria on Friday, the Catholic feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary.

The brother of abducted Nevada teen Naomi Irion does not believe she knew her kidnapper but said he believes the suspect had studied her routine.

Officials who believe a teenager in Nevada may have been kidnapped from a parking lot are continuing their search with help from citizens.

Authorities have arrested a California woman after they say she faked her own abduction in 2016 to run off with her ex-boyfriend. The abduction claims sparked an investigation that spanned years and cost upwards of $150,000. The accused, Sherri Papini,

A 41-year-old Detroit man accused of setting fire to his girlfriend, who is pregnant with twins, has bonded out of a Wayne County jail for just $5,000 after posting ten percent of his $50,000 bond, according to a report.

A mother in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, was left alarmed and horrified when a man of “possible Middle Eastern origin” approached her as she walked her young daughter to school and attempted to “buy” her.

The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram released video footage on Monday appearing to show four male hostages in their custody in northeastern Nigeria, one of whom said he was an employee of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigeria’s Premium Times reported.

Unidentified gunmen stormed the University of Abuja in Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday morning and abducted six people, including an economics professor and two of his children, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported. An unspecified number of gunmen “invaded the senior

Two Good Samaritans thwarted an alleged attempted toddler abduction by a 35-year-old woman in Sacramento on October 25.

The criminal gang that abducted a group of 17 North American Christian missionaries in Haiti this weekend has demanded $1 million each for their release.

ROME (AP) – The trial of four high-ranking members of Egypt’s security forces started Thursday without the Egyptians on hand to face charges they were involved in the abduction, torture, and killing in Cairo of an Italian doctoral student.

A man who allegedly tried to abduct a Bronx child was held on $15,000 bail during his Tuesday arraignment and was ordered to avoid the victim.

A man who stepped in to stop a violent attack and alleged attempted abduction of a Fort Lauderdale woman told reporters he was in the right place at the right time.

Nigerian security forces said Thursday they had rescued 187 people recently abducted by armed gangs in the northwestern state of Zamfara, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported Friday.

Police in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state on Thursday confirmed that at least 68 children remain missing from a school in Zamfara after unknown assailants assaulted the school and abducted them.

Afghanistan on Sunday recalled its ambassador from Pakistan over the alleged abduction of the envoy’s daughter by unknown assailants in Islamabad on July 16, Afghanistan’s Khama Press reported Monday.

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped some 140 students from the Bethel Baptist High School in central Nigeria Monday in the latest of a series of mass abductions of children in the country.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a one-year-old child along with an unknown number of children from the staff quarters of a hospital in northern Nigeria on Sunday, the BBC reported.

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Catholic religious sister Sunday morning in Imo State, southern Nigeria.

Unidentified terrorists abducted “about 200” children from an Islamic studies school in northern Nigeria on Sunday, Sky News reported.

Police arrested a Miami-Dade man Tuesday who allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted, and shot a 12-year-old boy over the weekend.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a Catholic priest in Nigeria’s Delta State this week, the Premium Times reported Thursday.

Nigerian government authorities have recently closed at least 618 schools across six northern states to protect students amid a recent string of abductions by bandits tied to the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, Nigerian newspaper This Day reported Monday.

An increasing number of states in northern Nigeria are closing their schools to protect their students from a rise in “abductions and banditry in the last two months,” the Nigerian newspaper This Day reported on Tuesday.

Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped from their boarding school late last week in northwest Nigeria have finally been freed according to reports Tuesday.

Nigerian officials have denied widespread reports this weekend that the 317 schoolgirls abducted in the northwest of the country had been set free by their captors and were returning home.

A man who allegedly posed as a policeman and abducted two teenage girls in Lindenhurst, New York, was arrested Thursday, according to law enforcement officials.

Police have issued an Amber Alert and are searching for two children allegedly abducted from their home in Greece, New York, on Monday.

The Islamic terror group Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the kidnapping of nearly 700 students from a secondary school in northern Nigeria on December 11.