Paris, France (GenevaLunch) - Police have located the strangled body of the kidnapped woman jogger in woods near Boissy-aux-Cailles, south of Paris, France with the help of the presumed murderer, Wednesday evening 30 September. The suspect was taken into custody soon after the victim alerted police by cell phone from inside the trunk of the car she had been pushed into.
Marie-Christine Hodeau was out jogging 28 September when she was kidnapped. She managed to describe the car to police before the call was cut off. Police located the car and its owner shortly afterwards, but the suspect, a man who had spent seven years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a 13-year old girl in 2000, initially refused to cooperate. He led police to the body after 48 hours of denying any involvement.
Jaycee Duggard was 11 years old when she was snatched off the street by two people in a car near her home in South Lake Tahoe in full view of her step-father in 1991. She had been kept in backyard sheds at the house of her kidnappers for 18 years and is the mother of two girls, 15 and 11, fathered by Philipp Garrido, a convicted and listed sex-offender, who kidnapped her with his wife. The man was on the UC Berkeley campus near San Francisco with the two young girls 25 August when his behavioiur with the two girls aroused suspicion. Police made a background check and took him into custody. Duggard, now 29, has been reunited with her mother. BBC, CNN
Fribourg, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Lucie Trezzini, the 16-year-old who was murdered 4 March at the hands of a 25-year-old man who has explained his act by saying he wanted to return to prison, was commemorated in a silent march through Fribourg Sunday. Some 2,500 people participated.
Update 20 November 2008 Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 17-year-old Swiss employee in Crissier was kidnapped at knifepoint as he left work Tuesday, early in the evening. Employees noted the license number and called police, and a largescale manhunt was quickly underway. Lausanne newspaper 24 Heures Wednesday reported that the youth was lifted in front of Media Markt, where he works, and today’s paper says at least one of the men who kidnapped him was a fellow employee; police say they are still trying to establish the facts.
Germany is taking the lead to try to obtain the release of 11 European tourists, five of them German, and eight Egyptians who were kidnapped in the Egyptian desert and taken to Sudan. German authorities say they are working with the Sudanese government for the release. CNN
