ransom kidnapping theme
The crime of unlawful transportation, asportation and confinement of a person against their will for the purposes of extortion, is featured.
16 total · 9 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x11 | major | Helen was kidnapped by prison escapees who wanted money from Christopher. |
| ahh2x23 | major | In reality, Sheridan had murdered his wife and stashed her body in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce. When the car thieves made off with his ride before he could dump the body in a nearby lake, Sheridan and his lover Enid seized the opportunity by hatching a plot to frame them for kidnapping his wife for a ransom of $200,000. Their thinking was that the police would conclude the thieves murdered the women as part of a botched kidnapping. |
| ahp5x37 | major | Marsh and Lemon left Stephanie for dead in the desert after having collected a $100,000 ransom. |
| ahp6x16 | major | Mrs. Mead kidnapped a young girl who she mistakenly believed to be her own daughter in an failed bid to extract a ransom from the girl's foster parents. |
| columbo1971e0x02 | major | The tort attorney Leslie Williams murdered her husband, Paul, and made it look as if he had been kidnapped with a $300,000 ransom demand, and later killed by the kidnappers. |
| columbo1971e2x02 | major | Jarvis and Tony staged Tony's kidnapping with a view toward collecting on a hefty ransom from Tony's trust fund. Jarvis, however, shot Tony dead and took the entire ransom for himself. |
| columbo1971e4x02 | major | Paul Galesko shot his wife dead and made it look as if she'd had been kidnapped with a $20,000 ransom demand, and later killed by her "kidnapper". |
| movie: Family Plot (1976) | major | Arthur/Edward and Fran were high-rolling criminals who kidnapped rich people and demanded precious jewels in return for their safe release. |
| movie: Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) | major | A group of terrorists kidnapped the Ukrainian Prime Minister's son and daughter and held them hostage, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades within 72 hours. |
| ahp5x10 | minor | It was hypothesized briefly that the disappeared neighbor, Roger, had been kidnapped. |