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The FBI Files

FBI letar efter en försvunnen värdetransport efter att en penningtransport inte anländer till sin destination.

En kvinna kidnappades efter en lyckad kväll på kasinot och polisen upptäckte att hon hade blivit utsatt för en vinst på 5 000 dollar.

En villkorligt frigiven tjänstemans dödsskjutning skickar polisen ut på en jakt full av mord, rån och bilkapningar.

When a young woman was grabbed from her Texas home, the police raced to find her abductors. On the face of it, the kidnapping seemed like the random act of desperate men.

Across the Midwest, a band of armed robbers struck banks at the rate of nearly one per month. They attacked with lightning precision and lethal force. They were in and out in five minutes.

In a small Ohio community, an elderly woman and a teenaged boy disappeared. Because they vanished within hours of each other, police believed the cases were linked. But they didn't know how.

The parents of 11 yr. old Brittany Martinez knew their daughter was no runaway. Something had happened to her, something terrible. When they failed to find Brittany in their quiet Illinois neighborhood, they called the police.

A daring kidnapping and a bizarre ransom note baffled Mississippi authorities. The victim was the wife of a wealthy businessman. A list of 12 names and a few drops of blood were the only clues to her fate.

In Arizona, an armored van loaded with cash failed to reach its destination. Authorities suspected an inside job. When the vehicle was recovered with the drivers and the cash missing, those suspicions grew even more.

In Alabama, two desperate criminals fled the custody of a local deputy. Eluding authorities, they made their way across the country in a wave of car theft, abduction, and murder.

Two young boys were the only witnesses to their mother's murder. The horrible crime appeared unmotivated, senseless and random.

When a wealthy young woman was abducted in front of her in-laws' home, the police had no shortage of suspects. The 25-year-old victim left behind a tumultuous marriage, an ex-husband and old boyfriends. All were on the FBI's short list.

In June of 1997, a crime wave swept Iowa like a tornado. It left a trail of robbery, kidnapping, and murder in its wake, and then it moved on. No one knew where.

A suspected drug dealer would stop at nothing to keep local and federal authorities from building a case against him. When his organization started targeting the government itself, federal agencies went on high alert.

Drops of blood and a torn screen were all that's left to tell authorities what happened to a woman in Indiana. The 21 yr. old victim was taken from her home on a spring morning. She appeared to have no real enemies, there was no clear motive.

At a coffee shop in Washington, DC, three employees were shot to death. Evidence at the crime scene pointed in many different directions. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?

A small town without any crime was turned inside out by the arrival of one dangerous stranger. Some killers are cold and calculating; others are impulsive, unpredictable, and hard to pin down.

In Langley, Virginia, a terrorist fired into rush hour traffic. The victims seemed randomly selected, but the motive appeared to be political, targeting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.

On the day before Thanksgiving, a mother discovered her ten-year-old son was missing from his school. When a child of separated parents disappears, investigators first look at the family and divorced parents often suspect each other.

On July 2nd 1994, a 12-year-old girl was abducted from her home in northern California. The FBI knows to act fast, search wide, enlist volunteers. But as the hours slipped by, agents also realized their chances for recovering her alive grew slim.

Wealth has its rewards, but it also brings its dangers. Kidnapping is one of them. No ordeal is more horrifying for a family than to have a child taken.