Tag: Kidnapping

  • MAN CHARGED IN WIFE’S ORDEAL; HE DRENCHED HER WITH GAS, COPS SAY

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, December 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page C05 A 27-year-old man abducted his estranged wife from a Teaneck street, drenched her with gasoline, and threatened to set both of them afire if she did not reconcile with him, police…

  • ENGLEWOOD WOMAN HOME SAFELY; HUSBAND MAY FACE KIDNAPPING CHARGE

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, December 19, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star 3| NEWS | Page B03 A 37-year-old Ridgefield woman, allegedly kidnapped by her estranged husband and taken to his Middletown, N.Y., home, has returned home unharmed, police said. City police are seeking to extradite John Louis…

  • SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER IS SHOT; WAVED DYNAMITE AT MARSHALS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, October 3, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 1 Star | NEWS | Page B01 A 50-year-old man wanted for masterminding the kidnapping of a Union County businessman for ransom two years ago was shot and wounded by one of two U.S. marshals in North Bergen…

  • KILLER’S REQUEST FOR PAROLE IS REJECTED

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, August 10, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A03 A request for parole by Christopher Righetti serving a life sentence for the 1976 rape and murder of a 20-year-old New Milford woman was rejected this week, the state Parole…

  • GUNMAN HIJACKS TRUCK ON ROUTE 46

    A gunman hijacked a cargo-filled Caldor truck on Route 46 near the George Washington Bridge on Thursday night and then met up with an accomplice who took the driver to upstate New York, where he was released unharmed, authorities said.

  • 2 TEENS STABBED, BABY ABDUCTED EX-BOYFRIEND OF A VICTIM HELD

    A 19-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested Wednesday minutes after he stabbed two teenagers, one of them his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, and abducted his and the girl’s baby from a North Bergen apartment, police said.