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Inspired by a true crime case, the fictional six-part series "German Crime Story: Gefesselt" follows the story of one of Germany's most notorious serial killers, the so-called "acid barrel killer." Raik Doormann strikes fear into the Hamburg area in the early 80s and 90s, as he kidnaps, tortures and brutally kills women in his own nuclear bunker. It is not until Nela Langenbeck, a victim counselor and later homicide detective, comes across clues to his deeds. But at that time, women within the police department are regarded more as secretaries than investigators - so she initially earned headshakes for her approaches. Against all odds, she eventually gets on the trail of Doormann and his gruesome deeds.

After the sabotage of a nuclear power plant, the lights go out in Belgium. At the same time, Elke, the daughter of Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand, is kidnapped. The message of the kidnappers is clear: if the light goes back on, her daughter will die.

Gripping clips of kidnappings, break-ins, wild car chases and other crimes rack up millions of views, but the stories behind these crimes are often never told - until now. This series takes viewers inside the most shocking crimes that went viral.

As a child, Park Hoon (Lee Jong Suk) and his dad were kidnapped and taken to North Korea. He grew up there, learning to be a doctor just like his father. When Park Hoon escapes back to South Korea and begins work at a prestigious hospital, he makes it his goal to earn enough money to go back to North Korea to rescue his true love. He'll do anything to find her, but then he meets and falls for a mysterious woman (Jin Se Yun) who looks exactly like her.

The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor with designs on their twelve-year-old daughter.

The events revolve around the obsessive love of software developer Tamer, who suddenly makes a fortune, and Berry, who works in the bank. Tamer, who has moved into a newly purchased mansion, kidnaps Berry and locks her in a locked basement!

In Podlasie a teenage boy is kidnapped. Adam Kruk, inspector of the Lodz crime department, is at the same time posted to Bialystok. After many years, he returns to the city where he grew up, where he will have to face not only the case of the kidnapped boy, but also the dark side of his past.

He creeps up when you least expect it, offering a lift when you're stranded, showing up unannounced at your house, intercepting you on the road, lurking at the curb, watching and waiting to make his move. Can you trust this stranger? Is he a Good Samaritan or the stuff of nightmares? Should you jump inside? Should you take the chance? If you won't go willingly, he'll make the ride mandatory, and take you on one final, terror-filled trip. Once you're in his prison on wheels, there's no escape from the man with a van.

A former U.S. Marine, Lázaro Mendoza, enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple murder. Now as Dante Pardo, his mission is to infiltrate a dangerous band of inmates and guards that operate inside and outside of prison who are the prime suspects of the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of U.S. Judge, John Morris. Inside La Rotunda, Lázaro has to find out who carried out the kidnapping and the whereabouts of the girl.

All suspects. All liars. All guilty? The Why? is out there, unanswerable, unimaginable, waiting to be dug up beneath layers of lies and secrets. But the How? is equally horrifying, since it would mean that little Alicia Vega went missing during a boisterous party in the midst of her family. Has she been kidnapped? And if so, by a guest or even by a member of the reputable Vega family? Acting swiftly, the police assign two undercover agents, Victor and Laura, to infiltrate the family circle. Though they pretend to be married, they have little in common: while the impulsive Victor could care less about discipline, straitlaced Laura prefers to work by the book. Time is of the essence, since motives suggesting foul play are spreading out from the Vega family like metastases that can no longer be kept under control.

1984 in rural southern Sweden: a five-year-old disappears without a trace, leaving behind a grieving, devastated family. Twenty years later, his older sister Vera (Julia Ragnarsson) finally wants to find out what really happened that summer after a young man reports at a group therapy session about a kidnapping, the details of which coincide surprisingly closely with the case of Vera's brother...

A special collaboration between the clumsy kidnapper Kim Myung Joon and an 11-year-old genius girl Roh Hee. Myung Joon is a first-time kidnapper who kidnaps a girl to pay for his daughter's hospital bills. He is suddenly chased as a murder suspect due to an unexpected incident. For some reason, the truth tracking of the kidnapper, who is lacking 2% but is human and weak-hearted, and the girl who is smart, is expected to be fun and touching.

Ye Jiayao is called the goddess of food. She accidentally falls into the Huai Song dynasty and is in the body of the eldest daughter of the governor Yangzhou Ye Jingxuan. Not having time to recover and understand where she is, she is sent to meet her fiance. The gangsters attack the wedding procession and kidnap it to pass Xia Chunyu for the third head of the Black Wind gang. Upon meeting his future wife, Chunyuya suspects that she was sent to follow him. However, sharpness of mind and cunning speeches of Ye Jiayao, as well as excellent culinary skills, gradually win the heart of the Third. So step by step, she learns his secrets.

Kidnapping survivor Colleen Stan tells the disturbing story of her seven-year ordeal. Abducted by a sadistic couple, she was brainwashed, tortured and confined to a coffin-size box.

There is a notorious serial killer who only kills rich women called 'Rich Girl Killer.' The 4th victim was found last night, and in the morning next day, Ho-chul's daughter Soo-ah gets kidnapped. Then, the kidnapper calls Ho-chul. The caller doesn't ask for money bur orders him to kill the 'Rich Girl Killer' within 24 hours. Getting into this suspenseful situation, Ho-chul does all he can do to find his daughter.

Nuria, a low-income woman, undertakes a short relationship with Braulio without knowing that he is one of the owners of the company where he works in order to support his son and sister. The lives of the main characters begin to intertwine after the tragic kidnapping of Andrés, the son of Nuria. In this drama full of love ties, a mother's unconditional love for her child will become the common thread of the story.

A major incident has occurred in the peaceful Sky Land!? The young Princess Eru has been kidnapped by the monsters of Underground Empire! A brave young girl, Sora, follows the princess through a mysterious hole. "TV"? "Cars"? Are those some kind of magic tools!?!? But there's no time to be surprised! She has to get the princess back to the castle...! Flying between two worlds! The adventure with the Pretty Cure begins now! It's hero time!

Murders, kidnappings, hate crimes and disappearances are some of the toughest cases. Million Dollar Murders follows police in their investigations of these unsolved cases.

A young woman uncovers her mysterious past and meets a family she never knew she had.

This edge of your seat program highlights ordinary people who have escaped extraordinary circumstances: a young boy who was able to escape his bone-breaking captor, a woman who tricked her captor into freedom after 117 days in captivity, and a young Russian woman led to the United States by the promise of freedom, only to find herself a captive in a sex trafficking ring ...

Kairos is a fantasy romantic thriller about a man named Kim Seo Jin who falls into a shock after his daughter had been kidnapped and a woman who lives in the past, trying to save her loved ones.

Four children are kidnapped and murdered in Oakland County, Mich., in the mid-1970s, and their bodies are dumped in snowbanks; author J. Reuben Appelman investigates these unsolved slayings.

The first three days after somebody is abducted are extremely important. Statistically, the chances of finding the abductee alive diminish significantly after the first 72 hours. "Three Days to Live" chronicles kidnapping cases, using re-creations and first-hand testimony from authorities and loved ones to illustrate what went on - from the crucial periods early on in the cases, which all feature females who were taken, through the twists and turns the kidnappings took before reaching their conclusions. Journalist SuChin Pak narrates the hourlong series.

During her adolescence, Nefes was sold as a slave to a businessman named Vedat. After years of being a victim of violence by her kidnapper, she tried unsuccessfully to escape with her son. When businessman Mustafa Kaleli and his family, from the Black Sea region, visit Vedat's house, Mustafa's younger brother Tahir realizes that Nefes is a victim of domestic violence. Unfortunately, he can not do anything to help her. However, Nefes and his son escape that night from the house and hide in the van of the Kaleli. This flight will make Tahir enter a dangerous battle to save them.

This show profiles stories where men and women share their personal stories of how something that started out as dinner and a movie quickly transformed into a scene from a horror film. This series will bring in a slew of stories that examine what it really means to survive a true date from hell, including a woman who had to make a daring escape from her kidnapper's trunk to a man who was lured into a serial killer's lair from a dating website.