A 24-year-old woman told police that she was abducted and raped after
departing a bar in the Power & Light District at 3:15 a.m. Sunday.According to the police report, the woman exited Tengo Sed Cantina on
Walnut Street in order to smoke a cigarette. In her account, a man then pushed her into
the backseat of a vehicle. Two other men, including the driver, were
in the vehicle. She was driven to the vicinity of 24th and Topping,
taken from the car and raped at the edge of Blue Valley Park.View
John Heidenry was a child in his native St. Louis when the events in his latest book, the quick-moving true-crime story Zero at the Bone (St. Martin's Press, 230 pages, $25.99), unfolded. The kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Kansas City boy Bobby Greenlease terrified parents here and across the state for years afterward, but in Heidenry's hometown, the September 1953 crime also launched a treasure hunt that would fascinate Midwesterners and thwart the FBI for decades.The book is not a work
Erik R. ZimmermanJames P. ReardonThree people have been charged with kidnapping Carol Thomas.
Excelsior Springs police say 23-year-old James P. Reardon, 21-year-old
Jennifer L. Saling and 29-year-old Erik R. Zimmerman have been charged
with felony kidnapping in Clay County.
Bond is set at $1 million each.
Witnesses told police that Thomas, 23, was beaten, thrown in a trunk and kidnapped by three men on Wednesday night.
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Jerry G. LinkJerry G. Link was charged with seven crimes yesterday in connection with a four-day kidnapping, guns and rape spree he allegedly perpetrated against a woman from November 27 to 30.Link, 49, allegedly agreed to drive a woman from Lee's Summit to his residence in Lone Jack to pick up her dog. Once there, the probable cause statement alleges, Link handcuffed the woman and then raped and sodomized her repeatedly.Over the next few days, Link allegedly continued the sexual and physical
