The Generation Why Podcast Blog — kidnapping

On the morning of November 5th, 2018, 13 year old Hania Noelia Aguilar was abducted from outside of her home in Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. The abduction happened just before 7AM while Hania stood outside of her home at 3525 Elizabethtown road, Rosewood mobile home park, as she waited for a family member to drive her to school. She had asked her aunt to hand her the car keys so she could start the engine of the family SUV and left the vehicle running on the driveway while she waited outside.  That’s when a man clad in black clothes...

(Mentions of child abuse contained in post. reader discretion is advised) Ashley Johnson-Barr was just 10 years old when she went missing from a playground in Kotzebue, Alaska on September 6th, 2018. Ashley often played with her friends at Rainbow Park on Lagoon Street but always made sure to return home no later than 8PM. She was a happy little 10 year old, always smiling; a little ray of sunshine. (Source) On the 6th of September she went out to play and never came home again. The last sighting of her is confirmed to be around 5:30PM – 6PM at...

On the 9th of June 2017 a 26 year old Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois went missing. (Source) Yingying Zhang is from a small city in South east China called Nanping (a prefectural city in the Fujian province). She left her quaint, mountain top home town after receiving a scholarship to study at the Chinese Academy of sciences, 600 miles away in Beijing. Yingying planned to study for one year in the United States for research purposes and touched down on American soil in April of 2017- just two months before she vanished. On the day she went missing,...

I read a news report about the kidnapping of a young British glamour model in Italy and thought I’d share it with you guys. Chloe Ayling, a 20 year old model from London, was kidnapped from what she believed was a legitimate photo-shoot at an apartment in Milan, Italy on July 11, 2017. She had traveled from a shoot in Paris to Milan with the intention of attending a session that had been booked through her agent back in England when she was attacked by two men. (source) The men restrained Ayling, injected her in the right forearm with Ketamine,...