14 Chilling True Crime Books About Real-Life Kidnappings

In an instant, their lives were changed forever.

By Sarah Mangiola & Kelsey McConnell | Updated Jan 14, 2020 | Published Aug 14, 2017

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Buy Defy All the Devils at Amazon

Defy All the Devils

By Norman Zierold

Buy The Disappearance of Maria Glenn at Amazon

The Disappearance of Maria Glenn

By Naomi Clifford

Buy Lindbergh at Amazon

Lindbergh

By Noel Behn

Buy The Snake and the Spider at Amazon

The Snake and the Spider

By Karen Kingsbury

Buy We Is Got Him at Amazon

We Is Got Him

By Carrie Hagen

Buy Incident at Big Sky at Amazon

Incident at Big Sky

By Sheriff Johnny France and Malcolm McConnell

Buy American Heiress at Amazon

American Heiress

By Brad Schreiber

Buy Not Just Evil at Amazon

Not Just Evil

By David Wilson

Buy Elizabeth Is Missing at Amazon

Elizabeth Is Missing

By Lillian de la Torre

Buy Did They Really Do It? at Amazon

Did They Really Do It?

By Fred Rosen

Buy Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings at Amazon

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By Michelle Knight and Michelle Burford

Buy 3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape at Amazon

3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

By Natascha Kampusch

Buy My Story at Amazon

My Story

By Elizabeth Smart

Buy A Stolen Life: A Memoir at Amazon

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

By Jaycee Dugard

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