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Kidding
Kidding: Showtime comedy-drama (2018–2020), created by Dave Holstein, starring Jim Carrey as children's TV host Jeff Pickles aka Mr. Pickles, directed by Michel Gondry; canceled after two seasons.
Kiddush (קידוש)
Kiddush is the Jewish blessing over wine or grape juice that sanctifies Shabbat and festivals, recited before the meal in distinct Friday-night, morning, and festival versions.
Kidflix
Kidflix (KidFlix), darknet child sexual abuse material streaming platform created in 2021, 1.8 million users 2022–2025, ~91,000 videos; shut down 11 March 2025 in Europol's Operation Stream: 1,393 suspects identified, 79 arrested, 39 children protected.
Kidin-Hutran
Kidin-Hutran, also printed Kiddin-Khutran, is the name of one or more kings of Elam of the Igihalkid dynasty, remembered for victories over Kassite Babylonian rulers in the 1220s BC.
Kidinuid dynasty
The Kidinuid dynasty, named after king Kidinu, was the first group of Middle Elamite rulers of ancient Elam, centered on Susa around 1500–1400 BC and best known from the Haft Tappeh tablets of Tepti-Ahar.
Kidman Resources
Kidman Resources was an Australian mineral exploration company whose work defined the Earl Grey lithium deposit, now the Mount Holland mine; Wesfarmers acquired it in 2019 for about $776 million.
Kidmuri temple (Kalhu)
Kidmuri temple (Kalhu): Neo-Assyrian sanctuary of Ištar, mistress of the divine Kidmuru, at Nimrud's citadel near the ziggurat; the only Kalhu shrine predating Assurnasirpal II, found by Rassam in 1878, with a red-gold cult statue, used into the 7th century BC.
Kidnap (2017 film)
Kidnap is a 2017 American action thriller directed by Luis Prieto and starring Halle Berry as a single mother who pursues her six-year-old son's kidnappers.
Kidnapped (novel)
Kidnapped (1886) is Robert Louis Stevenson's historical adventure novel, full title Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, set after Culloden and built on the Appin murder; sequel Catriona.
Kidnapping
Kidnapping: the unlawful taking, carrying away, or confinement of a person by force, threats, or fraud, without consent. Distinct from false imprisonment and abduction; felony with penalties up to life in the US, England, and Canada.
Kidnapping and killing of Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Israeli-American hostage taken October 7, 2023 from the Nova festival area, held 328 days, killed with five hostages in a Rafah tunnel in August 2024; parents Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin led his release campaign.
Kidnapping and killing of the Bibas family
Kidnapping and killing of the Bibas family: Shiri Bibas and sons Ariel and Kfir, abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, died in Hamas captivity; remains returned February 2025 amid disputed airstrike and murder claims.
Kidnapping Game (十日游戏)
Kidnapping Game (十日游戏) is a 2020 iQIYI Chinese crime-mystery web drama, the first title of the Light On theater, adapted from Keigo Higashino's novel The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping, starring Zhu Yawen and Jin Chen in a fake-kidnapping plot.
Kidnapping in the United States
Kidnapping in the United States is a state and federal crime; the federal Lindbergh Law, 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (1932), covers interstate, protected-person, and federal-officer kidnappings, with up to life or death penalties.
Kidnapping of Agam Berger
Kidnapping of Agam Berger: IDF surveillance soldier from Holon abducted by Hamas from the Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023, held 482 days in Gaza tunnels and apartments, released January 30, 2025 in Jabaliya during the ceasefire's third hostage release.
Kidnapping of Alon Ohel
The kidnapping of Alon Ohel took place on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led attackers seized the 22-year-old Israeli pianist from a bomb shelter near the Nova music festival.
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura (secuestro de Anabel Segura): 1993 abduction for ransom of a 22-year-old student in La Moraleja, Madrid, by Emilio Muñoz and Cándido Ortiz; she was murdered within hours, but the kidnappers faked her survival for 900 days, Spain's longest kidnapping.
Kidnapping of Avinatan Or
Avinatan Or, Israeli electronics engineer and Noa Argamani's partner, kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, 2023; held 738 days in Gaza tunnels, released October 13, 2025.
Kidnapping of Carlina White
1987 Harlem Hospital infant kidnapping: 19-day-old Carlina White, taken by Ann Pettway posing as a nurse, raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut, self-solved via NCMEC in 2011; Pettway got 12 years.
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan, the "girl in the box" case: 1977 Red Bluff, California abduction by Cameron and Janice Hooker, seven-year captivity, 1985 trial, 104-year sentence, and parole developments.
Kidnapping of Elliot Eastman
Kidnapping of Elliot Eastman: October 17, 2024 abduction of 26-year-old American YouTuber Elliot Onil Eastman from Sibuco, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines; shot resisting four gunmen posing as police, presumed dead at sea; mastermind Jackaria Jamani arrested January 2025.
Kidnapping of Emily Damari
Kidnapping of Emily Damari: British-Israeli nursery teacher taken from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October 2023, held 471 days by Hamas, released 19 January 2025 in the ceasefire's first exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners.
Kidnapping of Evyatar David (אביתר דוד)
Evyatar David (אביתר דוד), Israeli from Kfar Saba kidnapped at the Nova festival October 7, 2023; held 738 days in Gaza tunnels, shown emaciated in Hamas's August 2025 videos, released October 13, 2025 among the last 20 living hostages.
Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken
Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken: 1983 abduction of the Heineken brewer and driver Ab Doderer in Amsterdam by Cor van Hout, Willem Holleeder, and three others; 35 million guilder ransom, 21-day captivity, police rescue.
Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson
The 2013 kidnapping of Hannah Anderson, 16, by family friend James Lee DiMaggio, who killed her mother Christina and brother Ethan in Boulevard, California, and took her to Idaho's Frank Church wilderness, where an FBI team rescued her August 10 and killed DiMaggio.
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard
Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: the 1991 abduction of an 11-year-old from South Lake Tahoe by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, her 18-year captivity in a hidden Antioch backyard compound, the 2009 discovery, parole failures, and legal aftermath.
Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
The kidnapping of Jayme Closs, also called the disappearance of Jayme Closs, was the 2018 abduction of a 13-year-old girl from Barron, Wisconsin, minutes after her parents were shot dead.
Kidnapping of Luis Albino
Luis Armando Albino, also spelled Luis Albino, was a six-year-old Puerto Rico-born boy abducted from a West Oakland park in 1951, by a woman who promised him candy; found alive on the East Coast in 2024 via his niece's DNA search.
Kidnapping of Mia Schem
Mia Schem, French-Israeli Nova festival attendee kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023, first live hostage shown in a Hamas video, released 30 November 2023 in the Qatar-brokered truce after French mediation.
Kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton
The kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton was a 1983 parental abduction in which her mother took her from Louisville, Kentucky, and raised her under a false identity.