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Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout is a Canadian author and humanitarian who was held captive for 460 days after being kidnapped in Somalia in 2008. She later wrote the bestseller A House in the Sky.
Austin Tice
Austin Tice, American freelance photojournalist and Marine veteran, disappeared at a checkpoint near Damascus, Syria, on August 14, 2012, while reporting for the Washington Post and McClatchy; his fate remains unconfirmed despite a $1 million FBI reward and post-Assad searches.
Diana Turbay
Diana Turbay (Diana Consuelo Turbay Quintero, 1950–1991), Colombian journalist and lawyer, daughter of ex-president Julio César Turbay Ayala, directed Noticiero Criptón and edited Hoy por Hoy; kidnapped 30 August 1990 by Los Extraditables via a fake ELN interview and killed 25 January 1991 in a police rescue near Copacabana, Antioquia.
Jodi Huisentruit
Jodi Sue Huisentruit, KIMT-TV morning anchor in Mason City, Iowa, abducted from her apartment lot June 27, 1995; case unsolved after 30 years, no charges, declared legally dead 2001.
John Cantlie
John Cantlie, British freelance photojournalist for The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph, kidnapped twice in Syria, held by Islamic State from November 2012, forced into propaganda videos 2014–2016, missing since Mosul, presumed dead.