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The Manhattan Beach Police Department is investigating after a woman said two people in a vehicle grabbed her, attempted to ...

The woman managed to escape her alleged basement prison in the middle of the night after three months in captivity, showing up at a neighbor, who described her with "no hair and a think chain with ...

Three years ago, a video blogger stumbled on a shack in a tiny village in rural China. Inside, stood a woman. She was dazed, shivering — and chained by the neck. The video set off the biggest ...