Lafayette, Louisiana was featured on a recent episode of '48 Hours' as Schanda Handley recounted events before and after a violent kidnapping for the first time since the harrowing incident unfolded back in 2017.
An absolutely terrifying abduction attempt was caught on video last week in New Orleans, and authorities are hoping you can help catch the people responsible.
A graphic video showing a special-needs man in Chicago being kidnapped, beaten and tortured has led to the arrest of four people connected with the attack.
Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton says 41-year-old Steven Myers has been released from the hospital and has been booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center for Attempted 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property.
A 16-year-old Florida girl is in a Lafayette hospital in critical condition and suffering from multiple stab wounds after a high speed chase that started in Iberville Parish.
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Scott W.Thomas or Bethany Arceneaux, the victim, to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.
When Ollie McAninch, 33, was planning on marrying his wife-to-be, he could not have anticipated how his closest friends would take him on his bachelor party. 16 of Ollie's friends staged a kidnapping and put the bachelor in the white van and drove for 100-miles, all while poor Ollie thought he was being kidnapped.