kidnapping

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.

To say it has been a rough start to the fall semester on the campus of LSU would be an understatement.

At some point during the chase, he abandoned the vehicle, and the child, and fled on foot. He was found in the Vermilion river.

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.

An 11-year-old girl was nearly captured at her bus stop in Florida.

Chris Welty of WGNO News in New Orleans captured the moment a police officer handed a baby over to his dad after the infant went missing.

The body of Faye Marie Swetlik has been found. Police are investigating her death as a homicide.

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.

Anyone with information can call Lafayette Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.

The suspect left the scene driving a green Jeep Wrangler with big tires and chrome rims.

Manning and the father of the two children were scheduled to appear for a custody hearing in Oklahoma tomorrow.

Ackal's office reports that multiple tips were called in from the public about suspect Montana Doice's vehicle.

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.

The friends and family actually came into contact with the victim and the suspect in or out of the house.

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.

KATC obtained an incident report earlier today from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office indicating that Brandon Scott Lavergne was at a hospital in the area seeking treatment for multiple stab wounds less than 24 hours after Mickey Shunick was last seen.

According to a story in the Daily Advertiser, the search for the missing 22-year-old UL Student, Mickey Shunick, is still underway and it now appears that the search has extended beyond the state boundaries of Louisiana. The Lafayette paper says that since the arrest of Brandon Scott Lavergne, more tips are coming in from people who know the man accused of taking Shunick.

The mother of Brandon Scott Lavergne is speaking out and is now offering her condolences to the entire Shunick family. Brandon Lavergne is currently being held by Lafayette Police in the disappearance of UL student Mickey Shunick. Hear what Cynthia Lavergene had to say today in regards to the case that her son is now involved in.