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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) - A seized South African man is saved by his girlfriend using Twitter.

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Lynn Peters, after receiving a message from her boyfriend, taken hostage after a carjacking in Johannesburg, turned to Twitter with a message for help that led to a city wide mission to find and rescue the frightened man.

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm)Man’s best friend comes through again.

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A 12-year-old pit bull named Kilo took a bullet to save his owner, Justin Becker, from an intruder posing as a delivery man, in Staten Island, New York Saturday and survives.

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A man is brutally mugged as a crowd of onlookers laugh.

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A video has surfaced on the internet of a tourist being beaten up, robbed, and stripped naked on St. Patrick’s Day in Baltimore, Maryland, which police are attempting to use to help make arrests.  Click here to watch the video…

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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens) - A robbery committed by two ninjas have the police in West Covina, California stumped. 

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After making a delivery on the 800 block of South Sunset Avenue, a medical marijuana delivery man says he was chased by two with batons in ninja costumes.

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy)An 8-year-old crime sleuth catches a burglar.

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Landon Crabtree,8, from Manchester, Tenn. outwitted a thief who committed a string of burglaries in the Manchester neighborhood by using a tracking device app he had downloaded onto his stolen iPad.

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - Two high-school girls are facing murder charges after a tragic murder in North Carolina.

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Consandra Nicole Tyree and Emily Katherine Starnes, both 16, from North Carolina, were arrested for their roles in the murder and robbery of cab driver Adam Williams.

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 (WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) –  This guy should have called a lawyer.

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A Connecticut man, Michael Gorneau, 46, called 911 while allegedly stealing 700 pounds of scrap metal last Thursday.

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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis)She’s not your average elementary school bully.

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Lynsai Green, mother of Kori Cummings, has filed a lawsuit seeking $200,000 in the damages after Marclius Lockes, a second-grade math teacher at Gwynn Falls Elementary School, stole the second-grader’s lunch money to pay for her own sodas.

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(WIDK By Nick Pollack)A Brazilian has died at the hands of the police.

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21-year-old Robert Laudisio, an orphan from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was killed by Police officiers after they tasered him for stealing a small packet of cookies from a convenience store in Sydney, Austrailia, yet his friends believe he was an innocent bystander.

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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis)The infamous “crapper scrapper” was finally caught last week for his dirty deeds—literally.

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According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, toilet thief, Donald Allen Citron, 48, was arrested last week for stealing and selling $6,000 worth of toilet pipes and valves from more than 18 places around Denver, Colorado.

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - A woman has been arrested for kidnapping and torturing a man she knew.

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Elizabeth Perry, 21, from Chicago broke into a home and kidnapped a 21-year-old man in an effort to extort five-thousand dollars. The man was pistol whipped, burnt with cigarettes, and tortured for several hours until he was eventually let loose.

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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) - It’s not everyday you see people parachuting from skyscrapers, but in Australia four men decided to take a shot at it.

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Four well dressed men in business suits ordered a few cocktails and then decided to parachute off  the Rialto Tower  from its 55th floor. Click to read more…

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(WIDK BY Hannah Tool)Eight years after his abduction, a child is to be reunited with his mother.

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The mother of Miguel Morin– who disappeared in 2004 when he was just eight-months-old, while under the supervised care of his godmother, Krystle Tanner– never lost hope that she would never see her son again, even after the case went cold in 2006. Click to read more…

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm)This couple should have stayed home.

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Laura Milcawich jumped off a 50-foot mountain while she and husband, Stephen Aube, 40, were  vacationing in Ecuador, in order to escape a band of theives with guns and machetes who were holding her hostage while her husband was forced to withdraw $3,000 from their bank account.

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