Topic - Katie Beers Kidnapping

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Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald speaks during a news conference about 13-year-old Jayme Closs who has been missing since her parents were found dead in their home in Barron, Wis. The northwest Wisconsin girl who went missing in October after her parents were killed has been found alive, authorities said Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP, File)

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** FILE ** John Esposito faces the court during his arraignment in Central Islip, N.Y., on charges he imprisoned 10-year-old Katie Beers in an underground bunker for 17 days, Jan. 21, 1993. Esposito, convicted for kidnapping Beers and hiding her under his Bay Shore, N.Y. home in 1992, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at his jail cell in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. He was serving a 15 years-to-life prison term. (Associated Press)

Man who kidnapped Katie Beers in 1993 found dead in prison cell

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20 years on, Katie Beers says kidnapping saved her

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