Check out some of bizarre cases of assalts, kidnappings and murder in the News

Teen, Elizabeth Shoaf, Rescued After Sending Text Message

LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) — A text message sent by a kidnapped 14-year-old to her mother led to her rescue Saturday, when police found her in a hand-dug, booby-trapped bunker.

Elizabeth Shoaf’s message also led investigators to name a suspect in her kidnapping more than a week ago – police were searching a wooded area where the girl was found for 36-year-old Vinson Filyaw, said Kershaw County Sheriff Mike McCaskill.

Douglas Paul Maring, 30, Man Wanted in Boy’s Slaying Found Dead

GALENA, Ill. (AP) — The body of a man wanted in the slaying of his 8-year-old adopted son was found early Saturday on a farm in western Illinois, ending a three-state manhunt, police said.

Police: Hit Man ( Edward Dalton Haffey)Strangled by Intended Victim (Nurse,Susan Kuhnhausen)

But after an investigation, police now say the intruder Kuhnhausen strangled was apparently a hit man hired by her estranged husband — Michael James Kuhnhausen Sr. — to kill her. (Fox News)

Woman, 87, Sentenced for Boy’s Slaying

12 Charged in Sex Assaults of Girl