Ripkins Mom Kidnapped

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She's safe....

 

Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier at her home outside Baltimore and driven around blindfolded by her abductor, police and neighbors said.

Investigators do not know the kidnapper's motive and there was no ransom demand for Vi Ripken's release, Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Trabert said at a news conference.

The gunman forced Ripken into her silver Lincoln Continental between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, police said. She was found unharmed but shaken about 6:15 a.m. Wednesday near her home in Aberdeen, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/cal-ripken-jr-mother-abducted-baltimore-armed-robbery-072512

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More...hard to believe but wonderfull that she wasn't hurt...

 

Violet Ripken, the 74-year-old mother of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted at gunpoint from her Harford County home and returned there unharmed, according to authorities, who were searching for a motive in the bizarre kidnapping.

 

Ripken was at her home on a quiet Aberdeen side street between 7 and 8 a.m. Tuesday when a man wielding a gun forced into her vehicle and drove her "throughout Central Maryland," according to Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Trabert.

 

She was found unharmed early Wednesday morning on her street, seated in the backseat of her Lincoln Town Car with her hands bound, not long after Baltimore County authorities put out a missing person alert. Sources said the man did not make a ransom demand, and police said they were trying to determine a motive.

Authorities were unaware that Ripken, who lives alone, was missing until late Tuesday night, when Baltimore County police about 8:30 p.m. notified Aberdeen Police that they had received a call about a suspicious vehicle in the Ebenezer Road area, near White Marsh and the border between Baltimore and Harford counties.

 

Lt. Fred Budnick said the caller provided a tag number, which showed the vehicle belonged to Ripken, setting off the investigation.

 

It was unclear how the abductor was able to return Ripken to her own street during the police investigation.

 

Mike Hudson, a neighbor of Ripken, said he was startled when police knocked on his door around midnight. "This is unheard of in this neighborhood. For anyone to knock on your door at midnight, it's really frightening," he said.

 

Hudson said the street was closed off last night, then again in the morning. Ripken's vehicle was parked a few houses away, and he said authorities later took it away on a flat bed truck.

 

A Harford police official briefed on the case said circumstances of the abduction puzzled investigators. "The fact that she was returned, the fact that he brought her back to the house — there's a lot of things that are not normal abduction-type stuff," said the source, who was not authorized to discuss the case.

 

The first public attention to the investigation came early Wednesday, when the Baltimore County Police Department had issued a media advisory at 5:35 a.m. calling the case a missing persons investigation and distributing Ripken's picture.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-ripken-mother-missing-20120725,0,1198173.story

 

This is one sick planet that we live on.

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Crappy economy makes people do dumn shit.

[BengalBilly]

Kidnapping the 74 year old mom of an undisputed baseball icon!?!` How low can you go.

 

Oh wait... Jerrry Sandusky showed us.

[cravnravn]

 

What a dumb ass, he didnt know who he kidnapped..

Edited July 26, 2012 by cravnravn