1.   A sicko who goes by the name of Casanova is abducting beautiful women, stashing them in his dungeon and occasionally murdering one of them when she misbehaves.

2.   He pointed to a series of kidnappings in which city women have been abducted by bounty hunters who deliver them to rural farmers desperate for brides.

3.   If she had abducted the woman for another reason, she could face execution, Kossoris said.

4.   The decree explains, in gruesomely explicit terms, the protocol that is to be followed by terrorists who abduct women for the purpose of raping them.

5.   The gunman, Billy Ray Stone, who had abducted a woman from a local hospital, was also killed, the authorities said.

6.   The question was particularly painful since Swiss news organizations have carried stories quoting survivors as saying some young women were abducted.

7.   This story horrifies families where women were abducted during attacks.

8.   While many women are abducted in cities, they overwhelmingly come from, and are delivered to, small villages and towns in the countryside.

9.   Prosecutors say Higgs and two others abducted the women after Higgs became enraged because one of the women rebuffed his advances at party.

10.   But the pair abducted another woman from that house, police said.