Criminal
Kidnapper
Kidnapper noun - Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom).
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Criminal and kidnapper are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Criminal" instead a noun "Kidnapper".
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There's also an episode in Criminal Intent where the loan shark is so impatient to get his money back that he kidnaps a guy's family, during which his hired kidnapper rapes one of the daughters.
Source: Loan Shark -
When a story opens with a thief, kidnapper, or murderer "getting away with it" or proceeding with stage 3 of their 4 step plan, they may run into Colliding Criminal Conspiracies when they get entangled along with or caught in the traps of another, bigger or more professional criminal... or monster.
Source: Colliding Criminal Conspiracies - The Criminal Minds episode "Revelations" has an interesting play on the Book of Revelation, where Reid's kidnapper, Tobias Hankel, switches between three personalities—himself, his father, and an angel called Raphael.
Source: As the Good Book Says
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