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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Indeed, this feels to me very much like a play a writer would write after being stuck for months in a house with teens, aching to live their lives and sometimes seeing their loving parents as captors, even as moms and dads just tried to hold their lives together.
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
Savannah and her siblings, Camron and Annie Guthrie, have put out continuous calls for tips, even addressing their mother's captors directly.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
The publicity surrounding Smart’s case allowed a passerby to recognize her captors, which led to the teen’s rescue nine months after she’d been abducted.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
The tragic admission, coming more than a week after Guthrie’s last appeal to her mother’s captors, sparks questions as to why investigators and the family chose to wait weeks to put forward such a large and enticing reward.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
Savannah and her siblings, Camron and Annie Guthrie, have put out continuous calls for tips, even addressing their mother's captors directly.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
The publicity surrounding Smart’s case allowed a passerby to recognize her captors, which led to the teen’s rescue nine months after she’d been abducted.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
The tragic admission, coming more than a week after Guthrie’s last appeal to her mother’s captors, sparks questions as to why investigators and the family chose to wait weeks to put forward such a large and enticing reward.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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