Patty Wetterling (born November 2, 1949) is a U.S. advocate of children's safety and current chair of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
 Her advocacy particularly focuses on protecting children from abduction and abuse.
 In recent years Wetterling has become one of the most vocal critics of current sex offender registry laws pointing them as overly broad and unnecessarily causing tremendous harm to many.
 Her advocacy began after her son Jacob was abducted in 1989 and culminated in passage of federal Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act.
 She was a candidate for the Minnesota Sixth District seat in the United States House of Representatives as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate in 2004 and 2006, losing to Republicans Mark Kennedy and Michele Bachmann respectively.
 In September 2016, the remains of her son Jacob were discovered and positively identified.
Anabel Flores Salazar was a Mexican journalist.
 She was thirty two years old when she was kidnapped and murdered.
 She lived in a house in the mountains of Mariano Escobedo, which is located in Orizaba, Veracruz.
 Salazar's aunt, Sandra Luz Salazar, was with her on the day that she was kidnapped.
 Salazar was married to a previous commander of the Nogales police, Alejandro Báez Juárez.
 She was the mother of a 2-week-old newborn and a young son when she was kidnapped from her home.
In the Hindu epic "Mahabharata", Laxman Kumara or simply Laxman (Lakshman(a)) is the son of Duryodhana.
 He had a twin sister called Lakshmanaa who was kidnapped by Samba (Krishna's son).
 Not much is revealed about Laxman in the "Mahabharata".
Cornelius Sinclair (c. 1813 to unknown) was an African American child kidnapped in Philadelphia in August 1825 by Patty Cannon's gang.
 He was one of a number of children kidnapped that summer and later transported south, to be sold into slavery.
 Sinclair was sold in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in October 1825 and subsequently freed in March 1827 through the efforts of several Methodist ministers, Robert L. Kennon and Joshua Boucher, who filed a lawsuit on his behalf.
 John Gayle (Alabama) of the Alabama Supreme Court presided over the trial, where a jury of slave-owners in Tuscaloosa found in favor of Sinclair's freedom.
 When he returned to Philadelphia he testified as part of the successful prosecution of one of his kidnappers.
 The African American newspaper the "African Observer" provided coverage of the efforts to free Sinclair and prosecute the kidnappers.
Pulgasari (Chosŏn'gŭl: 불가사리 ; RR: "Bulgasari " ) is a 1985 North Korean dark fantasy-action monster film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo.
 The film starred Chang Son Hui and Pak Sung Ho and featured special effects by Duk Ho Kim, supervised by Teruyoshi Nakano.
 The film was loosely based on the legend of the Bulgasari.
 Director Shin had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung.
Michael Dawson is a fictional character played by Harold Perrineau on the ABC television series "Lost".
 Michael served as an antagonist of the second season.
 After losing a custody battle with Susan Lloyd (Tamara Taylor), Michael does not see his son Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) for almost ten years.
 They reunite when she dies, but on their journey home, their plane crashes on a mysterious island in the South Pacific.
 Here Walt is kidnapped by the Island's previous inhabitants, the Others, and Michael spends his time trying to retrieve him.
 He is eventually successful, and they leave the Island together, but the guilt over the murders he had to commit to achieve this leads him to an estrangement with his son and a suicide attempt.
 He returns to the Island on a freighter, but is killed when a bomb on it explodes.
 Michael reappears as a ghost, and apologizes to Hurley for killing Libby (Cynthia Watros).
Nobel Son is a 2007 American black comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the kidnapping of their son for ransom following the father's winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 The film features Alan Rickman as the prize-winning professor and Mary Steenburgen as his wife, with Bryan Greenberg as their kidnapped son.
John Dustin "Johnny" Montgomery (né Kasnoff; formerly Donovan) is a character on "As the World Turns".
 He is the only son of Jennifer Munson Donovan.
 He is the son of Craig Montgomery but was adopted by Dusty Donovan.
 He was kidnapped by his paternal half-sister, Lucy.
 Lucy and Johnny returned to the show in December 2008.
 Craig regained full custody of Johnny in January 2009 and had his son's name changed legally from John Donovan to John Montgomery.
 He currently lives with Craig Montgomery and Rosanna Cabot in Oakdale, Illinois.
Solomon Northup (July 10, 1807 or 1808 –  1863 ) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir "Twelve Years a Slave".
 A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color.
 A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Hebron, New York.
 In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave.
 He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish.
 He remained a slave until he met a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery.
 His family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
Jacob Erwin Wetterling (February 17, 1978 – October 22, 1989) was a boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota, who was kidnapped from his hometown and murdered at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989.
 His abduction remained a mystery for nearly 27 years.

Question: From where was Patty Wetterling's son kidnapped?
Answer: St. Joseph, Minnesota