The young women say their ordeals began when a stocky man dressed in fatigues stopped them on the streets of New York City in 2005 and demanded their IDs. Their guard down, they became victims of eerily similar abductions. Both survived to tell about it. But ...

In the wee hours of Feb. 24, 2006, Imette St. Guillen and another young woman were quarreling outside a Manhattan bar. St. Guillen, a 24-year-old from Boston who was attending graduate school in Manhattan, wanted to continue drinking. Her friend insisted they call it a night. The spat ...