I’m thinking along the lines of Misery where IIRC the victim was kidnapped because the perp had a non-sexual obsession with him*, and just wanted to have him around? I read a blurb about the film the other day that made me wonder if there were any real-life instances of this sort of thing happening. All kidnappings in the news these days seem to have some ransom/political/sex angle. I specified “adult” kidnappings to exclude instances of child custody stuff between parents or strangers kidnapping children to raise as their own, which there are plenty of real-life examples of both about.
- It’s been so long since I saw the movie that Bates may have been hot for Caan, anywho you get the idea