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Former Kentucky Caretaker Accused of Kidnapping Elderly Woman

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A former caretaker has been arrested for kidnapping in Kentucky after police accused her of taking an elderly woman nearly 100 miles from her home without telling anyone. Rita Lang, who once cared for Gail Crane, was arrested on Tuesday, February 17, and taken into custody after a brief police chase. Crane, who has Alzheimer’s disease, is 83. Friends called the police on Tuesday after discovering that she was not home. Crane, they told police, has not driven in many years and rarely, if ever, leaves her home. Officers soon after learned that Lang, 59, had been Crane’s former caretaker up until...