Mexican Conductor Kidnapped, Held For Seven Months

“Rodolfo Cazares, a Mexican symphony conductor, was sleeping in bed with his wife in northern Mexico when masked gunmen burst into their home and shook them awake. … Seven months later, Mr. Cazares – a 36-year-old leader of the Bremerhaven city orchestra in Germany – and three other men are still missing, even after family members paid four ransoms to a presumed drug cartel.”