FBI communicating with mother of kidnapped Mount Horeb journalist

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. — The mother of kidnapped journalist Shelly Kittleson is communicating with the FBI, she told News 3 Now.

Kittleson, a 49-year-old from Mount Horeb, was reporting in Baghdad for independent news site AL-Monitor when she was taken. The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed her abduction on Tuesday.

Speaking with Fox 47’s Elly Laliberte, Kittleson’s mother said she had last heard from her daughter on Monday and that she was “fine then.” She said Shelly would email her twice a week…

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