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Word: abductor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter he dropped in his flight was found in the street. The police gave the press the text of it. The sinister politeness of the abductor's letter, which requested the sum of $100,000, made newspaper readers' flesh creep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Charming Supervision | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Wild and hair-raising had been the abductor's "charming supervision." Once, on his headlong drive through the high Sierras, the car had plunged over a 40-foot embankment. Clambering back with the child, he seized at gun's point the next car that came along the highway. Miraculously unharmed, Marc was back in his mother's arms that evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Charming Supervision | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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