Word: amsler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That information, plus the confession of Irwin, enabled the FBI to arrest two other suspects-sometime Salesman Barry Keenan, 23, and Beach Bum Joseph Amsler. And John Irwin was still talking. Twice before, he said, he had been involved in a plan to snatch Sinatra. "Once in Arizona," he said, "we just missed connections." On a second occasion, Irwin said, he had convinced his partners that the plan should be abandoned. Both Keenan and Amsler were charged by federal authorities with kidnaping, an offense punishable by a maximum life term in prison. But Irwin was charged only with "aiding...
...Barry Keenan, 23, of Los Angeles, a stockbroker's son, had graduated in the same high school class as Nancy Sinatra, young Frank's sister. An unemployed salesman and divorced, he had been charged with petty theft in the past. The other two were equally smalltime. Joseph Amsler, 23, an abalone fisherman from Playa del Rey, had been pinched for a liquor-law violation, mumbled, when asked if his parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third man, John Irwin, 42, of Hollywood, a house painter, had a record...