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...letter also implied that Sam was buried alive or held in some sort of vault or cave, with only enough air and water to survive for ten days. Thus, if Bronfman did not respond quickly, the note warned, there might be a "tragic end for the victim." Said the letter, in an understatement: "Contemplate the position that puts...
...chance in life that we have been denied." A bizarre threat was added. If police sought to capture them before the ransom was paid, the kidnapers would use cyanide-dipped bullets to resist; if captured, they would commit suicide. Any ring member not captured would hunt Edgar Bronfman down and kill...
MONDAY. Edgar Bronfman left his estate by helicopter to assemble the huge amount of cash in Manhattan. A tape recording arrived by mail at his Park Avenue apartment. It contained Sam's voice, assuring his father that he was well but pleading for prompt payment of the ransom. Sam said he wanted to come home...
...were conveyed in tele phone calls to the Yorktown house. Apparently realizing the impracticality of handling $4.6 million in the denominations asked-the mass would weigh about 1,000 Ibs.-the kidnapers cut their demand in half, now asking for $2.3 million. The drop was set for Wednesday night. Bronfman was to put the money in a car and personally take it to John F. Kennedy International Airport, then wait at a specific public telephone booth...
...appointed hour, Edgar Bronfman, taking no chance of disappointing the kidnapers, loaded the originally requested $4.6 million in the back of a station wagon. It was stuffed into black plastic garbage bags. He drove to a parking lot at Kennedy Airport, then, while FBI agents observed from a distance, walked to the specified phone booth. At 8:10 the phone rang. Using the Raven identification, the caller directed Bronfman to another phone booth, in the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines section of the terminal. He waited an hour with no further word. At 9:30 p.m., the kidnapers called the Yorktown...