Word: freda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June a Sydney salesman named Bazil Thorne and his wife Freda won ?100.000 ($225,000) in a state lottery to raise money for Sydney's new opera house. They vowed that they would not let the money go to their heads. They went right on living in their modest brick duplex in suburban Bondi and invested their new wealth. The only member of the Thorne family to get excited over the windfall was eight-year-old Graeme, a third-grader at a private school called Scots College...
Fearfully, Freda Thorne called the local police. An hour later, as a policeman sat in the Thorne living room taking notes, the phone rang. "Is this Mrs. Thorne?" asked a man's guttural voice. *'I have your boy." Wordlessly. Freda Thorne passed the receiver to the policeman. "I have your son." the voice repeated. "I want ?25,000 by 5 o'clock tonight, or I'll feed him to the sharks...