Word: kronholm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen's observation is peculiarly ironic. In the recent spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
After Mrs. Kronholm's abductors got in touch with an FBI agent impersonating her husband, he began relaying coded messages over the police radio on how the $200,000 ransom demand should be delivered. Other agents received the messages, which kept referring on the air to "the package"; the messages were also overheard by anyone, including newsmen, who happened to be monitoring weather reports on a citizens' band frequency close to the police radio wave length. Though the FBI had hoped to keep its contacts with the kidnapers secret-it still did not know where Mrs. Kronholm...
...ransom "drop" point. Following instructions from his city desk via a short-wave receiver, Sorensen cruised through the drop area until he saw a car that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup of a kidnap ransom. By then, Sorensen's editors had radioed him to abandon the assignment, and a car with two suspicious-looking plainclothesmen...