Word: ransoming
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...trial began in October in White Plains, N.Y., the Bronfman jury has had to weigh two conflicting stories about the kidnaping. Sam Bronfman, 23, testified that two men snatched him and later threatened to kill him unless his rich father, Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman, paid a $2.3 million ransom...
...Charles Lindbergh. Four decades later a forthcoming book, Scapegoat (Putnam), by Anthony Scaduto, a longtime crime reporter for the New York Post, argues that Hauptmann was innocent. Scaduto says he has unearthed police documents showing not only that someone other than Hauptmann cashed in most of the ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed evidence supporting Hauptmann's alibi that he was at work as a carpenter throughout the day of the kidnaping. Once the spectacular trial was under way, Scaduto says, a number of witnesses distorted the evidence "for their own peculiar motives." Haupt-mann's widow...
...there is a cry from their daughter's room. Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) goes to investigate and is absent too long. Michael (Cliff Robertson) follows to find his life suddenly shattered-wife and child kidnaped and a note demanding a huge ransom pinned to the bed. At times he is desperate, then hopeful. The police enlist his aid in a plot to outwit the kidnapers, assuring him that official expertise is a better guarantee of his family's safety than his fortune...
...double (also played by Genevieve Bujold). He pursues her, brings her home to marry-and then she too is kidnaped in circumstances that precisely duplicate those of the first crime. There is even a message clipped to the post of the same bed, a photo of the original ransom note torn from an old newspaper...
Authorities reportedly were looking for two more suspects, and indeed it seemed unlikely that the three young men could have thought of pulling off such a grandiose scheme on their own. Investigators searching Woods' home turned up the draft of a ransom note demanding $5 million, the money to be packed into suitcases and dropped by parachute from an airplane upon a designated spot in Santa Cruz county...