Word: ransoming
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June 2: Willie Roger Holder, 24, a Viet Nam veteran, and Catherine Mary Kerkow, 20, a student, seized a Western Airlines flight en route to Seattle. They collected $500,000 in ransom money and flew to Algeria via New York (where Holder released 36 hostages). The Algerian government granted them asylum, but returned the money...
June 24: Martin McNally, 28, an unemployed veteran, demanded $502,200 at gunpoint on an American Airlines flight over Tulsa, Okla. He got the ransom money in St. Louis, as well as a fresh plane and pilot, and set off for Toronto. He parachuted to safety in an Indiana field, but lost the ransom, which was found by a farmer. Police arrested McNally at his Michigan home...
...passengers aboard the National Airlines jet, originally commandeered on its planned final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport, were released unharmed at Philadelphia where the skyjackers transferred to another plane and took off eight hours later with their ransom, three parachutes and six hostage crew members...
Done, said American, and they sent round Frank Bodwell, their regional sales manager for that area, with a check for $10,000. Said Elliott: "I don't think I'll take it today." He indicated that he might accept 5% of the ransom money, "but 10% would be better." The bewildered Bodwell returned to consult his superiors, leaving Elliott to sit a spell on his back porch. And if the offer is not renewed? Says Elliott: "Well, I guess I'm out of luck then...
...kidnaping, he confessed, was a hoax engineered by Manny, who hoped to bilk Uncle Carlo out of the ransom so that he could run off with his blonde girl friend. Sentner said that he assisted Manny in return for having his $40,000 debt erased from the Gambino books. Sentner, who enlisted four friends for the job, claims that Manny was alive when he last saw him but that he has no idea of his whereabouts. Manny's girl friend, who has secluded herself in her apartment, says, "If Manny ran off, it certainly wasn't with...