Word: ransoming
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...they owed money for their baby sitter or their housekeeper or the kid who mowed the lawn. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a perplexed person walked into an IRS office and asked for the "Zoe Baird Package" of forms. "That's all people are talking about," says Nancy Ransom, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. "This is not just a problem for the poor, the rich or the middle class. This is a problem for everyone...
...District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to face her own sentencing...
Soon after his disappearance, FBI agents recovered letters demanding a ransom of millions of dollars from Exxon for his safe return. In one note the '90s-style kidnappers made a particularly unsophisticated request: that a cellular-telephone number be established through which further contact would be made. As the alleged culprits, Arthur and Irene Seale, later learned to their dismay, calls received on such phones can be traced...
...first novels, Jay McInerney, the very young author, wrote chapters that seemed a little too cute and a little too easy. Bright Lights, Big City tried hard for the "God, how that boy can write" award once owned by Scott Fitzgerald, but McInerney's next two books, Ransom and Story of My Life, had little to offer except boyishness and a good ear for dialogue. A few scenes of cocaine snorting, the names of a couple of trendy clubs, a little easy listening -- that's all it took...
...that Reso, a stable family man who has spent holidays working behind soup-kitchen counters, is off on a scam of his own. "There's nothing to indicate a voluntary disappearance," said a spokeswoman in the Morris County prosecutor's office. Law-enforcement officials indirectly acknowledged receipt of a ransom note after the New York Post reported that a letter claiming responsibility for Reso's abduction had been issued by a group called the Rainbow Warriors. The name Rainbow Warrior belongs to a Greenpeace ship destroyed by the French government in 1985. Greenpeace, an international environmental group, vehemently denies...