Word: ransoming
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...front of his Savannah home one night last month. The younger Paulson pulled out a .22-cal., two-shot derringer magnum and killed one of the men. The second was arrested shortly afterward. Police recovered handcuffs, a gag and a tape cassette with a message requesting $1.2 million in ransom...
...kidnap victims. But this one was particularly pathetic: a woman and her son huddled together, chains around their necks, a pistol held to the woman's left temple, the right side of the youth's face caked with dried blood. In a barbaric attempt to force a ransom payment rumored to be as large as $4.2 million, the kidnapers apparently had cut off the youth's ear. If the money was not forthcoming, they warned, their two captives would be slaughtered...
...Calissoni, was abducted along with her son on Nov. 19 from her country home 20 miles south of Rome. It was not the first time kidnapers had singled out the family: in 1975 Gianni Bulgari, Anna's cousin, was abducted, and released only after the family paid a ransom of about $2 million. The family was believed to have been ready to pay off this time too, but a Rome magistrate blocked the Bulgari assets; Italian officials have used the tactic to discourage kidnaping...
...Tycoon John Paul Getty in Rome in 1973, when young Getty's ear was cut off and mailed to Il Messaggero. His family eventually paid a reported $2.8 million to his abductors. Last week's grisly find renewed debate in Italy about the wisdom of blocking ransom payments. The Bulgari and Calissoni families issued a statement to the effect that negotiations with the kidnapers would continue, suggesting that the authorities may have made it possible for the family to circumvent the magistrate's action and pay a ransom. That suspicion was reinforced when, on Christmas...
Still following their anonymous tip, the police made a first arrest even before they began the warehouse rescue operation. Then they launched a three-city sweep in which they quickly recovered some of the ransom money and arrested 25 suspects and subsequently detained eleven, most of them members of a single family...