Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
What motives were behind the crime? Because the kidnapers took a trinket or item of clothing from each captive, some officials felt that they were preparing to make a ransom demand. In fact, the Oakland Tribune quoted police sources as saying they had discovered an outline of the kidnaping and a ransom note demanding $5 million in the cottage occupied by Frederick Woods...
...Chowchilla for 26 years and had hauled many of the parents of the missing children, could be involved. Police also discarded the notion that a lone psychopath could control 27 captives. There was nothing to indicate that somebody bearing a grudge was responsible. Finally, police concluded that no ransom demand was likely to be received. In Chowchilla, a town of 4,550 in the midst of citrus orchards, dairy farms and fields of grain and cotton, the average income is $9,000 and few can be considered wealthy. That left only one reasonable theory: a terrorist organization had seized...
...always fluent, and the actual chorus line, under Margo Sappington's supple control, both creates and burlesques a raft of dance routines. Mingling sordid facts with lovely tunes, Pal Joey is a modern Beggar 's Opera richly adorned in the apparel of a prince's ransom...
...back the Sutton Place gardening staff and had a pay telephone installed for his visitors' use. Said Getty: "My friends will understand, and, as for the spongers, well, I just don't care." Three years ago, when Italian gangsters kidnaped his grandson, Getty refused to pay ransom; the kidnapers...