Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understandable question. An estimated 25,000 to 100,000 child-snatching cases occur every year, and so the parent who observes court orders risks ending up the loser. In most states, kidnaping of children by one of their parents is not treated as a crime. Parents, even those denied custody in divorce arrangements, are exempted from the federal kidnap law. Lacking jurisdiction, the FBI almost never helps locate or return abducted offspring, even when state lines are crossed. Maybe, says Mrs. Downer, "I should tell them I've had three cars stolen, and their names are Joslyn, Heather...
...Hungarian security officials. Czech Historian Karel Kaplan, who read the interrogation records 20 years later, told Weinstein that the Fields named Hiss as a Communist underground agent during the 1930s. Indeed, writes Weinstein, "Herta Field, when seized in Prague, initially believed that American intelligence agents had come to kidnap her and bring her back to give evidence against Hiss...
...Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was the boyish-looking scion of a Belgian family that built the Paris subway system at the turn of the century, and now, with Empain as overseer, controls a French conglomerate comprising 150 companies with 130,000 employees and annual sales of $4.7 billion. The kidnap vehicles and the Peugeot were found abandoned. Was Empain the victim, in the current European terminology, of a kidnap à 1'italienne, engineered by professional criminals purely for ransom, or of a kidnap à l'allemande, pulled off by terrorists trying to force the release of jailed compatriots...
Cranks purporting to represent various groups claimed responsibility. But it was soon clear that the kidnap was à 1'italienne. Along with a ransom demand reported to be $20 million, the kidnapers sent the baron's family a letter written by him and his identification card, plus further proof that they held him: a bit of flesh from a fingertip...
Finally Patri himself abandoned her, moving in with another woman. But, Mrs. Patri claims, he threatened to kidnap their two daughters or kill her, so she ordered a 12-gauge shotgun last February from a local store. A month later, when Patri arrived to take the girls on a day's outing, only Jennifer was waiting-with the loaded shotgun near by. "I was anticipating trouble," she admits. During an argument, she shot him in the back and head, buried his body in an adjacent smokehouse and later set her house on fire...