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S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom - Publication Date |
- Dec 21, 2020
- Episode Duration |
- 00:40:12
After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men who'd offered him candy and fireworks, police at first told his father to wait it out. Surely the men had no bad intentions. Then came the first ransom letter. And another. And another. In 1874, the Charley Ross case marked the first time in American history that a child had been stolen for money. The case terrified parents, made kidnapping a crime and served as macabre inspiration for future criminals.
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