This event was very personal to me, as the kidnapping victim and her husband were good friends with my wife and me. In the years before she was kidnapped and murdered, we spent time and often vacationed together.
My friend was the branch manager for a bank while his wife was a full-time mother. They had recently purchased a new home, and their future was promising until that fateful summer day when everything was turned upside down with a ransom call to the bank where my friend worked. As I indicated, the story ended very, very badly. Had it not been for a few very astute people “thinking bigger” and looking beyond the headlines and media narratives, it could have ended even worse.
The suspects were ultimately caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned. They were a husband and wife kidnapping team who lived near my friends. T ...