Kidnapping History

Amelia Earhart once noted, "In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble." And so it would be with America's other famous aviator. Charles Lindbergh had spent the first 30 years of his life escaping multiple plane crashes, becoming a hero across the world, and starting a family, but his luck ran out in an awful way in March of 1932.

For most of the 20th century, the name Hearst was most closely associated with one of America's most famous (and infamous) newspaper magnates, William Garrison Hearst, whose life was the inspiration for Citizen Kane. But in the 1970s, his granddaughter Patricia made headlines thanks to a series of events that would wind up being one of the most bizarre chapters of the 20th century.

The Great Depression was a time of desperation in America - parents struggled to feed their children and unemployment was at a record high. Adding to the lawlessness of the decade, thugs with guns and corrupt law-enforcement officers ran rampant. But amidst this panic, there was one surefire way to make money, one used by criminals and resourceful civilians alike: kidnapping. The Kidnap Years is a thoughtfully reported pause-resister that chronicles the sweep of abductions that afflicted all corners of the country as desperate people were pushed to do the unthinkable.

Una apasionante historia donde se pretende describir la difícil vida en esclavitud en medio de la selva. Trabajando la tierra bajo el ardiente sol, sin zapatos, calcinando prácticamente pies y manos al roce de la terrible temperatura de la tierra, sufriendo pobreza extrema y los maltratos y prepotencia de los capataces, haciendo patente la lucha de quienes anteponen el amor y la amistad a su propio bienestar y felicidad. Dejando a su paso una gran enseñanza de superación y solidaridad.

Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.

Todo delito deja algunas manchas o grietas sin saberlo que pueden conducir a la detección final, hoy o mañana. Un plan criminal infalible fue elaborado a lo largo del tiempo, a la perfección, y con una consideración muy minuciosa. El plan estaba a punto de tener éxito, pero fracasó de repente. Esta historia real presenta un crimen de este tipo, planificado de antemano, que finalmente fracasó. Continúa leyendo para descubrirlo.