Apologies for the audio quality in this episode, the incorrect microphone was selected during recording.
On a May afternoon in Tacoma, WA in 1935, nine year old George Weyerhaeuser was snatched off the street in broad daylight - that night, his family received a ransom letter asking for the gigantic sum of $200,000 (~4 million dollars today!) in exchange for the safe return of their son. Only months after the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, the country was absolutely captivated with another high-profile kidnapping, and J. Edgar Hoover himself received multiple updates per day on George's case. This is the survival story of George Weyerhaeuser.
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