Episode 6: The Kidnapping of Sidney Reso

A high-profile executive vanishes from his driveway one morning without a trace.  Kidnappers requesting millions in ransom.  300 investigators following a literal paper trail of instructions for the victim’s safe return..  Would law enforcement find him in time?

Hosted, researched and written by Dawn Gandhi

Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

Sources

The Courier News June 1992

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ransom-bad-exxon-oil-executive-sidney-reso-killed-kidnap-arthur-irene-seale-article-1.448931

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/20/1279/523232/

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/01/nyregion/twisted-tale-of-a-kidnapping-and-of-dreams-gone-wrong.html

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/exxon-executive-is-murdered

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9173861/john-paul-getty-kidnapping/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping

https://www.nj.com/crime/2020/08/feds-calls-exxon-killer-seeking-release-from-prison-a-self-aggrandizing-sociopath-who-should-never-be-free.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-15-mn-2268-story.html

https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/ec9e4092-cbf6-4fb7-b301-15f4ae161d01

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/14/archives/exxon-subsidiary-pays-142million-argentine-ransom-special-to-the.html#:~:text=BUENOS%20AIRES%2C%20March%2013%20%E2%80%94The,more%20than%20three%20months%20ago.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-exxon-valdez-captains-conviction-is-overturned

Discovery ID Unusual Suspects