Kidnapping

People remain lonely because they assume everyone else is not.

Taking someone to jail for kidnapping is the ultimate eye for an eye.

You can't spell basement without semen.

Your reflection is actually a window to the past because the speed of light is not instantaneous.

And it was very interesting because last week I was reading in the German press, in the national German newspaper on the left, that if the AfD is reaching power, even if one lander, that's like a state, as you would say in the US, then violence, but by which they mean physical violence, becomes legitimate.

But political violence, that's Kidnapping, murder.

I mean, that's a system.

When violence is like to go against, that's a system.

While discussing kidnapping in Delaware, it is very unlikely we should forget to mention probably the most notorious kidnapping gang which the domestic slave trade produced.

The principal character of the gang, and the one from which it seems to have drawn its inspiration, and the one from which it took its name, was a woman, in looks more like a man than a woman, Patty Cannon by name.

well known by tradition to every delawarian and eastern shore of marylander a son-in-law of hers was hanged for the murder of a negro trader his widow then married one joe johnson who became a noted character in the business of kidnapping through the aid and instruction of his mother-in-law patty cannon johnson was convicted once and suffered the punishment of the lash and pillory the grand jury in may eighteen twenty nine found three indictments for murder against patty cannon but she died in jail may eleven of the same year white kidnappers sometimes used free colored men as tools by means of which to ensnare other free colored men and shared with them the profits of the trade indeed the free colored men seem not to have been much averse in aiding in the enslavement of their brethren they sometimes even formed kidnapping bands of their own and pursued the business without the aid of white men such a gang as this once operated near snow hill maryland it is said to have kidnapped and sent off several hundred free negroes Kidnappers devised various schemes for the accomplishment of their purposes, some of them no less humorous than infamous.

A man in Philadelphia was found to be engaged in the occupation of courting and marrying mulatto women and then selling them as slaves.

Another plan was for one or two confederates to find out the bodily marks of a suitable free colored person after which the other confederate would go before a magistrate and lay claim to the ill-fated negro describing his marks call in his accomplice as witness and so get possession of the negroes probably the most ingenious of all methods of kidnapping was that brought to light in charleston s c as related by francis hall the agents were a justice of the peace a constable and a slave-dealer a victim having been selected one of the firm applied to the justice upon a shown charge of assault or similar offence for a writ which was immediately issued and served by the constable and the negro conveyed to prison the constable now appears exaggerates the dangers of his situation explains how small is his chance of being liberated even if innocent by reason of the amount of jail fees and other legal expenses but he knows a worthy man who is interested in his behalf and will do what is necessary to procure his freedom upon no harder condition than an agreement to serve him for a certain number of years it may be supposed the negro is persuaded the worthy slave-dealer now appears on the stage the indenture of bondage is ratified in the presence of the worthy magistrate and the constable who shares the price of blood and the victim is hurried on shipboard to be seen no more from the nature of our information concerning kidnapping it is readily seen that we have but little basis for a statistical estimate of the number kidnapped it must have ranged however from a few hundred to two or three thousand annually it appears quite certain that as many were kidnapped as escaped from bondage, if not more.

It's a, it's a real first generation certificate," how d- how are you not Paul Fronczak? This is gonna be very difficult for a court to understand how does that work.

Uh, as we've discussed in prior episodes, just because something is documented doesn't make it true, and we covered that extensively during Anatomy of a Kidnapping season four.

With Lorraine Kerr.

Uh, [laughs] exactly.

Even her schoolwork focused on opening the eyes of her classmates and teachers to the pain that others endured.

In a high school paper titled Kidnapping, the First-Hand Experience, Kayla recounted the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia.

For three days, militants used gunfire and bombs to take over a school.

The siege left over 330 people dead, mostly children.

So who do you believe?

Jenny Ruff reported and wrote this episode, and I produced it.

This is the first of three episodes in our series, The Kidnapping of Kayla Mueller.

The final two episodes will be out soon.

But actually, before I even get to that.

So you may remember several weeks ago now, we did our episode on Kidnap and we had the whole granola, granola.

Oh, yeah.

Granola, granola.

No, this is Dawn.

Kidnapper.

I need to speak to your mother.

Dawn.

Could I ask who is calling? Kidnapper.

No.

Dawn.

Okay, hold on just a second, please.

Girl? That assumes gender.

Kidnapped assigns blame.

Blue imposes your perception onto the Honda.

Nine-year-old? But age is fluid.

like eating a lot I do like Salon Kitty I think Salon Kitty's underrated

I haven't seen I haven't seen either of those films she's in the awkwardly titled Jarlow AAA misuse good looking offers her services she's in that one I watched that one recently it's in Forgotten Jarlow she's really good I think the other one that was quite well known is Paolo Carlini who get this bit of dirt right so this guy he plays the father the industrialist father

yeah

He was rumoured to have had an affair with Pope Paul VI.

It's not...

It is a thing that your brain just gets used to and you accept as a convention.

It's a bit like, I've got a friend that won't watch subtitled films.

And I'm like, dude, that is not a valid reason not to watch.