Episode 6: The Kidnapping of Sidney Reso

A high-profile Exxon 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?

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?


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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



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