Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper

Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper

On a July afternoon in 1972, two masked men waving guns abducted forty-nine-year-old Virginia Piper from the garden of her lakeside home in Orono, Minnesota. After her husband, a prominent investment banker, paid a $1 million ransom, an anonymous caller directed the FBI to a thickly wooded section of a northern Minnesota state park. There, two days after her nightmare began, Ginny Piperâ€“â€“chained to a tree, filthy and exhausted, but physically unharmedâ€“â€“awaited her rescuers.

The intensely private couple lived through a media firestorm. Both Bobby and Ginny Piper herselfâ€”naturally reserved and surprisingly composed in the aftermath of her ordealâ€”were subject to FBI scrutiny in the largest kidnap-for-ransom case in bureau annals. When two career criminals were finally indicted five years after the abduction, the Pipers again took center stage in two long trials before a jury's verdict made headlines across the nation.

Drawing on closely held government documents and exclusive interviews with family members, investigators, suspects, lawyers, and others intimately connected to the case, William Swanson provides the first comprehensive account of the sensational Piper kidnapping and its long, eventful aftermathâ€“â€“and makes a case for the most plausible explanation for what really happened on that July afternoon.
Country USA
Brand Borealis Books
Manufacturer Borealis Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780873519472
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Borealis Books
Manufacturer	Borealis Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780873519472
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper

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