I don't think that anyone has yet answered Mark's original
question about Lionel White's The Snatchers.
The crime that was based on White's novel was the kidnapping
of the then 4-years old Eric Peugeot, the grandson of the
head of the Peugeot car manufacturing business. The
kidnappers very closely followed the novel, and young Eric
was released unharmed after a ransom of around 300,000 French
Francs was paid (the kidnappers were going to ask for 30,000
Francs, but added an extra 0 to the ransom note when they saw
how large old man Peugeot's house was!).
Unfortunately the two crooks were not used to having so much
cash and splashed it around on cars, boats and good times and
eventually gave themselves away.
Eric Peugeot is now himself the head of Peugeot and refuses
to be interviewed regarding the case.
If you put Peugeot kidnapping in a search engine, I'm sure
that more info can be turned up.
Cheers, Paul
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 10 Aug 2002 EDT