It's a crime we rarely hear about today, but kidnapping famously wealthy Americans for ransom was an epidemic between 1925 and 1934.
According to the March 3, 1932, edition of the New York Times, 'Abduction for ransom has become a big money crime taking its place beside the liquor, vice and drug trafficking among the prominent rackets of the country.'
Among the most notable cases were the abduction of 29-year-old Madge Oberholtzer, who was taken by DC Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, and was raped and murdered before the authorities could find her.
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