A Friday in May 1935, 8-year-old George Wareheuser On her way home from school in Tacoma, Wash., a stranger grabbed her, tied her to a car and covered her with a blanket. The kidnapping of the great-grandson of the founder of a giant forestry company made international headlines.
For a week, police and federal agents searched for young George while his family collected ransom payments. At one point, he was tied at the bottom of an underground pit. In second place, he rode across the state in a car trunk. “I think I actually managed to sleep along the way,” he later said. an oral history,