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Leonardo Santamaria A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong
In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
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RHS/AP Baffling Plans to Foil Bizarre Terrorists
An excerpt from The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
