Extra December 8, 1963 · Lake Tahoe
Snatching Sinatra by Barry Keenan
In 1963, a 23-year-old stockbroker from Los Angeles kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr. and held him for a $240,000 ransom. This is his own account of how it happened, and why.
Exhibit A
- Date
- Dec. 8, 1963
- Scene
- Harrah's, Lake Tahoe
- Ransom
- $240,000
- Confession
- 256 pages
The story
Barry Keenan was the youngest member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange. Then a car accident left him hooked on pills and broke, and he became convinced that God had given him a plan: kidnap Frank Sinatra's son, hurt no one, and pay every dollar back.
For decades he kept quiet about what really happened. Now, with Sinatra and his associates gone, he tells it straight: a story of true crime, mental illness and gangster glamour.
Read the whole confession →The full story of the kidnapping →
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The ransom collection
Mugs, totes and puzzles printed with the book's ransom-note cover art.
