Reel

Kidnapped Boy

Kidnapped Boy
Clip: 425812_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1759
Original Film: 040-030-02
HD: N/A
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Timecode: 00:38:33 - 00:39:18

11-year old Kenneth Young of Beverly Hills, after four days as a kidnapper's prisoner, is returned home safe. His financier father paid a quarter-million dollars ransom. The boy was left bound and blindfolded in a parked car, from which he escaped and phoned his dad. The Beverly Hills home of financier Herbert Young. Patio terrace through which kidnapper abducted Kenneth Young. Crude ladder leaning against wall. Door with blackened smudge marks on handle (apparently dusted for fingerprints by local authorities). MCU Sticker in window: "Bel-Air Patrol Burglar Alarm." Financier Herbert Young talking with reporters. Slew of press reporters and photographers walking on premises driveway, away from cam. Kenneth Young standing in bedroom window of Young homestead, his head shaven by the kidnappers. Press milling about front lawn.