{"product_id":"operation-jacknap-a-true-story-of-kidnapping-extortion-ransom-and-rescue","title":"Operation Jacknap: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom, and Rescue","description":"The incredible true story of one of America’s largest ransom cases—and the massive FBI and police manhunt to bring the radical captors to justice.\n\nThe New York Times described what happened to New York businessman Jack Teich as a “front page horror.”\n\nTwo hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him.\n\nTeich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical bandage wrapped around his head to cover his eyes. His captors demanded that his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000 (the equivalent of four million dollars in today’s currency) in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Teich ransom one of the highest in U.S. history at the time.\n\nFBI and Nassau County police detectives spent over a year before finally uncovering the meticulously planned kidnapping ploy hatched by radical mastermind Richard Warren Williams. The FBI internally dubbed the Jack Teich kidnapping operation “Jacknap.”\n\nThe real-life crime drama that followed proved stranger than fiction, involving a tense across-the-country manhunt, a trailer in California stuffed with tens of thousands of ransom dollars hidden inside, a contentious jury trial that dominated NYC headlines for months; a guilty verdict that was overturned twenty-one years later on a controversial technicality; a retrial stymied by a mysterious fire that incinerated court records; and a civil verdict ruling that the kidnapper pay Jack Teich back the ransom money, plus interest.\n\nOperation Jacknap tells the incredible true crime story that continues even now. Indeed, as of this writing, no one knows where the majority of the ransom money is located.\n\nInside, Teich also details his offer of a reward to anyone helping track down the still missing money and kidnappers.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1642935239\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1642935239.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Teich, Jack\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43366631243837,"sku":"BVV.1642935239.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1642935239-0.jpg?v=1784414102","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/operation-jacknap-a-true-story-of-kidnapping-extortion-ransom-and-rescue","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}