Tacoma – George H. Weyerhaeuser (age 9) is kidnapped on May 24, 1935

Via: HistoryLink.org

On May 24, 1935, George H. Weyerhaeuser (b. 1926), age 9, is kidnapped off the street in Tacoma, Washington, in broad daylight.

His captors mail a note to the Weyerhaeuser family demanding $200,000 for the boy’s safe return.  After George’s father, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., pays the ransom, the boy is released in rural Issaquah on June 1, 1935, unleashing “the greatest manhunt in the history of the Northwest.”  The kidnapping is one of the most sensational crimes in Washington state history.

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The article goes on to tell a fascinating tale about the ransom payment, and the return of the kid; which you can read, HERE:

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=7724

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You can read about the arrest and trial, HERE:

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=7750

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my thoughts:

I think it would be a stretch to call it ‘CSI-Tacoma’; but hey, the FBI did a terrific job.

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