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On a July afternoon in 1972, two masked men waving guns abducted forty-nine-year-old Virginia Piper from the garden of her lakeside home in Orono, Minnesota. After her husband, a prominent investment banker, paid a $1 million ransom, an anonymous caller directed the FBI to a thickly wooded section of a northern Minnesota state park. There, two days after her nightmare began, Ginny Piperââchained to a tree, filthy and exhausted, but physically unharmedââawaited her rescuers.The intensely private couple lived through a media firestorm. Both Bobby and Ginny Piper herselfânaturally reserved and surprisingly composed in the aftermath of her ordealâwere subject to FBI scrutiny in the largest kidnap-for-ransom case in bureau annals. When two career criminals were finally indicted five years after the abduction, the Pipers again took center stage in two long trials before a jury's verdict made headlines across the nation.Drawing on closely held government documents and exclusive interviews with family members, investigators, suspects, lawyers, and others intimately connected to the case, William Swanson provides the first comprehensive account of the sensational Piper kidnapping and its long, eventful aftermathââand makes a case for the most plausible explanation for what really happened on that July afternoon.
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9780873519472 | Borealis Books, October 15, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: On a July afternoon in 1972, two masked men waving guns abducted forty-nine-year-old Virginia Piper from the garden of her lakeside home in Orono, Minnesota.
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9780873519939 | Minnesota Historical Society Pr, August 1, 2015, cover price $16.95
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9780873518703 | Borealis Books, September 15, 2012, cover price $24.95
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9780873516273 | 1 edition (Borealis Books, October 15, 2008), cover price $29.95
Product Description: At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St. Paul neighborhood of Highland Park, Mrs. Fritz Pearson glanced out her window and saw something almost unimaginable: slumped on the front steps of the home across the street was a woman, partially clothed in a blue bathrobe and bloodied beyond recognition...read more
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9780873515603 | Borealis Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $19.95
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9780873515870 | Borealis Books, February 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St.
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9780155053731 | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 1999, cover price $56.95 | also contains Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
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9780887391125 | Creative Arts Book Co, July 1, 1997, cover price $14.50
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9780897812924 | Windsor Pubns, December 1, 1989, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Book by Swanson, William
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9780451627339 | Mentor Books, September 1, 1989, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Gathers stories by John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Paul Theroux, T.
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