EP286: The Cost of an Heir

EP286: The Cost of an Heir

On a quiet February morning in 1960, one of America’s most powerful brewing dynasties collided with every parent’s worst nightmare. Adolph Coors III—heir to a beer empire, devoted father, and fixture of Colorado’s elite—vanished on his way to work, leaving behind an abandoned car, a single shoe, and a trail of unanswered questions. What followed was a tense, high-stakes drama that gripped the nation: cryptic demands, frantic negotiations, and a family forced to make impossible decisions under the glare of public attention. This is the story of a disappearance that exposed the vulnerabilities of immense wealth—and set off a chain of events no one could control.

SOURCES:
1) A Look Back on the Coors Kidnapping
2) Coors Kidnapping Ransom Note
3) On This Day in History: Coors brewery heir kidnapped
4) Adolph Coors III
5) Joseph Corbett v. The People of the State of Colorado 6) Archivegrid: Adolph Coors III investigation collection

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EP101: Easy Targets - Serial Killer Timothy Krajcir

EP101: Easy Targets - Serial Killer Timothy Krajcir

For over 30 years the murders of mother and daughter, Mary and Brenda Parsh remained unsolved, along with the murders of seven other women in Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. It wasn't until advance...

13 Sep 202156min

EP100:  The Murder of Victoria Stafford

EP100: The Murder of Victoria Stafford

Victoria “Tori” Stafford was a happy 8-year old, who on April 8, 2009, was starting at a new elementary school in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. She and her older brother, 10-year-old Daryn, were suppose...

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EP99: The Mask of Sanity

EP99: The Mask of Sanity

Susie Jaeger's family woke up in the middle of the night to find a hole in their tent and Susie missing. Four years earlier in the same camping spot, a Boy Scout was murdered while sleeping in his te...

30 Aug 202144min

EP98: It Was the Other Larry

EP98: It Was the Other Larry

In 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent was hitchhiking from Northern California to Los Angeles to visit her grandpa. At Hitchhiker’s Corner on the campus of Berkley, the naive teen accepted a ride from a s...

23 Aug 202150min

EP97: Murder in the High Desert

EP97: Murder in the High Desert

On August 10, 1993, Pamela and Bill Richards lived in an RV on five acres of property in the Mojave Desert where they were constructing their dream home. Bill pulled up to the camper just before midn...

16 Aug 202141min

EP96: Dual Sovereignty

EP96: Dual Sovereignty

In 1985, Katie Eastburn and her two young daughters, Kara and Erin, were savagely murdered in their Fayetteville, North Carolina home. An acquaintance named Tim Hennis was tried and convicted of the s...

9 Aug 202151min

EP95:  The House of Horrors

EP95: The House of Horrors

For almost two years Ray's Sausage Company was blamed for the awful stench that permeated the Imperial Avenue neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. But after a woman showed up at the hospital with a terrif...

2 Aug 20211h

EP94: Inside the Hollow Tree

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