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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EP81: Stalked to Death

EP81: Stalked to Death

Cindy James was enjoying her newly single life, after divorcing her husband in early 1982. However, her joy was short-lived, when only seven months after her separation, Cindy became a victim of a sta...

26 Apr 202148min

EP80: The Big Ten Campus Killer

EP80: The Big Ten Campus Killer

19-year-old Michigan State University student Martha Young disappeared on New Year's Eve in 1976. Ten months later, her clothes were found meticulously laid out in a field, as if she had vaporized in...

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EP79: Chatroom Confessions of Murder

EP79: Chatroom Confessions of Murder

Imagine you are a member of an internet support group for problem drinkers. One day as you are perusing through the chatroom discussions, you stumble upon a disturbing post from a regular named Larry...

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EP78: Dead Inside

EP78: Dead Inside

Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence were two young men who met in a mental institute for the criminally insane. They quickly formed a friendship, bonding over the anger and rage brewing inside the...

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EP77: Teenage Spy Games

EP77: Teenage Spy Games

On June 29, 2003, a 14-year-old boy was fighting for his life, laying in a pool of his own blood in an alley in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. He had been stabbed by a contracted assassin that wa...

29 Mar 202144min

EP76: Maury Travis's Snuff Tapes

EP76: Maury Travis's Snuff Tapes

Maury Travis was a very, very disturbed man. Since he was 14-years-old he fantasized about murder. As an adult, he turned his basement into a torture chamber where he killed at least 17 women, all the...

22 Mar 202146min

EP75: The Kansas City Butcher

EP75: The Kansas City Butcher

Warning: This episode is extremely gruesome.From 1984 to 1988 there was a serial killer loose in the streets of Kansas City. The victims were mostly male sex workers, street kids, and drug addicts a...

15 Mar 202149min

EP74: The Monster of Belgium

EP74: The Monster of Belgium

Marc Dutroux is a monster who created a secret prison in his basement, complete with a ventilation system, to hold his victims in. Marc, along with his wife Michele, was arrested in 1989 for the abdu...

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