• Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn and Their Depression-Era Kidnappings

  • Oct 15 2024
  • Length: 28 mins
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Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn and Their Depression-Era Kidnappings

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  • When Verne Sankey told his wife he and his gang were planning a kidnapping, he said, if “I don’t come back, don't identify my body.” Verne and his accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, were a pair of Depression-era outlaws whose successful high-profile kidnappings of Haskell Bohn, heir to Bohn Refrigeration, and millionaire Charles Boettcher II turned them into two of the most wanted criminals in the United States – in fact, their success inspired other gangsters to try kidnapping as a lucrative gig, and prompted FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to name Verne America's very first 'Public Enemy'.

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