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41: The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) An Alcatraz Island kidnapper is hired by the child he kidnapped 30 years later. Listen to Reb snatch the (kinda heartwarming but mostly traumatizing?) details of Waley v. United States (9th Cir. 1949). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the rebuttal podcast where we break down case law

0:34.6

calamity and of course chaos in the legal field. I am once again your

0:39.0

host, Reb Maisel, and today's intro is really not going to be an intro at all. We are getting

0:45.6

right into it. Let's go. At 1145 a.m. on May 25, 1935, an eight-year-old George Warehouser left Tacoma's Lowell Grammar School to walk home.

1:01.1

And in just a few minutes, he was kidnapped, snatched by three people who wanted a ransom from his extremely wealthy family.

1:12.5

UC George was one of the heirs to the Warehouser Timber Dynasty.

1:18.8

This dynasty started around 1900 when a German-American immigrant, Frederick Warehouser,

1:26.0

started buying up some land, some forest land, and started

1:30.5

this timber mill company. One of the most famous prisoners at Alcatraz was a man by the name

1:37.8

of Harmon Whaley. He served one of the longest consecutive terms on Alcatraz Island,

1:43.7

which was 22 years.

1:46.6

Seven of those years he spent in solitary confinement.

1:50.7

Harmon Whaley was famous because he was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the kidnapping

1:57.0

of 8-year-old George Warehouser, the little heir to the massive Warehouser Company dynasty,

2:04.7

a huge timber company which operated in the Pacific Northwest and had been founded by a German

2:10.7

American immigrant in 1900. That German-American immigrant, Frederick Warehouser, was

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