54 Hours With a Price on His Head : Barry Keenan, Joe Amsler & Johnny Irwin
This Is Monsters
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Episode 06 : Barry Keenan, Joe Amsler & Johnny Irwin
Frank Sinatra Jr. was following in his fathers footsteps and singing at a casino in 1963. That was when three men decided to kidnap him for 54 hours until his father paid the ransom.
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| 0:38.6 | to find answers. Footprints. Audio. Field data. No hype. No hoaxes. Just investigation. |
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| 0:59.3 | My entire life, I've been fascinated by mysteries. Mostly true crime, but in general, |
| 1:05.5 | stories that have no ending. In 2015, armed with nothing more than a years of experience working in libraries and a $10 microphone, I launched my podcast, Unresolved. |
| 1:16.2 | Join me, Michael Whelan, as I dive deep into some of the most interesting, unique, horrifying, tragic, and oftentimes obscure rabbit holes, some of which you've heard of, many of which you probably haven't. |
| 1:28.6 | Listen or subscribe to Unresolved on Apple Music, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | On December 8, 1963, 19-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. was following in his father's footsteps |
| 1:41.9 | and preparing to sing on stage at a casino. |
| 1:45.4 | The children of legendary singer Frank Sinatra would all end up in show business, and that wasn't |
| 1:50.3 | surprising. Being the namesake of a legend meant Frank Jr. would spend most of his time in clubs and |
| 1:56.5 | studios surrounded by other industry greats. It also meant that desperate criminals would see him as a possible payday. |
| 2:04.3 | Before he even had the chance to perform that day, Frank Jr. was taken from his hotel room and held for 54 hours while his captors demanded money for his release. |
| 2:14.9 | This is Monsters. |
| 2:48.3 | Music his release. This is Monsters. 1963 was another successful year for the sonatra family not only had the patriarch frank released two hit albums in the form of the concert Sinatra and |
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