EP254: The Kidnapping of Sidney Reso

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of April 29, 1992, Sidney Reso did what he did almost every morning: he took the long drive down to the end of his driveway to pick up the daily newspaper. However, this morning was different: the husband and father of five never made it to work that morning. Sidney was shot in the arm, bound and gagged, and thrown into the back of a waiting van at his home in Morris Township, New Jersey. Sidney’s kidnappers quickly contacted not only Exxon but Sidney’s wife, Pat. They asked for a notorious amount of money in exchange for the safe return of Sidney: $18.5 million in $100 bills. With a series of complex ransom notes, detectives worked against the clock in an attempt to rescue Sidney.

SOURCES:
1) YouTube--"Kidnapped: The Story of Sidney Reso"
2) The Seattle Times: Mystery: Powerful, Private Man Vanishes -- No Clues In Disappearance Of Key Exxon Executive
3) Obituary for Gregory Steve Reso
4) Find a Grave: Sidney Reso
5) The New York Times: Portrait of 2 Accused of Kidnapping: Ardent, Hapless Pursuit of Affluence
6) United States of America v. Arthur Seale
7) The New York Times: Kidnapped Executive Dies After 4 Days in a Locked Wooden Box
8) TIME Magazine: Four Days in Hell
9) NJ.com: Killer involved in 1992 kidnapping and murder of Exxon executive denied compassionate release

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:34.3	Hi, this is Tanya.
0:36.5	Hi, this is Shannon. And we are Crimes and Consequences, a is Tanya. Hi, this is Shannon.
0:37.9	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:45.3	Hey, Shannon.
0:47.0	Hey, Tanya.
0:47.9	How are you?
0:49.2	I'm doing good.
0:50.9	If I was doing bad, does anybody really care?
0:54.4	It's a bear shit in the woods kind of question, I guess. A little bit, a little bit. But I do
1:00.8	get it. Why bother complaining? Why bother? And really, it just, it wastes time. It's that energy.
1:07.6	I had just, for an example, I told Brooke the other day, my daughter, I said,
1:11.8	you know what, Brooke, when I was going through stuff as we do, and I would think about, oh,
1:16.7	just rage and things that I hated and justice that I needed to see and passed off it.
1:22.7	She's going through some stuff of heartbreak and betrayal. And then I would think of you. And then that would
1:29.0	make me happy. Like it would bring me out of that hate and rage. And then I realized, wow,
1:34.2	I think I'm going to use my, anytime I start to get in a way that I can feel like, oh, I'll think
1:39.6	of Brooke. Because all that energy can go to her. And I'm a big believer in sending good and bad energy.
1:45.6	So I want to send all this, she lifts my spirit.
1:48.2	So to give her an example.
1:50.3	Oh, that's nice.
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