Introducing - The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Hosted and narrated by John Stamos, The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra is a complicated, nuanced story of one imperfect man trying to redeem himself by pulling off the perfect crime. Did you ever feel like everything’s broken, and it’s your job to fix it? That’s how Barry Keenan was feeling back in 1963. He was broke, unemployed, hooked on booze and pills, and his family was falling apart. Barry needed a miracle. And against all odds, he got one. One day the voice of God came over the radio in Barry’s car and told him there was a simple solution to all his problems: all he had to do was kidnap Frank Sinatra, Jr. For the first time ever, Barry Keenan shares his version of the bizarre story in his own words, from beginning to end. This is just a preview of The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra, but you can listen to full episodes at wondery.fm/MindsofMadnessScheme

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I want to tell you about a new podcast hosted by John Stamos, the grand scheme
0:06.3	Snatching Sinatra. Back in 1963 Barry Keenan was broke, alone, and desperate to save his family
0:13.7	from personal and financial ruin. In a final Hail Mary attempt to set things right,
0:19.2	Barry rolled the dice on an elaborate scheme so bizarre. It's hard to believe it actually happened.
0:25.1	He kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr. host John Stamos sat down with the kidnapper who tells us the
0:31.9	complete story for the very first time. Every detail, every plot twist, every goofy character he
0:38.5	condolonged the way. You're about to hear preview of the grand scheme Snatching Sinatra while you're
0:44.4	listening. Follow the grand scheme on Apple podcasts, Amazon music, or binge all the episodes by
0:50.9	subscribing to Wondery Plus, an Apple podcast, or the Wondery app. It had been a few hours since
0:57.7	their slow-speed chase out of Lake Tahoe. Barry, Joe, and Frank Sinatra Jr. had made it across
1:02.9	the state line, and they were driving through blinding snow. The car was skidding all over the road
1:07.6	as they tried to navigate these narrow mountain passes. To calm his nerves, Barry turned on the radio.
1:12.5	Samatra kidnapping. Every radio station where he came kept announcing the kidnapping.
1:21.9	And then they were playing Frank Sinatra's socks, and Jr. came up with a comment like,
1:27.4	isn't that typical of the media? They're now trying to take advantage of this terrible mistake
1:33.5	that you guys made and make it into a show business. And then just as they're coming up on the lights
1:44.6	of this tiny little mountain town, they just started playing strangers on the night.
1:50.8	Now look sure it was a coincidence, but this scene is so perfect you couldn't write it. Think about
1:56.2	it, a troubled and mentally unstable drunk, strung out on his misguided fantasy of redemption on the run
2:02.0	after committing a felony albeit one he believes to be divinely ordained. His reluctant and slightly
2:07.7	dimwitted accomplice the former James Dean of Uni High, battered bruised, frozen half the death
2:12.4	in the passenger seat but loyal to the last. And in the back seat, the son of Hollywood royalty,
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