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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History

OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, History, News

4.02.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him.

Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical bandage wrapped around his head to cover his eyes. His captors demanded that his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000 (the equivalent of four million dollars in today’s currency) in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Teich ransom one of the highest in U.S. history at the time.

FBI and Nassau County police detectives spent over a year before finally uncovering the meticulously planned kidnapping ploy hatched by radical mastermind Richard Warren Williams. The FBI internally dubbed the Jack Teich kidnapping operation “Jacknap.”

The real-life crime drama that followed proved stranger than fiction, involving a tense across-the-country manhunt, a trailer in California stuffed with tens of thousands of ransom dollars hidden inside, a contentious jury trial that dominated NYC headlines for months; a guilty verdict that was overturned twenty-one years later on a controversial technicality; a retrial stymied by a mysterious fire that incinerated court records; and a civil verdict ruling that the kidnapper pay Jack Teich back the ransom money, plus interest.

Operation Jacknap tells the incredible true crime story that continues even now. Indeed, as of this writing, no one knows where the majority of the ransom money is located.

Inside, Teich also details his offer of a reward to anyone helping track down the still missing money and kidnappers. OPERATION JACKNAP: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom, and Rescue-Jack Teich Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History   https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com

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0:00.0

Bloodthroat Veya.

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History,

0:16.2

and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Domer, the Night Stocker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author, talking

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about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History.

0:31.0

True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

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Good evening.

0:47.1

200 FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt

0:53.9

for his kidnappers and rescue him.

0:56.9

Tashley handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical

1:00.9

bandage wrapped around his head to cover his eyes.

1:04.2

His captors demanded his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000, the equivalent of $4

1:09.9

million in today's currency in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Tash ransom

1:15.9

one of the highest in US history at that time.

1:19.2

FBI and Nassau County police detective spent over a year before finally uncovering the

1:23.7

meticulously planned kidnapping ploy hatched by radical mastermind Richard Warren Williams.

1:30.8

The FBI internally dubbed the Jack Tash kidnapping operation Jacknap.

1:37.5

The real-life crime drama that followed proved stranger than fiction involving a tense

1:41.7

across the country, manhunt, a trailer in California stuffed with tens of thousands of

1:46.3

ransom dollars hidden inside, a contentious jury trial that dominated New York City headlines

1:51.8

for months, a guilty verdict that was overturned 21 years later on a controversial technicality,

1:58.2

a retrial stymied by a mysterious fire that incinerated court records, and a civil verdict

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