S2 Ep20: Arthur Fried and the 'Kidnap Years'

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Great Depression sparked a desperation in people that led to an epidemic of kidnappings nationwide, including the 1937 abduction of Arthur Fried, a married father of one whose father owned a sand-and-gravel company. As crime writer Sarah Weinman helps explain, Fried's unusual case ultimately led to the state of New York executing two men for the first time on charges other than first-degree murder.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:48.2	built by Vorboss for London. Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label
1:01.9	crime of the century, but the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered
1:09.7	today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case
1:19.4	that's maybe less known today, but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries.
1:40.5	Arthur Friede should have been right behind his wife, her brother, and her brother's wife,
1:45.6	those three were in one car while Arthur was in his own, having retrieved it from his mom's house
1:50.8	after a trip to the movies. But after the trio arrived at Arthur's apartment, he didn't show.
1:56.7	So they waited and waited until finally at 1.30 in the morning, they alerted police that something
2:03.2	must have happened to Arthur. Seriously, they said he was right behind us. He was following us to
2:09.3	his place. A couple of hours later, Arthur's nerve-wracked wife got a phone call. She didn't recognize
2:16.0	the man's voice, but he assured her he was a friend of Arthur's and don't worry. Arthur just
2:21.2	had a bit too much to drink and decided to sleep it off. He'll be home in the morning. This didn't
2:26.7	do much to calm his wife, because Arthur didn't drink period. She had reason to worry. Arthur was
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