The Kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Paranormal, Dark History, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the twentieth century, few names loomed as large in the business and financial worlds as John Paul Getty. Once the richest man in the world, Getty made his fortune in the oil industry and an avid art collector, with a massive collection that served as a basis for the Getty Museum, the wealthiest museum in the world.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos. Right now I'm recording because Mikey won't let me watch weapons. And I'm Ash.
0:04.4	And I'm Elena.
0:05.7	Are we going to use that? Yeah. All right. And this is more fun.
0:22.7	Here's the thing. I'm super excited to record and tell you a story, but I also am apparently very late to the game, but I want to see weapons.
0:29.3	I also want to see it, so. Oh, you're late to the game, too. I'm late as well. So, but you know what?
0:35.2	We do, I do have a very interesting story for you today.
0:38.1	Do you?
0:39.4	And we'll get into it in a minute. It's spooky season and we usually, you know, we say this all the time. We usually do spooky stuff. We do hauntings. We do all that kind of stuff. But we wanted to make sure we give you some true crime as well. True crap. Because it's important. You know, it's part of our, it's part of our schick.
0:54.6	It's part of our lore.
0:56.1	In this, this after,
0:57.9	making, as well. True crap. Because it's important. You know, it's part of our, it's part of our schick.
0:54.6	It's part of our lore.
0:56.1	In this, this actually, this actually, this story is, it's true crime very much.
1:07.2	But it is fascinating.
1:11.3	I watched a movie. I don't know how to describe it.
1:13.0	I need to look up the movie because I saw this.
1:15.0	I want to say I saw this on like Christmas Day.
1:17.5	Yeah, because I'm going to be talking about the kidnapping of Jay Paul Getty, the third.
1:21.3	Jay Paul.
1:22.5	Jean-Paul Getty.
1:24.6	It is wild.
1:28.2	Like, it's just a wild story.
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