Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America’s First Kidnapping for Ransom

On this Friday Follow-Up, we update with information brought to us by two descendants of an important latter-day figure in the case.  After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men who'd offered him candy and fireworks, police at first told his father to wait it out. Surely the men had no bad intentions. Then came the first ransom letter. And another. And another. In 1874, the Charley Ross case marked the first time in American history that a child had been stolen for money.

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