July 27, 1972, was just another Thursday afternoon in the garden for 49-year old Virginia Piper. That all changed in the blink of an eye. Two armed, masked men show up at her sprawling estate in Orono not far from Lake Minnetonka. They threw a hood over her head, stashed her in the back seat of a car and took off. It sets in motion a kidnapping-for-ransom crime that to this day is officially unsolved and nearly a million dollars remains unaccounted for. Why so much attention? There are many reasons. Piper was the beautiful wife of a millionaire stock broker who ran a prominent Minneapolis brokerage, Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood. The case is being written about in a new book. Well look back at the case and why its grabbing attention again now. On First News.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:47:23 +0000
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