[1][2] The kidnapper's house was quickly identified by police, and four suspects were arrested, with most of the ransom money been retrieved.
On the morning of 30 March 1966, Etty Glazer dropped her two daughters, Michelle (7) and Ella (5) at the Sandown Public School.
Mrs Glazer was manually blindfolded for the short journey to the kidnappers' house, and only once the vehicle was closed inside the garage was she allowed to see.
The following day, Sergeant Jannie Nel from the South African Crime Bureau was taken to speak to Mrs Glazer.
Sergeant Nel was able to coax useful information from her, and eventually got her to draw a rough outline of the house, which was later described as "little more than an elaborate squiggle".
The floor plan was duplicated and given to 500 select policemen from Pretoria, with instruction to pose as telephone personnel and inspect the 6,000 houses with in the search area.
The owner, Mr Leonard Landou Levy was positively identified by Mrs Glazer as one of the kidnappers.
Leonard denied his involvement, but did admit that his brother, Ephraim, and friend, Stanley Ivan Jawitz, asked to lend them his house for seven days.
While being questioned by police in an apartment block in Berea, Johannesburg, Stanley Jawitz committed suicide by jumping from the top.
On 1 June 1966, the trial of Ephraim, Leonard, and Kenneth Levy began at the Rand Supreme Court in front of Justice Hiemstra.
He claimed that he was not involved: "I was recovering from a motor-car accident at the time, I had sustained serious head injuries and had suffered brain haemorrhage...I did not even know my own name...how on earth could I have known that I was being drawn into a kidnapping?"
John Vorster, the Minister of Justice, issued a special statement: "The full story of the investigation reads like a work of fiction.