George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping
He walked to the nearby Annie Wright Seminary to meet his sister Ann, where the family's chauffeur generally met the children to drive them home for lunch.
That evening, a special delivery letter arrived at the Weyerhaeuser home, demanding $200,000 ($4 million equivalent 2021) in unmarked twenty, ten, and five-dollar bills in exchange for George, whose signature was on the back of the envelope.
A letter received May 29 instructed Weyerhaeuser's father to register at the Ambassador Hotel in Seattle, Washington, and await further contact.
At 9:45 that night, a man with a European accent telephoned, instructing Weyerhaeuser to go to an address where he would find a note in a tin can.
There he found a note telling him to leave his car and walk back toward Seattle; if the money was in order, George would be released within 30 hours.
He was then blindfolded and carried ten or twelve steps, where he said the man must have waded across a stream because he heard rushing water.
On the other side of the stream, he was placed on the ground and led by the hand over the countryside for about one-half or three-quarters of a mile (0.80 or 1.21 km).
They arrived at a point by a large log, and the man who was leading Weyerhaeuser put him into a hole which had been dug in the ground.
[citation needed] After chaining the boy's right wrist and leg, his two captors placed a board over the hole, completely covering it.
Investigators later determined that next, on May 26, the two men, accompanied by a woman, put Weyerhaeuser in the trunk of a Ford automobile and drove through Washington into Idaho.
Immediately after the kidnappers received the money, these lists were sent to all of the Bureau's field offices for distribution to commercial enterprises, including banks, hotels and railway companies.
On June 2, 1935, a $20 ransom bill was tendered in payment of a railway ticket from Huntington, Oregon, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
As a result, on June 8, a police detective stationed at a Woolworth store was notified by a cashier that a woman had presented one of the ransom bills.
The ashes were sent to the FBI Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where it was determined that a sufficient number of the bills remained to positively identify them.
After further questioning at the field office, Waley said that he bought a Ford roadster, which he registered as Herman Von Metz when he arrived in Salt Lake City.
The grandfather told him that the Waleys had been there earlier to pick up their suitcase but they returned to Salt Lake City and had been arrested.
Physical evidence found in the hideout, the holes and the kidnappers' homes was examined by personnel of the FBI Laboratory.
Four days later, she was sentenced to serve two concurrent 20-year terms in the United States Detention Farm, Milan, Michigan.
An Identification Order, which included Dainard's photograph, fingerprints, handwriting specimen, and background information, was prepared, and copies were distributed throughout the United States.
In response to information received that Dainard may have gone to either Mexico or Australia, copies of the Identification Order also were furnished to police agencies in both countries.
On the morning of May 7, 1936, special agents assigned to the FBI's San Francisco field office were instructed to search that neighborhood.
Two agents found a Ford bearing the reported license number in a parking lot enclosed by a wire fence.
In addition, various dyes and other paraphernalia used to change serial numbers on paper currency were found in the garage of his Los Angeles home.
Upon his subsequent transfer to the federal Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas, prison authorities determined Dainard to be insane and recommended that he be confined to a hospital.
Further investigation by the FBI revealed that Edward Fliss,[c] an associate of Dainard's, had assisted him in exchanging the ransom money.
[6] Fliss was removed to Seattle, where he pleaded guilty to assisting in the disposition of ransom money and was sentenced to 10 years in McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary and fined $5,000.
