It’s not terribly notable that an FBI agent would be hunting down a kidnapper.  The law changed in 1932 after the Lindbergh kidnapping, and kidnapping was placed fully in the jurisdiction of the FBI.  What is very notable is that the 1936 raid wasn’t Guy’s first brush with a kidnapper.

Credits

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*Audio mixing and recording by Aaron Morgenstern.  Additional assistance with audio rendered by my brother.  Thanks, Bro!

*Research assistance from our local library.  Go check out a library in your area!  Librarians!  They drink coffee and know things!

*Thank you, Dad, Bruce, for all of your stories and help with the research, and thank you so much, anonymous FBI friend, for your help in interpreting Guy’s file.

*Thanks to the Butte Historical Society President, Paddy Dennehy, for his assistance.

Sources

The Monroe News-Star, the Monroe Morning World, The Macon News, and the Crowley Post-Signal, via Newspapers.com

Persons in Hiding, By J. Edgar Hoover

Hoover’s FBI, by Cartha DeLoach

Butte, Montana: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Siberia

The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America ‹ CrimeReads

When Kidnappings Were All the Rage

Roger “The Terrible” Touhy — FBI

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