In this episode of The Evidence Locker we travel back to July 1874, when four‑year‑old Charley Ross vanished from his Philadelphia front yard after being lured into a buggy with candy and fireworks. What follows is America’s first nationwide kidnapping‑for‑ransom case—a story that sparked a massive Pinkerton‑led manhunt, the birth of the “don’t take candy from strangers” warning, and the first legal reforms that made kidnapping a felony.