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Socialite Virginia Piper Freed After Million Dollar Ransom
In Minnesota Virginia Piper described her kidnapping ordeal and her escape after her husband Harry C. Piper paid a $1 million ransom in cash. FBI agents freed her by bending a small tree and removing the chain from her wrist.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Virginia Piper
Piper
Newsmen
United States
Robert C. Greenlease
Kansas City
Wilderness Area
Duluth
Here
FBI