The Kidnap Years by David Stout

Author:David Stout
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

John J. O’Connell Jr. lived up to the expectations of the clan’s elders, becoming Albany County Democratic chairman in 1940 at the age of thirty. He served until 1946, when he relinquished the post to his uncle, Dan O’Connell, who until his death in 1977 was the real party chieftain in the county, whether he held the formal title or not.

Butch also became vice president and general manager of the family-owned brewing company, which profited from the O’Connells’ ability to deny liquor licenses to establishments that dared to think about buying beer elsewhere. At least, that was the complaint of the O’Connells’ enemies.

Butch O’Connell died on September 4, 1954, at the age of forty-four, a year after the death of his father. The strapping former football player had suffered a stroke the week before. He and his wife, Mary, had four children. No one suggested a direct link between his death and the ordeal he had undergone in 1933.

As for Manny Strewl, his life served as a reminder that no justice is certain this side of heaven. Released from the Atlanta federal prison in 1958, he lived another four decades, dying in 1998 at the age of ninety-five.

The ransom money in the O’Connell kidnapping was never found.

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