270: The Kidnapping of George Weyerhaeuser

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True Crime, History, Comedy

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

When nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser went missing, his family panicked. Kidnappings weren’t commonplace, but in 1935, wealthy families were on guard for them. The Great Depression was in full swing, and just a few years earlier, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby captured the nation’s attention. So, when the Weyerhaeuser’s son didn’t make it home for lunch, they feared the worst.

And now for a note about our process. For this episode, Brandi copy and pasted from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping” by Daryl C. McClary, historylink.org
“The Kidnapping of George Weyerhaeuser | USA” podcast episode, The Evidence Locker
“Deep in the Woods” by Bryan Johnston
“1935 kidnapping revealed 9-year-old timber heir’s mettle, led to ‘greatest manhunt in history of Northwest’” by Douglas Perry, Oregon Live
“History: How the Seattle P-I played a pivotal role in the kidnapping case of George Weyerhaeuser” by Alec Regimbal, SeattePI
“George Weyerhaeuser Sr., great-grandson of timber company founder and kidnapped as a child, dies at 95” by Paul Roberts, Seattle Times

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0:00.0	One semester of law school one semester of criminal justice two experts. I'm Kristen Caruso. I'm Brandy Pond
0:09.2	Let's go to court on this episode. I'll be talking about an old-timey kid napping. Well, I've heard this episode before
0:17.6	Played it all on my roots. I showed up in voodoo
0:23.0	To tell you about this old-timey kid napping. Wait, this should have been workshop
0:30.0	Although I like that you're in French today. Yeah, yeah, I was so much French. I like French. You're the one wearing a burlap sack right now, ma'am. I'm a little cold. She's a wrapped in a blanket and it looks like a burlap sack. I've got to say I love these days where I don't tell a case I just sit in my burlap sack on. That's right. Yeah, getting your sack on. That's what you started calling it.
1:01.0	I shan't acknowledge that. Okay, great. I'm doing a new thing where I'm really embracing my status as the Grace Kelly of podcast. Oh, are you and I've decided that when you say something absolutely revolting like get your sack on.
1:17.0	Yes, you're just not going to be fine. I should go down that road. Okay. It will be a much cleaner podcast
1:26.0	I believe I'll make up a small percentage of the disgusting jokes on this podcast.
1:39.0	Brandy, I'm excited for an old-timey kid napping. Yeah, me too. Me too. Okay, somehow I never came across this one when I did my series of old-timey kid nappings, which is bizarre.
1:50.0	But first, I do think we need to talk to the people about what happened at lunch today. Oh, God. Do we have to? I was going to pretend it didn't happen.
1:59.0	You were? No, you go ahead. I just I keep thinking about it. You go for it. We went to a place that we really like. We love this place.
2:10.0	We love it. They play the greatest music. We love the waitress we always get. She's wonderful. She like knows our drink orders.
2:19.0	Like, but she it's like, but she's not like too much. Yeah, knowing us. It's like the perfect amount.
2:26.0	We got halfway through our meals today when Norm discovered a big bug in his salad. Big old bug. Dead one. Lots of legs.
2:42.0	It's up in the air. So many legs. So many legs. It was disgusting. So bad.
2:49.0	They did comp our food. Yeah. Yeah. And our waitress knew us. She was like, do you want to keep working on this? We're like, no, she was I didn't think you did. We're all done eating. Now, thank you.
3:03.0	It was rough. Yeah, it was a really rough time.
3:08.0	And then poor Norm wanted to get ice cream after to wash down the bug.
3:15.0	Remove the bug memories from his brain, but Chris and I were too disgusted.
3:20.0	We were like, hey, you get whatever you want. Yeah, we'll go wherever you want. You get whatever you want. But we are not we're done eating. We're done eating for a while. Yeah. No more food is going in this body.
3:31.0	For the time being. But yeah, he didn't want to go solo on a big flurry home in eight Costco ice cream and it's pretty sad about it.
3:41.0	I can't believe that happened. That was a big bug. That was a really big bug.
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