Buddy and Lottie Moorehouse are back with the wildest kidnapping case in Michigan history. Don’t worry, this one has a happy ending.
In November 1975, just months after Jimmy Hoffa vanished, two guys from Ann Arbor grabbed 13-year-old Tim Stempel off his skateboard in Bloomfield Township. Bad move. Tim fought back, then he spent 53 hours locked in their trunk with a hacksaw blade they forgot to take out. You won’t believe what he did with it.
Add in the son of a future GM CEO, the storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald, and a ransom paid in marked bills, and you’ve got a story made for the big screen.
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