Producer

Leopold Hoesch

Direction

Peter Scharf

Producer

Lilly Solms

Genre

True Crime

Transmitter

WDR

Length

1 x 45'

Editor

Year

2021

Kidnapped in Münsterland

In the fall of 1976, the show jumper Hendrik Snoek was kidnapped in Münster.
The son of a wealthy family was hidden in a shaft under a bridge near Herborn.
He was locked up for 50 days with a chain around his neck.
The perpetrators extorted a ransom of five million marks.
Snoek was released.
It was not the only kidnapping case during this time.
Many criminals put people in fear by extorting ransom money.

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