three day nightmare after crossing paths with an judge employed 23-year-old stockbroker. down on his luck, keenan calculated he needed $240,000. in today s money around $1.7 million to get his once thriving career back on track. so i was trying to think of anything. kidnapping came up. kidnapping. in keenan s twisted mind it made perfect sense. grab a celebrity kid and hold them for ransom. they would have the means to pay big bucks to get the child back and he believed he would later pay back the ransom money with interest. in your head this was going be a loan. exactly. i started making a list of people that i had gone to school with. very original. which include bob hope s son tony hope and jim mitchum and finally settled on frank sinatra, jr. the 19-year-old son was
he said dean, he would never do this to his mother. the next thing i asked him, do you think the mob has had any connection with the kidnapping? he said no. on monday morning in los angeles, my mother actress barbara rush arrived on the warner brother s lot to resume filming robin and the 7 hoods. the choreographer came out and said barbara, something has happened, mr. sinatra had to leave and we are not going to shoot the scene today and this was a musical number and i said we are not the going to do it today and she said no, because frank, jr. had been kidnapped and i said he s been kidnapped? frank sinatra s son has been kidnapped you must be joking! that morning crazed kidnapper barry keenan decided to drive the nearly 500 miles back to lake tahoe to check out of his hotel and get rid of any lingering evidence. frank sinatra, jr. remained in
little, no realization how much grief it would cause frank, jr. it was really violating. it was like it was the nearest thing to rape. it was very bad. but the jury didn t buy it. it after six week trial we were found guilty. joe and i were sentenced to life plus 75 years. and john who was not in the physical kidnapping was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months. but none of those sentences were actually served out. no. the story takes another strange twist when a series of evaluations and appeals got the sentences drastically cut so that they were all back on the street by 1968. barry would go on to become a very successful and sober real estate developer. how did that happen? dean torrance comes back into the picture when i got out of prison he threw a fundraiser party for me and i used that money to get back into the real estate business. in the 90s, keenan tried to
california. but ansler got the sense he had been duped when the two drove past the club. and the marquise with the tommy dorsey orchestra. and joe almost hit me. i can t say on the interview the explete ives that he came out with but he was very upset and you didn t want to upset joe because he is a tough guy. i said don t worry about it, just a coincidence. eventually he calmed down and then we ran out of money and so we had to kidnap frank sinatra, jr. to get back to l.a. at 9:30 p.m. keenan and a nervous joe crept up to room 417 at harrah s south lajeunesse. inside frank, jr. and the trumpeter had just finished dinner before that night s show. i raised my hand to knock on the door and joe yells no, barry, no! and i just looked at him and said, you know, that is why we re here and knocked on the
california. but ansler got the sense he had been duped when the two drove past the club. and the marquise with the tommy dorsey orchestra. and joe almost hit me. i can t say on the interview the explete ives that he came out with but he was very upset and you didn t want to upset joe because he is a tough guy. i said don t worry about it, just a coincidence. eventually he calmed down and then we ran out of money and so we had to kidnap frank sinatra, jr. to get back to l.a. at 9:30 p.m. keenan and a nervous joe crept up to room 417 at harrah s south lajeunesse. inside frank, jr. and the trumpeter had just finished dinner before that night s show. i raised my hand to knock on the door and joe yells no, barry, no! and i just looked at him and said, you know, that is why we re here and knocked on the