for the sinatra family, a 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.