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- <title>
- July 13, 1992: Reso's Last Days
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 13, 1992 Inside the World's Last Eden
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- Reso's Last Days
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- <p>How an $18.5 million kidnapping was botched from the start
- </p>
- <p> Arthur and Irene Seale saw themselves sharing a chic, moneyed
- life-style most couples just read about. But the Seales'
- frenzied quest for status ended abruptly with charges of
- kidnapping and extortion in the abduction of Exxon International
- president Sidney Reso. Now the Seales face a courtroom battle
- not only against prosecutors but against each other.
- </p>
- <p> One week after their arrest, Mrs. Seale led investigators
- to Reso's decomposing corpse in a shallow grave in New Jersey's
- remote Pine Barrens. She had already described how she and her
- husband grabbed Reso from his home as he set out for work last
- April and stuffed him into a sweltering storage facility. She
- also told how Arthur Seale shot Reso in the arm during a
- struggle. Autopsy reports have not been made public, but
- officials are saying Reso died only four days into his
- captivity.
- </p>
- <p> When their federal kidnapping trial begins in September,
- Irene Seale will be testifying against her husband, who has
- pleaded innocent to all charges.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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