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- THE WEEK, Page 17NATIONReso's Last Days
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- How an $18.5 million kidnapping was botched from the start
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- When their federal kidnapping trial begins in September,
- Irene Seale will be testifying against her husband, who has
- pleaded innocent to all charges.
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