Episode 96: Cry For Help
In this week's episode, Kate and Paul take us to 1917 Springfield, Missouri where a wealthy couple comes home from a night out to find their baby missing. With the help of authorities, the family attempts to have their baby returned safely.
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Sources:
“Missouri Banker’s Son Kidnapped and Held for Ransom” (The St. Louis Star and Times, May 31, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/204392584/?match=1&terms=%22holland%20keet%22
“Kidnappers Hold MO Baby for a $6,000 Ransom” (The Topeka State Journal, June 1, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/324570695/?match=1&terms=%22holland%20keet%22
“Father of Stolen Baby is Reticent” (The Kansas City Journal, June 5th, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1023892784/?match=1&terms=%22holland%20keet%22
“Banker to Flash Signal to Kidnappers from High Tower” (United Press, June 5, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/752081150/?match=1&terms=%22holland%20keet%22
“The Keet Baby Not Found: Seven Arrests of Alleged Kidnappers Made by Springfield Police” (Butler Daily Democrat, June 7th, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/999181702/?match=1&terms=%22holland%20keet%22
“Stolen Baby Found Drowned in a Well” (The New York Times, June 10, 1917)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/06/10/98251730.html?pageNumber=8
“Keet Baby’s Death Remains a Mystery” (Columbia Daily Tribune, June 11, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/935033676/?match=1&terms=keet%20cletus%20maxie
“Mob Let Them Live” (The Kansas City Times, June 11, 1917)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/653729393/?match=1&terms=keet%20cletus%20maxie
“Keet Trial at Marshfield” (The St. Elmo Register, August 10, 1917)
“Snatched in the Night” (The New York Daily News, March 25, 2008)
https://www.nydailynews.com/2008/03/25/snatched-in-the-night/?clearUserState=true
“Pokin Around: Abduction and killing of baby was sensational news in 1917” by Steve Pokin (The Springfield News-Leader, February 4, 2016)
“Pokin Around: Ozarks history with Rogersville history teachers — Young Brothers, Baby Keet” by Steve Pokin (The Springfield News-Leader, October 15, 2019)
“Kidnapping and Murder of Baby Keet” by Larry Wood, (Missouri and Ozarks History, July 21, 2018)
https://ozarks-history.blogspot.com/2018/07/kidnapping-and-murder-of-baby-keet.html