This is Your FBI: The Pay Off

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

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Styles change in crime just as they do in automobile or clothes. Less than twenty years ago, it was estimated that there were three thousand kidnappings a year, or more than eight every day. Today there are comparatively few.

That happy situation has not come about because criminals became tired of collecting ransom. It was the direct result of two things. The first was the Federal kidnapping law passed by Congress in the early thirties, which gave your FBI jurisdiction over any kidnapping in which the victim was transported across a state line.

The second reason for the decrease in kidnappings is a man. His name is Jaya Dohuber. He is the one who realized that crime was being put on a business basis, and he determined to put law enforcement on that standard.

So Knight's case is an illustration of how your FBI moves into action on one of the rare occasions. That a kidnapping does occur. The Knight's FBI file opens outside the entrance of a suburban Roadhouse, a few miles from a large Midwestern city.