Exclusive: John Stamos is to explore the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. in a new true crime podcast for Wondery.
The Fuller House star and exec producer will produce and narrate The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra, a series that looks at the circumstances of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra’s son from Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.
The series, which will launch on July 27, will uncover the event from the perspective of kidnapper Barry Keenan. Mastermind Keenan, was broke, unemployed, hooked on booze and pills, and his family was falling apart. One day, the voice of God came over the radio in his Chevy Super Sport and told him there was a simple solution to his problems: All he had to do was kidnap Frank Sinatra, Jr.
The kidnapping was riddled with profound incompetence and confusion, perpetrated by amateurs whose previous criminal experience had been along the lines of lighting palm trees on fire for laughs.
The Fuller House star and exec producer will produce and narrate The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra, a series that looks at the circumstances of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra’s son from Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.
The series, which will launch on July 27, will uncover the event from the perspective of kidnapper Barry Keenan. Mastermind Keenan, was broke, unemployed, hooked on booze and pills, and his family was falling apart. One day, the voice of God came over the radio in his Chevy Super Sport and told him there was a simple solution to his problems: All he had to do was kidnap Frank Sinatra, Jr.
The kidnapping was riddled with profound incompetence and confusion, perpetrated by amateurs whose previous criminal experience had been along the lines of lighting palm trees on fire for laughs.
- 4/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr., one of the most visible torchbearers of his father's legacy, died Wednesday at 72. Sinatra the younger was born Jan. 10, 1944. By the time he was 6, his parents had divorced. His father's heavy performance schedule - something like two films and four albums a year through the 1950s and '60s - meant that the pair didn't have a close relationship during Jr.'s early life: "He was a good father as much as it was within his power," he told The Guardian diplomatically in 2012. Regardless, Jr. followed in his father's footsteps. He'd studied music formally since the age...
- 3/17/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr., one of the most visible torchbearers of his father's legacy, died Wednesday at 72. Sinatra the younger was born Jan. 10, 1944. By the time he was 6, his parents had divorced. His father's heavy performance schedule - something like two films and four albums a year through the 1950s and '60s - meant that the pair didn't have a close relationship during Jr.'s early life: "He was a good father as much as it was within his power," he told The Guardian diplomatically in 2012. Regardless, Jr. followed in his father's footsteps. He'd studied music formally since the age...
- 3/17/2016
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
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