The Heiress and the Number 11 Con

She paid a swindler to save a kidnapped child. He told the jury where the money went, and used her own code name.

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The Walsh-McLean House, now Indonesia's embassy · AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Evalyn Walsh McLean drew a hundred thousand dollars from her bank in old fifties and hundreds, as she had been told to, and she told nobody, not even her lawyers. She had grown up in this mansion, a mining heiress, and it is now the Embassy of Indonesia. She owned the Hope Diamond. It was March 1932, and the infant son of Charles Lindbergh had been taken from his home in New Jersey.

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