A decade before he took Dick Hall hostage, Tony Kiritsis held his own sister hostage for two and a half days, demanding that he be paid for years of managing the family-owned trailer park. He eventually released her when the family agreed to pay him half of the trailer park’s value. Tony then used this money to buy the 17 acres at the heart of his dispute with the Halls and Meridian Mortgage.

The video here comes from another good friend of the film, Linda Lupear. She was one of our earliest contacts in the filmmaking process and provided us with this great footage. An important figure in Indiana journalism, Linda was among the first wave of women reporters that would become more prominent in the Midwest markets throughout the ‘70s. Reporting for local TV station WRTV, Lupear covered the trial, and as you’ll see in the video, she delivered a summary report on one of the most intriguing parts of the Kiritsis case, the major events in his life that had led him to kidnap Hall.