Crime & Justice
Guillermo del Toro describes initial ransom demand during his father’s kidnapping
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What was said
""First phone call is we want 3 million in 3 days. 5 million in 5 days or we chop his head off. That's the first phone call.""
Guillermo del Toro recounts that, when his father was kidnapped and held for 72 days, the kidnappers’ first phone call demanded millions of dollars within days and threatened to kill him.
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- Speaker
- Guillermo del Toro · guest
- Programme
- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Episode
- Kidnapping, Art, and Pan's Labyrinth Journals | Armchair Expert
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- 1:00:50
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