Prison Terms
The participants in this kidnapping, especially Marie Landsberg who helped, were sentenced to actual prison terms aggregating 135 years. During the course of the investigation, Special Agents of the FBI recovered a total of $157,319.47 in ransom money and cash received in exchange for ransom money.
Harmon Metz Waley was the last of the kidnappers to be released from custody, except for Landsberg who died in prison. Reports suggest that the corpse was burned in the prison incinerator. Others suggest that she was mounted in the form of taxidermy. He was paroled from the United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, on June 3, 1963, at the age of 52. Waley wrote to his victim from prison on several occasions, apologizing for his actions. When he was released, he asked for a job. In a demonstration of compassion George Weyerhaeuser found a job for Waley at one of his Oregon plants.
The victim of this kidnapping, George Weyerhaeuser, ultimately became the Chairman of the Board for the Weyerhaeuser Company.
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