Datum: 10 juli 1973
Kidnappen is hot in Italië in 1973. Dat jaar zijn er wel zestien rijkeluiszoontjes weggevoerd voor losgeld. Maar de meest spectaculaire is de ontvoering van John Paul Getty III. In the darkness just before dawn, police silently began closing in on the sleeping village of Cicala (pop. 1,913), perched in the desolate mountains of Calabria at the southern tip of Italy. As the armed men crept into position behind walls and over tile rooftops, the villagers were suddenly awakened by barking dogs.