Page 2 - Day Sidney Risso News Today

Police did. >> los angeles is bracing for a second night of burning, killing and looting, in response to the rodney king verdict. >> now officials prepare for night fall. >> i cant predict what will happen, but its going to be worse. >> good evening, the saga of sidney risso is now a kidnapping case. >> in the case of exxon executive sidney risso, investigators are trying to get cluing from a ransom note. >> rainbow warriors is a ship owned by a ship that wass part of greenpeace. >> the first le...

>> that night, investigators get a new lead. >> may 1, around 9:30 at night, we had received a call that directed me to morris park. they said that the second letter could be found under a white rock near a fence. we did in fact find a letter. they wanted a plane, they wanted the money pud in bags. we wanted to make sure that sidney risso was alive. we had a lot of concerns about sidney rissos well-being. >> this is an nbc news special report. >> president bush addressed the nation regarding the...

To building c burst open, a bunch of kids came running out. >> 25 students and at least one teacher seem to have escaped what is now a very dangerous situation there at lindhurst high school. >> there was two people in there, a teacher and a stay tuned, and we have a person who has committed homicide. >> at least eight people have been shot, including four students. >> medical professionals are calling this a phase 3 disaster. >> on the east coast, days turn into weeks as missing exxon executive...

>> mrs. risso says shes concerned about her husbands health. he had a heart attack three years ago, but she has faith. >> hes honest and hes good, so if anybody can survive any set of circumstances like that, he can do kit. >> the suspect has been identified by the sheriffs department as eric houston. >> in olive hurst, california, the local community is facing a terrifying hostage situation. >> are we any closer to identifying what he wants? >> nothing other than we know he came here with a gru...

>> while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles, on the other side of the country, police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. >> fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, president of exxon corporation. >> his wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. >> they had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she al...

Story. >> looters of every race and color. >> by late morning, it was clear that if anything, the lawlessness was increasing. >> fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive. >> on the second day, exxon received a phone call and the message of the phone call was that a letter could be found in the livingston shopping mall, taped to a lamp post. >> federal authorities say they prefer not to speculate on the whereabouts of sidney risso while theyre searching for him, only t...

>> in new jersey, what started as a missing persons case is now being treated as a criminal abduction. >> sidney risso headed to work and disappeared. hes the president of exxon international. >> we realized that what we probably had was a kidnapping and asked the fbi to come in and assist us. >> we looked at all possible murders, and certainly the exxon valdes that occurred just a few years prior to that. we thought that it could be related to an environmental terrorist group looking for retali...

>> in new jersey, what started as a missing persons case is now being treated as a criminal abduction. >> sidney risso headed to work and disappeared. hes the president of exxon international. >> we realized that what we probably had was a kidnapping and asked the fbi to come in and assist us. >> we looked at all possible murders, and certainly the exxon valdes that occurred just a few years prior to that. we thought that it could be related to an environmental terrorist group looking for retali...

The footage. and here we had no footage. >> that night, investigators get a new lead. >> may 1, around 9:30 at night, we had received a call that directed me to morris park. they said that the second letter could be found under a white rock near a fence. we did in fact find a letter. they wanted a plane, they wanted the money pud in bags. we wanted to make sure that sidney risso was alive. we had a lot of concerns about sidney rissos well-being. >> this is an nbc news special report. >> presiden...

Manager victor samuelsson had been kidnapped by marxist guerrillas. >> after $14 million in ransom was paid, samuelsson was returned unharmed in april 1974, 18 years to the day sidney risso disappeared. >> we need to know if indeed there is a group that is holding mr. risso. >> but the fbis behavioral science expert becomes suspicious of the groups international claims. >> i think we had one call from new york, and then one call late in the investigation from georgia. all of the phone calls that...