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Would get there before the 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 ...

Shots had been fired. didnt really have time to talk about what the plan of action was going to be, when the door 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 profes...

>> 18 years earlier, plant 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. ...

>> 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...

>> 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...

To have intimate knowledge of morris county. investigators have a hunch the kidnappers are not the environmental crusaders they claim to be. theyre locals. >> 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 ...

Riots than i did about a story i was covering, so dramatic was 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...

With a shotgun, who was last seen entering that building, shots had been fired. didnt really have time to talk about what the plan of action was going to be, when the door 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 ...

The kidnapping of victor samuelsson. >> 18 years earlier, plant 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 lat...

Was covering, so dramatic was 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 ne...