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Staff photo / Ashley Fox ... Canfield resident Frank Micchia stands with a stained glass lamp he created, which took 400 hours to complete. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of Saturday profiles of area residents and their stories. To suggest a profile, contact features editor Burton Cole at bcole@tribtoday.com or metro editor Marly Reichert at mreichert@tribtoday.com CANFIELD — Inside Frank and Marcia Micchia’s Canfield home, stained glass works immediately are observed. That’s b...

Were here and knocked on the door and frank sinatra said come in. >> he said he had a package for frank, jr. so he walked in and put the box down on the floor. and when straightened up took his glove off and he had a small revolver in his hand. >> i cocked it in front of his face and said nobody move and nobody will get h hurt. >> and at that point he made us go lie down on the floor. >> i tied up john foss and then said joe, would you take mr. sinatra down to the car and he did. >> he wanted to...

Just to get some publicity? he said dean, he would never do this to his mother. the next thing i asked him, do you think the mob has had any connection with the kidnapping? he said no. >> on monday morning in los angeles, my mother actress barbara rush arrived on the warner brothers lot to resume filming robin and the 7 hoods. >> the choreographer came out and said barbara, something has happened, mr. sinatra had to leave and we are not going to shoot the scene today and this was a musical numbe...

Publicity stunt. that gave me the idea. >> all three had their own lawyers. john irwins attorney was gladys root is, known for wearing outlandish hats to court. >> she was a piece of. she was. >> she claimed the whole thing was a hoax orchestrated by frank, jr. purely for publicity. in the trial transcript obtained by fox files root labeled the kidnapping an advertising scheme and planned contractual agreement. the sinatra family was outraged. >> i remember it mostly being oh he fended and stunn...

Little, no realization how much grief it would cause frank, jr. >> it was really violating. it was like -- it was the nearest thing to rape. it was very bad. >> but the jury didnt buy it. >> it after six week trial we were found guilty. joe and i were sentenced to life plus 75 years. and john who was not in the physical kidnapping was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months. >> but none of those sentences were actually served out. >> no. >> the story takes another strange twist when a series of evalu...

California. but ansler got the sense he had been duped when the two drove past the club. >> and the marquise with the tommy dorsey orchestra. and joe almost hit me. i cant say on the interview the explete ives that he came out with but he was very upset and you didnt want to upset joe because he is a tough guy. i said dont worry about it, just a coincidence. eventually he calmed down and then we ran out of money and so we had to kidnap frank sinatra, jr. to get back to l.a. >> at 9:30 p.m. keena...

With a dazed and drugged 19-year-old frank sinatra, jr. in the back seat the kidnappers arrived at their hideout in the early morning hour is of december 9, 1963. the kidnappers held sinatra captive here at this house in the los angeles suburb of conaga park. >> why conoga park? >> i was looking for a place that didnt have neighbors nearby that i could keep frank, jr. while we were doing the deal. >> when got the news of his sons kidnapping a stunned sinatra abandoned production and immediately ...

Just to get some publicity? he said dean, he would never do this to his mother. the next thing i asked him, do you think the mob has had any connection with the kidnapping? he said no. >> on monday morning in los angeles, my mother actress barbara rush arrived on the warner brothers lot to resume filming robin and the 7 hoods. >> the choreographer came out and said barbara, something has happened, mr. sinatra had to leave and we are not going to shoot the scene today and this was a musical numbe...

Publicity stunt. that gave me the idea. >> all three had their own lawyers. john irwins attorney was gladys root is, known for wearing outlandish hats to court. >> she was a piece of. she was. >> she claimed the whole thing was a hoax orchestrated by frank, jr. purely for publicity. in the trial transcript obtained by fox files root labeled the kidnapping an advertising scheme and planned contractual agreement. the sinatra family was outraged. >> i remember it mostly being oh he fended and stunn...