Retired BigLaw partner tells tales of lawyers, FBI and kidnapping epidemic of 1930s in new book Carolyn Cox. Photo by Bonnie E. Johnson. Carolyn Cox tells me what she loved the most about practicing law was “hands down trying to figure out what the facts were.” She adds with a chuckle, “I was always so excited when we would get a delivery of big boxes of documents.” Cox retired in 2009. But those beloved deliveries didn’t stop. She wrote the recently published book The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America. Her six-year effort included making more than 150 Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI.