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"I called him to ask if he could loan us the other half of the ransom demand."

And when the ransom demand came, they might have to pay up.

Had there been a ransom demand or a phone call that we didn't know about?

"Why call at all if not to make a ransom demand?"

If he had been kidnapped, there would be a ransom demand.

They are to make and receive a huge ransom demand, which would keep the money safe from his wife.

The ransom demand was reduced on Tuesday to $8 million.

Was this going to be a ransom demand of some kind?

If the parents got a note, or a ransom demand.

I was beginning to think that a ransom demand would be good news at this point.

There have been, according to the police, no ransom notes.

But no ransom note has been found to support that theory.

The next day, they sent a ransom note to his father.

We would not have been surprised at a ransom note.

It took us three years, but we finally identified him, in large part from his ransom notes.

His eyes came back to the ransom note sitting on the side table.

When the ransom note arrived I really went to pieces.

The message explained where a ransom note could be found.

It won't make sense, until he sees the ransom note.

One of them saw to it that the ransom note was given the full treatment.