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Titles that reveal (without giving away) the are of the plot are typified, quite randomly, by: Witness for the Prosecution, Don't Look Now, Beware of Pity, Deliverance, Portnoy's Complaint, Crime \?\ Punishment, The Informer, A Doll's House, Hunger, Pygmalion, The Ransom of Red Chief, Before the Fact ,— once started, the list is endless.
Taking hostages could be aimed at getting a ransom as well as weapons, water and food."
But a long time ago somebody--I wouldn't be surprised if it were a Phoenician tin merchant in the first millennium B.C.--realized that a clever man with sufficiently deep pockets could basically hold such a market up for ransom.
All the rest--the strangling, sexual abuse, the ransom note--is cover-up."
Ross notes how the ransom that Disney paid to Osceola County for the favor of being exempt from providing low-income housing assistance within Celebration was eaten up by theme-park employees who could not afford to live in Celebration on a Disney wage.