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Here's how Ransom did it:
Loughrin's insights run from the profound ("I realized how much Patsy's frilly, feminine decorative taste clashed with that of the young college students") to the truly anguished ("I passed a spiral staircase on my right, shuddering as I realized these were the same stairs where Patsy claimed to have found the ransom note that fateful morning after Christmas").
The Los Angeles Times leads with "an ominous turn" in the Indian Airlines hijacking: the terrorists' escalation of their demands to a $200 million ransom and the release, not of the previously reported one Pakistani guerrilla, but of 35.
The five hijackers, who seized a jet Friday, are still demanding that India release 35 Kashmiri militants, but they are no longer asking for the return of a colleague's dead body or for $200 million in ransom.
They say that John Ramsey's samples did not match the ransom note.