nytimes October 3, 2021 4:00pm How a Tip to Obituaries Breathed New Life Into a Decades-Old Mystery #kidnappingandhostages #booksandliterature #bronfmansamuelii #news How a Tip to Obituaries Breathed New Life Into a Decades-Old Mystery A news assistant on the Obituaries desk describes how information he received while doing a routine part of his job set him on an investigation of a notorious 1975 kidnapping.