Finally Getting Him Back
Some days later, George’s father was in touch with the kidnappers, and he was told that he had to drive along Highway 99, then pull over and walk out of his car backwards, with the ransom money left inside the car. He did this, and his son George was soon after released by the kidnappers. While he was overwhelmingly glad to have his son back, it was obviously not acceptable for the family to have experienced such trauma, and so they went to the authorities to help them to catch the criminals.
Finding Them
The local authorities and the FBI got involved with the case. They decided to try to track down the criminals however possible, and one of the ways they tried to go about doing this was by using the serial numbers on the ransom money that George’s father paid them. This worked, and they were able to hunt down the men who had kidnapped George and held him to ransom.