NSW: Transcript of ransom note sent to Whelan family

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2006
NSW: Transcript of ransom note sent to Whelan family

Transcript of the ransom note sent to the family of Kerry Whelan, who was kidnapped
on May 6, 1997.



(EDS: Taken from online judgment with no spelling or grammatical corrections.)



There will be no second chances. Follow all instructions or your wife will die.

By the time you recieve this letter she will be safely in our keeping.

To ensure her safe return you must at no time bring in the police the press any authorities
or outside assistance. We will know if you do so.

The consequences of breaching tis rule will be dire for your wife.

You are not our first Australian target there have been others. You have not heard
of this in the past because they have implicitly followed all instructions and been reunited
with there loved ones.

Do not underestimate our capabilities.

We will know if you breach any conditions at any time and you and your family will
not see her again. This is our garantee.

The ransom for her return is one million US dollars. The rate of exchange means you
will pay one million two hundred fifty thousand Australian dollars to be paid in one hundred
dollar Australian notes. Ensure only the new plastic notes are used. No paper currency.

No consecutively numbered notes. The money is to be delivered in a heavy duty green plastic
garbage bag.

The money is not to be photo copied. No remote transmitting devices. No radio active
dusts. No dyes. No means of tracing the money is to be used.

We are able to scan and test for all such devices and any other method you may use.

Do not be tempted for if anything is used to trace the money it will not be collected
and your wife will die. No further contact will be made.

You have seven days. When the money is ready you are to put an advertisement in the
public notice section of the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper saying: Anyone who witnessed
a white Volkswagon Beetle beside the Eastern Gates of the Sydney Olympic Site at 10:30pm
on Tuesday 8.4.97 please call -------------- then put your home telephone number at the
end of the advertisement.

After the advertisement has been in the newspaper we will be in contact within three
days at your home to tell you the next step. Be ready to leave with the money at any time.

The money is to be delivered by you and nobody else. Do not substitute yourself for
the delivery. You must be alone. Have no wires on yourself or in the car you use. We will
know if you try to use them. Do not use the car radio.

Any sign of outside involvement or interference and your wife will die.

We will be aware of everything you do. Take cae this is your only means of ever seeing
her alive again.



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