News of the Weird: Bound, gagged and faxed

Ed. note: This piece, by Chuck Shepherd, will appear in this week’s issue of Creative Loafing.LEAD STORY: Two formerly well-off retired couples in Speyer, Germany, whose nest egg was largely wiped out by investments in sub-prime Florida mortgages, vented their anger by kidnapping their investment adviser, James Amburn, in June. They took him to the vacation home of one of the couples near the Austrian border, bound him like a mummy and beat and tortured him over several days, fracturing two ribs
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