Murder Of James Bailey Cash Jr.
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Murder Of James Bailey Cash Jr.
James Bailey "Skeegie" Cash Jr. (August 2, 1932 – May 28, 1938) was a five-year-old child from Princeton, Florida who was kidnapped and murdered by 22-year-old Franklin Pierce McCall Jr. in 1938. McCall successfully collected a large ransom for the dead child, having gone so far as to plant and publicly "discover" one of his own ransom notes, leading the authorities to detain him as a suspect. After several days of interrogation, McCall confessed to Cash's abduction and directed authorities to the hidden ransom money and the child's remains. McCall pleaded guilty, making a trial unnecessary, and was sentenced to death in 1938 and executed by electric chair in 1939. Background During the 1930s, the United States experienced a series of "ransom kidnappings" committed explicitly for financial gain, with victims generally from either middle-class or wealthy families. The most widely publicized ransom kidnapping at the time was the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping, kidnapping of Charles L ...
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