kidnaper
- n someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
- When the kidnaper gave no sign of responding to the appeal, police admitted to newsmen that Peter Weinberger's survival was now "a matter for conjecture.
- And most of the papers buried the kidnaper's race deep in their stories, while the New York Journal-American described the hunted woman closely from her missing upper teeth to her .
- Unknown to the kidnaper, FBI agents had observed the ransom exchange and got the license number (969KXJ) of the kidnaper's car.