Episode 089 - Four days before Christmas in 1990 a North Vancouver woman named Cynthia Kilburn was kidnapped from her home. A threatening ransom note asking for $8.5 million was found pinned to the door of her home; her two children, 4-year-old twins, were found bound, but unharmed, in an upstairs bathroom. Unknown to most of her neighbours, Cynthia is the daughter of the philanthropic BC billionaire businessman and Canada's fourth richest man, Jim Pattison. The kidnappers knew who they had, but their poorly thought out scheme did not go as planned.Sources:Dead Ends: BC Crime Stories by Paul WilcocksR. v. Mulvahill, 1992 CanLII 347 (BC SC)Seven Arrested After KidnappingKidnap victim picked for judges' committeeWhat happened to Kataoka - Vancouver SunNewspapers.comJim Pattison Group Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices