The Law: The Children Chase

One Sunday in June 1967, a cement mason named Thomas Leonhard called his former wife to arrange a visit that day with his three kids. He had a picnic planned. But neither she nor the children were at their home in Buffalo, N.Y. Leonhard has been trying to find them ever since.

Other divorced men sometimes have trouble getting all of their agreed-upon visitation rights, but Leonhard soon found that he was involved in an extraordinary dilemma. His ex-wife had married a convicted robber who became an informant against the Mafia, and the sudden disappearance of Leonhard's children had been masterminded...

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