Does any one remember this story, this heavy set guy is in a parking garage in some mid western state, well he carjacks this guy and holds him hostage in the car and he drives throught 2 or 3 states and the trench coat robber ties the guy up on a tree and late the guy escapes and goes to a farm house to call 911. Then the police finds a cheat cheat left in the garage, and they question this guy whos a look alike and he denies he didn't do it

well did they ever catch this guy?

Yes, I remember that one. His name is Jack Grundhofer. Here's a post I posted on him a while back. I still think the whole thing was a fake.

Something seems really fishy about this whole deal. First of all, how could he pick the wrong person out of a lineup if he spent hours and hours up close and personal with the kidnapper? The guy that he picked out of the lineup (whose name escapes me...was it Henderson?) is obviously not the kidnapper; there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, the other eyewitness who saw Grundhofer with the kidnapper said he definitely was not the kidnapper, and you could tell just by watching his reaction to the whole situation that he was innocent. In addition, that eye witness said that when he saw the kidnapping, his initial reaction was that the whole thing was a joke. I don't know, this whole story has scandal written all over it. I wonder if there would be a motive for Grundhofer to have faked the whole thing. It just seems really odd that police wouldn't be able to find the kidnapper of a higher up like Grundhofer, especially one with as little experience as this kidnapper supposedly had. How could he slip through all of the searches if he was such an inexperienced criminal. I don't know, anyone else get that same feeling when watching this segment?

Does any one remember this story, this heavy set guy is in a parking garage in some mid western state, well he carjacks this guy and holds him hostage in the car and he drives throught 2 or 3 states and the trench coat robber ties the guy up on a tree and late the guy escapes and goes to a farm house to call 911. Then the police finds a cheat cheat left in the garage, and they question this guy whos a look alike and he denies he didn't do it

well did they ever catch this guy?


I remember that case well. It happened in Minneapolis. I remember because my mom worked for the bank that Grundhoffer was the president of.

Also, the heavyset actor who played the criminal was Steve Cochrane, who was the morning DJ on KDWB radio in Minneapolis. I remember him making a big deal about it and talking about the case.

To my knowledge, they never found anything concrete on who did it (or as the other guy said, if it was really a crime at all).