The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapping I Can’t Esca...

Americans are expected to spend a record $13.5 billion on Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation. That includes costumes, decorations and lots of candy.In this episode of “The Sunday Daily,” our host Rachel Abrams talks about these three tent poles of th ...  Show more

Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the “culture wars.”Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.comWatch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcastFor transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/t ...  Show more

We are joined by kidnapping victim Jack Teich, who is finally opening up about what happened to him. Jack also helps us understand the terror of a blind father in California whose 6-year-old daughter was almost kidnapped from him. Plus, a mom from Georgia has been missing since t ...  Show more

Kidnapped woman rescued by bank tellers. Man arrested for cutting down live timber in national forest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In November 1971, Theo Albrecht, the reclusive German billionaire co-founder of Aldi supermarkets, was kidnapped at gunpoint outside his company’s headquarters in Essen, Germany, by Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Krüzen, a pair of small-time criminals seeking a massive ransom. ...  Show more