WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:16.239 This episode maintain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions 2 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:20.839 of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. 3 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:23.399 Listener discretion is advised. 4 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.280 Hi, this is Tanya. Hi this is Shannon, and we 5 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:39.280 are Crimes. 6 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:47.039 And Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast. Hey Shannon, Hey Tanya, 7 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.479 how are you? I am doing all right? 8 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.280 Posts to Christmas? Let down. I don't know what's the 9 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.479 right word. Inflation. 10 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:00.679 Inflation, Yeah, trying to live through, clean up my house. 11 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:04.959 You know, it's a mess, and every day feels like 12 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:05.599 the next. 13 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.159 So because I'm awful, they do blur, you know, I 14 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.959 don't know if it's Monday or Friday or whatever. So yeah, 15 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:17.640 it's it's good though it's a it's a first world 16 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:18.959 problem to have, right. 17 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.799 Yes, I'm definitely suffering for some very much. 18 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:27.480 First ye happens? How are you saying? You know? 19 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.760 Pretty much, just kind of getting ready for the transition. 20 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.439 Christmas was great. I have no complaints. It was LEVI 21 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.920 My grandson is here and so just seeing him and 22 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.400 everyone that joyfulness. I haven't had a joyful holiday in 23 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.719 many years. It just has it happened for me or 24 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.840 I didn't have the wherewithal to make it happen. 25 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:54.719 So that was nice. 26 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.200 And now I'm getting ready for Brooklyn's birthday coming up. 27 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.760 Oh that's right, I'm going to get Yes, you know 28 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.120 she's getting from her mom is a ninety minute massage. 29 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.919 Nice from this gale up the street. I'll send her info. 30 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.479 This woman is so incredibly stress. 31 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:12.439 Did she come to your house? 32 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.520 No, she's up where the old pure one used to be. 33 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:18.560 Oh yeah, those are yes. 34 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:20.840 Now she's in a sweet okay. 35 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.319 Oh yeah, send me your info. That is a great, 36 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:28.759 great gift because I am sure your daughter is extremely stressed. 37 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.000 Oh my gosh, the year she had this twenty twenty five. Yeah, yes, 38 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.919 coming in because she's an early cap she's an early Capricorn. 39 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:43.159 But yeah, so good things. I'm really happy. Awesome, Well 40 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:44.240 that is great. 41 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.599 I know I am looking forward to having a fabulous 42 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.439 twenty twenty six. And I think we will have a 43 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:51.879 fabulous twenty twenty six. 44 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.680 I believe that too. And two things I did do 45 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.400 this thing with I follow this Scottish woman on instead Grandma. 46 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.520 I'll have to. I'll put it in the show notes. 47 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.879 She's Scottish and she's a witch, and so she's always 48 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.680 like and would you bring that she's got the Scottish accent. 49 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:13.919 So it's called like something thirteen days, So the day 50 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.520 of Christmas till the very first day of January, there's 51 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.919 I believe thirteen. I made thirteen things. You have thirteen 52 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.560 like wishes or thirteen goals for twenty twenty six. And 53 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:27.759 what you do is starting on the twenty six till 54 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.319 January first, you burn one. After you write it, you 55 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.280 crumple it up and you just grab it like here's 56 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:36.599 my little thing. I grab it and I burn it. 57 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.120 And that's like me giving it to the earth, to 58 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.360 the universe, my goal and all the way till January second, 59 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.800 and the one that's left, that's my responsibility for the year. 60 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.960 Okay, So I did. 61 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:52.159 That, and oh I wanted to brush up on the 62 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.719 Did you hear about all those bodies that they're finding 63 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.520 in the Houston baiyous? No? 64 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:00.560 Yeah, they have been. 65 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.240 There, like is there a serial killer? And so it's. 66 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.759 Down in Houston and they've found I believe the numbers 67 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.560 thirty four bodies so far this year. They found thirty 68 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.759 five last year. Now it's already thirty four. 69 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.079 Let's see. I think it's the Attorney General. 70 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.000 She's he or she is shooting down any kind of 71 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:24.439 narrative that is a serial killer, because they said, from 72 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.519 what I read from the article that there's the holidays 73 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:33.040 can be depression, the waterways are dangerous, and they have 74 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:38.800 over twenty five hundred miles of Bayo. Okay, so in yeah, 75 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.519 in Houston, and it's Piras County, so it makes sense. 76 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.399 And plus when they pull the bodies, there's no Oh, 77 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.360 and then there's the drug problem, the homelessness. Have all 78 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:49.519 of these factors. 79 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.720 Oh so they just think they're just like either suicides 80 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.680 or people just meet their ends like by in a 81 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:56.680 dangerous way. 82 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:57.480 Yeah. 83 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.639 Yes, And because the bodies are top seed, and then 84 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.639 you know, if there was foul play, oh, the bread 85 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:05.439 flags would. 86 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:06.160 Go up right. 87 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:07.879 Oh wow, that's crazy. 88 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:09.120 Mm hmmm. 89 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.639 So what's you? Guy got into Houston kind of by you? 90 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:19.160 I have a completely different type of story. Before I 91 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.240 tell everyone, though, I would just like to remind everyone 92 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:25.279 hit the subscribe or follow button and hey, have you 93 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.639 ever heard of the beer Cores? 94 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.160 Yes, of course, right, Cores is a big name. 95 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.680 Well, did you know back in the late fifties early sixties, 96 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:41.079 eight off Cores the third was kidnapped. 97 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.160 No I did that right. Well, I'm going to tell 98 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:44.839 you the story. 99 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.040 So on the crisp morning of February ninth, nineteen sixty, 100 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.480 a milkman slowed his truck on a narrow bridge over 101 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:58.639 Turkey Creek, southwest of Denver, Colorado, when something felt wrong. 102 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.240 A station where I sat angled across the span, engine running, radio, 103 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.160 murmuring in the cold air. The driver was nowhere in sight. 104 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:14.600 When the milkman stepped closer, he noticed blood flecked along 105 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.360 the wooden railing. On the ground beyond the bridge lay 106 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.639 a felt hat and a pair of eyeglasses personal unmistakable. 107 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:28.439 The car belonged to Adolph cors the Third, forty four 108 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.040 years old, father of four, and an heir to one 109 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:37.000 of America's most valuable private fortunes. He had left his 110 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.680 home that morning for this short commute to Golden, Colorado, 111 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:45.199 where the family brewery rose like a citadel from the foothills. 112 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:49.639 He never arrived. Okay, short little interruption there. Do you 113 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:53.199 remember those course commercials where one of the core's family 114 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:53.839 was in them? 115 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:55.399 Had to be like in the last. 116 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:59.240 Twenty years, whenever I hear Golden Colorado, I think, of course, 117 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:06.639 right is right? Okay, back to our story. Yes, within hours, 118 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.720 law enforcement sealed the area. By nightfall, the FBI was unseen. 119 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.879 The disappearance felt wrong, not only because of the blood 120 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.560 in the abandoned car, but because of who was missing. 121 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.040 This was not a celebrity who courted attention. This man 122 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.959 was trained to avoid it. Within a day, a ransom 123 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.759 note arrived. So the ransom note said it was addressed 124 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.639 to Adolph's wife. So, missus cores, your husband has been kidnapped. 125 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.839 His car is by Turkey Creek. Call the police or FBI. 126 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:48.000 He dies, cooperate, he lives. Ransom two hundred thousand dollars 127 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.560 in tens and three hundred thousand dollars in twenties. There 128 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:56.920 will be no negotiating bills. They need to be used 129 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:02.480 non consecutive, unrecorded. On my warning, we will know if 130 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.399 you call the police or record the serial numbers directions. 131 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.879 Place money and this letter and envelope in one suitcase 132 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.680 or bag. Have two men with a car ready to 133 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.879 make the delivery when all set. Advertise a tractor for 134 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:23.560 sale in Denver Post section sixty nine. Sign ad King 135 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:29.199 Ranch Fort Lupton, wait at NA nine four four five 136 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.519 five for instructions after the ad appears and I'm guessing 137 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:37.879 that's a telephone number. Okay, deliver immediately after receiving call. 138 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.080 Any delay will be regarded as a stall to set 139 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:45.679 up a stakeout. Understand this, Adolph's life is in your hands. 140 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.919 We have no desire to commit murder. All we want 141 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:52.200 is that money. If you follow the instructions, he will 142 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.759 be released unharmed within forty eight hours after the money 143 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.080 is received. So those five hundred thousand dollars that they demanded, 144 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.480 this was a sum that in nineteen sixty landed with 145 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.919 the weight of an ultimatum. The instructions were precise, as 146 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.360 you noticed, it was typewritten. The tone was business like. 147 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.600 The promise was simple. Comply in Adolph Cores the Third 148 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.639 would be returned alive. Long before Aidolf Cores the Third 149 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:25.799 vanished on a quiet Colorado road, the Cors family had 150 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:30.159 become something more than wealthy. They were symbolic. The story 151 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.840 began in the nineteenth century with Aidolf Cores, a German 152 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.639 immigrant who arrived in the United States carrying brewing knowledge 153 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:42.159 and a belief in order. In eighteen seventy three, he 154 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:46.200 founded what would become the Aidolf Course Company, in Golden Colorado, 155 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:51.360 marrying old world technique to rocky mountain water. The product 156 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:58.200 was marked not merely as beer, but as a philosophy, pure, disciplined, reliable. 157 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.159 By the mid twentieth Cory Corus was no longer just 158 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:07.240 a brewery. It was a dynasty. Unlike the flamboyant robber 159 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.480 barons of the East Coast, the Corus family cultivated an 160 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:17.279 image of restraint. Their wealth was immense, but intentionally understated. 161 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:23.840 Their power flowed quietly through boardrooms, philanthropy, and politics, rather 162 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:28.240 than spectacle. They believed privacy was not just a preference, 163 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:32.519 but a safeguard. Adolph course the third was raised inside 164 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.440 that ethic. He was not groomed to be a playboy heir. 165 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.840 He was groomed to be a steward. The family's worldview 166 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:47.559 skewed conservative, shaped by faith in hierarchy, capitalism, and stability. 167 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:51.720 In later decades, the Corp's fortune would be associated with 168 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:58.200 right leaning causes and anti communist activism, particularly under Aidolph 169 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:02.759 the Third's son, Joseph cor But the philosophical foundation was 170 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:08.120 already in place by nineteen sixty. Order mattered, predictability mattered, 171 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:13.120 and discretion mattered. In that context, kidnapping was not merely 172 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.399 a crime. It was an assault on a belief system. 173 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:24.399 The corp's family had also cultivated a culture of meticulous documentation, ledgers, correspondence, 174 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:29.600 and careful oversight of every aspect of operations. That culture 175 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.960 would become vital in the aftermath of aid Off the 176 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.120 Third's disappearance, both as evidence and as a record of 177 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:42.000 the impact the event had on the company's structure. Employees 178 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:45.759 recalled that the brewery was unusually quiet in the weeks 179 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.039 after the incident, as executives worked in hushed offices and 180 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:56.200 operational meetings became tense and methodical. Friends described Aidolf Corps 181 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:01.519 the Third as disciplined, courteous, and intensely private. He kept 182 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.679 regular hours, drove familiar routes, and avoided excess. He believed 183 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.320 in systems corporate, familial, civic, and trusted that when those 184 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:17.320 systems were followed, outcomes would be fair. He married Mary 185 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.960 Grant in nineteen forty. Together they raised four children. His 186 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.480 role at the brewery expanded steadily. Colleagues viewed him as 187 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.759 a natural successor who would guide the company through its 188 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:34.159 next phase without drama. Corus was known for being hands 189 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:40.240 on in his management style, personally reviewing production schedules, quality reports, 190 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.240 and distribution logs. Those who worked under him described a 191 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:49.879 man of quiet authority, unassuming yet exacting, capable of making 192 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:54.159 the brewery run with precision. His private life mirrored this 193 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:59.759 methodical approach. He enjoyed hiking, fishing, and the occasional weekend 194 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:03.200 rear treat at the family cabin in the rockies. He 195 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:08.840 avoided public attention, seeing it as a potential liability rather 196 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:12.519 than a mark of status. Friends recall his fondness for 197 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:17.440 maintaining tradition and order, both at home and in business, 198 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.039 a trait that made the shock of his abduction all 199 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:26.080 the more jarring. The ransom note arrived, quickly, typed and concise, 200 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.200 as you know we have reviewed already. It demanded this 201 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.840 half million dollars and laid out instructions with mechanical clarity. 202 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:40.879 The FBI analyzed the paper and the typeface. Investigators advised 203 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.440 the family to comply. Marry Corps prepared the ransom. She 204 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:52.320 followed directions, she waited. Nothing came back. Days passed, then weeks. 205 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:58.360 The silence grew louder. Investigators began to suspect what they 206 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.000 had feared from the start, the ransom might be a decoy, 207 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:07.960 a performance staged after the fact. The FBI methodically mapped 208 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:13.399 out potential routes and hideouts, interviewing neighbors, employees, and anyone 209 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.399 who might have glimpsed Cores or his vehicle. Local police 210 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.919 were involved, but federal authorities increasingly took the lead due 211 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.720 to the interstate nature of the abduction. The investigation became 212 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.200 one of the largest and most coordinated of its time, 213 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:37.120 illustrating the federal government's expanding capability to manage high profile kidnappings. 214 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:44.000 The FBI widened its net, agents traced vehicles, bank activity, 215 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.639 and typewriter samples. Eight days after the disappearance, a burned 216 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.840 out car surfaced in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A serial 217 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:57.720 number remained legible on the engine block. It led investigators 218 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:02.679 to a name that would soon prove false, Walter Osborne. 219 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.320 The alias cracked quickly. The man behind it was Joseph 220 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.960 Corbett Junior, a former Air Force mechanic with a violent past, 221 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.879 an intellect sharpened by grievance, and a history of disappearing. 222 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:22.320 Corbett had a chillingly methodical approach to planning the kidnapping. 223 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:28.399 He had purchased handcuffs, ropes, firearms, and a vehicle suited 224 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.799 to moving a person across terrain unnoticed. His preparation reflected 225 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:39.320 his intelligence and premeditation, contrasting sharply with the panic and 226 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:44.480 grief of the Coarse family. Corbett's upbringing helps explain, if 227 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:49.480 not excuse, his path. Born in the nineteen twenties in California, 228 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:55.399 he had a difficult family life, showing early signs of defiance, resentment, 229 00:15:55.879 --> 00:16:01.399 and fascination with firearms. His intellectual abilities he studied physics 230 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:06.480 and pre med coexisted uneasily with an impulsive and often 231 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:11.879 violent streak. Previous murder convictions and prison escape in nineteen 232 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:17.279 fifty five had only reinforced his skills at subverting authority. 233 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.120 Months after the kidnapping, hikers discovered skeletal remains in the 234 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:27.679 Colorado Foothills. Nearby, a key ring bore the initials ac 235 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:34.559 the third. Forensic analysis confirmed what investigators had long suspected. 236 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.679 Adolph Corps The third had been shot on the day 237 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:42.480 he was taken. The ransom had always been alive. The 238 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:49.120 crime shifted from kidnapping to murder. Investigators reconstructed the timeline, 239 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.879 noting that cors had likely been killed within hours of 240 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.919 leaving his home. The meticulousness of the crime, combined with 241 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:01.559 the deception of the ransom, shocked both law enforcement and 242 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:06.400 the public. Corbett's trial in nineteen sixty one became a 243 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:13.640 national spectacle. Prosecutors presented detailed forensic evidence linking Corbet to 244 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:17.519 the crime, the typewriter used for the ransom note, the 245 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:22.920 burned car, traces of dirt matching Core's remains, an eyewitness 246 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:28.799 testimony placing Corbet in proximity to the crime. Witnesses recounted 247 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:33.960 seeing a yellow mercury that matched Corbet's and handwriting analysis 248 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.440 tied the note to his typewriter. Experts detailed the trajectory 249 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:43.160 of the fatal gunshot, reconstructing how the murder unfolded within 250 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:47.559 minutes of the abduction. Corbett attempted to present a defense, 251 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.839 claiming misidentification and lack of intent, but the weight of 252 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:59.519 physical evidence was overwhelming. Witnesses, forensic experts, and FBI agents 253 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:04.839 test to his careful planning and execution. On March twenty ninth, 254 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.279 nineteen sixty one, the jury found Corbett guilty of first 255 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:14.319 degree murder. He received a life sentence for the Corps family. 256 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.920 The murder of Adolph Coors the Third was not simply 257 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:23.440 a private loss. It was structural rapture. The company endured, 258 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:28.720 as dynasties often do. Beer was still brewed, bottles still 259 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:33.759 rolled off the line. In golden profits grew, but something essential, 260 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:39.240 something assumed, was gone. The belief that discretion equaled safety, 261 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:45.680 that order inoculated against chaos, that wealth properly managed and 262 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.680 quietly held created a kind of invisible shield. 263 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:50.759 It did not. 264 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:57.079 Inside the brewery, employees recalled an immediate and palapable shift. 265 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.720 Meetings became more controlled. That once had been left open 266 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:08.960 were closed. Access points were restricted, schedules were altered. Security details, 267 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:14.640 once minimal almost symbolic, became institutional. The brewery was no 268 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.799 longer just a workplace. It was a guarded perimeter. The 269 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:24.160 family retreated further into privacy, not out of aloofness but necessity. 270 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.799 The kidnapping had taught them a brutal lesson. Visibility was 271 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.960 of vulnerability. Adolf, course the third, had been groomed to 272 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.519 inherit stewardship of both a business and a belief system. 273 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:44.680 With his death, then inheritance fractured leadership passed differently than planned, 274 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:49.880 the burden of legacy fell heavier and more defensively on 275 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:55.640 the next generation. For Joseph Course Adolph's son, the loss 276 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:59.359 would become formative. He was still young when his father 277 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.640 was murdered, but the crime would echo throughout his adult life, 278 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.559 shaping both his worldview and his politics. In later years, 279 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:14.480 Joseph Cours would emerge as a powerful conservative benefactor, deeply 280 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:20.920 involved in anti communist causes, libertarian economics, and the architecture 281 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:26.960 of modern American conservatism. Historians have often noted that the 282 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:33.119 Core's family's political engagement intensified after nineteen sixty, not merely 283 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:38.519 as ideology, but as reaction. The kidnapping hardened their belief 284 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:43.279 that the world was unstable, that institutions were fragile, and 285 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:47.160 that order had to be actively defended. The crime did 286 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:51.440 not radicalize the family so much as clarify something they 287 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:57.160 had already believed, that chaos was always waiting at the edges. Publicly, 288 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.440 the family spoke little about eight Off five Corps. The 289 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:04.599 third after his funeral. There was no extended. 290 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:06.599 Interviews, no memoirs. 291 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:11.799 No public reckoning. Silence once again became the strategy, but 292 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:17.160 silence did not erase memory. Within Colorado, the story lingered 293 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:21.559 like a shadow. Locals remembered the bridge, the abandoned car, 294 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.359 the sense that something unthinkable had happened to people who 295 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.519 were supposed to be untouchable. The case entered the state's 296 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:36.240 criminal folklore, a reminder that violence does not respect class lines. Nationally, 297 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:40.160 the kidnapping altered how law enforcement and the public understood 298 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:46.240 crimes against the wealthy. It accelerated federal involvement in ransom cases, 299 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:53.200 influenced security practices among corporate elites, and quietly reshaped how 300 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:58.119 powerful families moved through the world. The Corp's dynasty continued, 301 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:02.160 but it was no longer naive. The murder of Adolph 302 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.440 Coors the Third did not end the family's influence. If anything, 303 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.200 it sharpened it. But it came at a cost that 304 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:12.519 could never be recouped, the loss of a man whose 305 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:16.640 greatest strength had been his belief that systems worked, that 306 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:21.680 reals mattered, that predictability was protection. That belief died with 307 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:25.680 him on a cold February morning. What replaced it was 308 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.839 vigilance and a legacy forever marked by the knowledge that 309 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:36.680 even dynasties bleed, and that my friend is wow of 310 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:38.359 Adolph Coors the third. 311 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:40.039 That is tragic. 312 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:44.039 I know, I had no idea they. 313 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:45.759 I did not know that that had happened. 314 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:50.200 And I'm sure in Colorado this is very much steeped 315 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:51.759 in their history. 316 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.319 That's what I'm thinking. 317 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:56.440 And I did a little digging on him on those 318 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.680 two men, Adolph and Joe. And Joe is I think 319 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.920 he was born in twenty eight. Adolph was born in 320 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.359 nineteen fifteen. So he's younger and stronger than Adolph. 321 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:08.319 I can see. 322 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:13.319 You know, Adolf what nineteen fifteen, nineteen sixty, So Adolph's 323 00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:16.559 forty five. Sounds like a strong guy. I know he's 324 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:19.480 a Capricorn, so he's taking good care of himself. He's 325 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:24.359 born to lead this company. Yeah, and some guy out 326 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:29.200 of Washington just comes up with some flim flam idea, Yeah, 327 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:33.240 what's right? One hundred thousand back then, I'm gonna look 328 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:33.599 at him. 329 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.680 I bet it's a lot. Five hundred thousand is a 330 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:43.160 lot now, I believe. So I know it's. 331 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:48.400 Probably like a billion dollars. It's so exorbitant. That's very sad. 332 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.599 I'm very cowarded what you take from another You know 333 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:54.640 how I feel about five hundred thousand and nineteen sixty 334 00:23:54.759 --> 00:24:01.880 is worth approximately five point four eight million today five 335 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:04.640 and a half million. That's a lot of money. That 336 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:06.000 is quite a bit of money. 337 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.920 So I just don't know, like was Joseph Was he 338 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:14.240 motivated by the money? 339 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:16.200 I'm trying to figure. 340 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:20.200 Out was it just the money or did he you know. 341 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:23.400 Did you really think that it sounds like just the 342 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.960 most kind of keystone compish. I tried to kidnap him, right, 343 00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:31.440 This man he knows how to lead a company that 344 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.240 I'm thinking that he knows how to take care of 345 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.759 himself a little bit, you know it is he's a 346 00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:36.920 nice big man. 347 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.960 I mean, he's running a million dollar, multimillion dollar corporation 348 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.839 that goes back almost one hundred years from when he 349 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.920 took it over, right, yes, so, and you know it's 350 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:53.400 this family dynasty. I just these kidnapping and ransom stories 351 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:54.559 always fascinated me. 352 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:56.160 I don't know why. 353 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:01.359 The baby, yeah, this one and then the one that 354 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.720 happened in the seventies to William Randolph Hurst. Remember his 355 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.640 he was yeah, he was the guy that his. 356 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:14.799 Grandson was oh yeah, yes, yeah or million and it 357 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:17.119 was some very and he wasn't going to pay it. 358 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:19.039 I remember that story. 359 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.680 He was like the richest guy on the planet or something, 360 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.200 and he was the one that owned all those newspapers. 361 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:28.200 And I remember he wasn't going to pay it, and 362 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:31.599 I think they talked the kid tampers down or something 363 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:33.039 because he ended up paying less. 364 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.400 I think I think they cut off his ear. 365 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:37.640 Yeah, they cut off something, yet I think it was 366 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.000 his ear and they did return him. 367 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.480 But I would just like, what that. 368 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.880 I want to say he died of a drug overdose, 369 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:47.200 like he mentally never got over it. 370 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:51.200 Which oh I'm sure. I mean his grandfather didn't want 371 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.440 to pay the ransom. What the fuck is that? 372 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:54.519 That is insane? 373 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:57.559 Like your money is more important. I mean Mary was 374 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:00.359 right on it. She's like, Okay, I'll get the five hundred. 375 00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:01.640 I'm on it. 376 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:02.400 I'm on it. 377 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.880 I'm getting the money. I want my husband back. So 378 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:07.200 I don't know, I feel bad to you. I think 379 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.799 they play it smart. The not play it smart. They 380 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:10.759 just live smartly. 381 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:15.599 If you flaunt, then you are just showing what is 382 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:20.519 available to take, yeah from another right right, and they're 383 00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:24.359 just yeah, they're just quiet people doing their thing. 384 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:26.799 Like that East Coast money. 385 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.319 Yeah, that are flaunting it. 386 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:32.240 In New York City it all about. 387 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.799 But yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's tragic. I had no idea. 388 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:40.880 Obviously I did the story, but before I heard about it, 389 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:44.079 obviously I didn't know about it. But it's just I 390 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.920 didn't realize that it was such a kidnapping, like drawn 391 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:50.480 out in everything. And I don't know why it's not 392 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.279 one of the more These kidnapping and ransoms happen all 393 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:53.920 the time, But. 394 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.119 Adolf story was as quiet as he was. I guess 395 00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:57.519 you know. 396 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.279 It sounds like, yes, as quiet as him and his 397 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.680 family are, but it's still it's sad because they did 398 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:07.720 seem to take the practical steps and still they got 399 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:09.839 struck from some guy in Washington. 400 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:12.960 Yeah, they just put a beat on them. 401 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:17.839