Arthur Seale

Arthur Seale (1946-), of Hillside, New Jersey [Nieves, Evelyn. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DA143DF93BA15755C0A964958260 "Portrait of 2 Accused of Kidnapping: Ardent, Hapless Pursuit of Affluence"] , "The New York Times", June 28, 1992. Accessed October 2, 2007. "Growing up in Hillside, N.J., Arthur Seale and Jackie Szarko were more than comfortable."] , was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Sidney Reso, the Vice President of International Operations for Exxon on April 29, 1992, in Morris Township, New Jersey. The case garnered national notoriety.

Childhood

Seale's father was a Hillside police officer. He attended A.P. Morris, and Hillside High School. Seale graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in 1965.

Career

In the 1970s, Seale was a police officer for the township. He was arrested after placing a telephone call from a public telephone. At that time his identity in the matter was unknown, but he was detained after an officer spotted him emerging from a phone booth wearing latex rubber gloves.

Imprisonment

Seale is serving a life sentence, without parole, in a Federal Prison in North Dakota where he has earned advanced degrees in psychology and some degree of praise and recognition for his work with other inmates and his articles on prison reform and prisoner rehabilitation.

References

External links

* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/sidney_reso_kidnap/index.html A Simple Man of Simple Tastes]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975990,00.html Reso's Last Days: How an $18.5 million kidnapping was botched from the start]