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Tony Kiritsis holds Richard O. Hall captive at gunpoint, with a shotgun rigged to Hall's neck, during a hostage situation in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tony Kiritsis holds a sawed-off shotgun to Richard Hall's head while forcing him down a city sidewalk, with two police officers nearby, in Indianapolis, 1977.
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Tony Kiritsis holds Richard O. Hall captive at gunpoint, with a shotgun rigged to Hall's neck, during a hostage situation in Indianapolis, Indiana.
“By God I'll have vengeance” Tony Kiritsis holding Richard (Dick) Hall hostage at gunpoint in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 1977.

Tony Kiritsis

American businessman and kidnapper
Also known as: Anthony George Kiritsis
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Tony Kiritsis (born August 13, 1932, Indianapolis?, Indiana, U.S.—died January 28, 2005, Indianapolis) was an American businessman who took mortgage executive Richard (Dick) Hall hostage for some 63 hours in February 1977 because of a business dispute. The incident became national news as the story unfolded on television and radio. Kiritsis used a “dead man’s line,” a contraption that connected both him and Hall to a shotgun, and the two men walked through downtown Indianapolis...

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