Tony Kiritsis created a contraption called a “dead man’s line,” which he used to take mortgage executive Richard (Dick) Hall hostage in February 1977. Kiritsis wrapped steel wire around Hall’s neck and rigged it to the trigger of a sawed-off shotgun held to Hall’s head. The wire was also connected to Kiritsis’s finger. If Hall tried to escape or if Kiritsis was shot and fell, the gun would go off, killing Hall. Kiritsis called his invention a “dead man’s line.”
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