According to the AP wire, authorities uncovered a plot to kidnap David Letterman’s baby son. “The man charged Thursday with hatching the scheme, Kelly A. Frank, worked as a painter at the talk-show host’s 2,700-acre spread near the rugged Rocky Mountain Front. The 43-year-old Frank, according to police, had planned to hold the boy and his nanny for $5 million ransom.”The story continues. “Mike Ferriter of the state Department of Corrections said Frank had been working as a painter at Letterman’s ranch west of Choteau in north-central Montana and apparently confided in an acquaintance earlier this month of his plan to kidnap Letterman’s son and nanny for ransom.
“According to the affidavit filed by Teton County Attorney Joe Coble, Frank had told the acquaintance that he knew Letterman and his family would be visiting their Montana home soon, and that Frank had a key to the house, knew where the baby slept and intended to kidnap the nanny ‘so that she could take care of the child.’”
