Before he became a global media giant—and way before Fox News or the Murdoch-inspired 'Succession'—he was a target of a criminal plot that ended in tragedy.
brought up a disturbing crime from Murdoch’s past in which an attempted kidnapping for ransom of his wife Anna led to the gruesome murder of the spouse of one of his deputies.was revisiting the incident. She recalls the crime and its aftermath as “a really, really terrible time.” The victims were good friends of the Murdochs, and she was appalled that people in London accused her husband’s tabloid of fabricating the story to get publicity. “It was awful,” she says.
Grabbing the billhook for protection, McKay searched the house. The couple’s two cars were in the garage. He had been traveling back and forth to his job as acting chairman of the London Sunday tabloidin the Rolls-Royce owned by his boss, 38-year-old newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who was on vacation in Australia with Anna.
, requesting that the ransom be paid in two installments. In the ensuing weeks, they repeatedly called McKay, who insisted he had nowhere near the amount they were demanding. He became increasingly alarmed at the idea that his wife was already dead. On January 27, an envelope arrived with another payment demand. The kidnappers also sent a note scrawled by Muriel that included the line “Keep police out of this if you want to see me.
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