The birthday party / Alpert, Stanley N

Stanley Alpert recounts the events surrounding his 1998 kidnapping, describing how he played on his captors' attitudes and fears to help him escape.

Former federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert describes his experiences after being kidnapped on January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, by thugs who wanted to use his ATM card, and who decided to hold onto him a while longer after learning the size of his bank account.