The wealthy heir to his father's department store, Brooke Hart would never get a chance to take the reigns of his family's empire. In 1933 at just 22 years old, Brooke was kidnapped with his father soon being asked to pay a ransom of $50,000. Little could he have known that the perpetrators had no intention of returning his son and had already murdered him. Enraged by their callous act of greed and evil, over 15000 residents attacked the jail the killers were held at, dragged them to a local park and lynched them.