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Dead Man's Wire True Story: When An Ordinary Man Snapped, Took A Hostage, And Became A Legend

Dead Man's Wire True Story: When An Ordinary Man Snapped, Took A Hostage, And Became A Legend

Brady, Andrew

Paperback

True Crime

ISBN13: 9798277985403
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 8 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
February 8, 1977. Indianapolis.
A quiet real-estate developer named Tony Kiritsis walks into a mortgage office with a sawed-off shotgun and seventy-five feet of picture wire. Minutes later he and the company president are bound together by a homemade rig that guarantees if Tony dies, the other man dies first. For the next sixty-three hours the entire city-and soon the nation-watches live as one ordinary citizen turns his private desperation into the loudest act of defiance most Americans had ever seen.

Dead Man's Wire True Story is the definitive account of how a hardworking Greek-American father became convinced the system was stealing his life, rigged a dead man's line to a hostage's neck, and accidentally turned himself into a folk hero while the cameras rolled. Part heart-pounding standoff, part gut-wrenching descent into paranoia, part indictment of the fine print that still crushes dreams today, this is the book that finally tells the full, unfiltered story-straight from the tapes, the courtroom, the apartment walls, and the men who lived it.

You've heard the legend.

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