The main reason that this case was famous is really because they kidnapped a very popular singer in himself Frank Sinatra jr. In the 1960's not only was Frank Sinatra jr. was not only very popular but so was his father and Frank had been very known since he was a child. Frank had been in the limelight since a very young age and everything was very open to the public so it wasn't that hard to find out where he was and made the kidnapping easier. The kidnapping was so popular the defense in court tried to say that the kidnapping had been set up by Frank set it up on himself as a sort of publicity stunt.