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January 17, 2024 Vol. 44, No. 29
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Have you heard the one about the purloined father and the chimp?
Taking it all in slide
When Jonathan Pitts lived in Oak Park, his father was kidnapped. The rest is a good story
MORE WINTERY PHOTOS, PAGE 44
By JACK HELBIG Contributing Reporter
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Jonathan Pitts, a Chicago-based performer, storyteller and teacher was four-and-a-half when his dad, Dave Pitts, was kidnapped by a hitchhiking serial killer, Larry Ranes, just outside Las Vegas. The odd thing is that Pitts didn’t find out about his father’s kidnapping until 37 years later, when he happened across a 1964 article from the Chicago Sun-Times recounting Dave Pitts’ encounter with Ranes. When he did, he did what any seasoned storyteller would do — he wrote a monologue about it. The former Oak Parker performed it onstage earlier this month in Chicago. See PITTS on page 18
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