What radio preacher, who lived too early for television, disappeared from Venice Beach in 1926, and when she was found five weeks later in Mexico, asserted that she had escaped from kidnappers, who were holding her for ransom? She is the subject of the Musical "Scandalous," with book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford, which ran on Broadway for 29 performances in 2012.
Aimee Semple McPherson