He's arraigned in wife's kidnap
HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut advertising executive taken from his burning home after police say he kidnapped his ex-wife and held her hostage during a 13-hour standoff has been arraigned in his hospital room.
Defense attorney Hugh Keefe says Richard Shenkman's arraignment was delayed by about a half-hour yesterday because Shenkman was heavily medicated and slipping in and out of consciousness. Shenkman is being treated for smoke inhalation.
Bond was set at $12.5 million on kidnapping and other charges.
Shenkman is accused of abducting his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, in Hartford on Tuesday morning and holding her in his South Windsor home.
The standoff ended after midnight, several hours after Tyler escaped, and as the home was burning to the ground.
He is due in court July 14.
Henkman kept police at bay for hours by saying he had booby-trapped the house with explosives. *
-Associated Press
