Complex sentence: The Piper Kidnapping Case-On July 27,1972, Piper was kidnapped from her home in Orono, Minnesota and held for one million dollars ransom, then the largest ransom ever reported in the United States and the third largest in the world.
Split into simpler sentences: The Piper Kidnapping Case-On July 27,1972, Piper was kidnapped from her home in Orono, Minnesota and held for one million dollars ransom. At that time it was the largest ransom ever reported in the United States and the third largest in the world.