Marvin L. Maple

Marvin Leroy Maple (January 14, 1936 – May 26, 2016) was an American grandfather arrested at age 73 for kidnapping two of his grandchildren more than 20 years earlier.
After losing a custody dispute with the children's natural parents in 1989, Maple and his wife moved from their home in <a href="/facts/Murfreesboro,_Tennessee/hpCvAlIp">Murfreesboro, Tennessee</a>, taking their 7-year-old grandson and 8-year-old granddaughter with them. They all changed their names and started a new life together in <a href="/facts/San_Jose,_California/PCaTmTDq">San Jose, California</a>. The grandparents eventually put the two children through college.
By the time authorities located Maple in 2009, the grandson was 27 years old. The granddaughter was 28 years old and still living with her grandfather. At that point, neither of the children, then adults, wanted to reconnect with their natural parents. The grandmother had died two years earlier.
Maple was <a href="/facts/Extradited/W6tEfWRQ">extradited</a> to face charges in <a href="/facts/Tennessee/A3mLY9bu">Tennessee</a>, where he was placed on four years' probation. He died in 2016 at age 80.

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Marvin L. Maple