Arthur Seale (born 1947), of Hillside, New Jersey,[1] and his wife Irene were responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Sidney Reso, the Vice President of International Operations for Exxon on April 29, 1992, in Morris Township, New Jersey. The case garnered national notoriety.
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Seale's father was a Hillside police officer. He attended A.P. Morris, and Hillside High School. Seale graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in 1965.
In the 1970s, Seale was a police officer for the township. Art Seale also worked as Head of Security at Exxon Corporation at the Floram Park N.J.Tanker Division location in 1982, and was promoted to Finance Manager there in 1984. Art left Exxon a few years later to begin his own furniture business in the Carolinas. After the kidnapping, he was arrested after placing a telephone call from a public telephone. At that time his identity in the matter was unknown, but he was detained after an officer spotted him emerging from a phone booth wearing latex rubber gloves.
Seale is serving a 95 year sentence, in a Federal Prison in Kentucky where he has earned advanced degrees in psychology and some degree of praise and recognition for his work with other inmates and his articles on prison reform and prisoner rehabilitation. [1]
Irene plead guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was released in November 2009. [2]