Wednesday 4th of October 1978 (x) — Singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette is supposedly kidnapped and terrorized by an unidentified masked man, physically assaulted and abandoned 80 miles away In her 2000 memoir Wynette's daughter Jackie Daly published that her mother had confessed to her that the kidnapping was a hoax to cover up domestic violence from her fifth husband George Richey. Richey denied the allegation.