German Company's Giant Cookie Goes Missing Published January 31, 2013 at 7:48 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:28

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. When the huge golden cookie that stood for 100 years outside the headquarters of a big German cookie maker went missing, the company put up a reward. Then

the kidnapper sent a ransom note. I have the biscuit, it said with text cut from magazines. It demanded the company donate cookies to children in a local hospital, and the reward to an