St. Louis businessman Todd Beckman and a pair of brothers are set to enter guilty pleas this week in a bizarre kidnapping case.
Beckman, 52, founded the TanCo chain of tanning salons and eventually built a small empire of luxury lifestyle companies, including MassageLuXe, that spans eleven states.
He was one of five people arrested in late 2016 after a 24-year-old Maplewood man told police he had been kidnapped from his home and, over the course of three days, beaten and threatened until his parents paid a $27,000 ransom, according to documents filed by prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office.…