There are a number of components that allow us to profile the ransomer, who is most likely also the thief. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
You can ignore the ransomer, and hope the police track him down, or you can try to draw the ransomer into a trap, helping the police. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
The victor was defeated, the monarch was dethroned, the ransomer of prisoners was in captivity, the general was deserted by his soldiers, the master abandoned by his domestics, the brother parted from his brethren, the husband severed from the wife, and the father torn from his only child. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827] Reference
Agias was full of protestations of delight at beholding his intercessor and ransomer. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
In the discharge of his office of ransomer, he purchased at Algiers the liberty of a great number of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. R. M.] Reference
Raymond made such progress in the religious life that he was soon considered worthy to succeed his master in the office of ransomer. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Thou hast loosed my bonds, and thereby bound me for ever to wear Thy yoke '; as the slave clings to his ransomer, and delights to serve him all the days of his life?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
But perhaps even this is not always true; e.g. should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may be (or pay him if he has not been captured but demands payment) or should he ransom his father?. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
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And yet this rule may admit of exceptions; for instance, which is the higher duty? for one who has been ransomed out of the hands of robbers to ransom in return his ransomer, be he who he may, or to repay him on his demand though he has not been taken by robbers, or to ransom his own father? for it would seem that a man ought to ransom his father even in preference to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
We must decide how to deal with the ransomer. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
O ghostly treasure, O ransomer and redeemer. From Wordnik.com. ["Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays] Reference
Come then the ransomer, and take him hence. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
O ghostly treasure, O ransomer and redeemer!. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
Whilst he, her ransomer, in a dungeon stayed. From Wordnik.com. [Polyeucte] Reference
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