"Perished" means to die, often violently. "Taken" means forcibly seized. "Shortly after" marks a brief gap. The structure implies causation: the abduction led to death. This fits ransom note rhetoric, where harm follows capture. No external evidence is needed. Literal definitions and linguistic convention fix the meaning.
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