June 30, 2026
Chapter 146: 83 Hours in the Dark-The Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle Pt. 2
The search for Barbara Mackle was becoming a race against time. After 20-year-old Barbara was buried alive inside a custom-built underground capsule, her family and the FBI faced an impossible challenge: pay a $500,000 ransom before her air supply...
The search for Barbara Mackle was becoming a race against time.
After 20-year-old Barbara was buried alive inside a custom-built underground capsule, her family and the FBI faced an impossible challenge: pay a $500,000 ransom before her air supply ran out. But when the first ransom exchange went disastrously wrong, investigators feared they had lost their only chance to save her.In Part 2 of Barbara Mackle's incredible story, I'll tell you all about the failed ransom drop, the intense FBI investigation, the successful payoff that finally put agents on the trail, and the desperate search that led to Barbara's rescue after 83 terrifying hours underground.
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to the next chapter in the Book of the Dead.
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Last week I told you the story of Barbara Mackel,
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the twenty year old heiress to the Deltona Corporation who
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was abducted from the motel she was staying at in Atlanta,
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Georgia with her mother, Jane, on December seventeenth, nineteen sixty eight.
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Jane Mackall had been tricked into opening the motel room
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door by the kidnappers, as they had pretended to be
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police officers there to notify them about an accident possibly
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involving Barbara's boyfriend. Barbara had been taken from the room
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at gunpoint, her mother bound on the floor, and she
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was driven to a secluded area near Duluth where she
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was to be buried alive. Her kidnappers, twenty three year
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old Garry Christ and twenty six year old Ruth eisman Shire,
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had met just a few short months before the abduction,
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where Chris told Ruth all about his plot for the
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perfect crime. He meticulously researched the Mackle family as well
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as Barbara, and built a box he called a capsule.
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This for lack but better term coffin was designed to
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sustain human life for seven days. It was equipped with
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air tubes and ventilation, a light, food, water, and blankets,
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and placed in a hole dug by Chris the day
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before the abduction. Upon placing Barbara in the capsule, Chris
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took her ring and took a photo of her with
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a sign on her chest that said kidnapped. The box
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was unsealed and covered with dirt, and Chris and Ruth
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drove away. Their promise to check on Barbara every couple
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of hours nothing but a lie while Chris that conducted
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countless hours of research on the Mackle family. He neglected
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to see who the family was connected to. The Mackaels
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were not only close friends with President elect Richard Nixon,
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but also close with the director of the FBI, j
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Edgar Hoover. When Jane Mackle raised the alarm that her
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daughter had been taken, Hoover personally got involved with the
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investigation to find her, deploying agents to Florida to find
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out who Barber's abductors were a few hours after her abduction,
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Christ placed a call to the Macles, and mombeknownst to him,
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told an FBI agent who picked up the phone exactly
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where they could find the ransom letter they had buried
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in the mackles backyard. The ransom letter claimed that Barber
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was okay, though very uncomfortable, and was buried in a
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remote location that only her abductors were aware of. Robert
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Mackel was to follow the demands completely, otherwise her location
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would never be revealed, and he had seven days to comply,
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after which, if the ransom money was not procured, Barbara
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would run out of air and food. Robert was to
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gather five hundred thousand dollars and recently issued twenty dollars bills.
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The criteria for these bills was very strict, no marking
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of any kind, and no more than ten bills at
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a time were to have consecutive serial numbers. The bills
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were to be placed in a suitcase with specific dimensions,
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and they would undergo a minimum of eight hours of
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testing before the abductors would divulge Barber's location. Robert was
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to place a specific advertisement that would appear in the
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classified of the Miami area newspapers, and he would then
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receive a phone call with instructions regarding the drop off.
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The letter specified that the information in the call would
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not be repeated. After making the telephone call to alert
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the macals about the ransom letter, Christ and Ruth drove
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to Jacksonville, Florida, with Ruth hiding under a harp on
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the floor of Chris Volvo. Chris knew based on news
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coverage of the kidnapping that police were looking for two individuals,
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so this is why he had Ruth hide during the
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drive in Jacksonville. Before heading off to Miami, Ruth mailed
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a few postcards to her friends and then gave a
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stamp to Christ so that he had mailed the polaroid
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he had taken o Barbara, as well as her ring
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to the macklhome as proof of her abduction. Around three
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a m. On the eighteenth, according to the timeline of
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events written by FBI agent William Bean, Christ and Ruth
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arrived at the trailer he had previously shared with his
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wife and children. After sleeping for a while, Ruth and
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Chris left the trailer separately so as not to be
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seen together by any of the residents, and they went
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to a laundromat where they washed their clothes, and Chris
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took his car to a car wash to get rid
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of any evidence of his vehicle being at the burial site.
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After getting the car cleaned, Chris placed the call to
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a father McKay, who led the Mackles parish, and explained
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that he had abducted the Mackel's daughter. He told Father
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mulkay that he was to speak to Robert Mackele and
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encourage him to follow the instructions in the ransom letter.
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Christ explained that Barbara was sick and coughing, and that
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her situation was perilous. Meanwhile, Robert mackel was already gathering
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the money to pay the ransom. According to William Bean,
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the cash was prepared under the direct supervision of FBI agents,
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and the serial numbers for each of the twenty five
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twenty dollars bills was written down and photographed before being
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placed in the suitcase with the exact dimension specified in
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the letter. That same day, December eighteenth, Robert Mackle placed
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an ad in the classified section of two different newspapers saying, quote,
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loved one, please come home. We will pay all expenses
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and meet anywhere at any time your family. A few
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hours after this advertisement was made, Gary christ saw the
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ad in an issue of the Miami Herald. He had
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picked it up after visiting a doctor using the name
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George Deacon to have a rash looked at. He continued
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making preparations for the ransom pick up after this, showing
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Ruth the spot in Biscayne Bay where the pickup would
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generally be occurring, including selling a trailer of his belongings.
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As they awaited a call from Barbara's abductors, the FBI
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was incredibly hard at work trying to identify their suspects.
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They knew that they were looking for two people and
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that one was approximately six feet tall and two hundred
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and forty pounds, while the other was significantly shorter, about
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five to two and one hundred and thirty pounds. According
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to William Bean, the motels in and around Decatur were
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looked into for any patrons that match these descriptions, and
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they also looked into Barbara's movements at Emory University just
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before her kidnapping. In doing this, they received some interesting information,
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as I explained last episode. Prior to arriving at the
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roadway in motel to kidnap Barbara, Christ and Ruth went
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to the university to look for her, where they had
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been seen by more than one person. One of the
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witnesses was the assistant professor of economics who had called
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the dean of the School of Business Administration, where Barbara
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was enrolled, to explain what he had seen. The professor
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was interviewed by the FBI and was able to give
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them a lot of information to aid them in the investigation.
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According to this professor, he had last seen Barbara at
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around three pm on December thirteenth, when he let her
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leave early during her exam due to being sick with
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what would turn out to be the flu. The next day,
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at around two pm, he saw to quote hippie type
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individuals in the lobby of one of the buildings on campus.
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This stood out to him because this particular building was
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closed on Saturdays, and the appearance of these two was memorable.
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He described a male as being Caucasian, six feet tall,
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over two hundred pounds, with dark hair and a full beard.
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He was in his twenties with a ready complexion, prominent cheeks,
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and he was wearing a gold cardigan in dark wool trousers.
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The woman with him was described as anywhere from sixteen
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years old to being in her twenties, five foot two,
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around one hundred pounds, with very short, blonde hair. She
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also had a ready complexion and a healthy physique, as
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if she spent a lot of time outdoors. She was
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wearing a boy's shirt, brown down and pants and tennis shoes.
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The professor recalled the man, asking him for a list
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of students, and he responded by telling him that they
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would have to come back on Monday. The man also
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asked if classes were still going on through December seventeenth,
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and the master said the classes had finished, but exams
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would continue until that date. The professor remembered the man
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saying to the woman, quote, we can't find her in class.
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Then the professor then observed the two getting into a
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dark blue, late model square backed vehicle with Massachusetts license
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plates with the first letter being why. He believed that
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the vehicle was possibly a Volkswagon and that the license
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plate might have also had a zero into two in
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the number. The professor also told the FBI that he
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had heard the man on a payphone looking for Barbara Mackle.
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The man was overheard telling the woman that she was
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staying at a motel indicator. The Boston FBI Field Office
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got in contact with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles
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and learned that the possible vehicle belonging to their kidnapper
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could be any one of up to ninety two thousand cars.
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The Registry of Motor Vehicles began isolating all of the
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vehicles with the specifications of a dark blues, square backed Volkswagen,
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and then a program was to be used to isolate
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all of the vehicles on that list with a license
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plate beginning with the letter Y. On December nineteenth, after
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all man delivered to the mackele family was screened, a
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letter was given to Robert that was postmarked from Miami
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the day before and contained a gold ring and a
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photograph of a woman with a sign on her chest
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that Red kidnapped. Robert positively identified the woman as being
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his daughter and the ring as belonging to her. At
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three forty seven am, the phone rang at the mackle
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home and Robert answered. On the other end was a
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man who claimed to be one of Barbara's abductors. He
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directed Robert to go to fair Isle Street and drive
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up the road until he came to a wall where
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he would see a blinking white light. Robert was to
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place the suitcase with the money in a box with
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another light attached, close the lid, and then leave the
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area immediately. Robert left right away to make the drop off,
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but at four forty one the phone rang at the
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mackel's home again. This time Robert's brother answered. The kidnapper
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explained that Robert had not made contact and the money
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had not been received, but Robert's brother assured the caller
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that Robert had indeed left and was likely making the
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drop as they spoke. As Robert mackell returned to his
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home and relayed what had happened to his family and
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the FBI. He had no idea that the drop had
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gone wrong. Robert mackell had indeed made it to the
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location on fair Isle Street after some times been trying
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to find it, and he had parked his car about
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thirty feet away from the sea wall, but he couldn't
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find a blinking light or the box he was supposed
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to put the suitcase in, so he dropped the case
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over the wall and drove home. He noted that the
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area was well lit, but there was no one around
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that he could see. On beknownst to Robert, at around
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four am when he made the drop, a police officer
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doing patrol on Rickenbocker Causeway and twenty nine hundred South
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Brickle Avenue noticed a blue Volvo station wagon with Massachusetts
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plates that read nine seven two zero nine eight. The
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car was fifty yards and the barricaded entrance to Brickle
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Avenue that grants access to keep his gain. In observing
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the car from the outside, the police officer noted that
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there was luggage and personal belongings inside. In running the
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license played through the police satabase, he saw that the
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vehicle had not been reported as stolen. It's important to
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note that the FBI had neglected to inform local police
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that a ransom drop was to be taking place in
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this area. The officer was joined by another and they
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sat and watched the valvox for a while to see
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if the owner would return. At around four forty five,
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they spotted someone carrying a large bag walking between two
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homes near where the Volvo was parked. The individual was
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ordered to identify himself, but they dropped the bag and ran.
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The police. Officers recover what was ultimately a suitcase, and
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inside it was filled with twenty dollars bills. The suitcase
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was brought back to headquarters where it was turned over
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to the FBI, and, after positively being identified as the
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ransom money in the macelcase, it was brought back to
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the family that evening. In fleeing the scene, Chris had
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left his car behind and the FBI arrived to have
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the vehicle processed. According to the narrative by William Bean,
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after a search warrant was issued, the Volva was searched
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and items of great significance was found that were photographed
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and sent to the FBI laboratory. A University of Miami
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notebook with the name Ruth written on it. Three blank
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pages of notebook paper were found to have indentations from
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writing on other pages on them. Upon processing, the indentations
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matched the wording from the three page ransom letter, suggesting
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to the FBI that the blank pages had been used
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as backing paper when typing out the letter. Also in
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the vehicle was a wall containing the idea of a
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Ruth eisman Shire, as well as papers pointing to her
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being a student at Miami U, and polaroids of two
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individuals taken in what looked to be an apartment. Many
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