June 23, 2026
Chapter 145: Buried Alive-The Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle Pt. 1
In December 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was abducted from a Georgia motel and buried alive in a custom-built underground box while her kidnappers demanded a $500,000 ransom. For 83 terrifying hours, Barbara fought panic, darkness, and the fear that she would never be found. This week in part 1, i walk you through the planning if one of theFBI's most infamous kidnappings.
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Associated Press. (2019, March 11). Kidnaper who used “Grave” accepted at medical school - Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-19-mn-7529-story.html
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Craig Woodward Cwoodward@wpl-legal.com. (2020, January 30). Who dunnit: Anatomy of an egomaniacal con artist – Part 3 of 3. Coastal Breeze News. https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/columnists/coastal_history/who-dunnit-anatomy-of-an-egomaniacal-con-artist-part-3-of-3/article_136b88bf-b3fa-5512-a4ff-b74dbcfd07ed.html
Gary Steven Krist. (n.d.). FBI.gov. https://multimedia.fbi.gov/item?id=7396&type=image&utm
Gary Steven Krist. (2026a, January 17). Grokipedia. https://grokipedia.com/page/Gary_Steven_Krist
Lallanilla, M. (2026, April 2). The heiress who was buried alive—and survived | A&E. AETV. https://www.aetv.com/articles/heiress-buried-alive-survived-against-all-odds
Neumann, S. (2024, November 2). How a 20-Year-Old heiress survived her kidnapping and being buried alive for 3 days: “I screamed and screamed.” People. https://people.com/barbara-mackle-kidnapping-buried-alive-8736831
Notorious Georgia kidnapper out of prison again. (2011, March 7). Corrections1. https://www.corrections1.com/re-entry-and-recidivism/articles/notorious-georgia-kidnapper-out-of-prison-again-sroPKw1oTdMSoHqd/
Special To The New York Times. (1968, December 21). Escaped Prison on Coast. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/21/archives/escaped-prison-on-coast.html
The Mackle Company LLC. (n.d.). The Mackle Company. https://www.themacklecompany.com
Time. (1968, December 27). The Girl in the Box. https://time.com/archive/6636526/crime-the-girl-in-the-box/
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. (1970). Krist V. Smith. In Justia U.S. Law (309 F. Supp. 497). https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/309/497/2096118/
Winerip, M. (1978, December 21). For Barbara Mackle, ’68 kidnapping is a closed subject. The Bradenton Herald, B2.
Woodward, C. (2010, January 13). The Daring Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle – Part 1 of 3. Coastal Breeze News. https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/columnists/the-daring-kidnapping-of-barbara-mackle-part-1-of-3/article_0823b341-edc0-540d-8d52-6f8e48bcc48a.html
Beane, W. F. (2005, January 24). FBI Oral History Project (Oral history interview addendum material). Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. https://socxfbi.org/Common/Uploaded%20files/OralHistory/Beane%20Addenda.pdf
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Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the Book
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of the Dead. When I was younger, I had what
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I would probably consider now to be a fascination with
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the concept of being buried alive. Part of that likely
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stems from my crippling fear of death, where a variety
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of my other little quirks come from, like in aversion
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to walking over storm drains, Thank you, Stephen King. But
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looking back, a lot of the media I consumes as
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a child and young teenager had to do with this
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terrible way to die. I read books like What Happened
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to Cast McBride by Gail Giles, where the titular character
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is buried alive by her classmate after he blames her
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for his brother taking his own life. Cass is underground
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for forty eight hours before she's found, and the book
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goes into detail about the physical and psychological effects of
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a live burial. I watched more than once the episode
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of Bones where Brennan and Hodgens are kidnapped and buried
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alive in a car by the grave Digger, although admittedly
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that was likely due to my fixation on David borian As.
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Then there was the episode that really ignited the obsession
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and the reason this particular chapter is happening at all
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when I was far too young to be watching it.
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My favorite show of all time was CSI. I wanted
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to be just like the investigators on the show, and
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I was wildly in love with Nick Stokes and Warwick Brown,
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played by George Eats and Gary Dordan, respectively. Then on
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May nineteenth, two thousand and five, the two part season
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five finale, directed by Quentin Tarantino called Grave Danger aired.
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Nick Stokes is abducted while investigating what looks to be
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a pretty simple case, and he wakes up in a
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box underground with nothing but a tape recorder, a gun
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with one bullet, and a sporadic source of light. The
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csizer sent a ransom note and the race is on
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to save Nick and find his obdector before he runs
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out of air. I already know some of you are
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wondering where I'm going with this, so bear with me
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for sixty seconds more. My boyfriend and I were watching CSI,
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and I was telling him how I loved this particular episode,
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which got me thinking about real cases similar to this,
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so I started digging and I came across the case
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in my research that could have been ripped straight out
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of my childhood nightmares and was in fact Tarantino's inspiration
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for these episodes. A twenty year old college student is
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recovering from the flu in a Georgia motel room with
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the help of her mother, and just before dawn, there
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is a knock at the door, a police officer with
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news of a terrible accident involving the young woman's boyfriend.
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Within minutes, the girl is taken by gunpoint, her mother
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bound and gagged on the floor. However, this wasn't a
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buy the book kidnapping. Her captors had spent months constructing
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a coffin like box, complete with an air pump, food, water,
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and ventilation tubes. They drive her to a remote wooded area,
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lower her into the box, bury her underground, and leave
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her there for eighty three hours. She fought to stay alive,
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praying that someone would find her. This is the kidnapping
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of Barbara Mackel. Barbara Chaine Mackel was born in nineteen
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forty eight to Robert and Jane Mackle in Florida. The
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mackell family was hugely successful in part thanks to the
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development company. Robert and his two brothers, Frank Junior and Elliott,
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had started under the Mackel Company, which was also hugely
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successful and still around today. Called the Deltona Corporation. It
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ran from nineteen sixty two to nineteen eighty six and
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they developed countless communities in Florida, including Deltona Lakes, Pine Ridge,
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Sunny Hills, and Saint Augustine Shores. In nineteen sixty five,
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with the development of Marco Island and Marco Shores, Deltona Corp.
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Exploded with success, and by nineteen sixty eight, law prices
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were going for over ten thousand dollars, with land shares
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totaling over eleven million. According to Coastal Breeze News. That
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same year, stock value jumped from twelve dollars to twenty dollars,
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and the company by this point was worth sixty five
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million dollars. As plans were made for more projects to
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roll out in the coming years, which should have been
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an incredibly lucrative time for the Maccles, was tainted by
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a parent's worst nightmare. During Finals week just before Christmas,
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Barbara came down with the flu. Her mother, Jane flew
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to Georgia from the family home in Coral Gables and
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booked a room at the Roadway Motel in Decatur so
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that she could take care of her On the evening
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of December sixteenth, according to Time magazine, Barbara's boyfriend Stuart Woodward,
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who also attended Emmer University, came by the motel to
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visit Barbara and Jane. He stayed for a while and
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then left in his white Ford. Barbara and her mother
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stayed up talking late into the night. As Barbara and
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her mother talked nearby in the Claremont Motel, two people
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were finalizing a plan that would become one of the
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most infamous kidnappings in FBI history. Twenty three year old
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Gary Stephen Crisp thought of himself as a very intelligent man,
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and perhaps in another life he was considered to be one.
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He was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on April twenty ninth,
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nineteen forty five, though he spent a bulk of his
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childhood in Pelican, Alaska, a port village axis to be
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a boat or plane due to his father's job operating
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a commercial boat catching salmon and shrimp. Because James Crisp's
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position required him to spend long periods of time out
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on the water during peak seasons. Gary was often sent
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to stay with family friends. As with many children who
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aren't closely supervised and given his sense of structure, Gary
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developed a habit for mischief and rule breaking, stealing small
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items beginning at age nine that would eventually escalate to
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bolder and more serious crimes. By age fourteen, he had
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carried out multiple robberies during his years spent living in Utah,
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and he had been arrested and convicted for auto theft
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after stealing a boat in Stewart, Alaska, leading to time
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in a juvenile detention facility. While Gary was very academically
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inclined and had even expressed a strong desire to eventually
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study medicine, he never managed to shake his urge to steal,
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and his criminal antics continued. In teen sixty, at the
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age of fifteen, he stole a car in Ogden, Utah,
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and was sent to Utah State Industrial School on June second,
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nineteen sixty one. Of course, ever, the rule breaker and
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resistant confinement christ escaped soon after arriving, and he was
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eventually apprehended on July twenty ninth of nineteen sixty two.
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While he had received juvenile punishments for his crimes during
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his teen years, he quickly learned that adult punishments were
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his new reality. After turning eighteen in nineteen sixty three,
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after two auto thefts in Oakland, California, he was sentenced
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to the California Vocational Institute in Tracy. Though he was
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released in December of nineteen sixty four, his time at
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the Vocational Institute was not a deterrent for reoffending. In fact,
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according to the Coastal Breeze News, Christ during this particular sentence,
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had begun contemplating what the perfect crime was. Eventually he
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realized that kidnapping and heiress would produce a huge pay
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off for her safe return. He worked at an idea
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for how he would go about abducting this hypothetical heiress
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and how he would communicate with the family, realizing that
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burying her would be a perfect solution. Upon his release,
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Christ would get married, having a son, but he just
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couldn't leave his life of crime behind. On January sixth,
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nineteen sixty six, he was arrested for stealing two more
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vehicles in San Mateo County. Being convicted for his crimes
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on May twentieth, Christ was sentenced to five months to
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six years in the state prison. However, just a few
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short months later, on November eleventh, Gary Christ escaped once again,
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and this time he remained at large. From nineteen sixty
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six to nineteen sixty eight, according to a narrative from
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former FBI agent William Bean, Christ worked as a technical
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researcher for the University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In
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the later half of nineteen sixty eight, he became an
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employee of the Marine Science Institute at the University of
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Miami under the name George Deacon. Through this job, he
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was included on a sponsored trip aboard the research vessel
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to Pillsbury, which took thirty two researchers from Fort Lauderdale
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to Bermuda. This trip took place from September twenty third
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through October seventh, and while aboard the ship, twenty three
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year old Christ met twenty five year old Ruth Heismanshire.
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Ruth was a native of Honduras and she had graduated
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from the National University of Mexico with her bachelor's in
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chemistry and pharmacology. Ruth was a graduate student at the
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Marine Science Institute and participated in this research trip. The
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two hit it off and began an affair, with Chris
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ultimately confiding in Ruth about his plan to abduct an airis,
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explaining how he would build a capsule that would allow
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them to keep their victim alive underground for seven days.
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Ruth agreed that the payout from the ransom was well
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worth the risk. On Ruth's twenty sixth birthday, on November eighth,
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Christ informed Ruth that after a lot of research, he
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identified their target as the heiress to the Deltona Corporation,
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twenty year old Barbara Jane Mackle. Barbara's family was incredibly
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wealthy and very well known throughout Florida, so he theorized
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that the Macles would be capable of and willing to
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pay the ransom quickly. At this point, Chris had also
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begun constructing his capsule, the casket as container he would
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use to conceal Barber from authorities. This capsule, which was
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constructed in a US Marine Course surplus construction container on
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the grounds of the Marine Science Institute, was, according to
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William Bean, very cleverly designed. The capsule measured six feet
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long twenty three inches high and twenty three inches wide,
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weighing around two hundred and forty pounds. It was made
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of fiberglass and plywood, complete with an air pump and
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ventilation system. Christ included everything someone confined to a container
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for seven days might need, including a battery operated fan,
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a blanket and film mattress, a light water they had
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laced with sedatives in order to keep Robert's socile, enough
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food totaling thirty thousand calories to sustain someone for seventys,
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as well as a chemical toilet and sanitary napkins. Every
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inch of this capsule was meticulously designed to support a
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person's survival, and Chris tested multiple elements to ensure they
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functioned as designed, including the ventilation system and the strength
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of the sedatives. Chris went to great lengths to give
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the Mackels ample time to respond to his ransom demand
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without them being caught by authorities, but Ruth was having
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second thoughts. The first week of December, according to William Bean,
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Ruth climbed into the caps to test the features with
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the lid closed for one hour, and when she was
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able to leave, she found that the experience was incredibly frightening.
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While the concept of being buried alive is exceedingly rare.
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Fear alone, called taphophobia, is enough to cause significant psychological impact.
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The builds above carbon dioxide when buried alive or confined
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to an extremely small space with limited or dwindling oxygen
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can trigger hypercapnia. This in turn can cause severe distress, confusion,
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and hallucinations before the mind shifts into a depressive state.
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The long term effects commonly include PTSD, severe phobias like claustrophobia,
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and even sleep disorders. Being in this box just for
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an hour, knowingly above ground was so scary to her
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that Ruth attempted to back out of the plan, but
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Christ wouldn't allow her to. The abduction would go forward.
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Christ and Ruth travel to Coral Gables, where he pointed
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out the Macyl residence as well as Barbara's car, a Lincoln.
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Also during this time, a polaroid camera and two walkie
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talkies were purchased by Christ. On December tenth, seven days
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before the abduction, Brris purchased two plane tickets under an
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alleys from Miami to Vegas, with the layover in Chicago
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from Delta Airlines. The flight was scheduled for the twentieth,
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with a departure time being seven a m. The next day,
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Ruth packed up her belongings at the room she'd been
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staying in, and she and Chris headed to the Marine
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Corps trailer to store the luggage with the capsule. On
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the way, they stopped by the Maco residence and snuck
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onto the property, burying the ransom note which we'll go
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over in the yard. On the twelfth, Chris told his
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wife and children that he no longer loved them, and
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he took his family to the airport, where he put
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them on a ten am flight to California. Then Ruth
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and Chris met at the trailer, where they loaded the capsule,
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as well as Ruth's luggage into chris Belbo station wagon.
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The following day, after Ruth attended her morning class and
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christ called out sick to work, the two drove to Atlanta, Georgia.
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