In December 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped from a motel room outside Atlanta, Georgia. The circumstances surrounding her abduction were so strange, investigators could barely make sense of them. The search for twenty year old Barbara Jane Mackle became a race against time that gripped her family and drew national attention.
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Episode Sources
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- “FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives: Ruth Eisemann-Schier, 1969.” Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ten Most Wanted Program Archives.
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- United States v. Gary Steven Krist, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 1969.
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- FBI, Supplemental Case Report: Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle, December 1968 (declassified portions).
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- Associated Press. “Heiress Found Alive in Buried Box; Ransom Paid.” December 21, 1968.
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- “Buried Alive: The 1968 Abduction of Barbara Mackle.” CNN.com, Crime Retrospective Series, 2003.
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Episode Music
Out of the Mines, courtesy of Ross Gentry, Asheville, North Carolina.