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Her youngest son, Joe, calls from catechism class. He unexpectedly needs a ride home. I guess Bill's at work.
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Marietta, I mean, she's at home on phone duty, but Joe is only 5 minutes away. So, that's the moment when she rushes
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out to get him. And in the 10 minutes she is gone, the phone rings. Now, luckily, the oldest of the Yager
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kids, 16-year-old Dan, he is home and presses record before answering the phone. [music]
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And of course, this is the call. It's the kidnapper. The call from the kidnapper lasts only 2 minutes in total.
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And the recording no longer exists, but a transcript does. [music] So, I'm going to have voice actors read
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part of it so you can hear the exact words that the man said. >> Now, you're Susie's brother, huh?
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>> Yeah. >> You'd like to know where she's at? >> Yeah, I would. >> Well, you're going to have to wait a
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while. >> Why? >> You've had too much police and FBI activity. You may think I'm a hoax, but I know
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something about Susie that nobody knows. >> Oh? Why don't you tell us? >> Okay. Fingernails of her first fingers are
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humped. >> I know that. I mean, why don't you tell us where she is? >> Because I can't hardly do that.
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It's a pretty dangerous situation, you know. >> Well, can you just drop her somewhere
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and let us pick her up? >> Do you want to come west quite a ways? >> Yeah, no problem there.
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>> Well, we'll make arrangements one of these days, but for right now, you're going to have to wait a while.
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>> Why do we have to wait? >> Cuz that's the way things have to be. >> Why? >> Well, cuz a person does things like
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this, he can't get caught. He's got to figure out ways not to get caught. >> Just drop her somewhere a day ahead of
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time and just leave that place. >> Yeah, sure. I don't want to drop her just for
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nothing. Anyway, I just want to tell you to wait a while. You'll be contacted. It may be another week. It may be a
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month or two months or so, but you'll get contacted. >> He's keeping them in like suspended
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torture. Maybe a week, maybe a month. This feels way less like finding a way out and more like he's
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screwing with >> Like kind of screwing with them. >> I know.