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It takes five full days before the first big development comes in. >> [music] >> And strangely, it comes to the Denver
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Field Office of the FBI. >> Denver, Colorado? >> Yeah. They get a call at 7:00 p.m. on
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June 30th from a man who says that he is Susie's kidnapper. And he says, "Tell someone the ransom is
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$25,000." But he hung up without giving any more information. Where should they take the
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money? When? >> Yeah. >> Now, no one knew if this was a hoax or if they should be expecting another
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call, but the phone didn't ring again until July 2nd. This time, not in a Denver Field Office, not actually in any
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office at all. The phone rang at the home of Gallatin County Deputy Ron Brown. The thing is, Ron Brown isn't
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home. Even though it's 11:16 p.m., he's still out helping with Susie's search. So his wife, Jane, answers. And the man
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says to her, "The Denver FBI must think I'm a crank. >> [music] >> I'm raising the ransom to $50,000."
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And this time he gives real instructions. He demands that the ransom be put in a suitcase in small bills and
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placed in the end stall of the men's restroom at the Denver bus stop. >> The [music] Denver, Colorado connection.
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>> We're back to Denver. Yeah. And this time it feels legit because he says that
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he can prove he has Susie by telling them something about her that a random stranger wouldn't know.
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He says that Susie's fingernails, like on her index fingers of each hand, are humped a little, like slightly deformed.
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And this is true of Susie. And it's also true that a stranger wouldn't know that.
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I mean, it wasn't put on any of the press bulletins about this case. Actually, Marietta writes in her book
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that in the chaos and fear after Susie first disappeared, they were like giving her description to the authorities and
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stuff, but they had like totally forgotten this detail about her. Like it was barely noticeable, and Susie was
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born with it. So like I can literally she's born with it and he never thought about it anymore. So, this caller, this
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is either someone who knows Susie, knows the family, and >> [music] >> would play some kind of, like, not some
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kind, the cruelest hoax on them, which seems absolutely out of the realm of possibility.
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Or, >> [music] >> this is really the man who kidnapped her.