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The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast

September 09, 2024 / 01:00:06

This episode covers the kidnapping of Barbara Mackle, the involvement of George Deacon and Ruth Eisman Shear, and the subsequent investigation and rescue. Key topics include the ransom drops, the discovery of Deacon's criminal background, and the eventual rescue of Mackle after 83 hours underground.

The episode begins with a recap of the ransom drop and the investigation leading to George Deacon, who had moved to Florida and worked at the University of Miami. His boss, Dr. Robert Hurley, described Deacon as a bright individual, but investigators soon uncovered his criminal past.

As the investigation progressed, agents received a tip about Deacon's whereabouts and found evidence linking him to the kidnapping. They discovered that Deacon had buried Mackle in a makeshift coffin, leading to a tense rescue operation.

Barbara Mackle was found alive after 80 hours in the box, and her story highlights the psychological impact of her ordeal. The episode discusses the contrasting legal outcomes for Deacon and Eisman, with Deacon receiving a life sentence and Eisman serving only seven years.

The episode concludes with updates on the lives of both Mackle and Deacon, including Mackle's marriage and Deacon's later criminal activities, emphasizing the long-lasting effects of the kidnapping.

TLDR

Barbara Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive; her rescue and the criminals' fates are discussed in detail.

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there going huh that's the thing I have nothing I I could say a million things right now
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get to it like let's go so when we last left you we had we had successfully done
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the ransom drop yes we had figured out we' found the car the car from Massachusetts we had found that it
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traced back to George Deacon and we found those wild photos of George Deacon we also found some photos of Barbara
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Mackle yeah which are so chilling yeah and it's the one you can look at and again she's alive don't worry but she
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was drugged in that photo by the way we find out um but that's where we left off
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so on the morning of December 20th investigators learned that George Deacon had moved from Massachusetts to Florida
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where he had found work as a boat driver for a marine science laboratory at the University of Miami ah now agents
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Tracked Down Deacon's boss at that University his name was Dr Robert Hurley he was the head of the Marine Lab and
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Robert Hurley was was who the car was registered to right so there's all kinds of weird [ __ ] going on uhhuh so
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according to Hurley George Deacon was an incredibly bright and capable Man Who provided field assistance to the
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research scientists in the field weird that there was science [ __ ] buried in their front yard exactly in addition to
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driving the boat for them Deacon would apparently also help them build various kinds of ventilated boxes and containers
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that the team would use to transport their specimens like Marine specimens so he's very well
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vered in this oh my God now at the time of him being hired in June 1968 George Deacon said on his resume that he was 23
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years old okay um and he claimed that he had attended nor Eastern University in Boston Massachusetts hey uh under
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previous work experience he listed that he last worked as a channel Charter service driver in Sitka Alaska and that
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his supervisor was Jay Christ now his resume looked very impressive and it reads as someone who is
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interested in a career in science engineering that kind of thing but he was only 23 years old well that's what
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I'm sitting here wondering about so he listed a lot of important jobs for someone who's 23 and it's not like
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totally out of the realm of possibility but like it would be a red flag for anyone they people would check on this
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to make sure cuz he's very young to have all these like esteemed positions Yeah by 23 I I think I had waitress for a
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couple years and dropped out of Community College so so it's like not everybody's got like a thousand very
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important jobs on their resume no so Dr Dr Hurley later told agents because they
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were like yeah what did you guys check up on that yeah like did you think about that at all he said quote obviously our
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people didn't study this thing very carefully o thank you Dr Hurley yeah seems like it seems like it and what had
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happened was apparently he had gotten the job based on a recommendation from a previous coworker at
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MIT so whoever was hiring him the whole like uh committee didn't really bother to look deeper into his resume so he
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just put a bunch of [ __ ] damn he's he is very smart though that is one thing we'll find out he's a brilliant
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human Okay um he doesn't use it for good evidently no he certainly didn't now aside from providing some general
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information about Deacon there was one other thing that Dr Hurley showed the agents he said for the last several
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months Deacon had been dating one of the younger researcher scientists a graduate student named Ruth
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isman Shear okay now what he was asked to describe Ruth what does she look like tiny short she's a small woman knew it
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the description once they heard it the agents it made the agents think huh could Ruth Eisman sheer be the
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accomplice that Jane thought was like a teenage boy uhhuh cuz they were wearing a ski mask you know like they didn't
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hear the voice or anything like that uh it seemed very possible uh just because of the mask and everything so she could
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have easily passed and there there was also a call made from a young woman at the mackle's house during all of this oh
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and I'm not sure exactly what they said but there was a young woman's voice that
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somebody detected okay now based on the information that he provided to the human resources department at the
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University agents learned that George Deacon listed his address at the all real trailer park in Miami and so they
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went to talk to neighbors there and the neighbors described him as quote bitter and bright and an admirer of wealth huh
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now according to that neighbor Deacon apparently quote resented living in a trailer and apparently he lived there
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with his wife and two children for the last 6 months for the previous 6 months but 2 weeks earlier his wife and his
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children had left I was like you said wife but you also said he was dating a graduate student they had left oh
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goodness this is a mess yeah so on the morning of December 20th as the agents were starting to close in on their
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suspect now investigators caught a big break because they received a call from a young man who thought they'd seen
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George Deacon the night before the previous evening this man that was calling said he bought a detachable
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trailer in a local parking lot from someone matching George Deacon's descrip description when he read the paper that
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morning he said he read about the kidnapping and the man he was like he really looks like this guy like I think
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it might be him so he was worried the trailer might have been used in the kidnapping so he called and reported it
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right away good smart now inside the trailer agents found some boxes and most of it was just junk but one contained
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several letters that referenced George Deacon as well as one as another man named Gary Christ okay now when the
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agents ran Gary Christ's name through their various databases they learned that Gary Christ was he had a criminal
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record not good several car thefts he'd been serving a prison sentence at the Dual Correction Institution in Tracy
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California until 1966 oh [ __ ] that was only a couple years before yeah and then
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he escaped from the prison you [ __ ] me quote under a hail of gunfire that killed his Escape companion oh my God
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and then he went on the Run what do they call yam on the on the Lamb on the lamb
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oh my on the sweet potato he went out on the sweet potato never to be seen again I'm
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tired oh God as soon as I said it I said it's not the [ __ ] yam I said why did you say that out loud you big idiot I
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love it so much sweet potato honestly petition to change it petition to change it go out on the SE
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potato out on the sweet potato that should t-shirt I'm on the yam don't bother me I'm on the yam that'd be a
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good than giving t-shirt that would be a good one oh oh holiday uh so yeah so Gary Chris was out on the
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yam you know he's out as one is he's out on the yam and I'm in my afternoon slump it's 3:44
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but throughout his criminal career Gary Chris had actually also gone by several aliases including the name Arthur
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Horwitz George S price and Dr Johnson rck W where did that one come from good for you good for you giving yourself a
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doctor Dr yson Ric like all right and when the agents compared George Deacon's fingerprints taken from the Volvo to
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those on file with the California Department of Corrections they discovered that George Deacon was the
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convict Gary Chris ding ding ding ding ding ding wow this is this is a man who is on the yam after on the being in
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prison and which escaped under a hail of gunfire where somebody died yeah like this is serious yeah I know I should
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take yeah it is serious I me the yam isn't but like that's I mean like he's a serious [ __ ] I shouldn't be
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picturing him riding a sweet potato out of jail right now well now that's all I picture so
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that's I can't stop I'll never stop picturing that and honestly I don't want to I never want to stop picturing that
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someone that please I can't stop with a lasso for some reason so Gary Christ was definitely a criminal
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definitely a sociopath at this point oh no a sociopath I mean he he buried a woman underground oh so I didn't know we
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got that far yet sorry focused on the of it all bad he's pretty bad God cuz he's
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definitely the the kidnapper he's he's George Deacon oh wonder I'm really glad that you did
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that didn't hit cuz I was like I thought that was going to hit harder than it did
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no yeah I'm so sorry [ __ ] all right all right I'm here I'm here I don't know what's going on
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you need some coffee I think I do probably give me a Red Bull okay all right what a f I don't know I was like
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yeah he he's crazy I was like like why are you questioning them yeah cuz you're like oh
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[ __ ] he is I'm like I I feel like that's pretty I feel like that's pretty safe to
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say that I don't know I was listening too I promise he put a whole person in a box under yeah that's [ __ ] okay I'm
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I'm sorry yeah but don't worry about it it's cuz now you know George is scary when I said it you were like oh and I
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was like she didn't get it damn I thought that was was going to hit there was a lot of names said within that that
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period true there was there was I'll give you that and I like I said dropped out of Community College so here we are
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well Gary Chris who is George Deacon the kidnapper so he's the guy that had been
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in jail before yeah prison he's the guy who escaped on the sweet potato okay [ __ ] I'm with you now all right all
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right that's him that's George Deacon that's our guy with the police hat on the with the beefy description and he
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has all these aliases and he has a ton of aliases the problem was I was really focused on him riding out of prison on a
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sweet potato he was dating Ruth Eisman um she okay all right all right here who could be his accomplice in this because
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the agents are sitting there going well she is a small yeah I got all that I got
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all same people oh [ __ ] um so but you know like he's a bad person sociopath even and Barbara again like according to
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Barbara's instincts of saying like why wouldn't they just kill me if they were planning to kill me might have been
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right because according to everybody you know according to the people involved here Gary Christ George Deacon the same
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guy and Ruth Eisman Shear did not intend to kill her that was not their end game
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apparently according they just wanted the money they wanted to get the money and they wanted to get out of there okay
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my thing is though and I'm saying this because it's already happened so it's like I feel like like um they didn't
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have to put her in the ground they could have just held her where they were yeah
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um and then claimed that they' put her in a box underground cuz they didn't provide the mackel with any proof that
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she was in the ground right that picture never got to them and they said that picture was coming eventually they got
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that picture they said something was coming they said it was coming some kind of proof but they didn't get the proof
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and they technically didn't have to give the proof right they could have just got
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proof of her being alive yeah so they didn't have to put her in the ground which to me says a lot more about
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them yeah it's like they didn't have to do it they could have just lied right the the maal would have I'm sure would
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have gathered that money would have done the same drop just to get her back I don't care if she's actually in the
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ground or not I want her back I want her out of your [ __ ] possession like give
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me my child back that is interesting why' they put her in the ground if they didn't intend to kill K her I'm like I
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you didn't care about killing her seven days should they you didn't get that money you were just going to
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leave that poor girl alone in the woods in a box to suffocate to death so it's like we should look at them a little
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more like than just like they didn't mean to do it like like they weren't meaning to kill her it's like I don't
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know it would have happened there was a lot of intent here there was a lot of negligence and a lot of there's a lot of
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like just uh strange pathology yeah I'm trying to think of the word I'm thinking
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of it's very um like but there's definitely a disinterest in what is happening to her it's it's indifference
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indifference that's exactly the word I was thinking of there is an indifference why the [ __ ] could I think of that word
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no I thought that's what you were thinking too thank you but the word was not coming to me either so much better
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yeah there's a total indifference to whether this woman lived died whatever that's the perfect word for it and they
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put her through a [ __ ] nightmare scenario and they laid their heads on a pillow every night she's in a [ __ ]
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box in the middle of the woods panicking like I think I just think it's like it's
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looked at as like they were kidnappers I'm like well it's like little more than that it's like how attempted murder
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doesn't carry the same sentence as actual murder it's like you still going to go through with it that something
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just didn't work out at what you were trying to do like it just it bothers me but after the second money drop like
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after the second Ransom drop Chris waited nearly 15 hours and then called the FBI headquarters in
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Georgia and the secretary answered the call and she attempted to transfer him to one of the agents but he cut her off
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and demanded that she take down the instructions this poor [ __ ] secretary and so Chris gave the secretary
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directions to a wooded area in the small City of Norcross Georgia which was about
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25 miles outside of Atlanta but he gave super vague directions and he gave no indication about what the [ __ ] they were
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supposed to be looking for when they got there so he just gave them a very vague
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very vast area and gave that's the other thing and he gave them nothing to look for and this is where she's supposed to
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be yeah and it's like and she's running out of air running out of everything yeah and I'm supposed to believe that
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you weren't intending to kill her or hurt her I feel like there is this I get the sense that like he's having fun
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making these calls and he's in control yeah and he's watching Everybody run around and it's [ __ ] up exactly so
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moments later the information was passed on to the agents on the case and the team just rushed to the location um and
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when they arrived the vastness of the area made it seem entirely unlikely that after now 4 days in the ground that they
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would find Barbara alive yeah and the Agents fanned out across the area they were scouring the woods they were
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looking for anything they had no idea what they were supposed to look for they were looking for they're like maybe I'm
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looking for like some kind of pipe I don't know like what should I be looking looking for and then
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suddenly one of the agents caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a small piece of flexible pipe sticking out of
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the ground rushed over began digging into the Earth with his hands calling out for everyone to help him dig and she
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can probably hear him when they dug about 13 in into the Earth the agents could hear Light tapping coming from the
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earth underneath them so they're digging faster and faster until about 18 in down
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they discovered the lid of the makeshift coffin and the lid was it was airtight it had been screwed into place so she
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could never have gotten out of it oh my God and they had to they had to remove the screws like they couldn't even rip
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the lid off right away they had to like manually get the screws out and they found Barbara Mackle very weak and very
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dehydrated but still alive after 80 hours in that box 80 hours 80 hours in that box four [ __ ] days yep but
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Barbara was quickly bundled up in blankets and taken to an ambulance where they found that she had superficial
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injuries but she was otherwise pretty unharmed that's good uh once she was cleared by medical personnel she was
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loaded into her father's plane and flown back to Florida where they retreated into their home and were like get the
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[ __ ] away from us so she got to spend Christmas with her family yeah she did what a [ __ ] Christmas that must have
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been see oh talk about being like thankful in a statement to the Press Robert mackle's brother Frank told
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reporters that Barbara was quote in good health and good spirits despite her ordeal wow and she told the family her
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kidnappers quote were very considerate actually and she was very well taken care of by a woman huh and in fact Frank
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Mackle told reporters that Barbara's main worry was that we would be worried oh yeah
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and nobody knows if obviously that was true or if Barbara was just sparing her family emotional horror of dealing what
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she had to deal with but Gary and Ruth technically didn't have a History of Violence uh and both maintained that
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they would they only took Barbara for ransom so I still don't really I mean I believe
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Barbara what she says yeah but I don't believe their intention was purely money we get money and that I think I think
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that was 100% the motivation I don't think they went into this because they were like let's hurt someone today I
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don't think that was the case I think they were like I want the money I don't really care if she lives or dies exactly
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problem the inder I think it's the indifference of it that bothers me I agree but the next morning Jay Ed Edgar
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Hoover gave his own statement to the press and he stated that arrest warrants had been issued for Gary Christ and Ruth
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Eisman Shear for the kidnapping and attempted Ransom of Barbara Mackle and in his statement Hoover noted that Chris
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had escaped from the Dual Correction Institution and the warden described him as quote a young man of very Superior
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intelligence that's scary very Ruth was described as a graduate student in the marine biology department and a native
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of eltio Honduras I hope I said that right um both were described as armed and dangerous with a demonstrated
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willingness to fire upon law enforcement if cornered mhm uh in the days after that FBI agents tracked Gary Chris's
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movements to West Palm Beach Florida where he stored his car at the allright West Palm Beach parking station on
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December 20th this was like as he was telling them where barbar was they were able to to track all these movements
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backwards okay uh he had told the clerk that he would return to get the car in 10 days and from there is when where he
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went to the Dixie market and that's where he used the telephone to place the call to the FBI office to tell them
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where Barbara was that afternoon they were able to track him to the D and Marine Supply where he rented a boat an
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Orlando Clipper and set out along the coast in direction of the Bahamas oh no now again this was them tracking his
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movements after the fact uh-huh so he's already set out uhoh now they were like cool he's definitely trying to flee the
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country obviously so they scrambled to capture him before he was outside of us jurisdiction holy [ __ ] is this a [ __ ]
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movie it's wild but did they make this a movie they did make this um into I I can't remember if it's a movie or a TV
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show it might even be both let me look it up 83 hours till dawn it's based on her autobiography it was a TV movie yeah
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there it is damn damn that's crazy okay keep going now unfortunately by the time the sun had
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gone down and without knowing exactly where he was there was no way to find him in the dark at that time so the
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following morning December 21st a Coast Guard Plane carrying several FBI agents spotted his boat shut the [ __ ] up it was
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abandoned on the coast in Fort Meyers and a local FBI helicopter was dispatched to the area and this was an
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area around Hog Island which is a small alligator infested island of the Southwest coast sorry qua
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who the [ __ ] is this guy yeah where they searched the boat and they found a duffel bag containing all the ransom
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money minus a few thousand dollar that Christ had already spent what yep he just left the money on the an alligator
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infested Island well given that he had Beach the boat on an island he had to be on the island where the [ __ ] else was go
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[ __ ] swimming with that and so they fanned out and searched the island and after a few hours they
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located him he was just standing about around the trees just like in a bunch of trees just vibing with the trees taken
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into custody without incident and after all that had led up to this it was pretty uneventful and like at it was
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like up to this point it's like oh my God he's on a boat he's on his way to the Bahamas holy [ __ ] we can't even see
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him it's the next morning we have a plane oh my God it's his boat it's on an Alig Gator infested Island holy [ __ ]
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he's on the island he's in the trees like it's just like oh there he is but where's Ruth and it's like what the [ __ ]
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how does it end with like there he is he's just hang I just picture him like leaning up against a tree like drinking
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a coconut they so an agent literally said he was just standing there in the mangrove what the [ __ ] they said he
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didn't even put up a fight he had no comment I mean what the [ __ ] else was he going to do I'm on I'm on an alligator
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infested Island really what do I do I guess he wasn't armed then huh he was carrying a small gun and about $188,000
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of the ransom money all righty yeah so 3 months later on March 5th 1969 Ruth Eisman sheer was arrested by Agents from
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Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation it took okah months and Oklahoma after a potential employer ran her fingerprints
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as part of a background check and alerted the Oklahoma SBI shut the [ __ ] up so she was trying to get a job and
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they were like oh baby you're on the FBI's most wanted list like what the [ __ ] we're gonna have to uh apologize
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but the you didn't get this one you didn't get we're going to pass on another candidate seem to have uh what
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you don't which is not being on the FBI's moted list yeah that's kind of like what we go for around we were neck
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and neck at that point but that's really what tipped them over the FBI list is always a tiebreaker it's always the
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thing we look for you know [ __ ] and in fact at the mo at that time she was the
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first and only woman to appear on the FBI's most wanted list wow this woman that's crazy Ruth was charged with
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extortion and a judge set her bond at $500,000 I'm like can we put attempted murder in there as well they buried her
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in a [ __ ] box at the time of her arrest it appeared to agents as though Ruth Ruth was planning to flee the state
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ah and she told various friends and acquaintances different stories about how she was going to be taking some time
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off and she left her roommates three separate notes and later some of of her friends
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def said that she was definitely expecting to be arrested it seemed uh when asked for comment about the arrest
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Barbara Mackle said I think it's a great tribute to the efficiency of the FBI Barbara forever Barbara's such a classy
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lady she's a sweet queen she really is and by the time she sat down with agents on the afternoon of her arrest Ruth had
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prepared a statement regarding her relationship with Gary Christ whom she only knew as George Deacon she did not
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know his real name according to Ruth they met while she was studying Marine Science at the University of Miami and
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she quickly fell in love with him and after about a month or two of having a relationship Chris told Ruth you know I
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have the idea for the Perfect Crime are you in no the answer is always no baby and she was like I'm sorry what and he
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was like well if we pull it off we could take all the money and run away together
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but you'll never pull off a great crime like that and you shouldn't try nope she
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wasn't put off at all by her new boyfriend suggestion at all and they began pouring over Miami social record
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which is how they came across Robert mackle's name and they learned that Robert Mackle had a daughter Barbara oh
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my God so they're pieces of [ __ ] yeah and the two plann the kidnapping meticulously for weeks we like we said
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like these we said that was planned also I was like they had to have done this before yeah they did and they didn't
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with all the like they just planned it for like for weeks even the specifications about the suitc case
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though like how would you even [ __ ] think about that that's his brain that he is
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misusing and Chris designed and built the box that they were going to keep did yeah he did the job and when they were
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finally ready to execute the plan they left Miami for Atlanta stopping at the mle house along the way to bury the
00:27:17
ransom note and they had planned to kidnap Barbara from her dorm room actually at Emery but when they arrived
00:27:25
in Atlanta they learned she'd moved to a motel room with her mother I'm not sure
00:27:29
how they knew that which is like [ __ ] up yeah somebody had to have said something somebody must have not knowing
00:27:34
said something unless they were they may have been following her like they may have spotted her on the campus
00:27:39
absolutely so they revised their plan over lunch at a diner and at they while they were at the diner they stole the
00:27:46
Hat of a local police officer in the restaurant and that's the one they used are you kidding me so in case the whole
00:27:54
situation with the kidnapping didn't make you think like what the [ __ ] going on with the police there in the
00:27:59
60s yeah uh one was they were able to steal one of their hats at a [ __ ] Diner just like whip it off his head
00:28:06
just took the Hat he probably left it on the [ __ ] table while he was going to pee or something like my goodness what
00:28:12
the [ __ ] so in the few days leading up to the kidnapping Ruth and Chris watched
00:28:17
Jane and Barbara and that's how they learned about steuart uh Woodward and knew what kind of car he drove so that
00:28:24
they could use it in that Roose right now Ruth explained that everything was going up to plan until the first night
00:28:30
of the ransom drop when the uh police intervened yep and the couple became separated and a few hours later cuz
00:28:37
remember they went in different directions when the police came yeah Ruth a few hours later returned to the
00:28:42
car that they had abandoned but didn't and was trying to wait for him to come back but he never showed up so he just
00:28:49
[ __ ] left so she thought he'd taken the money for himself and abandoned her so she thought she was used and she went
00:28:55
back to Atlanta got on a bus she took the bus as far as her money would get her which turned out to be Norman
00:29:02
Oklahoma she found work at a drive-in restaurant and took room at a boarding house it was just going to be like
00:29:08
well so to be clear she helped bury a woman in a box in the middle of the [ __ ] forest and
00:29:17
then just dipped and she was like well looks like my boyfriend dumped me so I guess I'll just go get a job somewhere
00:29:23
and live my life not caring at all about what happened to Barbara I'm going to go
00:29:28
ahead and say it what a [ __ ] [ __ ] like whoa what like damn that is cold that's
00:29:38
so cold and so callous and that makes me sit here and say what the [ __ ] else are
00:29:44
you capable of that's the thing cuz if you're capable of knowing going on with your life knowing that a girl is in a
00:29:50
box yeah and that you don't know if it's going to end or or not like like and the
00:29:55
same for [ __ ] this assho like thank goodness they got Gary yeah cuz Gary was just going to take that money and you
00:30:03
know off he goes and Gary is Gary's just as bad but Ruth it's like you don't even
00:30:08
you weren't even there when Gary called the FBI to tell them where Barbara was as far as you know he's never told her
00:30:14
where they are and they're never going to find her and you didn't place and you were just popping off into the rest of
00:30:18
your life exactly at the very [ __ ] least Gary called and told where they where she was yeah which I'm not giving
00:30:25
him credit for but I'm saying like what a different situation where it's like you were just popping off to live your
00:30:30
life you had no idea like damn this is mindboggling they are such vile human beings now at her arraignment on March
00:30:40
7th Ruth told the judge it's a terrible feeling to see all these people out there and you are all alone and they're
00:30:46
all against you she was talking to the large crowd that had assembled outside the courtroom hey you know what I'll a
00:30:53
terrible feeling is um bu being buried in a box in the woods like couple days before Christmas or [ __ ] ever uh all
00:31:02
alone yeah it's like Ruth you oh you feel alone if I was that you feel alone you wonder like judges do get Snappy
00:31:09
sometimes and we always love that but you wonder how they're not just Snappy all the time cuz I would how do you look
00:31:14
that girl dead in the face and just be like yeah anyway moving on now if that I can't imag if I was the judge I'd
00:31:20
literally be like are you [ __ ] kidding me Ruth be so for real right now be so for real right now Ruth like are
00:31:27
you kidding me with that I feel so alone shut the fu so alone well maybe we should bury you in a box in the middle
00:31:33
of the Wilderness and the animals can keep you company how about that that's alone and as far as you were concerned
00:31:38
Ruth she was going to be alone forever in that box [ __ ] a but you feel alone because there's people outside that are
00:31:43
mad that you buried someone in a box sorry yeah sorry about that so so sad life's tough huh yeah now after
00:31:51
conferring with his client Ruth's attorney told the judge as you can see from her action actions yesterday the
00:31:57
realization finally has come home to her that she is in a tough situation I found
00:32:02
her somewhat despondent as you can well imagine she certainly is not as gay as she has been good a tough situation
00:32:10
really not she's found herself in a tough situation where she signed on to a plot to extort a rich man by abducting
00:32:17
his daughter and burying her in a box in the middle of the woods it's tough situation you know one thing to call
00:32:24
that I guess that's pretty tough and oh no she's not as cheerful as she has been
00:32:29
I good oh good man I guess we should we should change how we're dealing with this I suppose you know who's probably
00:32:36
not as cheerful as they once were Barbara she probably has [ __ ] PTSD up the Wazoo oh would you hear some yeah
00:32:43
we'll get there so a few days later Ruth was transferred back to Georgia where she was charged locally with kidnapping
00:32:50
her invol involvement in this case made her somewhat of a local celebrity with the Press frequently commenting on her
00:32:57
beauty and and fashionable attire whenever she appeared in court I don't give a [ __ ] what you're wearing you
00:33:02
buried a girl in a box and of course this was one of those situations even in the 60s this is in the 70s this is one
00:33:09
of those situations where people said no she's too beautiful she's too pretty for
00:33:13
that pretty people do [ __ ] up things she knows how to put together an outfit there's no way she was kidnapping people
00:33:20
those two things are not mutually exclusive yeah like have you what the [ __ ] what do you mean somebody can't you
00:33:27
have have to be ugly to be able to do ugly things no babies no some of the prettiest people do the ugliest [ __ ] the
00:33:34
ugly [ __ ] is on the inside exactly and it comes out eventually but the ugly [ __ ] is on the inside saying she's too
00:33:39
pretty for that is absolutely Buck Wild yeah and it's what and it's she the worst part is you look at her and you're
00:33:46
just like wow girl like really like cuz she like she's a very normal looking person so I understand like some people
00:33:54
like especially cuz we look at it through like a 2024 lens yeah and we're like of course anybody can do that but I
00:34:01
think even back then it was still shocking to see like especially a woman a woman you know what I mean and
00:34:06
especially a woman that's pretty and fashionable like being like that they're just like what people are like no can
00:34:12
you imagine that was your defense I am way too pretty and I put together way too good of an outfit to be accused of
00:34:17
this and they're like got it but others really liked the fem fatal narrative cuz
00:34:22
they found it more compelling uh one article asked could a woman like Ruth Eisman Shear the the fetching hysteria
00:34:28
prone blonde with a knack for attracting males to love and protect her provide the motivation to drive a man to carry
00:34:34
out a kidnap scheme I don't think she drove him to do it I think was just along for the [ __ ] ride yeah it
00:34:41
sounds like he actually came up with the idea but thank you for all right in fact
00:34:45
the article goes on to say as a Miami Beach clinical psychologist told me Saturday are you ready for a myami beach
00:34:52
clinical psychologist and what they have to say in many instances the woman is the driving force and yet when the crime
00:34:59
is committed she does not bear the responsibility I would put my life savings on the fact that a man said that
00:35:05
it's I would put my life savings on it okay unnamed Miami Beach CL clinical psychologist my God but later that month
00:35:14
Ruth pleaded not guilty to the charges of kidnapping and extortion and a trial yeah and a trial date was set for June
00:35:21
9th but when her trial date came Ruth changed her plea to guilty to one count of kidnapping and immediately began
00:35:28
serving her seven-year sentence at the Georgia State Prison for Women back it up seven years 1 2 3 4 5 6
00:35:37
7 that's it she went along with a plan to extort a father by burying his I just got to say it one more time everybody
00:35:45
burying his daughter in a box and then when it didn't really work out she just moved to Oklahoma yeah the [ __ ] s years
00:35:54
is everybody all right uhhuh and like gen genely why was attempted murder not put on there cuz cuz don't don't you get
00:36:02
it they they never wanted to kill her psych don't you get it everyone oh my God cuz they
00:36:09
said yeah let's believe them in 1973 Ruth successfully petitioned for parole that's [ __ ] crazy and was
00:36:18
released from prison and she was deported back to hondurus and she receded from the public Spotlight good
00:36:24
for her get out of there girl uh after his arrest Gary Chris said very little to authorities and in early March 1969
00:36:32
he pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and kidnapping for ransom huh The Plea was made with a special
00:36:38
attachment that it could be changed at a certain point pending a sanity hearing we do have to go back for just one
00:36:44
second she really is the normalist looking girl I've ever seen is Wow that's scary Bonkers that's scary
00:36:51
so District Attorney Richard Bell told reporters the special plea means that his lawyers think Christ is unable to
00:36:58
understand the charges against him now between his arraignment and his sanity Hearing in April Gary Chris began a
00:37:05
hunger strike in his cell in decar Georgia um and this is because he believed someone was trying to poison
00:37:12
him he said kind of like he poisoned multiple people with chloroform Andor ether yeah I also think it's complete
00:37:18
[ __ ] and so did the authorities they believed that the hunger strip was strike was his attempt to be moved to a
00:37:24
more escapable place yeah probably cuz remember he escaped from prison before uh but after 28 days of hunger strike he
00:37:32
collapsed from malnutrition and required intervenous feeding um and the sheriff told reporters he does little now but
00:37:39
sleep he stopped his almost continual writing but he still will wear nothing but a pair of underwear shorts in his
00:37:46
cell he does love to be NY he does uh his attempts to convince psychiatrists of his mental illness were uh
00:37:53
unsuccessful okay and he went to trial in miday and in fact despite having been evaluated by 10 different doctors the
00:38:00
defense never called any one of them to testify because as one reporter said no psychiatrist would call the defendant
00:38:07
insane yeah uh rather than demonstrate any symptoms of mental illness like a lot of these defense you know defendants
00:38:14
do when they're being evaluated they at least try yeah he didn't he would just spend hours complaining to these
00:38:20
psychiatrists about the justice system system as a whole okay he said he was quoted as saying the law is unjust and
00:38:26
it's cons ception and its application it's mechanically unsound it is bound to disintegrate and fall apart it's very
00:38:33
poorly conceived disagree and when they came to his own case he believed the system was just rigged against him and
00:38:40
in favor of those with wealth and power and I was like wait do you mean the people whose daughter you stolen put
00:38:44
underground like I don't know if that one's rigged against you like like I'm not saying in general I'm saying in this
00:38:51
particular case I don't think that one was R I think you put Someone's Child underground in a box and then extorted
00:38:59
money out of them so I I don't I don't think I'm with you on that that they that rigged against you I no I think you
00:39:07
did a bad bad thing even riable and you happen to do it to a wealthy powerful person which was your problem no one
00:39:15
else's like I'm sorry you chose someone who is like smarter than you when it in like more powerful than you to steal
00:39:24
their child and put them in a box Underground I don't know about all that it's like dude I don't think you're
00:39:29
going to win with that one I don't think that one you're going to get a lot of people being like totally should have
00:39:33
been able to totally rigged absolutely calling that rigged is wild and he said quote I've offended the cartel that runs
00:39:41
this country in case you don't know I'm in jail simply because I was overpowered what so he's calling like
00:39:48
the rich and Powerful like the cartel of this country and he's saying I offended
00:39:53
them and I was like you you definitely offended some people yes I say so but like the other thing is I don't see it
00:40:00
the way you see it you're not he's acting like he's like Robin Hood or something and I'm like that's the thing
00:40:05
like robbed from the rich and gave to the poor you were trying just to become rich you wanted to join that very cartel
00:40:12
quote unquote ex and it's like you did it by taking someone's daughter and putting them in a box
00:40:19
underground that's where you went wrong I understand saying certain systems are rigged and like it's hard to make money
00:40:25
and it's hard to get rich like hund and that's why I'm like you could have just generalized that and made it a little
00:40:32
more of like a stance yeah but you took Someone's Child and put them in a box underground like I can't you have no
00:40:41
high horse to stand from he's like Eat the Rich and I'm like it's you had a suitcase full of almost $4 million
00:40:48
[ __ ] .5 million you had in a suitcase and you were flying you were running off to the Bahamas with it let's
00:40:54
bury you in a box because you took someone's child and put them in a box underground it's like that is where your
00:41:00
problem lies my friend steal money you didn't even extort money in any other way you took a whole human from somebody
00:41:09
and put them in the [ __ ] ground to possibly suffocate to death you didn't know if she was still alive you had no
00:41:16
[ __ ] clue she could have died the first night you did that with like specimen like Marine specimen you never
00:41:21
did that with a human you didn't know how the [ __ ] that was going to go and you certainly never buried them under
00:41:25
the ground I don't I don't see you burying Marine [ __ ] specimens underground for research knowledge and
00:41:31
it's like so you're sitting there trying to take this like passion stance and it's like nope not in your case buddy
00:41:37
like let's be real to sum it all up that ain't it that ain't it that ain't it that ain't it and so despite his
00:41:46
statements about a rigged system and trying to appeal to the greater you know thought of that people do look at the
00:41:53
justice system we've looked at it before as like being being unfair and being broken and all that stuff instead like
00:42:00
you know it does work and the jury did seem to take pity on him a little bit from that that's absolutely insane they
00:42:07
delber not in this case yeah they deliberated for a little over 4 hours and then returned a guilty verdict with
00:42:13
the recommendation of Mercy why meaning they spared him the death penalty okay instead he was given life a life
00:42:22
sentence all right that was the mandatory sentence in the state of Georgia that's crazy that he got a life
00:42:27
sentence and she got seven years years yeah that's wild that's where the the problem with the justice system in lies
00:42:34
yeah that's a problem like um what but he had the potential for parole after don't even don't seven years are
00:42:43
you [ __ ] kidding me yeah how why who what one where not sure but when the verdict was read aloud in court you want
00:42:51
to know what he did do I he yawned grasping his wrist and glancing at the clock yeah like stretch
00:43:03
yawned was kind of thing and was like what an absolute pompous waste before he was led out of the courtroom by armed
00:43:10
guards he that's what he did he just did like the stretch like n oh boy life must
00:43:15
be so tiring for you uh in its statement to the Press prosecutor Richard Bell told reporters naturally were
00:43:21
disappointed we thought the circumstances of the crime demanded the death penalty the trial was the first
00:43:26
time time the public got any insight into Gary Chris psyche and personality and for many they didn't like what they
00:43:32
saw no uh in an editorial in the Miami Heralds one journalist wrote the kidnapper is a brilliant man but we do
00:43:39
not agree with his view that he is a superior human being we will not accept that definition of a man who put the
00:43:45
mael girl girl in a crude grave and left her there in torturing Darkness the superiority of Gary Christ is one of
00:43:52
Cruelty we believe that behind bars is where he belongs and where he should stay you're here we said yes yes Chin
00:43:58
Chin you're here and it turned out the Supreme Court of Georgia agreed with the wider public with respect to his freedom
00:44:05
in 1970 his lawyers filed an appeal with the court arguing like a bunch of stuff
00:44:10
but also that the you know bunch of to sum it up like a bunch of stuff the court argued like a bunch of [ __ ] it's
00:44:16
giving legally blocked I love that they argued a bunch of [ __ ] but the lower court but the one thing I wanted to talk
00:44:23
about was that the lower court they said that the lower court aired in over ruling the defense's motion to dismiss
00:44:29
the charge of kidnapping for ransom on the grounds that the offense was not defined by the statute okay and in their
00:44:36
summary the justices noted the offense for which the defendant was indicted tried and convicted kidnapping for
00:44:42
ransom was designated a crime by necessary implication by the general assembly and requires no definition also
00:44:49
the justices pointed out that the evidence supported the indictment and thus the verdict was just yeah resulting
00:44:55
in the lower Court's ruling being upheld good now in the wake of her rescue Barbara spent a few days in the hospital
00:45:03
before you know going back home to her parents like I said and I had said like they just kind of were like get the [ __ ]
00:45:08
away from us um and they just kind of said like please respect our privacy but once a short amount of time had passed
00:45:15
Barbara did Grant a small amount of interviews where she talked about the experience after being abducted from the
00:45:21
motel she said she was in injected with a tranquilizer by her kidnappers where the [ __ ] did they get a tranquil answer
00:45:28
I don't know but Barbara said she was out in the woods and taken to the area where Christ had dug the pit and she
00:45:34
said I was woozy but I knew what was happening and she said I tried to talk them out of it but they paid her no
00:45:40
attention they didn't care about her please to please don't do this and instead they forced her to take that
00:45:45
photograph of her holding the kidnapped sign so that's why she looks that way cuz she's on tranquil yeah no it makes
00:45:51
sense um throughout her ordeal Barbara said she tried to keep her mind off of the terrifying potential of how this
00:45:57
situation could end by thinking of her friends her family like we said singing to herself singing Christmas carols
00:46:04
trying to make herself laugh she said but the reality of being in the Box was unavoidable she said it was cold it
00:46:10
leaked it kept dripping from above 83 hours 83 hours and she said on the fourth day when she was rescued by FBI
00:46:20
agents she said I could hear footsteps I thought it was the kidnappers coming back for me I'd been there so long I
00:46:25
really didn't care and when she was pulled from the coffin the first thing she asked the agents was how are my
00:46:31
parents oh yeah and they they said that was the first thing she cared about was how are my parents that's amazing um and
00:46:38
she said it was only after she looked around at their faces that she realized like how relieved she could be and she
00:46:43
said they were all crying like all the agents were balling their ass I can't imagine and after giving a few
00:46:49
interviews Barbara was determined to put the entire experience behind her and just move forward I don't blame her but
00:46:54
2 years later she partnered with Miami haral writer Jean Harold on a book about her kidnapping and following its
00:47:01
publication she vowed that I'm not revisiting this story again yeah um and that book is called 83 hours till dawn
00:47:10
uh you can find it still today must be named after there are but yeah in 1971 this is my favorite part of the
00:47:19
story Barbara married her best friend Ste Stuart Woodward yes and I was so happy I love that I was like that's her
00:47:28
man I love that just the fact that he like sat with her mom and who even knows how well he knew her what a good dude oh
00:47:36
my god wow and they moved back to Florida where they started a family shut the [ __ ] up and they made a concerted
00:47:42
effort to stay out of the public eye yeah unfortunately Stuart passed away in 2013 but they did have like a a lovely
00:47:49
life together good I love love that she married him that's my favorite part 1971
00:47:55
they got married [ __ ] yeah was so [ __ ] happy when I read that I was like that's what I need for my Barbara
00:48:00
that's what I need that's what Barb Barbara deserves a Stuart she did Stuart was the guy man hanging out all day
00:48:06
studying with her going to her dorm to get her notes the whole time I was reading this for the first time I was
00:48:11
like what a good guy like I love this guy seemed like a stand up and at the end I'm like they get married wow and
00:48:17
start and they have a family they had they had kid like it's great I'm so happy that she [ __ ] Queen to say I'm
00:48:24
going to write this book cuz like this is a story that's be told and then I'm done I'm going to move on like she's a
00:48:30
strong individual that's crazy good for her good for her wow what a [ __ ] story oh I'm not even done what you
00:48:39
thought I was done I sure did you thought it just ended there I mean yeah kind of so that was in 1971 they got
00:48:47
married like she's off she's happy yeah in the summer of 1973 Gary Chris tried to escape from the Georgia Diagnostic
00:48:55
and classification Center by crawling through the air conditioning ducks and hiding inside a large garbage bin where
00:49:01
he was then loaded onto a truck to be removed from the grounds Gary the attempt earned him he did get caught and
00:49:07
he was he got an additional two years on his mandatory minimum so he had to do nine instead of seven in May 1979 he uh
00:49:16
was paroled that's [ __ ] nuts from Georgia's Reedsville State Prison much to the disappointment of Atlanta
00:49:23
residents ah yeah yeah Superior Court Judge ho Hu ber said I just don't think he'll ever change giving the nature of
00:49:29
the case burying the girl in the ground like he was like what the [ __ ] regardless of how the public felt or the
00:49:35
judge felt the state's parole board felt justified in their decision that's very
00:49:40
interesting they said there is nothing in our files to indicate Gary Steven Christ is violent or
00:49:46
dangerous how about the part where he buried a girl in a box underneath the ground is that you guys are just
00:49:52
forgetting that part you guys are not very demor you're not very mindful no not at all and they said if he does
00:49:57
commit a crime it won't be a crime of violence how do you know and they went on to further justify their decision by
00:50:04
uh minimizing his original crime ready ready for what the parole board said never Mrs Woodward suffers no lasting
00:50:14
Trauma from the ordeal Mrs Woodward meaning our girl Barbara because she's my now she doesn't
00:50:21
give a [ __ ] about you guys but [ __ ] you guys and also how do you know who the
00:50:25
[ __ ] do you think you are did you contact her they're literally like he's not violent and she's fine so wow wow
00:50:33
gross wow gross to everyone's surprise Gary Chris did make an effort in the beginning to show the world that he had
00:50:41
turned around yeah the conditions of his parole required him to initially move back to Alaska by and in 1983 he was
00:50:49
accepted into medical school at the University of Washington after completing his program
00:50:55
and earning a medical degree he struggled to find a state that would Grant him a license cuz like I'm sorry I
00:51:00
just have to ask the the the the charge that he serve time for that's a felony right yep can you Can your doctor be a
00:51:09
[ __ ] felon uh that's what I was a little EXC about that's why he was struggling I think to find somebody that
00:51:16
would give him a license um and then in December 2001 the state of Indiana granted him a
00:51:24
probationary license to practice medicine you said what state Indiana let's not go there yeah and he opened a
00:51:31
private practice in the Tiny Town of Chrisney yeah yeah it's yep so um now in the months leading up to and immediately
00:51:41
following his parole period he found a number of people that were willing to vouch for him and assure his critics
00:51:48
that he had changed for the better um and in fact it was because of these people that the parole board even
00:51:54
considered releasing him like they were really part of it uhhuh but for every one person that was insisting he was a
00:52:00
better person there was twice as many who were like no no no no incorrect sorry I just hit my microphone I'm so
00:52:05
mad she said said no no no no I slapped my microphone of the way that's the end it was twice as many that would say no
00:52:11
no no he's a narcissistic con man and like it's going to turn out bad um with a year of opening his practice he kind
00:52:20
of proved the critics a little right uh in the fall of 2002 after less than a year after receiving his probationary
00:52:27
license to practice medicine the licensing board pulled his license for failure to comply with the supervisory
00:52:33
requirements writing his own supervisory reports and forging his supervisor's name in addition to the lies and fraud
00:52:42
related to his license there were other incidences that also uh led to this in one he reportedly told a 13-year-old
00:52:51
patient with an eating disorder that she quote had a big butt oh my God another occasion records show that he told a
00:52:58
woman who'd recently been diagnosed with HIV that quote her boyfriend must be thrilled oh my God during this perod
00:53:06
that's why doctors probably shouldn't be felons no and during this period he was
00:53:10
also accused of sexual assault by a patient um and he fled the state before facing
00:53:16
prosecution wow so he was stripped of his license he returned to Alaska now and began finding various other means of
00:53:23
making money both legal and illegal I'm sure in March 2006 US Customs agents raided his boat in Point Clear Alaska
00:53:32
and found 37 lbs of cocaine on board that's a lot of cocaine that's a lot of that's all of the cocain all the cocaine
00:53:43
okay Pablo Escobar the [ __ ] he also they also found four South Americans who had
00:53:49
paid Christ $6,000 each to illegally smuggle them into the country who the [ __ ] is this guy I don't
00:53:57
no how do you I just got to know I'm not even done oh God I just got to how do you like get a life and like do that
00:54:05
with it like that's you're out here with a life doing this I don't understand it TR it's cool
00:54:16
that we all got lives like I'm excited about it I don't know how it happened I mean I do but like we don't need to get
00:54:23
into the skinny of it all but that's what you do with it I'm just out here trying to have a good time legally make
00:54:31
some [ __ ] yummy treats every now and again and like I don't know enjoy [ __ ] it I mean really he was out there trying
00:54:39
to enjoy [ __ ] too but like but like Works smarter not harder like what are you do he's doing so much just chill out
00:54:46
he's doing so much just chill the [ __ ] out chill the [ __ ] out and go the [ __ ]
00:54:50
away be like go away like sir well I feel like he's just somebody that should live on a boat by himself just go live
00:54:57
on an island you're right on a boat no one needs to see you that's just Vibe just do your you know go on a boat you
00:55:04
know like here's 10 bucks see you later 10 bucks all right go ahead do they what
00:55:08
you will anyway keep going now when they caught him with the uh with all the pound of cocaine on his boat uh they
00:55:16
served a warrant at his Georgia residence that he had kind of just up and abandoned sure uh they found a giant
00:55:23
underground drug lab what like a meth lab like a huge one or like just like all the
00:55:30
drugs manufacturing it all Mur kod I think his name is was quoted as saying basically there was a trapo it was wood
00:55:37
covered with lenium unless you knew you were looking for something you wouldn't notice it there was an 8ft ladder that
00:55:43
led down to a 27t long lab underground what had a countertop at one end there was ventilation there was a it was glass
00:55:52
enclosed things it was fully equipped with light electricity water and it had an escape tunnel that led into a covered
00:56:00
Barrel about 50 ft from the lab what you can't make that [ __ ] up yeah who the f I mean I got wow they
00:56:10
said he was like mega mind he was like Mega like crime Lord at this point like just he's a drug lord Now isn't he I
00:56:19
don't really know what makes one a drug lord to be honest s like it fits though like I I feel like 30 something pounds
00:56:24
of cocaine will he's doing it all he's doing it all he's doing all the things the [ __ ] the new charges earned him an
00:56:31
almost 5year sentence that's it but not long after being released in 2010 he violated the terms of his probation and
00:56:40
was sent back to prison in 2012 and stayed there until he was released until in July 2015 how old is this
00:56:47
[ __ ] at this point he's 79 right now okay wow what and he's probably still out here huh he's still out here
00:56:54
he's still alive um yeah and I know he's just you know apparent apparently he got tired at that
00:57:01
point 2015 he was let out and nobody's really heard from him since then you guys better keep your [ __ ] eyes
00:57:07
peeled into the newspapers yeah he's 79 I'm like damn you build a [ __ ] 8 foot down 27 feet wide or long how whatever
00:57:16
the [ __ ] you want to call it drug lab you're not I mean yeah yeah you're not just chilling out
00:57:24
after that and now that's the case of the kidnapping of Barbara Jane mael I got to say you really popped the [ __ ]
00:57:33
off with that one Dave was so correct when he was like yeah you got to take a look at this he texted us one day and I
00:57:41
was like oh yeah that sounds interesting I look into it and I looked I was like whoa hello I'd like to report several
00:57:48
crimes throughout the span of it is 60 70 809 like he that's like a career Criminal 100% literally like 5050 years
00:57:58
of crime the only good thing is in the end Barbara just came out like got married with Stuart wrote a book and off
00:58:09
she went had her family you know W yeah that's really crazy yeah I wow it's what
00:58:18
a tale it's a that's why it had to be told in two episodes because it's just like you think the that the the most
00:58:27
action is happening with with like the kidnapping and the ROM and all that there's just so much happening and then
00:58:33
it's like oh wait we haven't even scratched the surface of what happens here wow
00:58:38
yeah wow so that's a taale what a a [ __ ] tail what a tale we you better keep we don't even hope at this point
00:58:46
you heard that you're not going to keep listening keep listening we hope you do I even say that what is going on keep it
00:58:56
weird keep it so weird that you forget your own outro it's been a long time I don't know I'm riding out on a am it's
00:59:02
been a long time we did it the same day but no I said it's been a long time like
00:59:07
doing this I mean I don't know you know you do something so much and then you're
00:59:11
just like how do I do this yeah you know we're six years in bye bye yams y [Music]
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most shocking
  • 90
    Biggest twist
  • 85
    Most dramatic
  • 85
    Most heartbreaking

Episode Highlights

  • Ruth's Arrest and FBI Efficiency
    After being on the run, Ruth was arrested when her fingerprints were checked for a job.
    “You didn't get this one, you're on the FBI's most wanted list!”
    @ 24m 26s
    September 09, 2024
  • Ruth's Cold Indifference
    Ruth seemed unfazed by the kidnapping aftermath, moving on with her life.
    “What a different situation where it's like you were just popping off to live your life.”
    @ 30m 21s
    September 09, 2024
  • Ruth's Trial and Plea
    Ruth changed her plea to guilty for kidnapping and began serving her sentence.
    “She went along with a plan to extort a father by burying his daughter in a box.”
    @ 35m 24s
    September 09, 2024
  • Gary Chris's Criminal Journey
    From kidnapping to drug lord, Gary Chris's life is a series of shocking crimes.
    “You took someone's child and put them in a box underground.”
    @ 40m 56s
    September 09, 2024
  • Barbara's Rescue
    After 83 hours in captivity, Barbara was rescued by FBI agents. Her first concern? Her parents.
    “How are my parents?”
    @ 46m 31s
    September 09, 2024
  • Life After Kidnapping
    Barbara moved on from her traumatic experience, marrying her best friend and writing a book.
    “That's my favorite part!”
    @ 47m 22s
    September 09, 2024
  • A Long Journey
    Reflecting on the passage of time and experiences shared over six years.
    “It's been a long time like...”
    @ 59m 04s
    September 09, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • I think it's a great tribute to the efficiency of the FBI.
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast
  • You took someone's child and put them in a box underground.
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast
  • That ain't it, that ain't it, that ain't it.
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast
  • How are my parents?
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast
  • What a tale!
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast
  • It's been a long time like...
    The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2) | Morbid | Podcast

Key Moments

  • Tracking Movements20:44
  • Fleeing the Country21:33
  • Abandoned Boat22:16
  • Life Sentence42:22
  • Rescue46:31
  • Marriage47:22
  • Criminal Activities53:29
  • Six Years In59:13

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