Shortly after 4 a.m. on Tuesday
the 17th of December, 1968,
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two gunmen burst through
the doorway into room 137
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at the Rodeway Inn
in Atlanta, Georgia.
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What followed was one of
the most bizarre and sensational
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crimes in American history.
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Inside the hotel room, Barbara
Jane Mackle the 20-year-old
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heiress and daughter of a
wealthy Florida businessman
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was recovering from
illness. Her mother was there
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caring for her and
overseeing her recovery.
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The kidnappers bound the mother
and abducted the daughter,
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then they drove their victim
to an isolated pine forest
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on the outskirts of town.
They forced Barbara into a
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coffin-like box and
buried her deep underground.
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Her only contact with the out-
side world was a narrow air-tube
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that reached to the surface.
Nobody knew where she was
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except for the kidnappers
and they threatened that they'd
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never reveal her whereabouts
unless her father met their
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demands and paid them a ransom
of half a million dollars.
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Her fate was sealed, if
the money wasn't provided
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that box would become Barbara
Mackel's tomb and she would
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die all alone. Her
body would never be found.
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There was nothing she could
do. Barbara screams "Can anyone
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hear me? "Barbara screams
Can anyone hear me" again?
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Her only hope of rescue depended
on the ransom being paid.
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Make sure you hear the inspiring
story of a father's love
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and his desperate attempt to
rescue his kidnapped daughter.
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and you'll be surprised
to discover that there's more
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to this Ransome story than
expected and it may even have
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implications for you and me.
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Emory University is located
on a beautiful campus in the
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vibrant city of Atlanta, the
capital of the state of Georgia
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in the United States.
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It was founded in 1836 and
is one of the oldest private
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universities in
the United States.
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Today it ranks among the worlds
leading research universities
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and is one of the top
institutions in America.
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Emory's 133,000 alumni
include a U.S. Vice President,
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a Supreme Court Justice, U.S.
senators and representatives,
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governors, university
presidents, philanthropists,
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entaupreters, entertainers,
and even an astronaut.
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The university attracts students
from over 100 foreign countries
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and from all 50
states of America.
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In 1968 one of those students
was 20-year-old Barbara Jane
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Mackle, a wealthy
young heiress from Florida.
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Her father Robert Mackle was a
multi-millionaire who owned the
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65 million dollar Deltona
Corporation, one of the biggest
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real estate home-building
companies in America.
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In December an influenza
epidemic spread through the
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Emory Campus and hit the student
body hard. Soon the university
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infirmary was full of sick
students, when Barbara came down
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with the flu, there wasn't any
room left in the infirmary, so
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her mother Jane drove all the
way from Coral Gables, a posh
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suburb in Miami to take care of
Barbara. The two of them moved
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into room 137 at the nearby
Rodeway Inn so that Barbara
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could recover and
prepare for her final exams.
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Christmas was just eight
days away and they were looking
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forward to driving back home
to Florida for a family holiday.
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Barbara and her mother
went to bed early that night
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to ensure that
Barbara got plenty of rest.
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They wanted to get rid of her
fever and give her the very best
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chance of getting well again.
Shortly after 4 o'clock the next
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morning, Tuesday the 17th
of December, they're awakened
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by a loud knock on the door. A
man who identified himself as a
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policeman said that
there'd been a terrible accident
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and that Barbara's
fiancé "Stewart Hunt Woodward"
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had been seriously injured.
He claimed that he needed to
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talk to Barbara immediately.
Mrs. Mackle went to open the
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door, Barbara said no,
don't but it was too late,
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outside the door was a stranger,
Gary Krist holding a shotgun
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and his accomplice dressed
as a man but actually Krist's
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girlfriend Ruth Eisemann Scheir,
she was armed with a pistol.
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They burst into the room and
held their weapons to the heads
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of Barbara and her
mother. Do as we say and no one
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will get hurt. The two women
were defenseless and terrified,
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the gunman quickly chloroformed
bound and gagged Janet Mackle
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and left her lying
on the motel room floor.
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They then forced Barbara at
gunpoint from the hotel room
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into the back of their waiting
car, informing her that she was
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being kidnapped.
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They drove about 30 km to a
remote pine forest in a wild
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and uninhabited place near
Lake Berkley in the Duluth area
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on the outskirts of town.
Barbara was forced from the car
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and dragged to a
pre-dug hole in the ground.
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The horror of her situation
became clear when the light
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of the torch revealed a coffin-
like box at the bottom of the
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hole, they were
going to bury her alive.
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Barbara pled for her life,
she told her kidnappers that she
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would do anything if they
would just spare her life and
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leave her out of the box.
She repeated over and over
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I'll be good, I'll be good
but her pleas were in vain.
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Barbara was told that she would
only live if she cooperated.
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She was pushed into the hole
and forced to lie in the box.
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Kris took an opal ring from
Barbara's finger and ordered her
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to hold a crude sign
that read "Kidnapped" while he
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photographed her with a Polaroid
camera, but he didn't like the
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picture because she was grim-
faced, he ordered her to smile
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so that her parents
would know that she was alive,
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then he photographed her again.
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Barbara was informed that
there were supplies in the box
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that would keep her alive
for several days as well as a
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narrow plastic air tube
that reached to the surface to
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provide outside air.
Then came the dreaded moment,
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the top of the box was
closed and screwed down,
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next, she could hear the sounds
of frozen dirt being shoveled
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on top of her, the first shovel
full of soil were very loud
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then they became
muffled and then silence.
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Within a few minutes she
lay buried alive under a half
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a meter of earth, she was
hysterical, she yelled out,
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she pushed with all her might
against the roof of the box
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she banged on the sides of
the box hoping someone would
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hear her, but there was
just silence, she was all alone.
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The kidnappers contacted Robert
Mackel with a ransom message
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they demanded $500,000 in ransom
and gave detailed instructions
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on how the money was to
be prepared and delivered.
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It was to consist of used
$20 bills, not in serial order
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and bound in $1,000 packets.
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The full ransom payment was
to be put in a single suitcase,
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they threatened that
they'd never reveal Barbara's
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whereabouts unless all
their demands were met.
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If Robert Mackle agreed
to the kidnapper's terms,
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he was instructed to
place a classified ad in the
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Miami Herald Newspaper
under the personal section.
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He knew there was only way
he would ever see his daughter
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alive again, she was under a
death sentence unless he paid
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the ransom. The moment
of decision had arrived,
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Robert Mackle had to
make the critical decision,
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was he willing
to pay the ransom?
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Well, there was never any
doubt in Robert Mackel's mind,
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his daughter's life was all
that mattered, he immediately
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withdrew the money an followed
the kidnappers instructions.
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He placed the add
in the newspaper...
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That night the ransom payment
was prepared, the money was
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carefully counted
and placed in a suitcase.
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On Wednesday, the postman
delivered a letter containing
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Barbara's opal ring and the
Polaroid photo of her holding
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the kidnapped sign and
then at 4 a.m. on Thursday,
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exactly two days after
the kidnapping Robert Mackel
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another phone call giving
instructions for the ransom
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drop-off. Robert Mackel
left immediately and placed
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the suitcase full of money
on a sandy strip near a bridge
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just south of Miami
along the bay as instructed.
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But the entire ransom process
was disrupted when two police
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officers who were totally
unaware if the kidnapping
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drove by and spotted
two suspicious individuals
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carrying the
large heavy suitcase.
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When they went to investigate,
the kidnappers dropped the
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the suitcase and fled safely
only foot to the nearby woods,
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however, the FBI found
their nearby abandoned car.
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Inside the vehicle, not only
did the authorities find the
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documents giving the kidnappers
identities and former addresses
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but they also found the other
photograph of Barbara Mackel
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in the box holding the kidnapped
sign. Robert Mackel was
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devastated when told of
the accidentally bungled ransom
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drop-off, he feared that
the kidnappers would now abandon
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the ransom deal and
leave Barbara to die.
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Nothing else mattered, he just
wanted to get his daughter back
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and he was willing to sacrifice
everything to make that happen.
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Robert Mackel placed a
second add in the newspaper
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for the kidnappers that led
to another phone call and a new
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ransom drop-off location.
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The second ransom
drop-off was successful,
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now the Mackel family waited
tensely for a response from the
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kidnappers with
information about their daughter
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but no call came,
they feared the worse.
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Nearly 15 hours after the
ransom pick-up, on the 20th of
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December, Kris called the FBI
office in Atlanta and left vague
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directions to Barbara's
burial site near Duluth.
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More than 100 agents rushed
to the site, they spread out
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and began searching in a
desperate effort to find her
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before she suffocated, but
they couldn't find any sign
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of the living grave. The agents
were about to give up the search
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when one man noticed a
patch of freshly turned earth
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he fell to the ground
for a closer inspection
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and spotted the
ventilation tubes.
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Frantically the men began
digging the ground with their
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bare hands and sticks wondering
whether Barbara would be dead
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or alive. Twelve minutes
later their hands bleeding,
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the agents reached the coffin
lid, they pried it off with a
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tire lever and there was Barbara
alive, the agents wept as they
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lifted her out of the box.
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After having spent nearly four
days in dark cold confinement,
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she was in remarkably good
spirits, she was finally freed
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thanks to her father's
love and his willingness
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to pay her ransom.
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Barbara was flown in her
father's jet back to Miami
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to be reunited with her family
and what a reunion it was,
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Robert Mackel had shown just
how much Barbara meant to him
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and the family. He was
willing to sacrifice everything
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in order to save
her and bring her home.
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Do we need to wonder if Barbara
ever doubted her father's love
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after that? She'd experienced
her father's love firsthand
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in a very special way. She
knew that he and the family
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valued her above
everything. Now consider this.
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Did the half a million dollar
ransom cause her father to
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love her? or did it reveal
how much he already loved her?
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Of course, the money merely
reflected the intense love
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within the heart of Robert
Mackel for his daughter Barbara.
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That special love, that intense
love is something humans desire.
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We all need it, we were
made to love and be loved.
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If you were kidnapped, would
anybody pay up to a $20,000,000
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for you? Does
anybody love you that much?
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Yes, someone does, you were
loved that much and even more.
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Let me explain, one of the
great themes of the Bible is the
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ransom theme, in fact you
cannot fully understand the
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golden thread that runs
all the way through the Bible
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without
understanding the ransom fee.
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Notice what the Bible
says in 1Peter 1:18,19.
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There you have it, you were
ransomed not with $20,000,000,
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but with the
precious blood of Christ.
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Now please notice what this
means, ultimately somethings
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value is measured how much
another person will pay for it
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or give up for it. And if that's
the measurement, your value
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is out of this world. God
gave His only Son for you.
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He didn't give just the best
that He had, God gave everything
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He had, and He
did it just for you.
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If you were the only person
on this planet who was lost
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and needed to be ransomed,
Jesus would have still come
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just for you. Can you imagine
anyone paying a higher price
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for anything. Once you
internalize the fact that
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God sent His Son to pay your
ransom, you should never again
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struggle with
self-esteem or feel worthless.
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God has eternally
clarified your value.
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You are worth everything,
you are worth dying for,
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you are worth going
through the pain of the cross,
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you matter. Jesus said He would
rather die than live without you
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and so He paid
your ransom and mine.
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But why was it necessary?
Why do we need to be ransomed
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in the first place?
Well, to find the answer,
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we've got to go all the
way back to the very beginning
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of human existence. In the
very first book of the Bible
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the story begins with a perfect
world, there was no sin or
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disease. Because God is
love, He wanted to populate
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this perfect world with
people who had the ability to
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respond to His love. He
didn't want puppets of robots,
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who are manipulated
or programmed to behave
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in a certain way, He wanted
people who had the power of
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choice. And so God
created people with the capacity
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the freedom to respond
spontaneously to His love.
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But when you give the
power to people to choose,
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you take a great risk because
they may make wrong choices.
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They may choose to love or not
to love, they may choose to be
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loyal or not to be
loyal. But because God is love,
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He was willing to take
that risk and give people
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the power of choice.
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Sadly, as time went by,
our first parents Adam and Eve
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listened to the voice
of God's arch enemy Lucifer
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and chose to follow him, they
chose to rebel, to reject God
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and give their loyalty to Satan.
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Just as Barbara Mackel's
mother made the voluntary choice
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to let the kidnappers in,
so our first parents made a
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voluntary choice to listen
to the voice of the kidnappers,
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Satan and let
him into their lives.
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And so, in a sense, our
first parents were kidnapped by
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Satan and held captive in sin.
When Adam and Eve turned their
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back on God and
invited Satan into their world,
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they were separated from
God and life. Sin, rebellion
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separates us from God.
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Notice what the Bible
says in Isaiah 59:1,2.
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People were made for fellowship
with God, to be in harmony
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with their Creator, but when
they sinned, they turned away
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from God. They rejected
Him and turned against Him.
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But there is more, there are
consequences associated with sin
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with rebelling against
God. Notice what the Bible says
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in Romans 6:23.
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The two people that God
had created perfect and upright
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were now separated from God,
that resulted in destruction
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and death. They had no
ability to fix this situation
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so the human race was doomed.
The tragic end of their choice
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to rebel was
destruction and death.
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Like Barbara Mackel
in that dirt-covered box,
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unable to deliver herself,
the human race was doomed
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unless help came from above.
In a sense, we're all in a box
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without hope,
unless a ransom is paid.
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And this is where God
intervened, He couldn't stand
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being separated from
us, the people He loves.
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He was both willing and able
to provide that help from above.
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He had a plan, He would
come and pay the ransom Himself
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to "SET US FREE". He would
pay the penalty for our sins
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and mistakes. The ransom
wasn't in dollars or silver
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or gold, it was paid
in blood, Jesus blood,
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He died in our place.
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He died so we could live,
He paid our ransom in full.
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Listen to what the
Bible says in Matthew 20:28.
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Our ransom has been paid, we
don't have to be held captive
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any longer, captive
to sin, captive to guilt,
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captive to fear, captive to
despair, we've been set free.
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Please notice the words
of the most popular text in
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all the Bible.
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Yes, Jesus has paid the ransom
to set us free, to give us life,
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and here's the good news,
not matter how deep or dark
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your situation may be, Jesus
will find you and set you free.
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No sin is too bad,
no hole is too deep,
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no case is to hopeless,
He's here to give us hope
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to forgive our sins, to
give us peace and happiness,
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all you have to do is
ask, and he will set you free.
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Why not ask Him to do
that right now as we pray?
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Our Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for Jesus our Saviour
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and our deliverer.
We are so grateful that
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He has paid our ransom in
full, and paid the penalty
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for our sins and mistakes.
We are so glad that we are
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no longer separated from You.
We are so grateful that you are
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a loving God. Thank you
from freeing us from sin, guilt,
00:23:03.51\00:23:07.85
and despair. Thank you for the
peace and happiness you give us,
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we commit our lives to
you and pray for your blessing
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and guidance. And we ask
this in Jesus name. Amen!
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The story of Barbara Mackel's
abduction and the father's
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desperate attempt to rescue
her, has fascinated and inspired
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people all over the
world. Being buried alive
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deep underground was
a terrifying experience.
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Her situation was hopeless,
her father knew there was only
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one way he would ever
see his daughter alive again,
00:23:53.40\00:23:56.40
she was under a death sentence
unless he paid the ransom.
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Robert Mackel's love for
his daughter was so great
00:24:01.10\00:24:04.71
that he was willing to sacrifice
everything in order to save her
00:24:04.74\00:24:09.14
and bring her home. He paid the
ransom in full to set her free.
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Sometimes we can feel buried
alive under the burdens and
00:24:13.92\00:24:18.62
challenges of life, Jesus has
paid the ransom to set us free
00:24:18.65\00:24:24.03
and to give us life. And so,
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Now I saw a new
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and God will wipe away
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there shall be no more
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there shall be no more
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