219: The Kidnapping of Carrie Lawson, Part 2

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the dark morning hours of September 11th 1991, in the small town of Jasper Alabama, a couple named Earl and Carrie Lawson were awoken by a fake emergency phone call that lured them out of the house. A masked man was waiting in their carport. Earl was bound with duct tape and the assailant forced Carrie their SUV and sped off into the darkness. Carrie had been kidnapped for ransom. It seemed like something you only saw in movies. In the last episode, I told you all about the parade of mistakes the FBI made in this case. Now we’re getting into the repercussions of those mistakes, and even more bad decisions…as Carrie Lawson’s life hung in the balance.

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0:31.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:38.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:41.0	For those who missed the last episode, here's a quick recap. On September 11th,
0:47.0	1991, in the small town of Jasper, Alabama, a couple named Earl and Carrie Lawson were sleeping peacefully until they were
0:54.6	awoken by a phone call. It was in the darkest hours of the night, before dawn
0:59.4	breaks. And those kind of calls are never good.
1:03.0	Earl's father had recently been ill,
1:05.0	so when the woman on the phone claimed to be a nurse from the local hospital,
1:09.0	they believed her.
1:10.0	She said his dad, Earl Austin Sr., Sr., might not even make it through the night, and they needed to rush to Walker Medical Hospital right away.
1:18.0	The couple threw on some clothes and rushed out the door, jumping in their Ford Explorer in the carport.
1:24.0	Suddenly a masked man appeared with a gun.
1:27.0	Earl Lawson realized immediately that the phone call from the nurse had been a ruse.
1:32.0	The assailant made Carrie bind Earl with
1:35.0	duct tape and then forced her back into the Explorer and then he raced off into the
1:40.0	night, abducting 25-year-old Carrie Lawson.
1:44.0	Earl managed to break free from the duct tape, but his keys were still in the Explorer, so he kicked
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