It's like something out of a horror movie.

A man hears his fiancé screams as she's abducted from a phone booth,

and then he passes her abductor on the road and hears her calling out his name for help.

It's one of the most disturbing abduction cases in Midwestern history. Angela Hammond, a young

expectant mother, was on a call with her fiancé Rob late one night, using a phone booth.

When she told Rob that an unidentified truck was circling the payphone area, she described the unidentified man driving and said he was bearded and filthy.

As he drove up to the payphones, he pulled out a flashlight and appeared to be looking

for something. And then, a few moments later, Rob heard screams and listened to his fiance

being abducted in real time. That evening, Rob would later come within mere seconds of saving Angela's

life, but was tragically unable to.

This case is one of the most haunting mysteries to date and remains unsolved.

But some recent evidence, specifically a ransom-style note with cut-and-paste letters,

could possibly break this decades-old case wide open.

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And now, today's case.

This is the unsolved abduction of Angela Hammond.

Angela Marie Hammond, family and friends called her Angie, was born on February 9, 1971,

to parents Marcia and Chris Hammond. In the first few years of Angela's life, the family lived in Kansas

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