Buried Alive | The Box | 2
Against The Odds
Wondery
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Drugged and sick with flu, Barbara Mackle begs her kidnappers not to bury her underground. But soon she’s sealed inside a cramped wooden box, and can hear dirt being shoveled onto the lid. Meanwhile, a mysterious caller to her family’s home outside Miami directs them to a note buried beneath a rock in their front yard. The note confirms their worst fears – Barbara has been kidnapped and will never be found if they don’t pay the ransom.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to Against the Odds early in ad free right now. |
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| 0:10.0 | A listener note, Against the Odd odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:16.0 | Some elements including dialogue may be invented, but everything is based on research. Barbara Mackle lies in the backseat of her kidnapper's car as he drives through the freezing dark to who knows where. |
| 0:36.0 | Her head is in the lap of the kidnapper's accomplice, a young woman in a ski mask. |
| 0:42.0 | Barbara can feel the woman's hands holding her down. |
| 0:45.9 | Where are they going? 15 minutes ago, she was fast asleep in an Atlanta motel |
| 0:51.7 | room, her mother in the bed next to hers. Then two people |
| 0:56.1 | burst in, one brandishing a rifle. They tied up her mother and took Barbara in their |
| 1:01.8 | car. She's wearing nothing but socks and a thin |
| 1:05.1 | flannel nightgown. She's so cold. She's been fighting the flu and is so congested she can barely breathe. |
| 1:14.0 | Her kidnappers haven't told her anything, |
| 1:17.0 | not where they're going or why they took her. |
| 1:20.0 | She's decided this has to be about her father. |
| 1:24.0 | He's a wealthy real estate developer in Miami. |
| 1:27.0 | He must have crossed someone. |
| 1:30.0 | What else could it be? |
| 1:32.0 | The man driving seems cocky, conceded. |
| 1:35.0 | Occasionally, he barks a command at the woman in the backseat to hold Barbara down or |
| 1:41.0 | chloroform her if she resists. But the woman seems almost kind, her |
| 1:45.8 | fingers gentle on Barbara's cheeks. Barbara feels her weight shift as the car slows, |
| 1:51.6 | then takes a hard left turn. The ride is bumpy now. They must be on a dirt road. |
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