Buried Alive | The Chase | 4
Against The Odds
Wondery
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s been days since Barbara Mackle has been buried alive in the cold Georgia clay. She has no idea how long the battery that keeps fresh air circulating into her wooden capsule will last. She's beginning to despair that she'll ever be rescued. Meanwhile, in Florida, after the first ransom drop is bungled, kidnapper Gary Steven Krist makes one last-ditch effort to get the ransom money and arrange a getaway. But the police dragnet around him is tightening with every hour.
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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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| 0:09.0 | A listener note, Against the Odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:15.8 | Some elements including dialogue may be invented, but everything is based on research. Barbara Mackle feels around in the darkness for the switch to turn off the fan. |
| 0:35.3 | It's driving her crazy. For days now, the fan has been circulating fresh air from above |
| 0:41.7 | into her cramped compartment. |
| 0:44.2 | It's her lifeline, but it makes it cold inside, |
| 0:47.7 | too cold to sleep, and the noise gets on her nerves. |
| 0:52.2 | She flips the switch. Her wooden chamber buried in the cold Georgia |
| 0:57.2 | clay is suddenly quiet. She closes her eyes and listens to the rhythm of her breathing. |
| 1:04.0 | The flu she's been fighting since before she was buried |
| 1:07.5 | is still wracking her body. |
| 1:09.5 | So she breathes through her mouth, in and out, in and out. |
| 1:16.3 | With the fan off, it gets warmer, but the air grows thick. |
| 1:21.1 | She wonders how long it's been since she was placed in this box and buried. |
| 1:26.0 | Two days? Three? |
| 1:28.0 | At first, she passed the time by counting off seconds. |
| 1:32.0 | But now, she just lies here and imagines what's going on back home. |
| 1:37.0 | Her parents and her brother must be worried sick. She's accepted that her kidnappers lied when they said they'd come back to check on her. |
| 1:45.0 | She's heard nothing above her. They're not coming for her. Maybe no one is. |
| 1:51.0 | Her mind then goes to an even darker place. |
| 1:55.0 | She thinks, |
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