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Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Barbara’s father, Robert Mackle, has gathered $500,000 in 20-dollar bills into a suitcase. Then, following the kidnappers’ instructions, he goes by himself to the drop site – an abandoned causeway in Miami. But when he gets lost on the way to the site, he begins to worry that the kidnappers will flee before he can deliver the money, leaving his daughter to die.

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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.
0:15.7	Some elements including dialogue may be invented, but everything is based on research.
0:34.4	Barbara Mackle feels around frantically for the light switch. She's in a blackness so dark she can't see anything,
0:38.3	not her feet, not her hands, not the lid of the box she's tracked in, which is screwed shut just inches above her head.
0:47.0	Seconds ago, the only light bulb illuminating the box's interior flickered and went out. Now Barbara feels the same kind of
0:55.9	panic that seized her when she was first buried here. What yesterday? The man, the
1:01.8	head kidnapper, took her watch so she has no concept of how much time has
1:06.8	actually passed. Her heart is racing, her breath coming in short, hard gasps. Her flu symptoms only seem to have
1:16.9	gotten worse. She's so congested she has to breathe through her mouth.
1:22.3	She tries again to turn on the light,
1:24.8	inching her fingers along the plywood wall behind her head,
1:28.2	until she finally finds the switch. She flicks it off and on. Nothing. The kidnappers left a note explaining how
1:37.1	the box works. The light runs on the same battery that keeps fresh air circulating in her tiny compartment. The note
1:45.1	warned that if she kept it on the battery life would be cut short. No battery, no
1:51.2	air. So she tried to keep the light off for stretches of time, but she
1:56.1	would get panicky and have to turn it back on. The darkness had been too much to
2:00.8	bear. Now it's off and it's staying off. She's certain she'll go
2:06.0	insane in this blackness. She kicks her feet and hears the rustle of a paper bag.
2:11.9	She hooks it with her foot and drags it to and hears the rustle of a paper bag.
2:12.6	She hooks it with her foot and drags it toward her grasping hand.
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