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On the night of December 3rd, 1997, Frank Dossel was supposed to be home from work by 5.30pm, just in time to celebrate his twin daughter's 10th birthday.

But when he never showed up, his family drove out to his office looking for him. What they discovered when they arrived would later be described as the worst mass murder in the history of Pope County Florida.

Join me now as we take a look at the eerie manufacturing massacre.

A quadruple homicide at a dry clean manufacturing plant in Bartow, Florida, you'll hear how a suspect's perfect alibi was finally unraveled after four long years of investigations and a home twist to the case when new evidence was discovered casting doubt on what prosecutors believed was an iron clad alibi.

Located just 15 miles south of the equator, lies in the Ecuadorian capital of Keto, a tropical location where residents enjoy consistent 70-degree daily highs, 365 days a year, thanks to a salvation of over 9,000 feet.

The city itself is beautiful, rich in history, culture and absolutely breathtaking views of the Andes Mountains. It's easy to see why Nelson Serrano, a man who'd made a small fortune in the United States, would want to spend his retirement here.

Especially considering it was his birthplace and where most of his family and friends still call home. On August 31st, 2002, 63-year-old Nelson Serrano walked into the Embassy Hotel Restaurant in downtown Keto with his wife Maria and some friends for a late Saturday lunch.

After working tirelessly for nearly 40 years in the United States, this was the kind of way he'd always dreamed of retiring, relaxing with good food, great company, and soaking up a city he'd always in his heart considered home.

After finishing their meals and conversation, the group headed out of the restaurant around 3 in the afternoon, but as soon as they walked out of the front doors, their relaxing day abruptly came to an end.

Suddenly, a group of men holding weapons and wearing bullet-proof vests surrounded and tackled Nelson before throwing him into a getaway vehicle with blacked out windows and no license plates.

What Nelson's wife and friends had just witnessed was an abduction carried out by nearly 30 off-duty Ecuadorian police officers.

Their instructions had come from Agent Tommy Ray from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who had one mission, get Nelson deported back to the United States as quickly as possible.

But the tactics Agent Ray intended on using to get Nelson back had been ordered illegally.

Under the false claim Nelson wasn't an Ecuadorian citizen, a claim that wouldn't hold up to future scrutiny.

But future scrutiny wasn't anything Agent Tommy Ray was concerned about. He only needed his plan to hold up until the next morning when Nelson was out of the country and back in Florida.

But why was it so important for the agent to have Nelson deported back to Florida, especially using such extreme measures? We'll get to that a bit later.

After abducting Nelson off the street, the Ecuadorian officers pulled the getaway vehicle up to a secret public office, where they whisked Nelson out and into a building in front of a judge, who quickly declared that Nelson would be deported out of Ecuador.

Then, entire kangaroo court involving Nelson's deportation, including all the documents being signed, sealed and delivered, all took place in his littleest two hours after the abduction.

At a cost of less than $1,000 to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, money spent on what they called overtime wages for the Ecuadorian authorities involved.

Over time wages, most other people would simply call bribery. That night, Nelson was forced to sleep in one of the kennels at the Kito Airport, with a drug-sniffing canine dogs were kept, and was beaten repeatedly throughout the course of the night by the Ecuadorian officers.

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