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Killers Amongst Us: Teen barista Samantha Koenig kidnapped at gunpoint (Part 2)

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Koenig is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Anchorage, Alaska, coffee stand where she works, February 2013. Former FBI Special Agent Bobby Chacon, who worked on the Koenig investigation, joins Nancy Grace describing how the abduction is caught on camera and a randsom note appears. The expert panel also includes Cold Case Research Institute Director Sheryl McCollum, Atlanta judge and lawyer Ashley Willcott, Los Angeles psycho analyst Dr. Bethany Marshall, Casey Grove with Alaska Public Media and Crime Stories Reporter Robyn Walensky.

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0:00.0

Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Amongst Us, a production of I Heart

0:09.3

Media and Crime Online. The disappearance of a beautiful young barista, Samantha Konegg.

0:17.1

Joining us to help crack the case, investigate every porter, Casey Grove from Alaska and FBI

0:23.8

Special Agent Bobby Chacon, who's actually in on the FBI investigation to analyze the

0:30.8

clues left behind Cheryl McCollum, Director of the Cold Case Research Institute and Dr.

0:36.0

Bethany Marshall, renowned LA Psychoanalyst. As you know by now we learned Samantha's

0:42.6

kidnap was caught on camera and the critical role that surveillance tape played in the

0:48.3

ongoing investigation in sub-zero temperatures. We take a look at all the suspects and the

0:54.1

red herring is emerging in the hours and days after she goes missing and then when it seems

1:02.4

as if police and detectives were hitting a wall, a ransom note emerges. Investigators

1:10.6

on the hunt for Samantha and her abductor. You can see the individual jumping in through

1:15.1

the window. You can tell she's sort of going along with them because he thinks that he's

1:19.1

going to rob the place. It just didn't come across to her that she was in danger until

1:23.9

he starts, you know, locking her out. Nancy Grace Killers Amongst Us.

1:35.1

Across the city of Anchorage police and volunteers abraiding sub-freezing temperatures in an

1:39.6

all-out search for 18-year-old Samantha Coney. The longer we go without knowing where Samantha

1:45.6

is the more difficult the case becomes. Police know nothing about her whereabouts but they

1:50.5

have one terrifying clue. She was last seen on her surveillance camera being marched

1:55.4

away from work by an armed man. They left on foot. We know that much but beyond that her

2:01.2

disappearance became a complete mystery at that point. It happened here at this drive-up

2:05.6

coffee stand where Samantha worked. When her boyfriend arrived Wednesday night, she was

2:09.7

gone. I got off work. I wanted to go get him, get her and she wasn't there. It was

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