Virtual Kidnappers Con Woman Into Traveling to Mexico
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When Charlotte Robinette receives a phone call from kidnappers demanding a ransom for her daughter Kristen, her daughter's voice on the phone convinces her that the situation is dire. Over the next four grueling days, the kidnappers wear Charlotte down, keeping her on the phone, sending her all over Phoenix and having her wire money to Mexico. Finally, she's instructed to travel with the remaining cash to a small town across the border, where she's told she can rescue her daughter. Little does she know, a stop by the U.S. Border Patrol may end up being a lifesaver.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scam. |
| 0:02.0 | There is a scam out there for everyone. |
| 0:05.0 | And if you haven't experienced that scam yet, it just hasn't hit you and it's on its way. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:17.0 | Charlotte Robinette has spent about 50 years taking care of people as a nurse. |
| 0:22.0 | Almost as many taking care of her three kids, but one |
| 0:25.7 | afternoon last year, she was suddenly thrust into what seemed like her riskiest caretaking |
| 0:32.0 | mission of all, a mission to save her only daughter for |
| 0:35.7 | kidnappers. |
| 0:37.4 | She would spend the next four days and nights driving around the Phoenix area, then ultimately driving across the border into Mexico in a sleep-deprived, desperate attempt to free her daughter, a trip that landed her in handcuffs at the U.S. Border Patrol. |
| 0:54.0 | Here's our story, a mother's valiant rescue. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I met my husband in Bible College and he was kind of going around helping start churches. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:10.0 | We had a friend that was down here and brought us down here. |
| 1:14.0 | So we moved down here then and of course all of that fell apart and broke up, but we stayed. |
| 1:21.4 | Raised our family and everything here. |
| 1:24.0 | Seventy-sex is when we were down here. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | So, what did you do while your husband was setting up churches |
| 1:31.0 | while you were in Phoenix? |
| 1:33.8 | I did nursing. |
| 1:34.8 | You did nursing. |
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