that is your worst nightmar imagining what is happening to your child a note with big demands left by mysterious kidnapper who seemed to know all, se all. they are watching the house and then the victim hersel calls. her mom jumping into work with police, would hand over th ransom herself if i didn t jump the mone properly, that would be the en of her she dropped the cash all right but who picked it up that s where everything went wrong? that s where everything wen wrong. kidnapping case about to go way off script her story did not mak sense. what was really going on? i ve been a cup for 11 year and i blush when i listen to the tape a story with more twists an turns in the florida roads trying to find this missin mom. this case was not going t turn out like a lot of peopl assumed. thanks for joining us i m lester holt. whenever someone is kidnappe it triggers a race against tim as police often joined by th victims family begin a frantic search that s w
be on the verge of breaking th kidnapping case of quinn gray. undercover teams and an fb plane we re following severa men in an suv, who had jus picked up the ransom money fro a brand restaurant parking lot investigators were hoping that the men didn t notice th tracking device in the bag or that the back only containe $10,000. james casey was the fbi agen in charge. the kidnappers as for $50,000, you didn t give them 50,000 yo give them 10,000 we gave them less tha $50,000. and they said don t put a gps tracking device in, and yo did. right is that standard procedur to ignore kidnappers when they say that kind of thing we are in charge of how thi goes, not them the idea was to get the back t them and find out where they are. but then came something n one expected, quinn s mom, gai sikes. queen call and said where i the money? they are going to kill me? and you said i dropped it off, absolutely jesus quinn, what kind of
i m not giving the money without you. hello? now investigators rush to get teams and undercover car in place at the chick-fil-a. but they needed more time. they told reid to play dumb on quinn next call, and say tha he didn t know which chick-fil-a restaurant to go to which southside are you add you re supposed to be at th chick-fil-a. chick-fil-a. trelegy for copd. there are three of them.
watching them, the jacksonvill beach police pulls into the ga station and starts talking t these young man. you re thinking what? we had no idea what was going on trying to keep th kidnapping quiet sauce to no to tip off the local media, th fbi and the sheriff department had not told th local police about the ranso drop so a frantic call was made t the jacksonville beach polic instructing officers to brin the suspects in. detective howard cool of the sheriff s office rushed to the scene. immediately everybody rightfully so says, these guys are involved, we need to interview these guys and waiting to find out what s the connection is. one man told the detectiv that he was german what s your interest in germany? hamburg, germany. even though they were fro
the for the first time sh was screaming help she s making this urgent. reed stayed at the sheriff office as they scramble to get in place, investigators also needed more time to get $50,00 cash together for the ransom but only 30 minutes late another call came in hello it was quinn again, instructing reid to go to different location he was now to go to chick-fil-a restaurant take the convertible to down and just wait at chick-fil-a parking lot. i want to see you, i want exchanges for the money.