this is about a week after shannon had gone missing. is that right? correct. who gets called and who was on the other end of the line? so a phone call came in to the emory counseling center at emory university, and he appeared nervous to the woman who was working the switchboard, he asked her first if she s familiar with the shannon melendi case. the woman said, no, explain. and he said, well, i have i have kidnapped her. i have her. a man had shannon. he said she was fine and healthy. and before the caller hung up he told the operator his plans. when i m done with her, basically, i will release her. what you ll find where i m at right now is an article that belongs to her. and so he hung up and got off the phone. following that, the fbi did immediately trace the call. we got the call from emory. we traced it back to a phone booth. a phone booth outside the city. and just as the caller promised, there was something there. underneath the phone booth had fallen