it was a hot summer day in greenville, north carolina. the hayes family stopped at a local store for some snack food before going out for the day. as jeremy hayes and his brother-in-law went inside the store, his wife ginger decided to change the baby s diaper. when the men came back outside, the car was gone. at first, jeremy assumed it was a joke. ginger was up to her old tricks again playing pranks and moved the car around in the parking lot. so they looked around the parking lot. jeremy called ginger s cell phone, but there was no answer. that s when he called police. i didn t know what had happened. i didn t know what in the world, you know, could have happened to make her, you know, just leave. are you saying this was a carjacking? i don t know what s going on. we received a call earlier. you have them?
greenville, north carolina. the hayes family stopped at a local store for some snack food before going out for the day. as jeremy hayes and his brother-in-law went inside the store, his wife ginger decided to change the baby s diaper. when the men came back outside, the car was gone. at first, jeremy assumed it was a joke. ginger was up to her old tricks again playing pranks and moved the car around in the parking lot. so they looked around the parking lot. jeremy called ginger s cell phone, but there was no answer. that s when he called police. i didn t know what had happened. i didn t know what in the world, you know, could have happened to make her, you know, just leave. are you saying this was a carjacking? i don t know what s going on. we received a call earlier. you have them?
i knew my daughter well enough to know, and i had seen her with nicolas enough to know, that had he not been in jeopardy at that point in time, she would have fought like a wildcat. investigators were hopeful that robbery was the kidnapper s only motive. he s probably promised her freedom and her child will not be harmed. so she gives him the money, go back out, and, hopefully, they re set free. several hours later, police found the hayes car in a suburban neighborhood 45 miles from the kidnap site. but when the car s found, ginger hayes and nicolas hayes are nowhere to be found. inside were the baby s toys. the car was parked in front of a home that belonged to a man with a criminal record, 24-year-old timothy evans, who had previous arrests for robbery and assault. timothy evans did roughly fit the description that was given to us of a black male with a
no, sir. the police told jeremy there had been a witness, a mail carrier who had called police a few minutes earlier, claiming he saw a kidnapping. police. there was a red ford focus. there was a girl bent over getting something, and this guy pulled up behind her and it looked like he pushed her in and took off. he observed a black male push a white female into a vehicle from the back seat towards the front seat. the black male ended up getting in the driver s seat. the vehicle was last seen heading north on memorial drive. they realized this family was in danger. they had to work very, very quickly because they knew they were just minutes away from the moment that this family was taken. the police put out an all-points bulletin on the car. they know it s a red ford focus that the family had rented. so everyone in the area is
looking for this car. the missing woman was 25-year-old ginger hayes. her son nicolas was 11 months old. i was extremely worried about what happened to them. you know, i was really close to her. and that was pretty much the only thing i was thinking of was i hope they re okay. i hope they re okay. police checked ginger hayes credit card and learned that someone used it at a supermarket less than an hour after the kidnapping. police checked the store s surveillance tapes and saw ginger hayes and an unidentified man. it was a white female and a black male going through the line that matched the register receipts of miss hayes car transaction, the timeframe of it. the man fit the general description given by the witness, but was careful not to show his face to the security camera. he s always kind of looking