that it didn t go well. he was actually killed during all this. matt thought about the end of his life. no, your man starts to play tricks. you think we re thanks like, am i going to know it goes off? you hear the noise? do you see a flash i? what are going to feel? for matt, the excruciating weight continued. the clock counted down to 11 a.m.. i m just sitting there. there are no more texts from the criminals. they expected me to be at that drop off point. we re getting closer. it is 10:45. it is 10:50. i am now in full panic mode. coming up, tech talk. 10:58, 10:59. just like the movies. the guys wearing the big suit walks up to me. examining it. it didn t look good. saab multiple wires running through the tape and around the
awful. the pressure was becoming unbearable. no, i m starting to cry. you re waiting for the bob squad. i m waiting for the bob squad. as the state police bomb squad headed to the scene from different parts of connecticut, sergeant david was talking by cell phone in his car. my big thing was try to keep income and keep him talking. assuring him that there is help on the way and we were gonna get through it. he is my one and only contact. while the person i m talking to. he tried to keep me from losing it. terrified as he was, that was still able to tell the police about his mom s dire situation. nine miles from the credit you can parking lot, the house and connecticut was eerily quiet. matt s mom was convince the kidnappers we re going, but to where, she didn t know. she decided to work herself free from her bed. it took me a while to get
there was a time. right. we re just gonna go boom at 11:00. 11:00. the rational plant was that i would be done at ten. the kidnappers told math that they would text him at ten a.m. with an address where he was to drop off the million dollars taken from his credit union. the text, they said, would be sent from his mother s silver, which they had taken from her. i mean, right at 10:00, i get the first text. are you done yet? from the home invaders? from the criminals. i said to the place, would your me to tell? i talked about. we go, let s. we re gonna roll with it. we re going to tell them that you re still working hard to get the money that they need. what we need to do is by a little bit of time. matt tax, it is more money than i anticipated. moving as fast as i can. the kid never sexted back, that is good. in fact, hasn t made it in the bag. never makes in the big. doesn t have any money. no, zero. this is to keep talking,
suspicion. by the time he read about the tennessee ceo held hostage and asked to rob his own vault. he told investigators that it must be the same guys who kidnapped him and his mother. found this to be very odd that another credit union executive was forced to try to rob his credit union. it s the same people. there is no way that it is a coincidence. they told me it was coincidence, copycat doing this. matt had been allowed to return to his job but he was still under investigation. the fbi had taken over his case from the local police, and according to matt, there were serious doubts about his innocence. i was told there was a 95% chance i was guilty, there was a 100% chance i was guilty. and i said, i m in trouble. back in tennessee, that same month it would be another families turn to be traumatized. a young couple was beginning their day, the harrison s. tanner, abigail and their five month old son. he and abigail were just in
neighbors couldn t see what was happening because their branches is set far back on the road on an isolated cul-de-sac. you re thinking, this is gonna play out in the garage. that was my whole thing. you know what, take what you need. leave me. go. i thought that was going to be the end. it moves into the house. it moves into the house. inside, matt was led to a couch. immediately put a small knit hat over my head and duck tape that my head so i couldn t see. why didn t they just grab some valuables and leave? he could never have guessed what their plan for him really was. coming up this was much more than a home invasion. the gunman say they have a problem. and matt is the solution. we owe some bad people a lot of money. you re gonna get it for us. how much money? four point $2 million in