you are laying there, i m thinking they re putting a bomb on him. matt was left alone. a bomb, tightly wrapped around his waist. his anxiety was building. as each minute seemed the last before eternity. it was just before daylight. matt s mom says one of the men came back into her room and said something unexpected. one fella came in and said to me, i don t want you to get alarmed, but we re going to be using the vacuum. and i thought, wow the vacuum? they came in and i could hear them vacuuming out my living room. and then they came in the bedroom and we re vacuuming all around the bed and things. six hours into their ordeal, the sun was soon to rise. the two assailants told matt his workday was beginning, and he would soon be leaving to rob his own credit union. and to ensure his corporation, they advised him they were
i can disguise my voice. this just gave me the creeps there because that sounds very similar to what they did. then they outlined their complex, big plan explaining why mom and son were being held captive. we re looking for a large sum of money. we owe some very bad people a lot of money and you are going to get it for us. how much money? it was very specific. they said to me, we want four point $2 million in cash. and there was something else that was unusually specific. the kidnappers knew intimate details about matt s life. they knew where i worked. what i did. i had my mother in the house. matt, the cfo of a chief financial credit union was, told the next morning he would go to one of his branches and take four point $2 million out of the vault. matt told him a credit union would never have that much money on hand. still, he could get them something. this is where i like for the
after all of? this after all of that, i said sure, i ll take a shower. a shower? after terrorizing him for three hours, how strange. what was going on? and then matt s took another bizarre turn. he says he was lead into the kitchen where something was waiting for him on the table. they said, do you know what this is? i said, no. they said this is c4 explosive. we re gonna make an explosive device and we re going to stop it to you because we don t trust that you re going to do what you re told. c4, a plastic explosive. used by the military and terrorists. it can be molded likely to into any shape and detonated remotely. hearing what was happening in the other room, matt s mom began to cry. and then i could hear them unwrapping duct tape. lots and lots. i could hear them unwrapping. and then when they were strapping it around him. and i began to cry herder. and really panicked because as
if it was a joke or not. it was no joke. sergeant david mocarsky was one of the first out of the door. what do you know that points, sergeant? the only thing we knew is they give us a play on the car. it was a red car. the sergeant had matt s license plate number and the model of the red car he was driving. i get the credit union and i don t see anything. there s no cars. and i m like, fantastic. as i turn the corner around to the front of the branch, that s when pure panic sets in. now i see all the police cars. the kidnappers told matt not to call the police. and now there they were. curtains. he now had two hours and 15 minutes to until that bomb would explode. matt eased into a parking spot. i rolled down my window and they re all screaming, get out of the car, get out of the car. he gets out of the car. we get out of our cars.
30 something years. i play every week. sometimes twice a week. all summer long, all winter long. money management pays the bills. but hockey feels his passions. he s the goalies for that team called the trash pandas. so your league place on sunday nights? what did you do that? we want to game. which was a good thing. but it was a late night. game that late victory from a february night. and it as he got home. heap pull up to the garage of his personal, connecticut house around midnight. he didn t know two men were. watching our just open the garage door. get out, take all my commitment out. because i m goalie, i have a large. by matt s 70 year old mother valerie, was a retired nurse, matt moved his momentum to the house after his dad, her husband of 40 years, had passed away. it was the night of the oscars. they didn t finish until it was just about midnight or a few minutes after. and it was right after that