In December 1968 Barbara Jane Mackle, the twenty-year-old daughter of one of Florida's wealthiest families, was abducted at gunpoint. She was staying at a motel outside Atlanta, Georgia, with her mother. She had finished exams at Emory University, and they were spending the night there before heading back to Florida for Christmas with the rest of the family. At four in the morning they were awakened by a knock at the door. The person identified himself as a policeman. When they opened the door, they faced a masked man with a shotgun and another person in a ski mask. Barbara Jane was spirited away, and her mother was left tied up. Mrs. Mackle quickly managed to get out of her bonds and call the police. The kidnappers soon contacted the family demanding five hundred thousand dollars in old twenty-dollar bills. Mr. Mackle, who with his...