In the winter of 1968, a 20-year-old Emory University student and heiress to a real estate fortune was ripped from her motel room in the dead of night by a pair of masked kidnappers. After drugging her mother and forcing her into their car, Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann-Schier buried her alive in a custom-made box, deep in a Georgia pine forest, with only an air pump and sedative-laced water to keep her alive. Demanding a $500,000 ransom, the kidnappers sparked one of the largest FBI manhunts of the decade. Join History for Cocktail Parties as we explore this harrowing true crime story, the ingenious — and terrifying — method of her captivity, and how Barbara Mackle’s courage and a father’s determination helped bring her home.
