Ransom

    Twelve-year-old McKay Everett disappeared from his Texas home in September 1995. His father Carl returned from an Amway meeting to find the back door ajar and the telephone ringing. On the line, a woman with a raspy voice demanded $500,000. Over the next week, the FBI played a game of cat-and-mouse with the kidnappers, who used inside information to stay one step ahead of the investigation. Ultimately the FBI uncovered a series of crimes that started long before McKay was taken. Most shocking of all was the suspect. McKay had been betrayed by someone he trusted – a pillar of the community hiding a...

  • Introducing Unsolved Histories

  • BONUS: The Making of Ransom with Donnie and Austin Miller

  • BONUS: Witnessing More Executions Than Anyone in America

  • Ep 9: Endings

  • BONUS: Psychiatrist Timothy Fong on Gambling Disorder

  • Ep 8: The Scream

  • BONUS: Professor Katherine Shear on Prolonged Grief Disorder

  • Ep 7: The Elephant in the Room

  • BONUS: Tannie Shannon’s Tapes of Hilton Crawford

  • Ep 6: Gambler's Logic

  • BONUS: The Standoff in the Swamp

  • Ep 5: Hilton's Story

  • BONUS: Ransom Caller Irene Flores

  • Ep 4: Finding McKay

  • BONUS: How the FBI Decides When to Arrest

  • Ep 3: Uncle Hilty

  • BONUS: An FBI Agent and Neighbor Ric Metts on the Kidnapping

  • Ep 2: Questioning Everything

  • Ep 1: The Phone Call

  • Ransom Season 1: Position of Trust

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