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7 unusual facts about Barbara Jane Mackle


Barbara Jane Mackle

The FBI set up their base in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett’s county seat, and more than 100 agents spread out through the area in an attempt to find her, digging the ground with their hands and anything they could find to use.

Mackle wrote a book (with The Miami Herald reporter Gene Miller) about her experience: 83 Hours ‘Til Dawn, published in 1971.

A stranger, Gary Stephen Krist, knocked on the door claiming to be with the police and told Mackle that Stewart Hunt Woodward had been in a traffic accident.

They drove her to a remote pine stand off of South Berkeley Lake Road in Gwinnett County near Duluth and buried Mackle in a shallow trench inside of a fiberglass-reinforced box.

Gene Miller

He wrote two nonfiction books: "83 Hours Till Dawn," an account of a notorious Florida kidnapping in which the victim, Barbara Jane Mackle, was buried alive, and "Invitation to a Lynching."

Mackle

Barbara Jane Mackle (born 1948), American heiress and kidnapping victim

Ruth Eisemann-Schier

Schier was added to the list in 1968, for participating in the kidnapping-for-ransom of land heiress Barbara Jane Mackle in a plan concocted by her boyfriend, Gary Stephen Krist.



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