Mackle was found and rescued, suffering from dehydration but otherwise unharmed. She had spent more than three days buried underground. Mackle was asked how she had remained so positive not only during the kidnapping but after, when she showed no ill effects from the ordeal.

2022年9月22日 · Investigation Discovery’s ‘A Crime to Remember: Coffin for Christmas’ follows the horrifying story of heiress Barbara Mackle who got kidnapped in December 1968. She was buried alive for nearly 3 1/2 days before finally being rescued by FBI officers.

2018年9月14日 · Among the afflicted was 20-year-old real estate heiress and Emory senior Barbara Mackle. Jane Mackle, Barbara’s mother, drove up from the family’s Florida estate to care for her daughter and then bring her home for the holiday break.

2018年7月4日 · In the winter of 1968, kidnappers seized college student Barbara Mackle very early in the morning, sealed her in a box underground, and demanded a ransom for her return. Mackle would then wait in silence for over three days until she was rescued.

2024年11月2日 · Barbara Mackle's 1968 kidnapping led an FBI search party to frantically dig to find her in a wooded area north of Atlanta.

2020年6月28日 · Barbara Mackle was buried alive for 83 hours — and survived. So, where is she now? In December of 1968, Gary Steven Krist and his partner, Ruth Eisemann-Schierthe, then 23 and 26, posed as police...

2017年12月20日 · In the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 1968, Barbara Mackle, sick with the flu, was staying in an Atlantia-area hotel with her mother, Jane Mackle, when Krist knocked on their door,...

2024年11月5日 · Krist was the mastermind behind the 1968 kidnapping of 20-year-old college student and heiress, Barbara Jane Mackle. On December 17, 1968, Barbara was kidnapped and buried alive in a coffin...

2024年11月3日 · This type of situation is something that many would never imagine could ever happen to them, but it was a sobering reality for Barbara Jane Mackle, a 20-year-old heiress. Mackle was in line to inherit her family’s Florida housing development company when she …

1988年12月18日 · Emory University student Barbara Jean Mackle, 20, was kidnapped and held for ransom while buried in a coffin in 1968. Gary Steven Krist and a female accomplice were arrested soon after a ransom...