83 Hours ‘Til Dawn a 1990 television movie

Barbara Jane Mackle is an American heiress who was the victim of a notorious crime. She wrote a book about her ordeal and the book was the basis for two television movies. Image File history File links 83_Hours_'Til_Dawn. ... Image File history File links 83_Hours_'Til_Dawn. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ...

The crime

On December 17, 1968, Mackle – then a 20-year-old Emory University student – was staying at the Rodeway Inn in Decatur, Georgia with her mother. Mackle was sick with the Hong Kong flu, which had severely struck the student body of Emory, and her mother had driven to the Atlanta area to take care of her daughter and then drive her daughter back to the family home in Coral Gables, Florida for the Christmas break. A stranger, Gary Steven Krist, knocked on the door, claiming to be with the police and told Mackle that her fiancé, Stewart Hunt Woodward, had been in a traffic accident. Once inside, Krist and his accomplice, Ruth Eisemann-Schier (who was disguised as a man), chloroformed Mackle’s mother, bound Mackle’s wrists and kidnapped her at gunpoint. They drove her to a remote pine forest off of South Berkeley Lake Road in Gwinnett County near Duluth. There Krist and Eisemann-Schier buried Mackle in a fiberglass reinforced box. The box was provided with an air pump, a battery-powered lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. Two plastic pipes provided Mackle with outside air. Emory University is a private university in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. ... Rodeway Inn is an upper-priced economy chain of motels in the United States and Canada. ... Decatur is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia. ... The Hong Kong Flu was a pandemic outbreak of influenza that began in Hong Kong in 1968 and spread to the United States of America that year. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... The City Beautiful Location of Coral Gables in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ... Gary Steven Krist born April 29, 1945 lived part of his childhood in Utah. ... Chloroform, also known as trichloromethane and methyl trichloride, is a chemical compound with formula CHCl3. ... Gwinnett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. ... A picture from the annual Duluth Fall Festival Duluth is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and a suburb of Atlanta located in the Metro Atlanta area. ...

Krist and Eisemann-Schier demanded, and received, a $500,000 ransom from Mackle’s father, Robert Mackle, a wealthy Florida land developer. On December 20, Krist called and gave a switchboard operator at the FBI vague directions to Mackle’s burial place. 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 anything they could find to use, including their hands. Mackle was rescued alive and unharmed, though she was dehydrated. She had spent over three days underground. Medium-to-large organisations often employ switchboard operators—specialised staff who answer general phone calls to the organisation and usually maintain internal communication through telephones, semaphones (bleeps) and pagers. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Lawrenceville is the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, in the United States. ... A county seat is a term for an administrative center for a county, primarily used in the United States. ...

The punishment

Krist was soon arrested off the coast of Florida in a speedboat bought with part of the ransom money. Eisemann-Schier was arrested 79 days later. (She has the distinction of being the first woman on the FBI's ten most wanted list.) She was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison, paroled after serving four years and deported to her native Honduras. She currently lives in Honduras, where she is married to Salvatore Randazzo and has 4 children. Krist was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1969, but was released on parole after ten years. Krist received a pardon to allow him to attend medical school. He practiced medicine in Indiana before his license was revoked in 2003 as a result of lying about disciplinary action received during his residency. The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list arose from a conversation held in late 1949, during a game of Hearts between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Kinsey Hutchinson,[1] International News Service (the predecessor of the United Press International) Editor-in... Parole can have different meanings depending on the context. ... A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  Ranked 38th  - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 270 miles (435 km)  - % water 1. ... It has been suggested that Medical resident work hours be merged into this article or section. ...

In March of 2006 an arrest warrant was issued for Krist after Barrow County, Georgia police found an underground drug lab for manufacturing cocaine buried beneath a shed on his property. (Barrow is adjacent to the county where Krist buried Mackle.) He was arrested (along with his stepson) on a sailboat off the coast of Alabama with over 38 pounds of cocaine in his possession (about $1 million worth). On May 16, 2006 he pled guilty to drug smuggling and was to be sentenced in August 2006, but the sentencing has been delayed. Barrow County is a county located in the Georgia. ... Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... This article is in need of attention. ...

The books and movies

Mackle wrote a book (with Miami Herald reporter Gene Miller) about her experience: 83 Hours ‘Til Dawn, published in 1971. ABC aired the story in 1972 as part of its ABC Movie of the Week showcase under the title The Longest Night. However due to litigation surrounding the rights to the story, the movie was never aired again. The book was made into a second television movie, 83 Hours 'Til Dawn in 1990. Krist also wrote a book, Life: The Man Who Kidnapped Barbara Jane Mackle, published in 1972 (ISBN 0-7004-0100-8). The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... A television reporter A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... Gene Miller (1928-2005) was a longtime investigative reporter at The Miami Herald who won two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting that helped save innocent men on Floridas Death Row from execution. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

Mackle's present life

Mackle went on to marry her fiancé, Woodward, and at last report was living in Florida with Woodward and their two children. She declines all requests for interviews. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

References

• South Florida's Crimes of the Century Riveted The Nation by Edna Buchanan, Miami Herald, September 15, 2002, retrieved September 12, 2006
• Q&A Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 26, 2006, retrieved September 12, 2006
• Residents Look Back On Incident by Lateef Mungin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 14, 2006, retrieved September 12, 2006
• Underground Coke Lab Found on Mackle Captor's Land by John Ghirardini, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 16, 2006, retrieved September 12, 2006
• Q&A, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 28, 2006, retrieved September 12, 2006
• Doctor’s License Revoked WISH-TV, August 29, 2003 (includes a picture of Krist) retrieved September 12, 2006