In December 1968, 20-year-old Emory University student Barbara Mackle was kidnapped from a motel in the Atlanta area and buried alive inside a fiberglass box underground.

She had seven days of air.

For 83 terrifying hours, no one knew if she would survive.

But this story doesn’t end with her rescue.

The man responsible - Gary Steven Krist - served his sentence, reinvented himself, and decades later became a licensed physician. Until he was arrested again… this time for running an underground cocaine lab.

Three friends. Dark cases. Real questions.

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Chapters

• 00:00 The Chilling Survival Story of Barbara Mackle
• 09:30 The Kidnapping and Burial
• 17:04 The Aftermath and Rehabilitation
• 25:43 Victims Profiting from Trauma
• 32:20 Gary's Downfall and Legal Troubles
• 37:20 Total Rehabilitation and Permanent Consequences
• 42:48 Violent Criminals in Professions

Sources

“Woman Is Sought in Mackle Case,” UPI, Dec. 23, 1968

“Making an Impact,” Time Magazine, Jan. 3, 1969

“South Florida’s Crimes of the Century Riveted the Nation,” by Edna Buchanan, Miami Herald, Sept. 15, 2002

“Kidnapper Now a Smuggling Suspect,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 11, 2006

“Sentencing Delayed for Drug Smuggler,” by Todd Defeo, Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, Aug. 9, 2006

https://people.com/barbara-mackle-kidnapping-buried-alive-8736831

https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/columnists/the-daring-kidnapping-of-barbara-mackle-part-1-of-3/article_0823b341-edc0-540d-8d52-6f8e48bcc48a.html

http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/commercialbldgs/clairmont_1706.htm

https://abcnews.com/US/story?id=91055&page=1

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5078353M/83_hours_till_dawn

https://www.14news.com/story/1422081/town-left-without-a-doctor/

https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/news/who-dunnit-anatomy-of-an-egomaniacal-con-artist/article_f0eefeee-e416-11ef-ae1a-23edb9fc3b68.html

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-292GaryStevenKrist.jpg/view

https://crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/gary_krist/

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/son-of-sam-laws/