The kidnappers fled on foot and the FBI found their car, abandoned. The first attempt at a ransom drop was disrupted, when two policemen drove by. Krist and Eisemann-Schier demanded and received a $500,000 ransom from Barbara Jane’s father. Two plastic pipes provided Mackle with outside air.
The box was outfitted with an air pump, a battery-powered lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. They drove her to a remote area near South Berkeley Lake Road near Duluth and buried Mackle in a shallow trench inside of a fiberglass-reinforced box. Once inside, Krist and his accomplice, Ruth Eisemann-Schier, disguised as a man, chloroformed, bound and gagged Mackle's mother and forced Barbara Jane at gunpoint into the back of their waiting car, informing her that she was being kidnapped. A stranger, Gary Steven Krist, knocked on the door claiming to be with the police, and told Mackle that a friend Stewart Hunt Woodward had been in a traffic accident.
Mackle was sick with the flu, 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 Florida for the Christmas break. On December 17, 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle, a student at Emory College and the 20-year-old daughter of a millionaire real-estate developer is kidnapped from the Rodeway Inn in Decatur, Georgia.
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