Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Mackle's 1968 kidnapping led an FBI search party to frantically dig to find her in a wooded area north of Atlanta It’s ...

As 20-year-old Barbara Jane Mackle recuperated last week at her family’s rambling Coral Gables mansion, a vast federal-state dragnet reached out for her kidnapers. Snatched from an Atlanta motel by ...

The kidnapping of Barbara Mackle became one of America’s most infamous ransom cases after she was taken from a motel and hidden in a makeshift underground box while her family received demands. The ...

A look at the 1968 abduction of Barbara Mackle, examining the events, investigation, and the remarkable survival story that made the case widely known.

It’s most people’s worst nightmare: being buried alive and left for dead. And on Dec. 17, 1968, that nightmare came true for Barbara Jane Mackle, a 20-year-old college student and heiress to her ...