15 episodes
Ransom KSL Podcasts
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4.8 • 864 Ratings
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Twelve-year-old McKay Everett disappeared from his Texas home in September 1995. His father Carl returned from an Amway meeting to find the back door ajar and the telephone ringing. On the line, a woman with a raspy voice demanded $500,000.
Over the next week, the FBI played a game of cat-and-mouse with the kidnappers, who used inside information to stay one step ahead of the investigation. Ultimately the FBI uncovered a series of crimes that started long before McKay was taken. Most shocking of all was the suspect. McKay had been betrayed by someone he trusted – a pillar of the community hiding a dark secret.
But decades later, McKay’s mother, Paulette, still isn’t satisfied with the official story. She doesn’t think everyone involved has been brought to justice.
Ransom: Season 1 - Position of Trust is a story of greed and betrayal and how one’s outward appearance can be dangerously deceiving.
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Ransom Season 1: Position of Trust
Launching May 15, 2024.
Twelve-year-old McKay Everett disappeared from his Texas home in September 1995. His father Carl returned from an Amway meeting to find the back door ajar and the telephone ringing. On the line, a woman with a raspy voice demanded $500,000.
Over the next week, the FBI played a game of cat-and-mouse with the kidnappers, who used inside information to stay one step ahead of the investigation. Ultimately the FBI uncovered a series of crimes that started long before McKay was taken. Most shocking of all was the suspect. McKay had been betrayed by someone he trusted – a pillar of the community hiding a dark secret.
But decades later, McKay’s mother, Paulette, still isn’t satisfied with the official story. She doesn’t think everyone involved has been brought to justice.
Ransom: Season 1 - Position of Trust is a story of greed and betrayal and how one’s outward appearance can be dangerously deceiving. -
Ep 1: The Phone Call
Carl and Paulette Everett return home to find the back door propped open and 12-year-old McKay missing. But, mysteriously, there are no signs of struggle or a break-in – It’s as if McKay has left on his own. Soon the FBI gets involved, everyone becomes a suspect, and a golden Chrysler raises suspicion.
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Ep 2: Questioning Everything
The FBI begins polygraphing and interviewing persons of interest. Paulette thinks back through her relationship with Carl searching for clues, and investigators narrow down the search to three suspects.
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BONUS: An FBI Agent and Neighbor Ric Metts on the Kidnapping
FBI agent Ralph Harp discusses the investigation, as well as how he joined the FBI. Then, family friend Ric Metts on his perspective on the case and the other time he was accused of a crime and polygraphed.
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Ep 3: Uncle Hilty
Where was Hilton Crawford the night that McKay disappeared and what has he been doing in the hours since? The FBI follows up on a new lead regarding the golden Chrysler and tries to track down the raspy-voiced ransom caller.
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BONUS: How the FBI Decides When to Arrest
FBI agent Cindy Rosenthal worked on the McKay Everett case as both an FBI agent and a lawyer, as chief division counsel for the Houston office. She walks us through how the FBI decides to pull the trigger and arrest someone they suspect of involvement in a crime.
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Customer Reviews
Solid
Very well done
Crazy story with great reporting
This is a great podcast. The story about a kidnapping is a crazy one I have never heard of. The reporting is very thorough and there are great interviews.
Spoiler alert
I thoroughly enjoyed the story and loved the cadence of it, including the voice and the well done and clear interviews however you gave away some of the plots during the bonuses that were up to that point had not yet revealed in the story. One such instance was when you interviewed the two Louisiana deputies and mentioned that Hilton had declared his innocence up until he had been executed. You had not yet told that he had been executed in the course of the story. Another was when one of the interviewees in a bonus mentioned that they never thought Hilton would have murdered McKay but it had not yet been revealed in the course of the story. Also, and it’s kind of petty on my part but you butchered the pronunciation of Lafayette and Atchafalaya but I forgive you. All that being said I Can’t wait for your next endeavor.