In December 1968, a 20-year-old college student vanished from a motel room in the

middle of the night...

But this wasn't just a kidnapping.

This was something far more terrifying.

Barbara Jane Mackle was taken by strangers who had planned every detail-right down to the unthinkable. She wasn't held in a house... or moved from place to place...

She was buried alive.

Locked inside a box beneath the ground with only a limited supply of air, water, and time.

As her family scrambled to meet the kidnappers' demands, a desperate race against the clock began. The ransom was set. The instructions were clear. But when e V ything went wrong during the drop... the stakes became even higher.

With law enforcement agencies clashing, media pressure building, and a father willing to do anything to save his daughter,  ...