Episode
Dateline: Ransom
Overview
Florida, 2009: Quinn Gray, a homemaker, calls her husband Reid and tells her she's kidnapped, she doesn't know where she is and three men want $50,000 to release her. The Grays are wealthy, so Reid has no problem getting the money together quickly. She calls him repeatedly with money drop locations but the directions are so rushed and chaotic that no money is exchanged. Quinn's mom takes over and drops the money in a parking lot. Three random guys pick it up and call 911 so they don't get into trouble. The money drop is a bust. But, as investigators dig and dig, a sighting of a kidnapper on a security camera leads to a bomb blast of a revelation.
Details
- Series
- Dateline
- Season
- Season 25
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2017-02-26
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Ransom is Episode 21 in Season 25 of Dateline. It aired on 2017-02-26. The runtime is 43 min.
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