One night in August 1992, a sheriff’s deputy raced down an empty road in a rural part of Tennessee. A local woman had been kidnapped that morning, and right this very second, the kidnapper was making a ransom call. That call had been traced to a payphone just up ahead, and the deputy was racing to get there before the suspect left. The deputy sped up to the curb in front of the phone booth and leapt out of the car – but inside the booth, the phone was dangling on its cord... and the suspect was gone.