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. 

BONUS: Witnessing More Executions Than Anyone in America

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Introducing Uinta Triangle

Introducing Unsolved Histories

BONUS: The Making of Ransom with Donnie and Austin Miller

Ep 9: Endings

BONUS: Psychiatrist Timothy Fong on Gambling Disorder

Ep 8: The Scream

BONUS: Professor Katherine Shear on Prolonged Grief Disorder

Ep 7: The Elephant in the Room

BONUS: Tannie Shannon’s Tapes of Hilton Crawford

Ep 6: Gambler's Logic

BONUS: The Standoff in the Swamp

Ep 5: Hilton's Story

BONUS: Ransom Caller Irene Flores

Ep 4: Finding McKay

BONUS: How the FBI Decides When to Arrest

Ep 3: Uncle Hilty

BONUS: An FBI Agent and Neighbor Ric Metts on the Kidnapping

Ep 2: Questioning Everything

Ep 1: The Phone Call

Ransom Season 1: Position of Trust