parts of the state. the precious time was melting away. then at 10 am, the kidnappers started texting. they wanted their money. one hour to go until the bomb was supposed to explode. coming up i d say to the police of like, what do you want them to tell them? matt needed answers and he didn t have much time to give them. your mind stops starts to think about where things. like, am i going to know it when it goes off? what are you going to feel? when dateline continues. continues pets for up to $1,000 if they re ever in a car accident with you. this mini majorette s gonna march her way right into your heart. -i m sorry. can we stop? i know that we re selling car insurance here, but, you know, all the cute little animals, it s too much. define too much. what s wrong with cute animals? -so are we doing this or what? -nah, it s over. [ sighs ] well, someone s got to break the news to mittens. [ squeaks softly ] she s a diva. [ mittens squeaking ]
the flagpole. at the same time, cops were able to trace where the texts were coming from. near that cemetery. they raced over but found no one. who was in that specific area was no longer in the area. we process probably missed them by. minutes and that only upped the ante for matt. take a talk. that was 10:35 and i m like, oh crap. i m like, i don t see that bomb squad. i m like, where is the bomb squad? it was 25 minutes before the device would detonate and thoughts, terrible once, raced through matt s mind. he recalled the shocking story of the pizza delivery guy and erie, pennsylvania, who said he was kidnapped and had a bomb locks around his neck. i knew that he was forced to try to rob a bank. that it didn t go well. that he was actually killed during all of this. matt for about the end of his life. your mind starts to play the tricks. and you start to think about where things like, am i going to know it when it goes off? do you hear the noise first? do you see a fl
you needed to empty the ball. you need to evacuate that range. are using any code words or anything? no. this is real. i said, this is my life, don t play with. and don t notify the police? and don t call the police. matt s boss ignored his plea of no cops. 9-1-1. what s your emergency? i just received a call a few minutes ago from one of our vps . and he s instructing me to vacate our new branch because they re going to come and rob it. that 9-1-1 call eventually ended up here. police headquarters in new britain, connecticut, where the credit union was located. i was a brand-new surgeon anna had just gotten done with roll call in the morning. the phone rang at the mean death in the police department. a bank robbery going on. a guy is driving to the bank right now and he s has a bump shop to his tech chess. this is not your usual monday morning, sergeant. we were trying to figure out
and there was a good 15 seconds of silence. i m looking at us and us looking at him. and trying to figure out what was going. on mocarsky s partner drew his gun strip aiming straight at matt. i said, i m wearing an explosive device. and they said, show us. so i lifted up my shirt, show the more i m wearing. we re like, holy cow. this is real. you are like oh, 100 percent. because it was a frigid nine degrees out that february morning, the sergeant told matt to get in his car. then he and his partner protectively state about 100 feet away. jim wardwell at that time was new britain s s chief of police. overseeing a force of 165 officers for the 73,000 people who lived in this central connecticut city. word of this extraordinary crime immediately run up the ranks and the chief, along with his top command staff, rush said the credit union. what do you do to secure the area? immediate response.
two vehicles he owned. they had actually put a pillow in the back seat of the car. don t know why. but they told me to stick my face into the pillow and not to move. we then proceed out my driveway. we drove for maybe 15 minutes. we parked and i heard gravelly or just cracking snow. like we had gone off the side of the road and i was like, wow, what is going to happen here? are they taking me out in the woods. are they going to shoot me with a bullet in my head? one of them got out of the suv. matt says he heard another car start off. suddenly, there was movement in his vehicle and they were back on the road. he was relieved to eventually find himself back home. then according to matt, the kidnappers asked him an odd question. they sat me on the coach and asked me if i wanted to take a shower. a shower? i sure.