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Back in september 2015 more than a month before brooke lyons' ordeal, adam was an assistant restaurant manager on his way to a job interview, driving west on i-40 in north carolina in a car he borrowed from his fiancee. >> what kind of car did she have, by the way? >> it's a 2005 ford focus. so, when -- >> it's a little car, little car -- >> yeah, yeah, a little car. you know, it -- it gets ya -- it gets ya where you need to go. >> if you tried telling adam he was on his way to becoming perhaps the most crucial player in a case that had befuddled an army of investigators, he'd have thought you...

>> so you've had a bank robbery, a woman at gunpoint abducted, told to hold up her own bank. what little detail stuck in your mind? >> it was very well organized. >> and that jogged o'hare's memory back to that high-speed car chase on i-40. it had he thought a similar sophistication. >> it struck me that those people had discipline. they had purpose. >> both cases also involved two suspects and black bags. >> i thought that it's not a guarantee that they're one and the same, but i wasn't aware of anyone else who would fit the bill. >> so you're not pulling this out of a computer. your gut is t...

So in this case, you believe you have two middle-aged white males -- >> correct. we don't -- >> -- as the bank robbers. it's not three. >> right. there's -- not three. >> there's not a woman. >> no woman, no black male -- no tattoo reported. >> so after you had two of these things, how was it playing as a story? how was knoxville hearing about it? >> i can't say that people were universally frightened. i think the greater harm initially was that people were suspicious of these families. that's what i heard. i have cop friends who were suspicious. we, as journalists, were kinda suspicious, like...

>> -- make this a special case? >> you're definitely rampin' up when you're startin' about -- talk about a -- defenseless infant. >> tanner went into the vault, as seen from this bank surveillance camera and loaded a black bag with cash. he then went out to the bank's parking lot to the car where the kidnappers were holding his family. >> you see the car stop and the passenger side door open. you see tanner harris hand over a very large bag, but you can see a very brief struggle. >> tanner demanded that the kidnappers let his wife and child go before he would turn over the cash. >> at which ti...

Engine to shut down and then get ahold of the driver, and make your arrest. if you're a criminal and you spin vehicles around, you can wreak havoc on the pursuing law enforcement officials. >> and there was something unusual about the way those men fled. >> i had no clue as to why they felt it so important to grab those bags or why they would choose to cross an oncoming interstate to make that getaway. it just didn't make any sense. >> it confounded the north carolina troopers too and despite searching the area, authorities never did find the two men. agent o'hare didn't think much more about ...