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And now joe's crab shack had ended in failure. >> three attempts at a ransom drop. the money never actually changed hands. >> no. >> the kidnappers never actually got the money. >> no, no. >> i turn to the fbi and said what's happening with the money? he said, well, we don't exactly know where the money is right now. i said great. you've gotten my daughter killed. >> the real kidnappers were still looking for their money. and of course it wasn't at the drop location. >> it's tense. and mom's a wreck. mom is getting upset because mom knows she dropped off the money. >> everything went south at ...

Local media, the fbi and sheriff's department had not told the local police about the ransom drop. so a frantic call was made to the jacksonville beach police instructing officers to bring the suspects in. detective howard cole of the sheriff's office rushed to the scene. >> immediately everybody, rightfully so, says these guys are involved, we need to interview these guys and we need to find out what the connection is. >> one man told the detective he was german. >> what's your address in germany? >> hamburg, germany. >> even though they were from germany, could they have had some connection ...

And e-mailed to somebody else has gps coordinates on it >> yeah. >> i didn't know that. >> we were quickly able to check the photograph and find the gps coordinates in there and we knew exactly where that photograph had been taken. >> investigators rushed to this location in jacksonville. how long after you looked at that photograph did you have agents headed to the scene? where it was taken? minutes. >> but there was no one there. later that night, the kidnappers called back and quin's mother, again, at the urging of the fbi, kept up a tough negotiating stance. >> i want quin in my car. i'm...

>> when you hear that guy's voice on the phone, that changes everything. >> absolutely. she said early on it's three al bainians, it was a loan shack. >> at last, a solid lead, but everyone, including the fbi's james casey, was perplexed over why the kidnappers were still asking for the money. didn't they have it? >> they pulled into a gas station not far from joe's crab shack after they had done a little bit of driving around. so, as we're sitting there watching them, a jacksonville beach police cruiser pulls into the gas station and starts talking to these young men. >> and you're thinking w...

Kidnappers never got money. >> i turned to the fbi and said, what's happening with the money? well, we don't exactly know where the money is right now. i said, great. so you've gotten my daughter killed. >> the real kidnappers were still looking for their money. and, of course, it wasn't at the drop location. >> it's tense. and mom's a wreck. mom is getting upset because mom knows she dropped off the money. >> everything went south at that ransom drop. >> and we still didn't know who we were looking for. we're back to square one. >> back to square one again. >> again. >> you were kind of at th...