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>> another ransom drop was planned. >> all right. i talk to her first, i see her, and she walks across and gets in my car. >> ma'am, i'm making the decisions, not you. >> no, no, i'm sorry, but i am going to see my daughter and i'm going to have her in my car. i've got your [ bleep ] money. let me see my daughter and i want her in my car. do you understand? >> was this at last the end of this ordeal? it was not. because the kidnappers never showed. and quinn's mom returned home. that's when investigators realized they had a new problem. >> deputies in st. johns county are looking for a ponte v...

The money never actually changed hands. >> no. >> the kidnappers never actually got the money. >> no. no. >> i turned to the fbi and said, what's happening to the money? >> they said, 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. mom's a wreck. mom is getting upset because mom knows she dropped off the money. >> everything went south at that ransom drop. >> we still didn't know who we're looking for. we're back...

>> and it becomes pretty clear pretty quick that these guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> the men were actually college exchange students. two of them played on the same tennis team. >> they looked at a bag and said, hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was some money in that bag? it was really that simple, that coincidental, and couldn't make it up. >> the college students stumbled on to the bag, picked it up, and then got scared when they saw cars following them. they then called 911. >> we found a blue bag on the parking lot and there was like money in there and we just want to...

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 that ransom drop. >> and we s...

And e-mailed to somebody else has gps coordinates on it? >> yeah. >> i didn't know that. >> yeah. we were very quickly able to check the photograph and find the gps coordinates in there. 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 quinn's mother, again at the urging of the fbi, kept up a tough negotiating stance. >> i want quinn in...