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Extra." i'm craig melvin. investigators seem to have caught a big break in quinn gray's abduction when several men in an suv picked up the bag of ransom money. police were tracking the car and were confident this would lead them to quinn. but turns out there were more twists in this story than anyone could have imagined. here again is josh mankiewicz. >> the ransom drop had been made. sheriff's investigators and fbi agents believed they might be on the verge of breaking the kidnapping case of quinn gray. undercover teams and an fbi plane were following several men in an suv who had just picked...

I'm sorry? hello? >> when you hear that guy's voice on the phone, that changes everything. >> absolutely. she said early on it was three albanians grabbed her over a loan shark and we've got a male there. >> 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...

>> 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 my car, i'm just warning you. i'm not giving you the money until you have quinn in the car. >> i'm telling you what to do. >> i'm telling you what i'm going to do. >> did that aggressive approach seem to work? >> i think so. i really think so. >> 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 decision, not ...

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 ...

Quiet, so as not to tip off the 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, coul...