This is Your FBI: The Swampland Kidnapping

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Tonight's FBI file, the Swamp Land Kidnapping. Dretching almost from coast to coast across the southern portion of the state of Florida is the great American jungle known as the Everglades, a vast and uncharted reptile infested area of treacherous cypress swamps and marshlands, into which only the most full-hardy would dare to venture without a guide. And, as in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, sometimes it

can be a grave mistake to venture into the Everglades with the guide. A few miles inland from the Gulf Coast and reached by a crooked chain of stagnant swamp lakes is the ramshackle cabin of Tom Blanton and his wife best but little sunlight manages to penetrate the patchwork canopy of intertwining cypress trees is fading rapidly now as Blanton