Buried Alive - 7

Locked Up Abroad

Wondery

Drugsmuggling, Oliver Stone, Society & Culture, Prison, Overseas, Jim Clemente, Locked, National Geographic, Billy Hayes, Abroad, Exhibit C, Smuggling, Drugs, Vacation, Midnight Express, Crime, Riveting

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In 2004, 20-year Navy veteran Roy Hallums was working as a contractor in Iraq. A routine trip to the office turned into a fight for his life when 20 armed Iraqi insurgents stormed the compound and took him and his colleagues hostage. He was sealed in an underground room. This is how he survived.

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0:00.0	One Area. He said come with us or we'll kill you. On your knees!
0:14.0	My family have no idea I'm in Iraq.
0:18.0	I have to help Roy.
0:20.0	Please don't shoot him.
0:22.0	It wasn't kidnap and ransom in Baghdad.
0:24.0	It was kidnap and kill.
0:26.0	They're burying us alive.
0:31.0	Roy Helms is a dead man.
0:34.0	I'm going deep into my wife's family history,
0:39.0	digging up the cold case of her murdered great-grandmother.
0:42.0	And did I mention that I'm looking
0:43.8	into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family patriarch binge all
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0:58.0	This is locked up abroad.
1:00.0	I'm your host Jim Clemente.
1:02.0	In 2004, 20-year Navy veteran Roy Hallams
1:06.0	was working as a contractor in Iraq
1:08.0	when a routine trip to the office turned him to a fight for his life.
1:12.0	20 armed Iraqi insurgents stormed the compound and took him and five of his colleagues hostage,
1:18.0	including three Iraqis.
1:20.0	His captors sealed him in an underground room just barely keeping him alive while demanding a 12 million dollar ransom.
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