Ben Kuebrich

Jun 26, 2024 | ksltv.com | Ben Kuebrich

Episode eight of the true-crime podcast Ransom: Position of Trust, dives deep into Hilton Crawford’s past to try to understand who he was and what led him to kidnap Mckay Everett. Ultimately, that exploration leads us to why McKay‘s mother, Paulette Everett, has suspicions about an additional accomplice to the crimeThe trial proper for Hilton Crawford began on July 8th, 1996.

Jun 12, 2024 | ksltv.com | Ben Kuebrich

PODCASTS Jun 12, 2024, 1:01 PM | Updated: 1:02 pm Episode six of the true-crime podcast Ransom: Position of Trust, dives deep into Hilton Crawford’s past to try to understand who he was and what led him to kidnap Mckay Everett. Ultimately, that exploration leads us to why McKay‘s mother, Paulette Everett, has suspicions about an additional accomplice to the crimeHilton Crawford was born in Beaumont, Texas — a blue-collar city an hour east of Houston — in 1939.

Jun 6, 2024 | ksltv.com | Ben Kuebrich

Late on the night of Saturday, September 16th, 1995 four days after kidnapping McKay, Hilton Crawford drew Sheriff Guy Williams a map. The directions led to an exit of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge called Whiskey Bay, located between Lafayette and Baton Rouge Louisiana. Our team drove out to the site that Hilton described to meet the local sheriff that responded to the call, Marcus Guidry.

May 29, 2024 | ksltv.com | Ben Kuebrich

11 Q. And what did you ask Connie Crawford? 12 [Allen]. I just told her Hilton was trying to call me. I13 thought he was He was I didn’t know where he14 was. I thought he was at home. And she said she had15 a phone number where I could reach him. 16 Q. She had a phone number where you could reach him? 17 A. That’s what she said, yes. And she gave me a18 phone number and I called that phone number, but I19 didn’t get an answer. 20 Q. Was it a pager number or phone number, if you21 know? 22 A. I can’t tell you.

May 24, 2024 | ksltv.com | Ben Kuebrich

Episode three of the true-crime podcast Ransom: Position of Trust focuses on the suspect Hilton Crawford. The third suspect investigated by law enforcement was a family friend named Hilton Crawford, or as McKay knew him ‘Uncle Hilty.’Hilton was on a list of people who knew about the Amway meeting. He was supposed to bring one of the employees of his security business to the meeting but hadn’t shown up. So the FBI drove out to interview him the following morning.