“He said he hadn't been asking for anything, but he'd been getting chocolate milk, white milk … So I asked him, ‘Well, what's he eat?’ He said ‘He just eats anything.’ I thought, ‘That's my boy!’”Īs Dr. “Finally, I said, ‘What's my son liked to eat? What's he been asking for? Position of appliances and the Rattray home, the color of David's shirt and shoes and other details were discussed. Rattray said he queried the voice about details of the crime, casting about for information only the true kidnapper could know. I thought he must not have taken very good care of David not having seen his eyes.” “I asked him what color (David's) eyes are. I told him there had been four people that called my office that day that had nothing to do with David's disappearance. Stalling for time and desperate to know if the pillowcase of cash would buy David's return, Rattray again addressed the voice. “I said, ‘How is he?’ He said, ‘He's fine.’ He said, ‘Do you have the money?’” “I said, ‘Do you have my boy?’ He said, ‘Yes.’” “While I was standing there, I heard a voice from the woods say, ‘I'm over here.’ It was a man throwing his voice, trying to sound like a woman. “If you ever want to see David again, get $250,000,’ He said that to the maid when he was leaving,” Dr. Rattray until the next day, the family already knew what he wanted. She was really shook up.”Īfter contacting the FBI, Dr Rattray and his family began the ordeal in earnest.Īlthough the kidnapper did not contact Dr. She was really scared to death, she was talking to me, sort of, like in facts. “I was the one who found Willie,” Rob recalls. David and Willie Mae are very close, the family says.ĭavid's brother, 10-year-old Robb, came home from school Tuesday to find her just freed. Willie Mae, the family's maid, was the only one home besides David, when the kidnapper gained entry, posing as an electrician. “He says it gives him a stomach ache to talk about it.” The only reference he's made is that twice he's asked how Willie May got untied. “He (David) hasn't talked to the Sheriff's Department yet. “We're relaxed, but we're not back to normal,” Dr Rattray said. Surveying the remnants of a hectic week that left the house in disarray, he seemed a shy boy, not affected by the ordeal. He and all the Rattray children were given Dodger mementos shortly before the Atlanta Braves were given a 10 to 1 trouncing on the diamond.īack home after the game, David was quiet.

They made David a guest of honor at their clubhouse. He was sporting a new Dodger’s T-shirt and had a baseball autographed by L.A. It seemed like forever … Then they said, ‘He's A-O.K.’ Everybody was so excited.” “They said, ‘Give us a minute to find out if he's A-O.K.’. Rattray heard the officer’s radio that David was inside but appeared unconscious. The man told agents David was in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu nearby west of King’s Highway and Cherry Lane. She said she next heard that the suspect, later identified as Thomas Gordon Ross, had shot himself and that FBI men were trying to learn from the wounded man the whereabouts of her youngest son.

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