detective howard cole of the sheriff's office rushed to the scene. >> immediately everybody, rightfullyo, 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, could they have had some connection with the albanian men quinn mentioned in her first call to reid? >> we walked back and forth in the parking lot and saw that blue bag. one of the guys was joking and said i bet there's money inside. that's a lot of money, what are we going to do with it? >> but in an unbelievable stroke of bad luck, it turned out these men were not the kidnappers. >> and it becomes pretty clear pretty quick that these guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> the men were actually college exchange students, two of them played on the same tennis team. >> they looked at a bag and said, hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was money in that bag? it was really that simple, that coincidental, and couldn't make it up.