let's keep in mind mary lou hendricks heard about these one until this morning. >> you get e-mails that say your relative is in a prison in mexico. wire money but not something your kid's been in a car accident. and now been abducted by a gang member. >> reporter: it sounds crazy, but that's the exact call mary lou hendricks got today. the nurse practitioner said she was seeing a patient when that her son had been in a car accident. >> they said do you have a son? i said yes. i've got two sons zachary and cody and he said cody, yes. he said his name is cody. >> reporter: the caller said the person her son hit is wanted by police and couldn't be taken to a hospital. so to pay for a private doctor, they needed money and were taking her son hostage until she could get them that money. >> and if i don't follow his instructions, they'll never find my son. hendricks needed to act now, leave the building and go to the nearest bank. not knowing what to think she believed them. >> that they've got cody and they're going to hurt him if i don't do what they tell me. >> reporter: hendricks started

mary lou hendricks went to her car, started to go to the bank, different from the scams that we have been warned about before. >> and if i don't follow his instructions, they'll never find my son. they've got cody and they're gonna hurt him if i don't do what they tell me. >> so after the initial shock of the call, she called her son, cody, who was safe at home. looking back, hendricks says there were clearly signs this was a scam. she said the caller went to great lengths to keep her on the phone so sh contact anybody else. in fact, hendricks said the caller didn't know anything about her son. we have much more information about this on 9news.com. >>> investigators want to know how five inmates got their hands on crack cocaine. they were all sent to the hospital because it appears they overdosed on the drug. medicsthe sheriff's department said this is a rare occurrence. are conducted randomly. >>> search teams have not been able to find a climber. david cook was planning to climb the pyramid peak on monday. a receipt was found indicating that he arrived at the maroon bells on monday