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Bathroom window and hit the sand below i knew that it was bad. >> nothing outside looked like they thought it would. worse, a neighbor spotted them. they had to get out of there. >> we just ran and nigel started zre screaming for help. we did find the mosque and right before we stepped in i looked back and i saw one of our young captors standing about 20 feet away. >> weak and winded from running for the first time in five months amanda and nigel dashed into the mosque clinging to the hope that ...

>> she had just told me that shawn was -- getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> reporter: brookes family didnt know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasnt until after her death that her family finally learned brookes secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that -- >> yeah, it was -- >> manila envelope? >> it was horrible. >> reporter: it was brittany...

He locked us in the bathroom. and then he went out. and we escaped out the bathroom window. and he caught us again. >> he was still there. >> yes. he had gone -- come around to the outside of the bathroom window to check on it to look in. and i was just having the adrenalin wear off i was sit on the floor in the bathroom and i looked up to the window and it took my breath away and i had to my brother, peter my younger brother, were staying here all night were staying here all night. and a few se...

Thank god wasnt home. and ended up taking my brother and me captive. at one point lying us down on my parents bed and pointing the gun at the back of our heads and i thought he was going to execute us. and that was an amazing moment. and changed me in a lot of ways. and then we ended up talking to him i talked to him and convinced him to lock news a bathroom. i told him we will stay there the whole night and then after the search of the house was over he locked us in the bathroom. and then he we...

Amanda and nigel had been in captivity for five months, but it wasnt until she was taken to the desert, a knife held to her throat that she actually believed she was going to die in somalia. the kidnappers had given an ultimatum. your family pays up in a week or youll be killed. >> as the day grew closer and then came and went, i realized that, yeah, its possible that that was a fear tactic, but more importantly, i just could not continue to let myself live in that dark place in my mind. i had t...

>> they plotted an escape straight out of a movie. >> that window, it was sealed. there had been bricks cemented across the front of it. but as nigel discovered, the mortar that held the bricks in place was crumbling. and we had a pair of nail clippers that our captors had given us. >> you used that? >> yeah. to carve away at that mortar until enough bricks disintegrated and mortar crumbled. >> every day they chipped away, hiding their work by stacking the bricks up again. each brick loosened un...

Intensified. >> beyond emotional abuse, was it physical? >> uh-huh, yes. >> she had just told me that shawn was -- was getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night. he came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> brookes family didnt know about any of this, the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasnt until after her death that her family finally learned brookes secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that manila envelope? >> ...

And was very disturbed. keith morrison: and another time, she said, when she looked out her bathroom window-- i see mark on a hillside behind my house. hes looking through the scope, pointing the rifle at me. keith morrison: and once, said linda, long after she left him, after mark agreed to plead guilty to the stalking charge, she visited their abandoned paradise, kiket island, to retrieve some personal things. and she said she found in a cubbyhole in the master bedroom a wedding candle that sh...

Out. >> nigel had done some investigating in the bathroom and discovered we might have a chance to escape out that bathroom window, which at first seemed like an impossible idea. >> they plotted an escape straight out of a movie. >> that window, it was sealed. there had been bricks cemented across the front of it. but as nigel discovered, the mortar that held the bricks in place was crumbling. and we had a pair of nail clippers that our captors had given us. >> you used that? >> yeah. to carve a...

Their plan was to jump down and head there for safety. that was the plan at least. >> from the moment that i dropped down out of that bathroom window and hit the sand below, i knew that it was bad. >> nothing outside looked like they thought it would. worse, a neighbor spotted them. they had to get out of there. >> we just ran, and nigel started screaming for help. we did find the mosque. and right before we stepped in, i looked back, and i saw one of our young captors standing about 20 feet awa...