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prisoners. a mother and son kidnapped by terrorists. >> we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. >> 10 million? from me? are you losing your mind? >> a harrowing international hostage drama. >> its a big operation, its not this ragtag group of people. >> anything can happen, there are no guarantees. >> kind of father turned negotiator help bring them home. >> we prepared him for the worst. >> i am getting so worried. >> a lot of people were praying for them. a lo...

>> and this is dateline. >> i just cant imagine to be held in captivity. >> dad, just send the money. thats all they want. >> they have an american kid. a 14-year-old kid in the middle of the jungle. theyre thinking they have the jackpot. >> they were vacationers turned prisoners. a mother and son, kidnapped by terrorists. >> we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. >> 10 million, from me? are you losing your mind? >> a harrowing international hostage drama. >> t...

Thats all they want. >> heiko maxed out his credit cards. board money from whomever he could. but it never seemed to be enough. >> as the incidents grows from weeks into months, we end up with so many boards that we have to work our way down this hallway. >> daniel girsch was one of the hostage negotiators assigned to heiko. and i guess >> it gets to the point where we dont think were making progress. heiko feels like were not making progress. >> you just hope. thats all. you just hope. >> but h...

Then 1 million. still impossible, of course. so the kidnappers turned up the heat. they put kevin on the line. >> that. >> yeah. >> are you there? >> how are you doing? >> we need you to send the money. >> i know that and i am ready. but all i have over here i will send. >> dad. dad. just send the money. thats all they want. >> heiko maxed out his credit cards. board money from whomever he could. but it never seemed to be enough. >> as the incidents grows from weeks into months, we end up with s...

I knew if i cannot convince him that i dont have that money, i will never see my family again. so i look up toward heaven, and there was this one star just blinking. i pointed at the star, this one star up in that sky and i told them if they can get that star my husk giband can give them te million dollars. gerfa knew heiko would have sent all the money they had, even as the kidnapper squeezed him by putting his terrified son on the phone. >> dad, just send the money. thats all they want. >> how...

Just started wanting more and more and more. >> more weeks went by. mr. so reduced his demand from ten million to two million, then one million. still, impossible of course. so the kidnapper turned up the heat. they put kevin on the line. >> dad. >> yeah. how are you doing over there? >> are you there? we need you to send the money. >> i know that and im ready, but all i have and they know it. >> dad, dad, just send the money. thats all they want. >> heiko maxed out his credit cards, boroughed m...

That gerfa was released. obviously heiko was very excited. i could see and hear just joy, joy. >> heiko could scarcely believe it as the news flashed across the philippines and lynchburg, virginia. his wife gerfa was alive and free and safe. so inexpressible joy, and then gerfa called him and heiko realized the nightmare was just beginning. >> she called me really, really sad and crying. so my first question to her was, wheres kevin. >> he could hear the terror in her voice. abu sayyaf still had...

Impression. >> im not a rich person, but i will give whatever i can get together. okay. >> we need ten million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. okay. >> hieiko was lucky in this. when mr. so made his demand, some of the most experienced fbi hostage negotiators in the country were right there listening in, ready to point out the right way for heiko to respond. >> these are four general visual prompts we want heiko to think about. we have other questions related to jerfa and kevin we w...

Guard heiko. >> it gets to the point where we dont feel like were making progress, heiko feels were not making progress. >> i think you just hope, thats all you have, hope. >> but hope was hard to hang on to. the kidnapper kept threatening beheadings. even worse they put jerfa on the phone and beat her while she talked to heiko. >> sweetheart, what are you doing over there. >> i know, honey. >> just tell them i dont have a million. please, do that. >> just stop. i told them that you dont have an...

Meanwhile, fbi agents in the philippines were working sources on the ground. words was jerfa and kevin had been taken to one of abu sayyafs strongholds, bassa land, a large island about four islands by boat from where they were kidnapped to a base camp deep in washington was impenetrable jungle. >> we traveled there to talk to officials that might have the influence to help. >> heiko might have help, but money, no. >> the government doesnt pay ran son. decisions about ransom are made by the fami...