end of story. but it didn t go that way. no, it didn t. jayne says the police tried one escape highway, no other. and no eduardo. he had been kidnapped. these people carried this whole operation out with such precision and such surprising professionalism, which seems a strange word to even use. how long did it take? seconds. they were cool as cucumbers. but that was just the first clue. on the ground beside the suv in which the kidnappers abandoned jayne was another. inside an envelope, addressed to jayne. the first thing that went through my mind was well, i realized they spelled my name correctly. my name is jayne, spelled with a y, so it was really scary to see on the envelope they had actually spelled my name right. nobody spells your name right? no. and inside the envelope? the ransom note says senora, go home, open this e-mail, with this password and
she could think of was finding help fast. i m sitting there in the dirt, in need of stitches and i at that point i have two cell phones going. but why wouldn t the police just take over? well, no, not in mexico. jayne herself, in this supremely vulnerable moment, would have to decide which police, if any, she could trust to get her husband back. you can allow the local or state police to handle the situation. you can go to the mexican equivalent of the fbi, which is the afi or afi as they re called here and let them handle it on a federal level, or you can go to a private consultant that you have to pay out of your own pocket and they will negotiate it privately. you don t know what to do when someone is saying, hey, i m selling you back your daughter. jayne had heard about other kidnappings like the one seven years earlier when kidnappers snatched this man s 25-year-old
skin, jayne placed calls all around the world to private companies that specialize in kidnap negotiations. they knew all the questions to ask. they said, how many vehicles were involved? what did the note say? can you describe the people? what did their guns look like? must be a sophisticated operation, they told jayne. negotiating would be difficult and expensive, at least 2,500 u.s. dollars a day, plus expenses, far more than she could afford. she wondered could the state police help her? she asked them how successful they had been solving kidnappings. they said, oh, yeah, we have resolved 100%. and i said really? so does that mean you got 100% of the victims back and you caught the bad guys? and they said yes, eventually we ve gotten all of them. it really made me feel very uneasy and untrusting because i know that 100% of the parking violations don t get resolved. there was only one choice left.
jayne s 12-year-old fernando looked on, helpless. she just had this face. i can t describe it. it was terrible. it looked like a dead person. i was just so scared and i put my bed and my brother s bed together and i slept with him. what was it like going to bed that first night? there was no going to bed. there was no laying down. sleeping, eating, i could drink. that was basically it. i couldn t even eat. how could i sit down and eat when i didn t know where my husband was, if he was eating, if he had had his head cared for. i just couldn t. it was horrible. do you remember lying there in bed at night? yeah, of course. trying to make your mind calm down? of course. i just laid there and tossed and turned and i even felt guilty about laying on a bed. i started feeling guilty that i wasn t the one taken, that he was and i wasn t. and guilty that i had a roof
it was a rundown 1,000 acre ranch and it was in foreclosure. they bought it, for, well, it was embarrassingly cheap. it was a great deal. but at the time, it was a pile of rocks literally. there was no road going out here. it was a dirt road that was almost impassable unless you had a jeep. right. and we started building little by little. every little bit of money that we made, everything that we could manage to save, we started putting into the ranch. we started with the structure. we fenced it in. we started putting if the roads. and then we started saving money for a house for ourselves. they even found and restored a magnificent old fountain that once sat in the long lost value seek ca estate, and no surprise, part of their building plan involved that stately old railroad car. one of the marvelous parts about ending up with this piece of property is it just happened that the railroad track went right through it. jayne was behind their home movie camera as the car was