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Or maybe freshman in college student with a backpack, a baseball cap, glasses, tiny. and i thought, what is going on? you mean this is what youre sending me to deal with this? and so the first thing i asked him after shaking his hand was, are you armed? and he said, no. i said, why not, for god sake? >> seasoned criminals had engineered a seamless plan to steal her husband. and all she had on her side was a short, skinny kid with no apparent backup, no car, and no gun. coming up, the kidnappers ...

There were eyes on them, they knew it. they pulled up to the end of the alley as they had been ordered. one of the brothers picked up the bag of money, walked down the alley and to the remaining brothers horror, disappeared. there in his cold fear, in his car in the dark, he waited and minutes ticked into hours. it was a trap. his brother was taken. later jayne would learn that a strange car hovered nearby, as if to guard the exchange. it was a police car. coming up -- youve got no employee, you...

Their classrooms. she stopped at the school office. >> and asked the administrator if she knew who the gentleman was or if he needed help. she looked over and looked across the parking lot and said, i dont know who he is. he must be waiting for someone. >> eduardo was behind the wheel of the jeep listening to the radio. the strangers car was beyond it at the back of the lot. >> as i walked to the jeep, where my husband was, i looked across and made eye contact with him and actually smiled. and h...

Back on his head, put him in the car and brought him here. they ordered, face the wall. it was a cemetery wall. was he to die? then a voice behind him said, start counting. dont turn around until you hit 200. >> i start counting from 1 to 200 right here. and -- >> did you get all the way to 200? >> yes. absolutely. i was so scared, you know. i didnt want to screw it up. >> and then he turned around and they were gone. you had been in that box all that time and here you are standing all alone in ...

You know, life was so good for so long for us, that it was almost like living in a fantasy. it was almost like on a daily basis, pinch me, is this real. >> it was june 2007, a bright sunny morning, two weeks before summer vacation. minutes before the terror. eduardo and jayne valseca and their three children arrived at the country school not far from their ranch house outside san miguel de allende in mexico. >> as we pulled into the parking lot, i noticed there was a small compact car in the far...

Jayne and eduardo were being chased, herded like cattle into a chute with no escape. >> in the distance we see the compact car that has raced up our interior road, cut in front. >> here she relived it, the horrified moment as the car in front of them suddenly stopped and eduardo slammed on his brakes. >> we immediately were hit from behind. at that point, a split of a second and there was a man coming out of the passenger side of the car, coming at eduardo and hes got a hammer in one hand and a ...

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Something was wrong. she had driven the couriers to mexico city, she had paid the ransom, put a helicopter on stand by. she had done everything they asked her to do, and no phone call, no message, no eduardo. then finally one of the two brothers jayne had sent to drop the ransom had made contact, he was still sitting in his car at mouth of the dark road. he was terrified. his brother had disappeared into the dark, holding on to the sack full of hundred dollar bills. he hadnt come back. and some ...

He imagined the faces of his children. >> i would hear fernando saying, dad, i miss you. and i would see emiliano so confused. i would miss nayahs beautiful green eyes. >> he was in his box for a total of 225 days. and then, one morning -- >> he put me against this wall where the handcuffs are and i thought this is it. hes going to shoot me. i was hurt. and then i start hearing the sounds and i didnt know what he was going to do. >> but they didnt shoot him. instead they shaved him and dressed h...

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 st...