that black spirit, that darkness. >> he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. >> at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. >> i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. >> it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. >> i was suffering so much. >> we -- >> if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. >> i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. >> i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. >> when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn't pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. -- their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. >> i was 12 years old, 12 years old when it happened. then all of a sudden, you meet the dark in life, in a very ugly way. >> it's hard to imagine how we would be like if none of that happened. >> i'm never going to detail, it's always like something happened. now i'm here. >> and here is where it happened. to these children. in mexico. a little slice of paradise is what it seemed like to them. >> my mom used to call it our little bubble. >> honestly i was living my dreams and then some. >> this is their mother, jayne. a detail that will matter later. >> my whole life i worked as an actress and did a lot of television, commercials. big roles in movies in soap operas. >> the 1992, it happened. pure chance. >> it was kind of like these fairytale stories. >> she was 25, she was at a payphone near washington d. c. when she just happened to block eyes within art dealer named eduardo. whom she would find out was a divorced dad of two and the offspring himself of a famous mexican newspaper baron. >> he founded over 40 newspapers in mexico. he was one of the biggest newspaper people, publishers in the country. >> would be an equivalent in the united states of who? >> probably that. >> that's when garcia ran his newspaper empire from a luxury pullman train car, the one which decades later it wordle owned. though when he invited this beautiful woman he had just met to mexico for a train ride, she had no idea that the train was his. >> we're walking towards it, and then this man comes out with a white jacket, white gloves, black bottle with a silver tray. i mean, i was completely speechless. >> she discovered the train car was about all eduardo had, a family fortune. the rest, along with the newspaper empire, had long since withered away. but jane fail for a man, not money. and what eduardo lacked in money he replaced with passion and a huge enveloping personality, jane was in love. and soon married. swept off to mexico. >> one thing eduardo's heritage did for them is a chance to live anywhere they wanted to live in mexico, this is where they chose. send miguel. colonial town, a place so lovely it has attracted people from all over the world to come here and live. >> jane and eduardo loved fixing up and selling old houses. so, they made that their business. and they made children. >> it had been a big dream of mine to live in the country and to have a big organic gardens, through trees, horses and lots of animals for the kids to play with. >> it was luck when this place came up. a rundown wrench in foreclosure, perfect. >> as a great deal, at the time it was a pile of rocks, literally. no road going out here, it was a dirt road that was almost impossible unless you had a jeep and we started building a little by little. every little bit of money that we made, everything we could managed to save we started putting in the ranch. >> they built a real ranch house, and surrounded it with fine big gates and outbuildings. a garden for her, a writing ring and fine spanish horses for him. and, no surprise, a part of their building plan involved that railroad cart. >> one of the marvelous parts of that ending up with this part of property is it just happened that the railroad track went through it. >> jane was behind the movie cameras the cart was told to its home on the ranch. >> and for three grown children, a magic place. happy insecure. fernando. emiliano. and baby naya. >> 100%, yes. it was paradise. >> that baby was 18 when we sat down with her. >> i remember we used to have the cage full of rabbits, tons of bunny rabbits, that was my favorite thing. >> emiliano remembers a life lived outdoors. >> i didn't really have an xbox or playstation. electronics. i had dogs, a donkey that would take me to school every morning. >> how is that possible? jane won the children to have an education beyond what public schools here offered so she and eduardo founded a school. built it right on the ranch, recruited other families to join. jane's eldest fernando loves that school. >> my mother's part enjoy. >> we knew every single student that went to that school. >> everybody on the faculty. a big family. >> every morning the half mile commute down their own quiet country lane to school. it became a family ritual. >> the morning routine was singing all the way to school. it was really the only routine that we had. >> so now, it was that perfect morning. june 2007, and they bumped and sang, noisy unhappy down the dusty road. and of course they did not understand how could they, that this was the last moment of pure innocence. any of them would ever know. >> coming up -- a violent awakening. >> immediately were hit from behind, he points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i said to him was please don't kill me have three children. >> a terrifying road was ahead, and a journey that would test them. >> i lost everything that i knew about life, just like that. gone. >> you have to know that i would do everything humanly possible, if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. >> when dateline continues. oughing] copd isn't pretty. 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>> we both got just a really creepy feeling, just the way the man looked at us. >> now, that stranger's car raced to positions beside and in front of the jeep. >> eduardo said something is definitely not right, what is this guy doing? >> and then, in moments, it was obvious. jane and edward were being chased, herded like cattle into a shoot with no escape. >> in the distance, we see the compact car that has raced up in the interior road cut in front and -- >> here, she relived it, the horrified moment does the car in front of them suddenly stopped and eduardo slammed on his brakes. >> we were immediately hit from behind. and, at that point, it was a split of a second. and there was a man coming out of the passenger side of the car, coming at eduardo. he's got a hammer in one hand, and the gun in the next. >> the masked man shattered the window, landed a hard blow into eduardo's head that sent blood rushing down his face. >> the first thing i started thinking about was my children. are my children going to lose their parents right now? >> the second attacker run at jayne, he yanked open or door, pulled her out of the jeep, she screamed, kicked him, and grab the fence behind. in the bob wire slice through her finger. her tech, or forced her down. >> i'm lying on the ground he just points the gun at my forehead and tells me, in spanish to get up. the first thing i said time was please don't kill me i have three children. >> then, they hustled jayne and eduardo into a waiting suv. unseen accomplices -- pillow cases over their head and tightly bound their hands and feet. >> eduardo was hysterical. i don't think he was completely hearing me. he probably had a concussion. >> and the suv sped away. jayne tried to comfort eduardo. one of the abductors threat in more pain. >> he kept saying shut up [bleep] or i'll give you another one. >> at that moment, eldest son, fernando was that -- on the bus right behind the suv. >> i shot at two cars, flying down the street roared and took a left that -- and it was weird to for me to see two suvs going that fast. >> you saw them being taken? >> no, i didn't see them being taken but you know they were there and i just didn't know. i had no idea. >> in the suv, under that gagging pilow case jayne struggled to breathe, she reached offered--. >> i felt blood, all down his arm. then, she felt the blood pouring from her own slashed finger, she tried to memorize each bump in turn as the suv veered onto the highway towards we san miguel de allende, then, minutes later, pulled over and stopped. someone yanked eduardo from the suv. he screams. >> i hear the doors of that vehicle open. and after i hear them shut, i can no longer hear my husband's muffled screams. >> jayne managed to lift the pillow case had just in time to see eduardo vantage. and, realized she was alone, they'd all left. >> i was bound so i threw myself over the seat, ended up on the floor, pulled myself up, open the door, and literally hopped as if i was in a sack race to the highway, in flip-flops. >> an elderly man stop to help. he had a machete but no cell phone to call police. frantically, jayne tried to flag down passing cars, all hit the accelerator, not the brakes. >> i imagined it was pretty scary to see a woman bleeding, desperate, bound and duck tape next to a guy with the machete. >> then, in sheer desperation, jayne stepped in front of an oncoming bus. >> i jumped in front and i just put my hands up like this. and i hoped he'd stop. >> but, no cell phone on the bus either. now, the bus driver flagged down a taxi, and the taxi driver called the police. >> i said like, for sure, that the police would run off in every direction, steal off san miguel de allende, end of story. but, it didn't go that way. >> no it didn't. eduardo had been kidnapped. and, then as if more terror was possible, police took jayne back to the place where she was abandon. and they're on the ground was a letter. it was addressed to her. >> and i realize that they had spelled my name correctly, my name is jayne with a y so it was really scary to see on the envelope that they actually spelled my name right. >> nobody spells your name right? >> no, no. >> and inside the envelope -- >> a ransom note. it says, senora, go home open this email with this password and we have eduardo, eduardo is with us. wait for our message to arrive. >> it was then she understood, the kidnappers had been watching them, stalking them, researching every small detail. >> it immediately made me realize i needed to be very careful and very smart about the choices i was about to make. my husband's life was on the line. >> coming up -- reality sets in. what would she tell the children? >> i was confused. >> i was very confused. i didn't know how to take it. and whether to cry, whether to be mad. >> and who would she turned to for help? >> i thought, this is what you're sending me to deal with this? >> when dateline continues. goli, taste your goals. >> jayne valseca sat on the dirt on the highway, on the outskirts of san miguel, a cop helped her strip away the duck tape away from her hands and feet. she tried to stop the blood from her injured finger, gushed on the barbwire fence. she tried to tap down the tear that grabbed her through. >> she had heard about brutal kidnappings in mexico city were victims fingers were cut off and delivered with ransom notes. but this was safe little san miguel, where eduardo had always said -- >> do you think anybody is gonna come here in the country? you know, it's not going to happen. >> but it had happened, and while she could think of was finding help fast. >> i'm sitting there in the dirt, in need of stitches and at that point i had to sell phones going. >> why wouldn't the police just take over? well, no. jayne 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 state police to handle the situation. you can go to the mexican equivalent of the fbi which is afi, or you can go to a private consultant that you have to pay out of your own pocket and they will negotiated privately. >> so as cars whizzed by and the dirt kicked blood dried under her skin jayne placed calls all over the world to private companies that specialized in kidnapped negotiations. >> they knew all the questions to ask they said how many vehicles were involved. what did the notes say. can you describe the people? what did their guns look like? >> must be a sophisticated operation, they told jayne, and negotiating would be difficult and expensive at least 2500 u.s. dollars a day plus expenses. far more than she can afford. so jayne decided to enlist the mexican version of the fbi, the unit unit of the mexican police. she made the call went back to the ranch can cleaned up her wound and told six-year-old night and seven year old emiliano that their father was on a business trip. >> i was confused. >> i was very confused. i try to ask questions about the whole situation. but, the best that i could get was you know, a pg version of what was really happening. >> but fernando was 12, he had to be told. and anyway, she needed him now. >> she told me this morning we were both on the way back to dropping you guys off at school, we were kidnapped. and they took your father. >> i just said to him, you know, you have to know that i will do everything, humanly possible, to get your father back. if it takes everything we have. everything i can humanly do. >> suddenly fernando understood the speeding suv he had seen that morning. >> i didn't know how to take it, i didn't know whether to cry, be mad or -- i was just in shock. >> fernando fled then, went to his secret, private place, arise from which she could see the rest of the ranch. >> i grabbed the keys and through on the helmet and went for a ride and -- you know, started crying, balling my eyes out. >> jayne had one more crucial call to make to her mother. also, named jayne. she lived in her own house on the ranch most of the year, but that day, she was home in virginia. >> jayne called and said sit down, i have something to tell you and of course i didn't sit down i said what is it? she said eduardo has been kidnapped. >> what is it like to hear that? >> you know, i lost it, i grabbed her suitcase and i threw in a toothbrush and i couldn't remember what i needed to take. >> now, it was evening -- >> i'm hoping i would get home like they told me, i will open the email there will be a message and whatever i have access to they will have it all. okay? just give him back. so at that point i'm hoping this is going to be open and shut deal in less than 24 hours. >> jayne got ready for the arrival of the federal agent, the federal police promised he would move right away and live on the ranch until he got her daughter back. she felt like she was waiting for the cavalry to arrive. she let hope grow. >> i expected him to roll in and somehow a bulletproof serve villain, be begin burly, mature haven't done this for a while. >> and then, finally, at 3 am, the agent called. could someone come and pick him up in town, he asked? we had come from mexico city, by bus. >> he looked like a high school 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 you are sending to me to deal with this. the first thing i asked after shaking his hand was are you armed? and he said no. and i said why not, for god sake? >> season 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. >> she felt like her whole world collapsed and i could see that through her eyes and i couldn't really communicate and try to help her. because i didn't know how. >> kidnappers sent a message from