Morning, a brilliant sunny day in june. In a place that felt like paradise. Id be packing lunches the kids getting dressed. Reporter theyd pile into the jeep for the short drive to school. Fernando, the eldest, would ride the four wheeler out ahead of them. In the car, theyd sing with the little ones just like always. No idea what was waiting. What was about to happen here in paradise. She, the woman who went through it, the one youre about to meet, is jayne. J. A. Y. N. E. , a detail that will matter later. And she must have been a beautiful baby. This baby, in fact. This is her first tv commercial at 7 months for the red cross. And there she is in a mcdonalds commercial back when she was a High School Student in silver spring, maryland. My whole life i had worked as an actress and did a lot of tv commercials, bit roles in movies and soap operas. I dont care if i get wrinkles. Reporter thats jayne on the big screen beside bette midler in the movie stella. She had robert real interested for a while. Acting skills. They would become, as you shall see, life or death crucial. But then, we cant know the future, can we . Not when life seems perfect and safe and strong . Its kind of like one of these fairytale stories. Reporter or at least it was then, it was 1992. She was 25. And it was unexpected, unanticipated, like some bizarre lottery of life. Jayne was at a pay phone in a washington, d. C. , suburb, she just happened to lock eyes with a divorced art dealer named eduardo, who she would find out, was one of the nine children of jose Garcia Valseca, mexican newspaper baron, who 50 years ago ruled a publishing empire. Would be an equivalent in the u. S. Of who . William randolph hearst. An article published in newsweek in 1950 says that he actually had a larger readership at that point in time than hearst did. Reporter thats when Garcia Valseca ran his papers from a luxury pullman train car. The one which, decades later, eduardo owned. Though, when he invited this beautiful woman hed just met to mexico for a train ride, she had no idea that the train was his. Were walking toward it and this man comes out with a white jacket, white gloves, black bowtie with a silver tray, i was just completely speechless. Reporter she soon discovered that the train car was about all eduardo had of family fortune. Newspaper empire, had long since withered away. But jayne fell for a man, not money, and what eduardo lacked in fortune he replaced with laughter and passion and a huge enveloping personality. Jayne was in love, and soon married, and swept off to mexico, to a fresh place for a new life, new roots, new family. And that famous name, valseca. One thing the legacy did afford them was the chance to live pretty much anywhere they wanted to. And eduardo suggested a town in North Central mexico called San Miguel De Allende, 450 years old, rich obviously in history, but also in culture and art. A place so desirable and so lovely that almost 10 of the population is composed of people who moved here from some other country. She rubbed shoulders here with other expatriate americans, and canadians, europeans. Here, far away from the notorious crime of mexico city. We didnt feel threatened. I would say that san miguel then and perhaps even now is probably statistically as safe or safer than many of our u. S. Towns and small cities. Reporter and here they built a business in real estate, buying old places, tarting them up, selling again. And, of course, having children. It had been a big dream of mine to live in the country and to have a big organic garden and fruit trees and horses and lots of animals for the kids to play with. It was luck when this place came up, or what felt like luck, before that terrible morning. It was a rundown 1,000acre 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. Every little bit of money that we made, everything we could manage to save we started putting into the ranch. Restored a magnificent old fountain that once sat on the long lost valseca 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 was it just happened that railroad went right through it. Reporter jayne was behind their home movie camera as the car was towed to its new home on the ranch. Were so happy on the train. Reporter and happy here. They built a real ranch house among the mesquite trees and surrounded it with fine big gates. Outbuildings, a garden for her, a riding ring and fine Spanish Horses for him. And for three growing children, a magic place, happy and secure. Fernando. Emiliano. And baby nayah. The children were the heart of it, really. Theyd do anything for the children. Education system called waldorf schools, not then available in san miguel. And he said, well, lets bring the school to mexico. So we formed a parent group and got moving on founding a school. Reporter they donated land, part of the ranch, recruited other families, built the school. We started with a couple of classrooms. Actually they were originally going to be stables for horses, and we converted them into classrooms. Reporter and now, every morning, the quartermile commute down their own quiet country lane to school had become a family ritual. Wed go out the door, get in the jeep, and the morning routine was singing all the way to school. Which was really the only routine that we had. Reporter fernando had a pet donkey then, road it to school. That or a fourwheeler, always out ahead. We would follow along and the kids would love to sing the same songs, they never tired of singing the same ones every morning. Reporter so now it was that perfect morning june 2007. And they bumped and sang, noisy and happy, 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. I mean, immediately were hit from behind. A violent awakening. He held the gun to my head. As terror invades paired. Paradise. Let there be peace on earth how can you see yourself in new glasses. Without your glasses . At lenscrafters, our unique camera and screen system making sure all your vision choices are clear. Lenscrafters loves eyes can anybody help us . echo help us, help us. Dont go it alone. This veterans day event sears experts will help you save 40 or more on kenmore hot buys and save 20 or more on hot buys from other top brands. Sears. House experts for home owners. Take one of those pillows and take a big smell. They smell really fresh what if we told you we washed these sheets 7 days ago. Really . No way downy . Downy fabric conditioner give us a week, and well change your bed forever. Want more freshness . Add new downy fresh protect. If you could see your cough, its just a cough. Youd see how often you cough all day and so would everyone else. New robitussin 12 hour delivers fast, powerful cough relief that lasts up to twelve hours. New robitussin 12 hour cough relief. Because its never just a cough. Working on my feet all day gave me pain here. In my lower back but now, i step on this machine and get my number now i get immediate relief from my foot pain. My lower back pain. Find a machine at drscholls. Com when cigarette cravings hit, all i can think about is getting relief. Only nicorette mini has a patented fastdissolving formula. It starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. I never know when ill need relief. Thats why i only choose nicorette mini. Constipated . Trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. Life was go good for so long that it was almost like living it was almost like on a daily basis, pinch me is this real . Reporter 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 that there was a small, compact car in the far corner of the parking lot. And there was a man at the wheel who had a fishermans cap, khaki color on and glasses. Reporter a prospective parent, perhaps, for next years class . Jayne walked the children to their classrooms. She stopped at the school office. And asked the administrator if she knew who the gentleman was or if he needed help. And she looked over and looked across the parking lot and said, i dont know who he is. He must be waiting for someone. Reporter 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 them and actually smiled, and he smiled back. Reporter eduardo put the jeep in gear, pulled away. The strange car fell in behind them. A pickup truck comes out of nowhere. It catches up to us, and the man driving turns and looks at us and the look was really scary. Reporter you saw him . We both got this creepy feeling. Just the way the man looked at us. Reporter now that strange car and the pickup truck raced to positions beside and in front of the jeep. Eduardo said, something is definitely not right. What is this guy doing . Reporter and then in moments it was obvious. Jayne and eduardo were being chased, herded like cattle into a chute with no escape. In the distance we see the compact car, which has raced up our interior road, cut in front. Reporter here she relived it, the horrified moment as the car in front of them suddenly stopped, and eduardo slammed on his brakes. Immediately we were hit from behind. It was a split 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 handgun in the next. Reporter the masked man shattered the window and landed a hard blow to eduardos head that sent blood gushing down his face. The first thing i started thinking of was my children. Are my children going to lose their parents right now . Reporter a second attacker ran at jayne, yanked open her door, pulled her from the jeep. She screamed, kicked at him, grabbed the fence beside her. The barbed w w wed through her finger. Her attacker forced her down. While im laying on the ground he just points the gun at my forehead and tells me in spanish to get up. The first thing i said to him was, please dont kill me, i have three children. Reporter then they hustled jayne and eduardo into a waiting suv. Unseen accomplices snapped pillowcases over their heads and tightly bound their hands and feet. Eduardo was hysterical. I dont think he was completely hearing me. He probably had a concussion. Reporter the suv sped away. Jayne tried to comfort eduardo. One of the abductors threatened more pain. He kept yelling at him, shut up, you [ bleep ], or ill give you anothe and you could tell he was trying to disguise his voice. Reporter within minutes, word of the attack got back to the school. Something was wrong. A teacher rushed to the nowabandoned jeep. I went with my partner and the left window was all broken and blood was in the ground. I had a feeling it was a kidnapping. Reporter in the suv, under that gagging pillowcase, jayne struggled to breathe. She reached out for eduardo. I felt blood all down his arm. Reporter then she felt the blood pouring from her own slashed finger. She tried to memorize each bump and turn as the suv veered onto the highway toward san miguel, then, minutes later, pulled over, stopped. Someone yanked eduardo from the suv. He screamed. I hear the doors of the vehicle open and after i hear them shut i can no longer hear my husbands muffled screams. Then i hear what sounds like the engine of that car revving as if its pulling away. Reporter jayne managed to lift the pillowcase hood in time to see eduardo vanish. I am able to make out the type of car that it is, more or less, and i memorize the license plates. Reporter and just as quickly, she realized she was alone. Theyd all left. I was bound so i threw myself over the seat, ended up in the floor, pulled myself up, opened the door and literally hopped as if i was in a sasa race to the highway in flipflops. Reporter an elderly man stopped to help. He had a machete but no cell phone to call police. Frantically, jayne tried to flag down passing cars. Brake. And im begging them to please stop and help me, but i imagine it looked pretty scary to see a woman bleeding, desperate, bound in duct tape next to a guy with a machete. Reporter then in sheer desperation jayne stepped in front of an oncoming bus. He was coming this way. I jumped in front and i just put my hands up like this. And i hoped he would stop. Reporter but no cell phone on the bus, either. W the bus driver flagged down a taxi. And the taxi driver called the police. Now all of this information is going from the police to the taxi driver, the taxi driver to the dispatcher, the dispatcher to the police, to the dispatcher and the whole way around. It was like playing telephone. Reporter was there still time for the police to seal off the town, save her husband . And i thought, because i have this description and the plates, i thought for sure they would just run off in every direction, seal o o san miguel, and wed have him, end of story. But it didnt go that way. Reporter no, it didnt. 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. Reporter how long did it take them . Seconds. They were cool as cucumbers. Reporter 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, i realized that they spelled my name correctly. My name is jayne, spelled with a y. So it was really scary to see on the envelope that theyd spelled my name right. Reporter nobody spells your name right . No, no. Reporter and inside the envelope . Theheansom note says, senena, go home, open thihi email with thisisassword. And we havaveduardo. Eduardo is with h. Wait for our message to arrive. Reporter r t 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 husbands life was on the line. Reporter coming up, what would she tell her children. It was the hardest thing i ever had to do. Reporter and who would she turn to help. I thought this is what youre sending me to deal with this . The chance to win free mcdonalds fries, for four sundays in a row . I can take the pain. When your cold makes you wish. You could stay. In bed all day. You need the power of. New theraflu expssmax. Reporter Jayne Valseca sat in the dirt by the highway on the outskirts of San Miguel De Allende. A cop helped her strip away the duct tape round her hands and feet. As he told her that her husbands kidnappers had escaped, she tried to staunch the blood from her injured finger, gashed on that barbedwire fence. She tried to tamp down the terror that grabbed at her throat because she knew what had happened to others. My husband was kidnapped on 2001. Reporter this woman had already told her horrifying story. And every time that we would tell thahawe dont have the monene so, they cut a fingng and they send us the finger. R. Mexico city, one of the kidnapping capitals of the world, where jayne had heard that thousands are snatched every year, wealthy and poor, from mansions, the backs of taxis, from taco stands. The kidnapping situation in mexico is outrageous. Reporter this woman, ana maria salazar, had been reporting it for years on tv. The breakdown of law and order, the mess in police forces. You dont have a criminal Justice System that has the ability to go after all these people. But the other problem is corruption. Theres corrupt cops at the federal level. Theres corrupt cops at the state level. And theres corrupt cops at the municipal level. People just dont trust their cops. Reporter which is why, she says, so many kidnappings go unreported, making i iimpossible to know juststow many thousands take place in mexico. But this was safe little san miguel, where eduauao had always said do you think anybodys going to come out here in the country . Thats not going to happen. Reporter but it had happened. And all she could think of was finding help fast. Im sitting there in the dirt in need of stitches, and i at that point i have two cell phones going reporter but why . Wouldnt 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 afee as theyre called here and let them handle it on a federal level or you can go to a private consultant that you pay out t out of your own pocket and they y ll negogoate it privately. You dont know what to do when someones saying, hey im selling you back your daughter. Reporter jayne had heard about other kidnappings. When kidnappers snatched this mans 25yearold daughter, and in minutes he had to make the impossible decision. I knew i should go with the police, the problem was which police. One of the toughest gangs was headed by the police who was in charge of the antikidnapping group. So with that in mind i knew i couldnt go with the state police. Reporter he chose the federal police, who negotiated with the kidnappers, arranged a ransom payment. And still, in the transfer, could not prevent the murder of his daughter. What was jayne to do . Shed heard all the stories. Sometimes police themselves were invovoed in kidnappings. I knew that there was a possibility that that yes, there were people that i that were perhaps right there with me and you that i could not trust. Right, and youd know that the experience of of well take care of you. Right. Reporter so as cars whizzed by and the dirtcaked blood dried on her skin, jayne placed calls all around the world to private companies that specialize in kidnap negotiation. They knew all the questions to ask. They said, how many vehicles were were involved . What did the note say . Can you describe the people . What did their guns look like . Reporter must be a sophisticated operation, they told jayne. Negotiating would be difficult and expensive. At least 2,500 hundred u. S. Dollars a day plus expenses, far more than she could afford. She wondered, could the state popoce help her . She asked them how s scessful theyd b bn solving kidnappingng t ty said, oh yeah, wewee weve resolved 100 . And i said, really . So, does that mean you got 100 of the victims back and