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This is a big operation. This is not a ragtag group of people. Anything can happen. There are no guarantees. Can a father turned negotiator help bring them home . We prepared him for the worst. Im getting worried. I am getting so worried. A lot of people were praying for them. A lot of people were. Heres Keith Morrison with heart of darkness. Reporter they lay in wait, unseen under a thick green canopy, armed to the teeth. Immersed in their defiant extremist belief, hunting, stalking, deadly, in this particular heart of darkness. It was the summer of 2011, a jungleclad island in the southern t...

This is a big operation. This is not just this ragtag group of people. Anything can happen. There are no guarantees. Can a father turned negotiator help bring them home . We prepared him for the worst. Im getting worried. Im getting so worried. A lot of people were praying for them. A lot of people were. Hem low and welcome to dateline. They were on a dream vacation when they were kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. Would it be resolved until it was all too late . Heres Keith Morrison with heart of darkness. Reporter they lay in wait, unseen under a thick green ...

That's 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 don't think we're making progress. heiko feels like we're not making progress. >> you just hope. that's all. you just hope. >> but hope was hard trying on two. the kidnappers kept threatening beheadings. and even worse, they pu...

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. that's 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 hosta...

But they started wanting more and more and more. >> reporter: more weeks went by. mr. so reduced his demands from $10 million, to $2 million, then $1 million. still impossible. so the kidnappers 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 i'm ready, but all that i have over here i will send, and they know it. >> dad! just send the money. that's all they want. >> reporter: heiko maxed out his credit cards. borrowed money from whomever he could. but it never seemed to be enough...