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Outside that prison. >> i know. >> and what i don't understand is this. with all the sort of good friendship that our country has with mexico, you know, is there nothing that our government, that the president can't do anything to sort of fast track this or doesn't mexico sort of want to be accommodating? i mean, if you even look at this, you are are not going to hold him in prison. if even anybody looked at the case inside mexico and looked at our videotapes, you would see that he never intended to be in mexico. this was an accident. >> a cursory look at this case would say this was a mistake...

Other politicians and others are compromised inside mexico that they might be motivated to get him out again? >> you have corruption in mexico. he's already escaped once. he's the most powerful man in mexico if not the world and i think the flight risk and security risk is tremendous in mexico. that's why he needs to be brought out of mexico into the united states. i think it's important for the state department to negotiate. >> are you going to push for it? >> yes. and i already have. i'm going to be talking to the ambassador about this. it's important for mexico, the united states. this coop...

Yeah. we were -- that's where we truly grew as a couple and had adventures. >> reporter: when the hartley's first arrive here this peaceful town was a perfect place for the young couple to live, but slowly it became more and more violent. there is a war in reynosa. two drug cartels battling for turf. the zetas, a rogue band of former military are trying to push out the gulf cartel which has smuggled drugs across the rio grande for decades. killings of constant. tiffany and david hartley learned firsthand. mexican police were not to be trusted. for instance, he was coming home from the bank aft...

Why wasn't there far more blood evidence? >> the jet ski -- >> the jet ski was destroyed. my understanding, the jet ski was taken apart. the parts that would float were burned and buried afterwards. and the parts that would not float were just thrown into the lake and of course, they sunk. this is coming in from mexico. >> reporter: the sheriff believes hartley's story but may never be able to prove it. david hartley's mother can barely control her emotion. >> what happened to david and tiffany was an act of terror. plain and simple. it was a senseless violence, but it was an act of terror. an...

One guy's gotten out. >> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border that you would be basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, david hartley and tiffany young, just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98, and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took so long? >> we were 18. >> reporter: they wound up here,...