1 00:00:09,175 --> 00:00:11,378 I'M LESTER HOLT. TONIGHT ON 2 00:00:11,378 --> 00:00:12,145 I'M LESTER HOLT. TONIGHT ON DATELINE: 3 00:00:14,681 --> 00:00:16,883 WE LIVED IN A FAIRY TALE, WHERE EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT 4 00:00:18,418 --> 00:00:18,718 "FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!" 5 00:00:18,718 --> 00:00:22,322 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S THAT DEMON. THAT BLACK 6 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:24,791 THAT DEMON. THAT BLACK SPIRIT. THAT DARKNESS. 7 00:00:26,526 --> 00:00:30,430 FOREHEAD THE FIRST THING I STARTED THINKING OF WAS MY 8 00:00:30,430 --> 00:00:33,133 AT FIRST I WAS LIKE WHAT DOES KIDNAPPED MEAN? 9 00:00:33,133 --> 00:00:36,503 MY DAD WAS STOLEN BY BAD GUYS? I LOST EVERYTHING I KNEW 10 00:00:36,503 --> 00:00:39,739 ABOUT MY LIFE, JUST LIKE THAT, GONE 11 00:00:39,739 --> 00:00:41,708 IT WAS SUCH A MYSTERY WHO WAS BEHIND THIS, WHO HAD DONE THIS 12 00:00:41,708 --> 00:00:44,577 IT WAS JUST TEARING ME APART I WAS SUFFERING SO MUCH 13 00:00:44,577 --> 00:00:48,181 I SAID I WILL DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY GET YOUR FATHER BACK! 14 00:00:48,181 --> 00:00:50,383 (CRIES) IF IT TAKES EVERYTHING WE HAVE, 15 00:00:50,383 --> 00:00:54,354 EVERYTHING I CAN HUMANLY DO! I SAW THINGS THAT NO 12 YEAR 16 00:00:54,354 --> 00:00:57,424 OLD SHOULD SEE I MEAN, THE CRUELTY... 17 00:00:57,424 --> 00:01:02,228 THIS INCREDIBLE FEAR AND AGONY LIKE WHEN IS THIS GONNA END? 18 00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:03,396 TOGETHER AND ALL THE PAIN ALL THE HELL WE WENT THROUGH 19 00:01:03,396 --> 00:01:21,581 IT HAS MADE US UNBREAKABLE. HERE'S KEITH MORRISON WITH... 20 00:01:21,581 --> 00:01:26,953 "THE RANCH" THE GREEN AND WHITE TAXI 21 00:01:26,953 --> 00:01:31,424 BARRELED DOWN THE HIGHWAY. SOMETHING WAS WHY HAD THAT 22 00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:36,363 MAN PAID TEN TIMES THE FOR A SIMPLE PACKAGE DELIVERY..? 23 00:01:36,363 --> 00:01:39,165 THE CABBIE PRIED OPEN THE ENVELOPE... WAS THAT 24 00:01:39,165 --> 00:01:42,736 SOMEONE'S FINGER? AND WHY WAS THAT MAN NOW 25 00:01:42,736 --> 00:01:46,973 TAILING HIM? COLD FEAR RISING, HE PULLED INTO 26 00:01:46,973 --> 00:01:49,809 A GAS STATION. HE BEGGED THE POLICE...COME 27 00:01:49,809 --> 00:01:53,747 QUICK.. BUT THE CABBIE HAD NO IDEA. 28 00:01:53,747 --> 00:01:56,683 ANYMORE THAN THIS FAMILY DID...THAT THEIR OWN 29 00:01:56,683 --> 00:02:01,154 TERRIFYING STORY MORE THAN A DECADE IN THE MAKING WAS 30 00:02:01,154 --> 00:02:07,427 ABOUT TO COME TO AN ASTONISHING CLIMAX.. 31 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:10,730 I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. 12 YEARS OLD WHEN IT HAPPENED AND 32 00:02:10,730 --> 00:02:16,069 THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU, YOU MEET THE DARK IN LIFE. IN 33 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:19,773 A REALLY UGLY WAY. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW WE 34 00:02:19,773 --> 00:02:24,477 WOULD BE LIKE IF NONE OF THAT HAPPENED 35 00:02:24,477 --> 00:02:26,780 I NEVER GO INTO DETAIL. IT'S ALWAYS, LIKE, "WELL SOMETHING 36 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:34,487 HAPPENED. NOW I'M HERE." AND HERE HAPPENED..TO THE 37 00:02:34,487 --> 00:02:39,759 VALSECA CHILDREN...SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE IN MEXICO... A 38 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:43,296 LITTLE SLICE OF - WELL - PARADISE IS WHAT IT SEEMED 39 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:45,331 LIKE TO THEM. MY MOM USED TO CALL IT OUR 40 00:02:45,331 --> 00:02:48,735 LITTLE BUBBLE, YOU KNOW. "HONESTLY I WAS LIVING MY 41 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:55,108 DREAMS AND THEN SOME." THIS IS THEIR J.A.Y.N.E., BY 42 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:58,812 THE WAY, A DETAIL THAT WILL LATER. 43 00:02:58,812 --> 00:03:02,382 "MY WHOLE LIFE I HAD WORKED AS AN ACTRESS AND DID A LOT 44 00:03:02,382 --> 00:03:06,553 OF TV COMMERCIALS, BIT ROLES IN MOVIES AND SOAP OPERAS." 45 00:03:06,553 --> 00:03:10,490 AND THEN, 1992... IT HAPPENED. PURE CHANCE. 46 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:14,327 "IT'S KIND OF LIKE ONE OF THESE FAIRY TALE STORIES" 47 00:03:14,327 --> 00:03:17,063 SHE WAS 25. SHE WAS AT A PAY PHONE NEAR 48 00:03:17,063 --> 00:03:20,934 WASHINGTON, D.C. WHEN SHE JUST HAPPENED TO LOCK EYES 49 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:24,704 WITH AN ART DEALER NAMED EDUARDO VALSECA . 50 00:03:24,704 --> 00:03:29,075 WHO SHE WOULD FIND OUT, WAS A DIVORCED DAD OF TWO...AND THE 51 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,612 OFFSPRING HIMSELF OF A FAMOUS MEXICAN NEWSPAPER BARON 52 00:03:32,612 --> 00:03:37,217 COLONEL JOSE GARCIA VALSECA (PH) WHO FOUNDED-- OVER 40 53 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:40,353 NEWSPAPERS IN MEXICO. HE WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST-- 54 00:03:40,353 --> 00:03:43,156 NEWSPAPER PEOPLE, PUBLISHERS, IN THE COUNTRY. 55 00:03:43,156 --> 00:03:45,625 WOULD BE AN EQUIVALENT IN THE US OF WHO? 56 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:48,161 WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. PROBABLY, YEAH. 57 00:03:48,161 --> 00:03:51,731 THAT'S WHEN GARCIA VALSECA RAN HIS NEWSPAPER EMPIRE FROM 58 00:03:51,731 --> 00:03:56,536 A LUXURY PULLMAN TRAIN CAR. THE ONE WHICH, DECADES LATER, 59 00:03:56,536 --> 00:03:59,539 EDUARDO OWNED. THOUGH, WHEN HE INVITED THIS 60 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:03,076 BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HE'D JUST MET TO MEXICO FOR A TRAIN RIDE... 61 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:07,047 ...SHE HAD NO IDEA THAT THE TRAIN... WAS HIS. 62 00:04:07,047 --> 00:04:11,384 WE'RE WALKING TOWARD IT AND THIS MAN COMES OUT WITH A 63 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:14,954 WHITE JACKET WHITE GLOVES BLACK BOW TIE WITH A SILVER 64 00:04:14,954 --> 00:04:21,127 TRAY I WAS JUST COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS. 65 00:04:21,127 --> 00:04:23,596 SHE SOON DISCOVERED THAT THE TRAIN CAR WAS ABOUT ALL 66 00:04:23,596 --> 00:04:27,367 EDUARDO HAD OF FAMILY FORTUNE. THE REST, ALONG WITH 67 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:30,603 THE NEWSPAPER EMPIRE, HAD LONG SINCE WITHERED AWAY. 68 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:34,307 BUT JAYNE FELL FOR A MAN, NOT MONEY, AND WHAT EDUARDO 69 00:04:34,307 --> 00:04:37,877 LACKED IN FORTUNE HE REPLACED WITH LAUGHTER AND PASSION AND 70 00:04:37,877 --> 00:04:40,347 A HUGE ENVELOPING PERSONALITY... 71 00:04:40,347 --> 00:04:44,084 JAYNE WAS IN LOVE, AND SOON MARRIED, AND SWEPT OFF TO 72 00:04:44,084 --> 00:04:47,954 MEXICO... ONE THING EDUARDO'S HERITAGE 73 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:49,789 DID AFFORD THEM WAS THE CHANCE TO LIVE ANYWHERE THEY 74 00:04:49,789 --> 00:04:53,393 WANTED IN MEXICO AND THIS IS WHERE THEY CHOSE. SAN MIGUEL 75 00:04:53,393 --> 00:04:57,931 DE ALLENDE, A COLONIAL TOWN, A PLACE SO LOVELY ITS 76 00:04:57,931 --> 00:05:00,900 ATTRACTED PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO COME HERE 77 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,137 AND LIVE. JAYNE AND EDUARDO LOVED 78 00:05:04,137 --> 00:05:08,308 FIXING UP AND SELLING OLD HOUSES...SO THEY MADE THAT 79 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:12,746 THEIR BUSINESS. ...AND THEY MADE...CHILDREN. 80 00:05:12,746 --> 00:05:15,815 IT HAD BEEN A BIG DREAM OF MINE TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 81 00:05:15,815 --> 00:05:19,786 AND TO HAVE A BIG ORGANIC GARDEN AND FRUIT TREES AND 82 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:24,057 HORSES AND LOTS OF ANIMALS FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY WITH. 83 00:05:24,057 --> 00:05:28,094 IT WAS LUCK WHEN THIS PLACE A RUNDOWN RANCH. IN 84 00:05:28,094 --> 00:05:31,965 FORECLOSURE. PERFECT. EVERY LITTLE BIT OF MONEY 85 00:05:31,965 --> 00:05:35,068 THAT WE MADE EVERYTHING WE COULD MANAGE TO SAVE WE 86 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:37,837 STARTED PUTTING INTO THE THEY BUILT A REAL RANCH 87 00:05:37,837 --> 00:05:40,840 AMONG THE MESQUITE TREES. AND SURROUNDED IT WITH FINE 88 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,343 BIG GATES... ..AND OUTBUILDINGS... 89 00:05:43,343 --> 00:05:45,979 ..A GARDEN FOR HER.. ..A RIDING RING AND FINE 90 00:05:45,979 --> 00:05:49,816 SPANISH HORSES FOR HIM. AND...NO SURPRISE, PART OF 91 00:05:49,816 --> 00:05:53,153 THEIR BUILDING PLAN INVOLVED THAT STATELY OLD RAILROAD CAR. 92 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:55,855 "ONE OF THE MARVELOUS PARTS ABOUT ENDING UP WITH THIS 93 00:05:55,855 --> 00:05:58,992 PIECE OF PROPERTY WAS IT JUST HAPPENED THAT THE RAILROAD 94 00:05:58,992 --> 00:06:01,861 TRACK WENT RIGHT THRU IT" JAYNE WAS BEHIND THEIR HOME 95 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:05,131 MOVIE CAMERA AS THE CAR WAS TOWED TO IT'S NEW HOME ON THE 96 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:11,538 RANCH. WE'RE SO HAPPY ON THE TRAIN" 97 00:06:11,538 --> 00:06:15,041 AND FOR THREE GROWING CHILDREN, A MAGIC PLACE, 98 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:19,846 HAPPY AND SECURE. FERNANDO. 99 00:06:19,846 --> 00:06:24,050 EMILIANO. AND BABY NAYAH... 100 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:29,456 100% YEAH IT WAS PARADISE. THAT BABY IS NOW 21 101 00:06:29,456 --> 00:06:32,492 I REMEMBER WE USED TO HAVE A CAGE FULL OF RABBITS-- LIKE, 102 00:06:32,492 --> 00:06:35,328 TONS OF BUNNY RABBITS, AND THAT WAS MY FAVORITE THING. 103 00:06:35,328 --> 00:06:38,365 22 YEAR OLD EMILIANO REMEMBERS A LIFE LIVED 104 00:06:38,365 --> 00:06:41,601 OUTDOORS. I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A XBOX 105 00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:45,271 OR A PLAYSTATION, OR-- YOU KNOW, ELECTRONICS. I HAD 106 00:06:45,271 --> 00:06:46,439 DOGS, I HAD-- WHO NEEDS IT? 107 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:48,541 --A DONKEY THAT WOULD TAKE ME TO SCHOOL (LAUGH) EVERY 108 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:51,444 MORNING. HOW WAS THAT POSSIBLE? JAYNE 109 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:54,681 WANTED THE CHILDREN TO GET AN EDUCATION BEYOND WHAT PUBLIC 110 00:06:54,681 --> 00:06:58,184 SCHOOLS HERE OFFERED ...SO SHE AND EDUARDO FOUNDED A 111 00:06:58,184 --> 00:07:01,654 'WALDORF' SCHOOL. BUILT IT RIGHT ON THE RANCH - 112 00:07:01,654 --> 00:07:04,824 RECRUITED OTHER FAMILIES TO JOIN THEM. JAYNE'S ELDEST, 113 00:07:04,824 --> 00:07:08,061 FERNANDO LOVED THE SCHOOL. IT WAS MY MOTHER'S PRIDE AND 114 00:07:08,061 --> 00:07:10,630 WE KNEW, WE KNEW EVERY SINGLE STUDENT THAT WENT TO THAT 115 00:07:10,630 --> 00:07:13,199 EVERYBODY ON THE FACULTY. IT WAS A BIG FAMILY. 116 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:16,102 EVERY MORNING, THE HALF MILE COMMUTE DOWN THEIR OWN QUIET 117 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:19,506 COUNTRY LANE TO SCHOOL HAD BECOME A FAMILY RITUAL. 118 00:07:19,506 --> 00:07:22,042 AND THE MORNING ROUTINE WAS SINGING ALL THE WAY TO 119 00:07:22,042 --> 00:07:26,680 SCHOOL. "WHICH WAS REALLY THE ONLY ROUTINE THAT WE HAD” 120 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,151 SO NOW IT WAS THAT PERFECT MORNING. JUNE 2007. 121 00:07:31,151 --> 00:07:34,320 AND THEY BUMPED AND SANG, NOISY AND HAPPY, DOWN THE 122 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,589 DUSTY ROAD. AND OF COURSE THEY DID NOT 123 00:07:36,589 --> 00:07:40,126 UNDERSTAND - HOW COULD THEY - THAT THIS WAS THE LAST MOMENT 124 00:07:40,126 --> 00:07:47,067 OF PURE INNOCENCE ANY OF THEM WOULD EVER KNOW. 125 00:07:47,067 --> 00:07:51,371 WHEN WE COME BACK: A VIOLENT AWAKENING 126 00:07:51,371 --> 00:07:54,541 WE WERE IMMEDIATELY HIT FROM HE JUST POINTS THE GUN AT MY 127 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:56,409 FOREHEAD THE FIRST THING I SAID TO HIM 128 00:07:56,409 --> 00:07:58,812 WAS 'PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I HAVE THREE CHILDREN". 129 00:07:58,812 --> 00:08:02,549 A TERRIFYING ROAD WAS AHEAD -- AND A JOURNEY THAT WOULD 130 00:08:02,549 --> 00:08:06,019 TEST THEM ALL. I LOST EVERYTHING I KNEW 131 00:08:06,019 --> 00:08:08,555 ABOUT LIFE, JUST LIKE THAT, GONE. 132 00:08:08,555 --> 00:08:12,092 "YOU HAVE TO KNOW I WILL DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE. 133 00:08:12,092 --> 00:08:15,061 IF IT TAKES EVERYTHING WE HAVE, EVERYTHING I CAN 134 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:15,362 HAVE, EVERYTHING I CAN HUMANLY DO!” 135 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:36,950 FOR SO LONG THAT IT WAS ALMOST LIKE LIVING IN A FANTASY 136 00:08:36,950 --> 00:08:40,053 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE, ON A DAILY BASIS, PINCH ME. 137 00:08:40,053 --> 00:08:42,689 IS THIS REAL >> Reporter: IT WAS JUNE, 2007, 138 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:46,893 TWO WEEKS BEFORE SUMMER VACATION 139 00:08:46,893 --> 00:08:50,063 EDUARDO AND JAYNE VALSECA AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN ARRIVED AT 140 00:08:50,063 --> 00:08:53,700 THE COUNTRY SCHOOL NOT FAR FROM THEIR RANCH HOUSE OUTSIDE SAN 141 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:56,870 MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, IN MEXICO >> AS WE PULLED INTO THE PARKING 142 00:08:56,870 --> 00:09:00,507 LOT, I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A SMALL, COMPACT CAR IN THE FAR 143 00:09:00,507 --> 00:09:04,444 CORNER OF THE PARKING LOT. AND THERE WAS A -- A MAN AT THE 144 00:09:04,444 --> 00:09:07,847 WHEEL WHO HAD A FISHERMAN'S CAP, KHAKI COLOR ON AND GLASSES 145 00:09:07,847 --> 00:09:11,017 >> Reporter: A PROSPECTIVE PARENT, PERHAPS, FOR NEXT YEAR'S 146 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:13,086 CLASS? JAYNE WALKED THE CHILDREN TO 147 00:09:13,086 --> 00:09:15,689 THEIR CLASSROOMS SHE STOPPED AT THE SCHOOL 148 00:09:15,689 --> 00:09:16,823 OFFICE >> AND ASKED THE ADMINISTRATOR 149 00:09:16,823 --> 00:09:21,461 IF SHE KNEW WHO THE GENTLEMAN WAS OR IF HE NEEDED HELP 150 00:09:21,461 --> 00:09:23,096 AND SHE LOOKED OVER AND LOOKED ACROSS THE -- THE PARKING LOT 151 00:09:23,096 --> 00:09:25,632 AND SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS 152 00:09:25,632 --> 00:09:27,434 HE MUST BE WAITING FOR SOMEONE." >> Reporter: EDUARDO WAS BEHIND 153 00:09:27,434 --> 00:09:30,337 THE WHEEL OF THE JEEP, LISTENING TO THE RADIO 154 00:09:30,337 --> 00:09:34,040 THE STRANGER'S CAR WAS BEYOND IT, AT THE BACK OF THE LOT 155 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,644 >> AS I WALKED TO THE JEEP WHERE MY HUSBAND WAS, I LOOKED ACROSS 156 00:09:37,644 --> 00:09:38,812 AND MADE EYE CONTACT WITH HIM AND ACTUALLY SMILED, AND HE 157 00:09:38,812 --> 00:09:42,115 SMILED BACK. >> Reporter: EDUARDO PUT THE 158 00:09:42,115 --> 00:09:44,050 JEEP IN GEAR, PULLED AWAY. THE STRANGE CAR FELL IN BEHIND 159 00:09:44,050 --> 00:09:47,654 THEM >> A PICKUP TRUCK COMES OUT OF 160 00:09:47,654 --> 00:09:55,495 NOWHERE. IT CATCHES UP TO US, AND THE MAN 161 00:09:55,495 --> 00:09:58,131 DRIVING TURNS AND LOOKS AT US, AND THE LOOK WAS REALLY SCARY. 162 00:09:58,131 --> 00:09:59,699 >> Reporter: YOU SAW HIM >> WE BOTH GOT THIS CREEPY 163 00:09:59,699 --> 00:10:02,302 FEELING. JUST THE WAY THE MAN LOOKED AT 164 00:10:02,302 --> 00:10:04,404 US >> Reporter: NOW THAT STRANGER'S 165 00:10:04,404 --> 00:10:06,740 CAR AND THE PICKUP RACED TO POSITIONS BESIDE AND IN FRONT OF 166 00:10:06,740 --> 00:10:10,176 THE JEEP >> EDUARDO SAID, "SOMETHING IS 167 00:10:10,176 --> 00:10:12,212 DEFINITELY NOT RIGHT WHAT IS THIS GUY DOING?" 168 00:10:12,212 --> 00:10:15,915 >> Reporter: AND THEN, IN MOMENTS, IT WAS OBVIOUS. 169 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:20,086 JAYNE AND EDUARDO WERE BEING CHASED, HERDED LIKE CATTLE INTO 170 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:23,790 A CHUTE WITH NO ESCAPE >> IN THE DISTANCE, WE SEE THE 171 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:25,959 COMPACT CAR WHICH HAS RACED UP OUR INTERIOR ROAD CUT IN FRONT 172 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:27,961 >> Reporter: HERE, SHE RELIVED IT 173 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:29,529 THE HORRIFIED MOMENT AS THE CAR IN FRONT OF THEM SUDDENLY 174 00:10:29,529 --> 00:10:32,966 STOPPED AND EDUARDO SLAMMED ON HIS BRAKES 175 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:35,802 >> IMMEDIATELY WE WERE HIT FROM BEHIND 176 00:10:35,802 --> 00:10:39,439 AT THAT POINT, IT WAS A SPLIT SECOND, AND THERE WAS A MAN 177 00:10:39,439 --> 00:10:41,641 COMING OUT OF THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE CAR COMING AT EDUARDO 178 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:45,211 AND HE'S GOT A HAMMER IN ONE HAND AND A HANDGUN IN THE NEXT 179 00:10:45,211 --> 00:10:47,447 >> Reporter: THE MASKED MAN SHATTERED THE WINDOW AND LANDED 180 00:10:47,447 --> 00:10:49,416 A HARD BLOW TO EDUARDO'S HEAD THAT SENT BLOOD GUSHING DOWN HIS 181 00:10:49,416 --> 00:10:51,484 FACE >> THE FIRST THING I STARTED 182 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:54,621 THINKING OF WAS MY CHILDREN. ARE MY CHILDREN GOING TO LOSE 183 00:10:54,621 --> 00:10:56,723 THEIR PARENTS RIGHT NOW? >> Reporter: A SECOND ATTACKER 184 00:10:56,723 --> 00:11:00,393 RAN AT JAYNE, YANKED OPEN HER DOOR, PULLED HER FROM THE JEEP 185 00:11:00,393 --> 00:11:02,495 SHE SCREAMED, KICKED AT HIM, GRABBED THE FENCE BESIDE HER 186 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:07,734 THE BARBED WIRE SLICED THROUGH HER FINGER 187 00:11:07,734 --> 00:11:09,803 HER ATTACKER FORCED HER DOWN >> WHILE I'M LAYING ON THE 188 00:11:09,803 --> 00:11:11,905 GROUND, HE JUST POINTS THE GUN AT MY FOREHEAD AND TELLS ME IN 189 00:11:11,905 --> 00:11:13,707 SPANISH TO GET UP. THE FIRST THING I SAID TO HIM 190 00:11:13,707 --> 00:11:16,910 WAS, "PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I HAVE THREE CHILDREN. 191 00:11:16,910 --> 00:11:20,313 >> Reporter: THEN THEY HUSTLED JAYNE AND EDUARDO INTO A WAITING 192 00:11:20,313 --> 00:11:23,550 SUV, UNSEEN ACCOMPLICES SNAPPED PILLOWCASES OVER THEIR HEADS AND 193 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:26,086 TIGHTLY BOUND THEIR HANDS AND FEET 194 00:11:26,086 --> 00:11:29,189 >> EDUARDO WAS HYSTERICAL. I DON'T THINK HE WAS COMPLETELY 195 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:32,959 HEARING ME HE PROBABLY HAD A CONCUSSION 196 00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:35,528 >> Reporter: THE SUV SPED AWAY JAYNE TRIED TO COMFORT EDUARDO 197 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:38,598 ONE OF THE ABDUCTORS THREATENED MORE PAIN. 198 00:11:38,598 --> 00:11:40,166 >> HE KEPT YELLING AT HIM, "SHUT UP, YOU --, OR I'LL GIVE YOU 199 00:11:40,166 --> 00:11:43,303 ANOTHER ONE. >> Reporter: AT THAT MOMENT, 200 00:11:43,303 --> 00:11:48,541 OLDEST SON FERNANDO WAS WITH CLASSMATES ON A BUS RIGHT BEHIND 201 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:50,110 THE SUVS >> I SAW THE TWO CARS FLY DOWN 202 00:11:50,110 --> 00:11:52,746 THE STRAIGHT ROAD AND TAKE A LEFT TOWARDS SAN MIGUEL. 203 00:11:52,746 --> 00:11:54,381 AND IT WAS WEIRD TO ME TO SEE TWO HUGE SUVS GOING THAT FAST. 204 00:11:54,381 --> 00:11:55,882 >> Reporter: YOU SAW THEM BEING TAKEN? 205 00:11:55,882 --> 00:11:59,119 >> NO, I DIDN'T SEE THEM BEING TAKEN. 206 00:11:59,119 --> 00:12:00,587 BUT I -- I -- YOU KNOW, THEY WERE IN THE TWO CARS RIGHT IN 207 00:12:00,587 --> 00:12:03,223 FRONT OF ME, AND I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD NO IDEA. 208 00:12:03,223 --> 00:12:05,325 >> Reporter: IN THE SUV, UNDER THAT GAGGING PILLOWCASE, JAYNE 209 00:12:05,325 --> 00:12:08,461 STRUGGLED TO BREATHE SHE REACHED OUT FOR EDUARDO. 210 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:10,563 >> I FELT BLOOD ALL DOWN HIS ARM. 211 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:13,700 >> Reporter: THEN SHE FELT THE BLOOD POURING FROM HER OWN 212 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:16,302 SLASHED FINGER SHE TRIED TO MEMORIZE EACH BUMP 213 00:12:16,302 --> 00:12:19,439 AND TURN AS THE SUV VEERED ONTO THE HIGHWAY TOWARD SAN MIGUEL. 214 00:12:19,439 --> 00:12:22,075 THEN, MINUTES LATER, PULLED OVER, STOPPED. 215 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:26,279 SOMEONE YANKED EDUARDO FROM THE SUV. 216 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:29,949 HE SCREAMED. >> I HEAR THE DOORS OF THE 217 00:12:29,949 --> 00:12:31,518 VEHICLE OPEN AND AFTER I HEAR THEM SHUT, I 218 00:12:31,518 --> 00:12:35,188 CAN NO LONGER HEAR MY HUSBAND'S MUFFLED SCREAMS. 219 00:12:35,188 --> 00:12:37,791 >> Reporter: JAYNE MANAGED TO LIFT THE PILLOWCASE HOOD IN TIME 220 00:12:37,791 --> 00:12:43,563 TO SEE EDUARDO VANISH AND REALIZED SHE WAS ALONE 221 00:12:43,563 --> 00:12:46,700 THEY'D ALL LEFT. >> I WAS BOUND, SO I THREW 222 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:50,370 MYSELF OVER THE SEAT, ENDED UP IN THE FLOOR, PULLED MYSELF UP, 223 00:12:50,370 --> 00:12:52,872 OPENED THE DOOR AND LITERALLY HOPPED AS IF I WAS IN A SACK 224 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:54,574 RACE TO THE HIGHWAY IN FLIP FLOPS. 225 00:12:54,574 --> 00:12:57,177 >> Reporter: AN ELDERLY MAN STOPPED TO HELP. 226 00:12:57,177 --> 00:13:00,347 HE HAD A MACHETE, BUT NO CELL PHONE TO CALL POLICE 227 00:13:00,347 --> 00:13:04,484 FRANTICALLY, JAYNE TRIED TO FLAG DOWN PASSING CARS. 228 00:13:04,484 --> 00:13:07,153 ALL HIT THE ACCELERATOR, NOT THE BRAKE. 229 00:13:07,153 --> 00:13:10,357 >> I IMAGINE IT LOOKED PRETTY SCARY TO SEE A WOMAN BLEEDING, 230 00:13:10,357 --> 00:13:14,561 DESPERATE, BOUND IN DUCT TAPE NEXT TO A GUY WITH A MACHETE 231 00:13:14,561 --> 00:13:18,164 >> Reporter: THEN, IN SHEER DESPERATION, JAYNE STEPPED IN 232 00:13:18,164 --> 00:13:22,869 FRONT OF AN ONCOMING BUS >> I JUMPED IN FRONT AND I JUST 233 00:13:22,869 --> 00:13:24,070 PUT MY HANDS UP LIKE THIS. AND I HOPED HE WOULD STOP. 234 00:13:24,070 --> 00:13:26,539 >> Reporter: BUT NO CELL PHONE ON THE BUS, EITHER 235 00:13:26,539 --> 00:13:28,641 NOW THE BUS DRIVER FLAGGED DOWN A TAXI 236 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:32,812 AND THE TAXI DRIVER CALLED THE POLICE 237 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:35,281 >> I THOUGHT FOR SURE THEY WOULD JUST RUN OFF IN EVERY DIRECTION, 238 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:40,687 SEAL OFF SAN MIGUEL AND WE'D HAVE HIM, END OF STORY 239 00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:46,459 BUT IT DIDN'T GO THAT WAY. >> Reporter: NO, IT DIDN'T 240 00:13:46,459 --> 00:13:49,362 EDUARDO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED AND THEN, AS IF MORE TERROR WAS 241 00:13:49,362 --> 00:13:51,164 POSSIBLE, POLICE TOOK JAYNE BACK TO WHERE SHE WAS ABANDONED 242 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:56,403 AND THERE ON THE GROUND WAS A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HER. 243 00:13:56,403 --> 00:13:59,005 >> WELL, I REALIZED THEY SPELLED MY NAME CORRECTLY. 244 00:13:59,005 --> 00:14:02,676 MY NAME IS JAYNE, SPELLED WITH A "Y." 245 00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:04,244 SO IT WAS REALLY SCARY TO SEE ON THE ENVELOPE THAT THEY'D 246 00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:06,079 ACTUALLY SPELLED MY NAME RIGHT >> Reporter: NOBODY SPELLS YOUR 247 00:14:06,079 --> 00:14:07,914 NAME RIGHT >> NO, NO. 248 00:14:07,914 --> 00:14:20,460 >> Reporter: AND INSIDE THE ENVELOPE 249 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:21,528 >> THE RANSOM NOTE SAYS, "SENORA, GO HOME, OPEN THIS 250 00:14:21,528 --> 00:14:22,462 EMAIL WITH THIS PASSWORD AND WE HAVE EDUARDO. 251 00:14:22,462 --> 00:14:24,631 EDUARDO IS WITH US WAIT FOR OUR MESSAGE TO ARRIVE." 252 00:14:24,631 --> 00:14:26,166 >> Reporter: IT WAS THEN SHE UNDERSTOOD 253 00:14:26,166 --> 00:14:30,403 THE KIDNAPPERS HAD BEEN WATCHING THEM, STALKING THEM, RESEARCHING 254 00:14:30,403 --> 00:14:33,073 EVERY SMALL DETAIL >> IT IMMEDIATELY MADE ME 255 00:14:33,073 --> 00:14:39,846 REALIZE I NEEDED TO BE VERY CAREFUL AND VERY SMART ABOUT THE 256 00:14:39,846 --> 00:14:40,980 CHOICES I WAS ABOUT TO MAKE. MY HUSBAND'S LIFE WAS ON THE 257 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:43,483 LINE >>> COMING UP -- 258 00:14:43,483 --> 00:14:44,984 REALITY SETS IN. WHAT WOULD SHE TELL THE 259 00:14:44,984 --> 00:14:47,554 CHILDREN >> I WAS CONFUSED. 260 00:14:47,554 --> 00:14:49,356 >> I WAS VERY CONFUSED >> I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE IT, 261 00:14:49,356 --> 00:14:51,858 WHETHER TO CRY, WHETHER TO BE MAD. 262 00:14:51,858 --> 00:14:54,494 >> AND WHO WOULD SHE TURN TO FOR HELP 263 00:14:54,494 --> 00:14:55,895 >> I THOUGHT, "THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SENDING ME TO DEAL WITH 264 00:14:55,895 --> 00:15:17,484 THIS?" >> Reporter: JAYNE VALSECA SAT 265 00:15:17,484 --> 00:15:19,085 IN THE DIRT BY THE HIGHWAY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SAN MIGUEL DE 266 00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:21,654 ALLENDE. A COP HELPED HER STRIP AWAY THE 267 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:24,290 DUCT TAPE AROUND HER HANDS AND FEET 268 00:15:24,290 --> 00:15:27,527 SHE TRIED TO STAUNCH THE BLOOD FROM HER INJURED FINGER, GASHED 269 00:15:27,527 --> 00:15:29,062 ON THAT BARBED WIRE FENCE. SHE TRIED TO TAMP DOWN THE 270 00:15:29,062 --> 00:15:34,234 TERROR THAT GRABBED AT HER THROAT 271 00:15:34,234 --> 00:15:43,209 JAYNE HAD READ ABOUT BRUTAL KIDNAPPINGS IN MEXICO CITY, 272 00:15:43,209 --> 00:15:45,245 WHERE VICTIMS' FINGERS WERE CUT OFF AND DELIVERED WITH RANSOM 273 00:15:45,245 --> 00:15:46,846 DEMANDS. BUT THIS WAS SAFE, LITTLE SAN 274 00:15:46,846 --> 00:15:49,449 MIGUEL, WHERE EDUARDO HAD ALWAYS SAID - 275 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:52,085 >> "DO YOU THINK ANYBODY'S GONNA COME OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY 276 00:15:52,085 --> 00:15:53,620 YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN." 277 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:55,221 >> Reporter: BUT IT HAD HAPPENED 278 00:15:55,221 --> 00:15:58,358 AND ALL SHE COULD THINK OF WAS FINDING HELP FAST. 279 00:15:58,358 --> 00:16:01,027 >> I'M SITTING THERE IN THE DIRT, IN NEED OF STITCHES, AND 280 00:16:01,027 --> 00:16:04,130 I -- AT THAT POINT, I HAVE TWO CELL PHONES GOING. 281 00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:05,165 >> Reporter: BUT WHY WOULDN'T THE POLICE JUST TAKE 282 00:16:05,165 --> 00:16:07,767 OVER WELL, NO 283 00:16:07,767 --> 00:16:12,472 JAYNE, HERSELF, IN THIS SUPREMELY VULNERABLE MOMENT, 284 00:16:12,472 --> 00:16:16,676 WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE WHICH POLICE, IF ANY, SHE COULD TRUST 285 00:16:16,676 --> 00:16:18,778 TO GET HER HUSBAND BACK. >> YOU CAN ALLOW THE LOCAL OR 286 00:16:18,778 --> 00:16:23,483 STATE POLICE TO HANDLE THE SITUATION. 287 00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:27,687 YOU CAN GO TO THE MEXICAN EQUIVALENT OF THE FBI, WHICH IS 288 00:16:27,687 --> 00:16:30,323 THE AFI, OR AFEE OR YOU CAN GO TO A PRIVATE 289 00:16:30,323 --> 00:16:31,858 CONSULTANT THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY OUT OF -- OUT OF YOUR OWN 290 00:16:31,858 --> 00:16:37,097 POCKET, AND THEY WILL NEGOTIATE IT PRIVATELY 291 00:16:37,097 --> 00:16:40,266 >> Reporter: SO AS CARS WHIZZED BY AND THE DIRT-CAKED BLOOD 292 00:16:40,266 --> 00:16:42,068 DRIED ON HER SKIN, JAYNE PLACED CALLS ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO 293 00:16:42,068 --> 00:16:44,971 PRIVATE COMPANIES THAT SPECIALIZE IN KIDNAP 294 00:16:44,971 --> 00:16:46,806 NEGOTIATION. >> THEY KNEW ALL THE QUESTIONS 295 00:16:46,806 --> 00:16:49,175 TO ASK THEY SAID, "HOW MANY VEHICLES 296 00:16:49,175 --> 00:16:52,812 WERE -- WERE INVOLVED? WHAT DID THE NOTE SAY? 297 00:16:52,812 --> 00:16:55,415 CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE PEOPLE? WHAT DID THEIR GUNS LOOK LIKE? 298 00:16:55,415 --> 00:16:57,517 >> Reporter: MUST BE A SOPHISTICATED OPERATION, THEY 299 00:16:57,517 --> 00:17:03,823 TOLD JAYNE NEGOTIATING WOULD BE DIFFICULT 300 00:17:03,823 --> 00:17:05,058 AND EXPENSIVE. AT LEAST $2,500 U.S. A DAY, PLUS 301 00:17:05,058 --> 00:17:14,834 EXPENSES, FAR MORE THAN SHE COULD AFFORD 302 00:17:14,834 --> 00:17:16,036 SO JAYNE DECIDED TO ENLIST THE MEXICAN VERSION OF THE FBI, 303 00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:17,037 THE AF-FEE, THE ELITE UNIT OF THE MEXICAN POLICE 304 00:17:17,037 --> 00:17:22,676 SHE MADE THE CALL, WENT BACK AT THE RANCH, CLEANED UP HER WOUNDS 305 00:17:22,676 --> 00:17:25,845 AND TOLD 6-YEAR-OLD NAYAH AND 7-YEAR-OLD EMILIANO THAT THEIR 306 00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:27,547 FATHER WAS ON A BUSINESS TRIP. >> I WAS CONFUSED. 307 00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:31,584 >> I WAS VERY CONFUSED I TRIED TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT 308 00:17:31,584 --> 00:17:35,255 THE WHOLE SITUATION. BUT THE BEST THAT I COULD GET 309 00:17:35,255 --> 00:17:38,425 WAS A, YOU KNOW, PG VERSION OF WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON 310 00:17:38,425 --> 00:17:42,462 >> Reporter: BUT FERNANDO WAS 12 311 00:17:42,462 --> 00:17:53,106 HE HAD TO BE TOLD. AND ANYWAY, SHE NEEDED HIM NOW 312 00:17:53,106 --> 00:17:54,341 >> SHE TOLD ME THIS MORNING, "WE WERE BOTH, YOUR DAD AND I, ON 313 00:17:54,341 --> 00:17:55,342 THE WAY BACK FROM DROPPING YOU GUYS OFF AT SCHOOL 314 00:17:55,342 --> 00:18:01,014 WE WERE WE WERE KIDNAPPED, AND THEY TOOK YOUR FATHER. 315 00:18:01,014 --> 00:18:04,651 >> I JUST SAID TO HIM, YOU KNOW, "YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT I WILL DO 316 00:18:04,651 --> 00:18:08,288 EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO GET YOUR FATHER BACK 317 00:18:08,288 --> 00:18:11,925 IF IT TAKES EVERYTHING WE HAVE, EVERYTHING I CAN HUMANLY DO. 318 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:15,095 >> Reporter: SUDDENLY FERNANDO UNDERSTOOD THE SPEEDING SUVS 319 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:17,697 HE'D SEEN THAT MORNING >> I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE IT, 320 00:18:17,697 --> 00:18:24,037 YOU KNOW, WHETHER TO CRY, WHETHER TO BE MAD, WHETHER TO -- 321 00:18:24,037 --> 00:18:28,174 JUST SHOCK >> Reporter: FERNANDO FLED THEN, 322 00:18:28,174 --> 00:18:32,879 WENT TO HIS SECRET, PRIVATE PLACE, A RISE FROM WHICH HE 323 00:18:32,879 --> 00:18:35,048 COULD SEE THE REST OF THE RANCH. >> I GRABBED MY KEYS AND THREW 324 00:18:35,048 --> 00:18:40,720 ON THE HELMET AND WENT FOR A RIDE AND, YOU KNOW, STARTED 325 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:47,560 CRYING AND BAWLING MY EYES OUT >> Reporter: JAYNE, MEANWHILE, 326 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,697 HAD ONE MORE CRUCIAL CALL TO HER MOTHER, ALSO NAMED JANE. 327 00:18:50,697 --> 00:18:54,367 SHE LIVED IN HER OWN HOUSE ON THE RANCH MOST OF THE YEAR, BUT 328 00:18:54,367 --> 00:18:56,469 THAT DAY, SHE WAS HOME IN VIRGINIA 329 00:18:56,469 --> 00:18:59,072 >> JAYNE CALLED AND SHE SAYS, "MOM, SIT DOWN 330 00:18:59,072 --> 00:19:00,240 I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU." AND, OF COURSE, I DIDN'T SIT 331 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,742 DOWN I SAID, "WHAT IS IT? 332 00:19:02,742 --> 00:19:04,844 AND SHE SAID, "WELL, EDUARDO'S BEEN KIDNAPPED." 333 00:19:04,844 --> 00:19:07,480 >> Reporter: WHAT'S IT LIKE TO HEAR THAT? 334 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,750 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I LOST IT I GRABBED A SUITCASE AND I THREW 335 00:19:10,750 --> 00:19:14,788 IN A TOOTHBRUSH AND -- AND I COULDN'T REMEMBER WHAT I NEEDED 336 00:19:14,788 --> 00:19:18,091 TO TAKE. >> Reporter: NOW IT WAS EVENING. 337 00:19:18,091 --> 00:19:19,526 >> I'M HOPING THAT I'LL GET HOME, LIKE THEY TOLD ME. 338 00:19:19,526 --> 00:19:24,230 I'LL OPEN THE EMAIL. THERE WILL BE A MESSAGE. 339 00:19:24,230 --> 00:19:26,866 AND WHATEVER I HAVE ACCESS TO, THEY CAN HAVE IT ALL, OKAY 340 00:19:26,866 --> 00:19:29,035 JUST GIVE HIM BACK SO I'M -- I'M, AT THAT POINT, 341 00:19:29,035 --> 00:19:33,673 HOPING THIS IS GONNA BE OPEN AND SHUT DEAL IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. 342 00:19:33,673 --> 00:19:36,276 >> Reporter: JAYNE GOT READY FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE FEDERAL AFI 343 00:19:36,276 --> 00:19:38,378 AGENT. THE FEDERAL POLICE HAD PROMISED 344 00:19:38,378 --> 00:19:41,047 HE WOULD MOVE IN RIGHT AWAY AND LIVE ON THE RANCH UNTIL HE GOT 345 00:19:41,047 --> 00:19:43,650 EDUARDO BACK SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS WAITING 346 00:19:43,650 --> 00:19:47,821 FOR THE CAVALRY TO ARRIVE. SHE LET HOPE GROW. 347 00:19:47,821 --> 00:19:50,423 >> I EXPECTED HIM TO ROLL IN IN SOME KIND OF BULLETPROOF 348 00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:53,159 SUBURBAN AND BE BIG AND BURLY AND HOPEFULLY A LITTLE MATURE 349 00:19:53,159 --> 00:19:57,263 AND -- AND HAVING DONE THIS QUITE A WHILE. 350 00:19:57,263 --> 00:20:00,400 >> Reporter: AND THEN, FINALLY, AT 3:00 A.M., THE AFI AGENT 351 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:05,038 CALLED COULD SOMEONE COME AND PICK HIM 352 00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:09,309 UP IN TOWN, HE ASKED HE HAD COME FROM MEXICO CITY BY 353 00:20:09,309 --> 00:20:13,013 BUS. >> HE LOOKED LIKE A HIGH SCHOOL 354 00:20:13,013 --> 00:20:18,752 OR MAYBE FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE STUDENT, WITH A BACKPACK, A 355 00:20:18,752 --> 00:20:22,422 BASEBALL CAP, GLASSES, TINY. AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT IS GOING 356 00:20:22,422 --> 00:20:26,092 ON YOU MEAN THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE 357 00:20:26,092 --> 00:20:29,629 SENDING ME TO DEAL WITH THIS?" AND SO THE FIRST THINGS I ASKED 358 00:20:29,629 --> 00:20:33,967 HIM AFTER SHAKING HIS HAND WAS, "ARE YOU ARMED?" 359 00:20:33,967 --> 00:20:38,138 AND HE SAID NO AND I SAID, "WHY NOT, FOR GOD'S 360 00:20:38,138 --> 00:20:39,906 SAKE?" >> Reporter: SEASONED CRIMINALS 361 00:20:39,906 --> 00:20:47,047 HAD ENGINEERED A SEAMLESS PLAN TO STEAL HER HUSBAND 362 00:20:47,047 --> 00:20:48,248 AND ALL SHE HAD ON HER SIDE WAS A SHORT, SKINNY KID WITH NO 363 00:20:48,248 --> 00:20:54,421 APPARENT BACKUP, NO CAR AND NO GUN. 364 00:20:54,421 --> 00:20:56,523 >>> COMING UP -- >> SHE FELT LIKE HER WHOLE WORLD 365 00:20:56,523 --> 00:20:59,659 COLLAPSED. >> KIDNAPPERS SEND A MESSAGE 366 00:20:59,659 --> 00:21:02,262 FROM THE SHADOWS A DEMAND IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP. 367 00:21:02,262 --> 00:21:20,380 >> NOW I'M THINKING THAT THEY'RE -- THEY'RE JUST GONNA 368 00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:23,516 >> Reporter: JAYNE STARED AT THE KID FROM AFI WITH WHAT COULD 369 00:21:23,516 --> 00:21:25,618 ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS DISMAY. HER HUSBAND EDUARDO HAD BEEN 370 00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:27,721 KIDNAPPED. SHE WAS FRANTIC. 371 00:21:27,721 --> 00:21:31,391 AND NOW THE FEDERAL POLICE HAD SENT HER AN UNARMED BOY. 372 00:21:31,391 --> 00:21:35,562 THE YOUNG MAN TOOK ONE LOOK AT JAYNE, SAW HER DISAPPOINTMENT 373 00:21:35,562 --> 00:21:37,664 AND THEN SPOKE >> HE HAD A VERY CONFIDENT SMILE 374 00:21:37,664 --> 00:21:40,800 ON HIS FACE. TAKES OFF HIS GLASSES AND HAT 375 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,936 AND SAYS, "LOOK, WOULD YOU REALLY WANT ME ARRIVING IN A 376 00:21:42,936 --> 00:21:45,472 BULLETPROOF SUBURBAN AND COMING OUT WITH A MACHINE GUN 377 00:21:45,472 --> 00:21:50,210 HOW WOULD THAT LOOK IF YOU'RE BEING WATCHED? 378 00:21:50,210 --> 00:21:52,312 WE COULD BE PUTTING YOUR HUSBAND AT RISK. 379 00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:54,414 >> Reporter: THE AGENT, JAYNE LEARNED, WAS OLDER THAN HE 380 00:21:54,414 --> 00:21:58,118 LOOKED, WAS AN EXPERIENCED HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR 381 00:21:58,118 --> 00:22:02,822 HE BROUGHT HIS WEAPON INTO JAYNE'S HOUSE. 382 00:22:02,822 --> 00:22:05,425 IT WAS A LAPTOP COMPUTER >> HE ACTUALLY SELECTED A PLACE 383 00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:06,860 HERE IN THE DINING ROOM WHERE HE WOULD ONLY BE THE ONE -- HE 384 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:09,229 WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE TO SEE HIS COMPUTER SCREEN. 385 00:22:09,229 --> 00:22:11,197 HE WAS IN A SPOT WHERE HE COULD SEE ALL THE GOINGS ON IN THE 386 00:22:11,197 --> 00:22:12,265 HOUSE. >> Reporter: HIS NAME IS A 387 00:22:12,265 --> 00:22:14,868 FEDERAL SECRET HIS FACE A BLANK 388 00:22:14,868 --> 00:22:19,072 OUR INTERVIEW REQUEST WENT TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL. 389 00:22:19,072 --> 00:22:22,208 WE WERE DENIED WE DO KNOW HE WAS CONSTANTLY 390 00:22:22,208 --> 00:22:26,379 ONLINE WITH A TEAM OF AGENTS IN MEXICO CITY, ANALYZING WHAT 391 00:22:26,379 --> 00:22:29,516 CLUES THEY HAD, ADVISING JAYNE'S AGENT ON STRATEGY. 392 00:22:29,516 --> 00:22:32,686 NOT JUST JAYNE'S AGENT, OF COURSE 393 00:22:32,686 --> 00:22:35,822 >> Translator: WE HAVE AS MANY AS 25 KIDNAPPINGS AT A TIME. 394 00:22:35,822 --> 00:22:38,892 >> Reporter: AND HERE, IN A GIANT ROOM THAT LOOKS LIKE NASA, 395 00:22:38,892 --> 00:22:42,629 MORE AGENTS TRACK HUNDREDS OF SURVEILLANCE SITES AROUND THE 396 00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:45,265 COUNTRY. BUT ON DAY ONE, ALL THAT 397 00:22:45,265 --> 00:22:49,436 EXPERTISE COUGHED UP ONLY THIS ONE PIECE OF VERY BAD NEWS 398 00:22:49,436 --> 00:22:54,140 THE PEOPLE WHO GRABBED EDUARDO WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY, SAID THE 399 00:22:54,140 --> 00:22:58,345 POLICE, PART OF A FRINGE MARXIST POLITICAL GROUP CALLED THE EPR 400 00:22:58,345 --> 00:23:01,481 JAYNE'S AGENT CONSIDERED THE EVIDENCE AND OFFERED A DISMAL 401 00:23:01,481 --> 00:23:04,617 PREDICTION >> "THIS IS NOT GONNA BE OVER IN 402 00:23:04,617 --> 00:23:07,754 24 HOURS, LIKE YOU'D LIKE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS IS NOT 403 00:23:07,754 --> 00:23:11,424 A MATTER OF DAYS OR WEEKS. BASED ON PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 404 00:23:11,424 --> 00:23:13,126 WITH THIS PARTICULAR GROUP, THIS IS GOING TO BE MONTHS, IF YOU'RE 405 00:23:13,126 --> 00:23:14,694 LUCKY. >> Reporter: WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO 406 00:23:14,694 --> 00:23:17,197 HEAR THAT? >> I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA GO 407 00:23:17,197 --> 00:23:18,765 CRAZY. I THOUGHT FOR SURE I'D HAVE A 408 00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:22,435 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN RIGHT THEN AND THERE. 409 00:23:22,435 --> 00:23:26,973 >> Reporter: JAYNE'S 7-YEAR-OLD, EMILIANO, LOOKED ON, HELPLESS. 410 00:23:26,973 --> 00:23:28,708 >> I REMEMBER OPENING THE DOOR AND SEEING THAT LOOK IN HER 411 00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:30,810 EYES >> Reporter: WHAT LOOK 412 00:23:30,810 --> 00:23:33,947 >> SHE FELT LIKE HER WHOLE WORLD COLLAPSED, AND I COULD SEE THAT 413 00:23:33,947 --> 00:23:37,083 THROUGH HER EYES AND I COULDN'T REALLY 414 00:23:37,083 --> 00:23:44,391 COMMUNICATE AND TRY TO HELP HER BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW HOW. 415 00:23:44,391 --> 00:23:47,627 >> Reporter: IN HISTORIC SAN MIGUEL, THOUGH EDUARDO WAS A 416 00:23:47,627 --> 00:23:51,231 PROMINENT LOCAL CITIZEN, LIFE WENT ON AS IF NOTHING HAD 417 00:23:51,231 --> 00:23:55,935 HAPPENED EVEN THOUGH HE HAD BEEN A KNOWN 418 00:23:55,935 --> 00:24:00,173 ANTI-POVERTY ACTIVIST, A PANELIST ON A LOCAL TV SHOW. 419 00:24:00,173 --> 00:24:03,276 IN FACT, THIS IS A RECORDING OF THE VERY BROADCAST AIRED THE 420 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:05,912 NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN. THIS IS THE HOST OF THE SHOW, 421 00:24:05,912 --> 00:24:10,116 LUCY NUNEZ, CO-OWNER OF THE TV STATION. 422 00:24:10,116 --> 00:24:12,719 BUT WHAT WAS SHE ABLE TO DO TO FREE HER FRIEND EDUARDO OR FIND 423 00:24:12,719 --> 00:24:16,356 HIS KIDNAPPERS NOT A THING. 424 00:24:16,356 --> 00:24:21,094 HOW OFTEN WAS IT REPORTED ON THE TELEVISION OR RADIO? 425 00:24:21,094 --> 00:24:25,432 >> NO, WE NEVER SAID ANYTHING. >> Reporter: A REQUEST, SHE 426 00:24:25,432 --> 00:24:27,901 SAID, FROM THE FEDERAL POLICE. >> THEY SAID NO COMMENTS IN THE 427 00:24:27,901 --> 00:24:31,538 RADIO STATION, NO COMMENTS IN THE CHANNEL BECAUSE WE DON'T 428 00:24:31,538 --> 00:24:33,106 WANT THESE PEOPLE TO BE AFRAID OR WHATEVER. 429 00:24:33,106 --> 00:24:39,412 AND THEY COULD DO SOMETHING TO EDUARDO. 430 00:24:39,412 --> 00:24:43,083 SO IT WAS, LIKE, MOUTH CLOSED. EVERYBODY WAS ACTING AS IF 431 00:24:43,083 --> 00:24:46,753 NOTHING WAS HAPPENING. >> Reporter: EVERYBODY, PERHAPS, 432 00:24:46,753 --> 00:24:47,921 BUT JAYNE. "REMEMBER," THE KIDNAPPERS SAID, 433 00:24:47,921 --> 00:24:50,423 "GO HOME YOU'LL GET AN EMAIL WITH OUR 434 00:24:50,423 --> 00:24:54,094 DEMANDS. BUT ON DAY ONE, THERE WAS NO 435 00:24:54,094 --> 00:24:58,298 EMAIL, NOR ON DAY TWO, NOR THREE, NOR DAY FOUR. 436 00:24:58,298 --> 00:25:02,569 AND THEN, AFTER FIVE FULL DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SLEEPLESS TORTURE, 437 00:25:02,569 --> 00:25:08,241 JAYNE TURNED ON HER COMPUTER AND READ THE NEWS. 438 00:25:08,241 --> 00:25:16,182 >> "FOR THE LIBERATION OF EDUARDO WE ARE DEMANDING THE 439 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,217 AMOUNT OF $8 MILLION U.S." >> Reporter: $8 MILLION. 440 00:25:17,217 --> 00:25:19,652 "SEND THE MONEY," SAID THE EMAIL, "IN U.S. CURRENCY, 441 00:25:19,652 --> 00:25:20,453 $100 BILLS." >> AND NOW I'M THINKING 442 00:25:20,453 --> 00:25:21,888 THEY'RE -- THEY'RE JUST GONNA KILL HIM 443 00:25:21,888 --> 00:25:25,558 BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF CASH. 444 00:25:25,558 --> 00:25:29,763 >> Reporter: ANYBODY FAMILIAR WITH THE IDYLLIC RANCH HERE 445 00:25:29,763 --> 00:25:33,533 OUTSIDE SAN MIGUEL, ANYBODY WHO HAD HEARD OF EDUARDO, SCION OF A 446 00:25:33,533 --> 00:25:38,271 FAMOUS PUBLISHING EMPIRE, MIGHT QUITE REASONABLY HAVE ASSUMED 447 00:25:38,271 --> 00:25:42,876 RICH THE KIDNAPPERS MADE A MISTAKE, 448 00:25:42,876 --> 00:25:48,081 THOUGH, BECAUSE THE WEALTH THE VALSECAS HAD WAS ALL IN THE 449 00:25:48,081 --> 00:25:49,249 PROPERTY AND BESIDES, WHATEVER SIGNING 450 00:25:49,249 --> 00:25:56,122 AUTHORITY EXISTED WAS WITH EDUARDO, NOT JAYNE 451 00:25:56,122 --> 00:25:59,659 THEY TOOK THE WRONG VALSECA. >> I DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO 452 00:25:59,659 --> 00:26:01,261 ANYTHING, REALLY, BEYOND OUR - WHAT WAS IN OUR CHECKING 453 00:26:01,261 --> 00:26:04,364 ACCOUNT. >> Reporter: THE FACT OF THE 454 00:26:04,364 --> 00:26:06,466 MATTER WAS THE VALSECAS WERE HOUSE POOR 455 00:26:06,466 --> 00:26:10,136 THEY'D PUT EVERYTHING THEY HAD INTO THE RANCH 456 00:26:10,136 --> 00:26:15,742 AND AT RECESSION PRICES, EVEN IF SHE COULD SELL IT, SHE'D GET A 457 00:26:15,742 --> 00:26:18,511 SMALL FRACTION OF $8 MILLION THERE, IN THE DINING ROOM, JAYNE 458 00:26:18,511 --> 00:26:21,681 SHOWED THE EMAIL TO HER AFI AGENT AND REALIZED HE WAS NOT 459 00:26:21,681 --> 00:26:22,849 SURPRISED. >> "YOU KNOW, JAYNE, YOU HAVE TO 460 00:26:22,849 --> 00:26:25,719 REALIZE THAT THIS IS THE WAY THIS WORKS 461 00:26:25,719 --> 00:26:27,954 YOU'RE GONNA BE LEARNING THE ROPES HERE 462 00:26:27,954 --> 00:26:30,590 THEY HOPE TO GET THAT AMOUNT BUT THIS IS WHERE WE START 463 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:32,659 NEGOTIATING. >> Reporter: THE KIDNAPPERS SET 464 00:26:32,659 --> 00:26:35,829 THE RULES. RULE ONE -- JAYNE MUST 465 00:26:35,829 --> 00:26:41,067 COMMUNICATE WITH THEM ONLY THROUGH WANT ADS IN A SPECIFIC 466 00:26:41,067 --> 00:26:42,669 NEWSPAPER. HER FIRST AD, THEY DEMANDED, 467 00:26:42,669 --> 00:26:47,340 WOULD GO IN THE "ANIMALS AND PETS" SECTION. 468 00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:51,211 SHE WROTE IN CODE, "LOOKING TO BUY A CHOW CHOW DOG, VACCINATED 469 00:26:51,211 --> 00:26:55,181 WITH COMPLETE PEDIGREE." THEY STARTED OUT AT $8 MILLION 470 00:26:55,181 --> 00:27:01,021 WHAT DID YOU RESPOND >> "WE'RE VERY CONCERNED FOR THE 471 00:27:01,021 --> 00:27:04,090 PUPPY'S WELLBEING, AND YOUR REQUEST IS BEYOND OUR ECONOMIC 472 00:27:04,090 --> 00:27:06,192 POSSIBILITIES. >> Reporter: JUST THAT 473 00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:11,398 >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: AND THEN WAITED 474 00:27:11,398 --> 00:27:14,034 >> AND THEN WAITED >>> COMING UP -- 475 00:27:14,034 --> 00:27:18,772 AT LAST, WORD FROM EDUARDO HEARTBREAKING LETTERS. 476 00:27:18,772 --> 00:27:20,040 HARROWING PHOTOS >> I OPENED UP PICTURES THAT I 477 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,511 WISH I HADN'T SEEN >> AND ONE AGONIZING PHONE CALL. 478 00:27:24,511 --> 00:27:26,613 >> I TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I LOVED HIM AND THAT I WOULD DO ANYTHING 479 00:27:26,613 --> 00:27:50,937 TO GET HIM BACK. >> Reporter: LIFE AT JAYNE AND 480 00:27:50,937 --> 00:27:59,412 EDUARDO'S RANCH WAS DIVIDED NOW INTO THE JOYOUS BEFORE AND THE 481 00:27:59,412 --> 00:28:00,347 SOMBER AFTER JAYNE'S MOTHER MOVED IN WITH HER 482 00:28:00,347 --> 00:28:05,552 DAUGHTER AND HER CHILDREN CLEARLY HURTING. 483 00:28:05,552 --> 00:28:13,360 >> EMILIANO HAD A MELTDOWN, SAYING THAT WE WERE ALL LYING TO 484 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:16,696 HIM. AND, AT THAT POINT, IT'S REALLY 485 00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:20,266 AMAZING HOW FERNANDO IS SUCH AN AMAZING KID. 486 00:28:20,266 --> 00:28:22,335 HE -- HE JUST PUT THEIR BEDS TOGETHER AND HE SAYS, "COME ON, 487 00:28:22,335 --> 00:28:27,574 EMILIANO WE KNOW DAD'S COMIN' BACK. 488 00:28:27,574 --> 00:28:29,743 BUT WE'RE NOT LYIN' TO YOU." >> Reporter: JAYNE DECIDED SHE 489 00:28:29,743 --> 00:28:34,381 HAD TO TELL THE TWO YOUNG ONES THE TRUTH. 490 00:28:34,381 --> 00:28:37,050 THERE WAS NO BUSINESS TRIP >> I STILL DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 491 00:28:37,050 --> 00:28:45,892 LIKE, I -- AT FIRST, I WAS LIKE, "WHAT DOES KIDNAPPED MEAN? 492 00:28:45,892 --> 00:28:47,427 >> SHE SAID, "LOOK, YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US BY BAD 493 00:28:47,427 --> 00:28:48,862 GUYS WE NEED TO KEEP THIS A SECRET. 494 00:28:48,862 --> 00:28:52,665 YOU MAY NOT TELL ANYONE IN SCHOOL." 495 00:28:52,665 --> 00:28:54,567 >> Reporter: DID YOU KEEP IT A SECRET 496 00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:57,604 >> I KEPT IT A SECRET 100% >> Reporter: WHY A SECRET? 497 00:28:57,604 --> 00:29:01,574 THE FEDERAL AGENT KNEW THE FAMILY WAS BEING WATCHED, SPIED 498 00:29:01,574 --> 00:29:06,212 ON DAYS AND NIGHTS IF THE KIDS TALKED, MAYBE THE 499 00:29:06,212 --> 00:29:09,916 KIDNAPPERS WOULD HEAR. >> WE HAD A BONFIRE OUT ON THE 500 00:29:09,916 --> 00:29:13,086 COBBLESTONES AND WE WERE SAYING PRAYERS FOR 501 00:29:13,086 --> 00:29:16,289 EDUARDO. AND SUDDENLY, JAYNE SAYS, "GET 502 00:29:16,289 --> 00:29:18,324 IN THE HOUSE GET IN THE HOUSE." 503 00:29:18,324 --> 00:29:21,461 AND THE AFI AGENT HAD SIGNALED HER. 504 00:29:21,461 --> 00:29:23,563 AND HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMEBODY WATCHING US NEARBY IN 505 00:29:23,563 --> 00:29:28,802 THE GRASS, WHICH WAS REALLY CLOSE BY 506 00:29:28,802 --> 00:29:31,438 >> Reporter: JAYNE AND HER FEDERAL POLICE ADVISOR DUTIFULLY 507 00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:35,608 PLACED THOSE BIZARRE WANT ADS SAYING THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE 508 00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:39,813 $8 MILLION U.S. RANSOM AND THE RESPONSE 509 00:29:39,813 --> 00:29:43,483 A FEW WEEKS INTO THE ORDEAL, EDUARDO'S KIDNAPPERS TURNED UP 510 00:29:43,483 --> 00:29:45,051 THE PRESSURE THEY BEGAN INCLUDING, IN THEIR 511 00:29:45,051 --> 00:29:48,154 UNTRACEABLE EMAILS, LETTERS FROM EDUARDO HIMSELF. 512 00:29:48,154 --> 00:29:49,222 "I'M SUFFERING MORE THAN I CAN MANAGE 513 00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:50,824 THEY BEAT ME THEY TIE ME UP 514 00:29:50,824 --> 00:29:52,926 I'M NAKED. I HAVEN'T EATEN. 515 00:29:52,926 --> 00:29:55,528 I'M GOING CRAZY. I CAN'T HANDLE THIS TORTURE 516 00:29:55,528 --> 00:29:58,698 ANYMORE. >> IT WAS HORRIBLE 517 00:29:58,698 --> 00:30:02,902 IT DESTROYED ME. >> Reporter: SO SHE BEGAN 518 00:30:02,902 --> 00:30:05,071 SELLING THINGS FIRST TO GO, THE SPANISH HORSES 519 00:30:05,071 --> 00:30:09,175 EDUARDO LOVED SO MUCH, SOLD FOR A FRACTION OF THEIR VALUE. 520 00:30:09,175 --> 00:30:13,346 >> UM, I SOLD SHEEP. I SOLD MACHINERY 521 00:30:13,346 --> 00:30:14,914 EVERYTHING I COULD SELL, I SOLD. >> Reporter: ALL AT FIRE SALE 522 00:30:14,914 --> 00:30:16,483 PRICES >> UH-HUH. 523 00:30:16,483 --> 00:30:21,054 >> I REMEMBER TAKING OUT ALL MY MONEY FROM MY PIGGY BANK AND 524 00:30:21,054 --> 00:30:22,222 JUST GIVING IT TO MY MOM AND SAYING, "HERE, PLEASE JUST USE 525 00:30:22,222 --> 00:30:24,824 THIS TO GET DAD BACK I JUST WANT HIM BACK." 526 00:30:24,824 --> 00:30:29,562 >> Reporter: ALL OF IT MADE HARDLY A DENT. 527 00:30:29,562 --> 00:30:32,198 THEY WANTED $8 MILLION SHE RAISED $20,000 528 00:30:32,198 --> 00:30:35,335 >> THEY HAD STARTED SAYING IN THEIR EMAILS TO ME THAT IF I 529 00:30:35,335 --> 00:30:36,903 DIDN'T COME UP WITH THE MONEY ON A CERTAIN DATE, THAT THEY WERE 530 00:30:36,903 --> 00:30:40,073 GOING TO START CUTTING OFF HIS FINGERS. 531 00:30:40,073 --> 00:30:46,346 >> Reporter: AND WHEN JAYNE DIDN'T -- COULDN'T -- PAY, THE 532 00:30:46,346 --> 00:30:49,482 ANSWER WAS SWIFT >> IT SAID THAT -- THAT I'VE 533 00:30:49,482 --> 00:30:52,085 BEEN FOOLING AROUND ENOUGH AND THAT EDUARDO HAD SENT ME A 534 00:30:52,085 --> 00:30:55,755 PACKAGE. >> Reporter: SHE WAS HORRIFIED 535 00:30:55,755 --> 00:31:06,232 WAS IT HIS FINGERS THE FEDERAL AGENT, AFRAID FOR 536 00:31:06,232 --> 00:31:07,400 JAYNE'S SAFETY, SENT SOMEONE ELSE TO FOLLOW THE KIDNAPPERS' 537 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,435 DIRECTIONS TO THE BURIED PACKAGE WRAPPED IN PLASTIC 538 00:31:08,435 --> 00:31:09,903 AND? IT WAS NOT SEVERED FINGERS 539 00:31:09,903 --> 00:31:12,605 IT WAS A SHEAF OF IOUs, SIGNED BY EDUARDO 540 00:31:12,605 --> 00:31:13,673 WITH THESE, WROTE THE KIDNAPPERS, JAYNE COULD GET A 541 00:31:13,673 --> 00:31:15,208 LOAN FOR THE RANSOM. >> I WAS SUPPOSED TO NOW 542 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:20,380 HOPEFULLY BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN RAISING FUNDS THAT WAY 543 00:31:20,380 --> 00:31:25,618 >> Reporter: OH, SHE TRIED BUT LOCAL BUSINESSMEN DISMISSED 544 00:31:25,618 --> 00:31:33,493 THE IOUs AS LIKELY FORGERIES SUMMER PASSED. 545 00:31:33,493 --> 00:31:36,629 AND THEN, OCTOBER, FOUR MONTHS INTO HIS CAPTIVITY, THE CHILDREN 546 00:31:36,629 --> 00:31:41,835 PULLED OUT OLD HOME VIDEOS AND HUDDLED IN THEIR MOTHER'S BED. 547 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:45,005 >> FOR A LONG TIME, THE KIDS WATCHED IT EVERY SINGLE DAY 548 00:31:45,005 --> 00:31:48,675 AFTER SCHOOL SOMETIMES WHEN THEY WEREN'T 549 00:31:48,675 --> 00:31:50,643 AROUND, I'D GO IN AND JUST WATCH THE PART WHERE HE BLEW ME THE 550 00:31:50,643 --> 00:31:58,618 KISS AND SAID "I LOVE YOU" AGAIN AND AGAIN. 551 00:31:58,618 --> 00:32:00,186 >> I LOVE YOU. >> Reporter: DAY OF THE DEAD 552 00:32:00,186 --> 00:32:03,356 REVELERS PARADED SAN MIGUEL STREETS IN NOVEMBER. 553 00:32:03,356 --> 00:32:12,265 THE KIDNAPPERS SHOWED JAYNE HOW NEAR DEATH THEY WERE WILLING TO 554 00:32:12,265 --> 00:32:13,933 TAKE EDUARDO THE EMAIL -- EDUARDO IS GOING TO 555 00:32:13,933 --> 00:32:16,970 RECEIVE HIS FIRST GUNSHOT IN HIS LEFT LEG UNLESS THERE IS A 556 00:32:16,970 --> 00:32:20,607 CHANGE IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OFFERED TO SEVEN FIGURES 557 00:32:20,607 --> 00:32:23,743 IT WASN'T A BLUFF. A PHOTO FOLLOWED WITH THE BLOODY 558 00:32:23,743 --> 00:32:28,982 PROOF. >> I SNAPPED THAT DAY. 559 00:32:28,982 --> 00:32:32,085 I -- I COULDN'T CRY. I -- I DIDN'T REACT. 560 00:32:32,085 --> 00:32:35,288 >> Reporter: DID YOU SEE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDUARDO 561 00:32:35,288 --> 00:32:37,991 >> I TOLD MY AGENT THAT HE NEEDED TO START BEING MY FILTER. 562 00:32:37,991 --> 00:32:40,093 THAT I WOULD NOT BE READING ANY MORE LETTERS, AND I WOULD NOT 563 00:32:40,093 --> 00:32:43,630 LOOK AT ANY PHOTOGRAPHS IF HE WANTED ME TO GET THROUGH THIS 564 00:32:43,630 --> 00:32:45,198 AND GET THROUGH THIS SANE. >> Reporter: NOR DID JAYNE SHARE 565 00:32:45,198 --> 00:32:48,902 THE PHOTOS OR LETTERS WITH THE CHILDREN 566 00:32:48,902 --> 00:32:50,470 OR SO SHE THOUGHT. >> I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHERE 567 00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:52,572 MY MOM WAS COMING FROM, NOT TELLING ME EXACTLY WHAT WAS 568 00:32:52,572 --> 00:32:55,342 GOING ON BUT I HAD THIS URGE TO KNOW. 569 00:32:55,342 --> 00:32:56,343 AND -- >> Reporter: SO WHAT DID YOU DO? 570 00:32:56,343 --> 00:33:02,048 >> AND I WENT ONTO HER EMAIL AND -- AND OPENED UP PICTURES 571 00:33:02,048 --> 00:33:04,584 THAT I WISH I HADN'T SEEN. IT WAS A PICTURE OF MY FATHER 572 00:33:04,584 --> 00:33:08,254 WITH NO CLOTHES ON IN A BOX 573 00:33:08,254 --> 00:33:09,823 WITH DUCT TAPE OVER HIS EYES AROUND HIS HEAD. 574 00:33:09,823 --> 00:33:11,358 UM >> Reporter: OH, MY GOD. 575 00:33:11,358 --> 00:33:14,060 >> BUT THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE 576 00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:15,562 >> Reporter: SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT INFORMATION? 577 00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:17,664 THAT -- THAT PICTURE THAT IMAGE 578 00:33:17,664 --> 00:33:22,902 >> KEPT IT INSIDE. I JUST KEPT IT INSIDE. 579 00:33:22,902 --> 00:33:27,073 >> Reporter: TWO WEEKS LATER, THEY SHOT EDUARDO AGAIN, THIS 580 00:33:27,073 --> 00:33:30,243 TIME IN AN ARM THEN THE PHONE CALLS BEGAN 581 00:33:30,243 --> 00:33:31,444 >> I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SOMEONE DISGUISING THEIR VOICE, AND 582 00:33:31,444 --> 00:33:34,414 THAT'S WHAT I HAD BEEN TRAINED FOR. 583 00:33:34,414 --> 00:33:37,083 >> Reporter: THE AGENT HAD WARNED HER IT MIGHT HAPPEN, HAD 584 00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:40,687 EVEN PREPARED DIALOGUE FOR HER BOARD HANDY SO HE COULD PROMPT 585 00:33:40,687 --> 00:33:43,857 HER. BUT IT WASN'T THE KIDNAPPERS WHO 586 00:33:43,857 --> 00:33:44,958 GOT ON THE PHONE >> I WAS SHAKING 587 00:33:44,958 --> 00:33:48,561 I DIDN'T -- I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 588 00:33:48,561 --> 00:33:50,597 >> Reporter: IT WAS EDUARDO. BUT THE THINGS HE SAID 589 00:33:50,597 --> 00:33:53,833 THIS COULD NOT BE THE MAN SHE LOVED. 590 00:33:53,833 --> 00:33:55,702 BUT IT WAS >> AND THEN HE STARTED CALLING 591 00:33:55,702 --> 00:33:56,970 ME NAMES "YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH 592 00:33:56,970 --> 00:33:59,572 HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? IT'S MY MONEY. 593 00:33:59,572 --> 00:34:01,808 IT WAS MORE OF THE SAME THAT I'D BEEN GETTING IN THE LETTERS THAT 594 00:34:01,808 --> 00:34:04,811 THEY HAD FORCED HIM TO WRITE >> Reporter: SHE TURNED TO THE 595 00:34:04,811 --> 00:34:06,379 YOUNG FEDERAL AGENT. >> AND HE TOLD ME, "JAYNE, 596 00:34:06,379 --> 00:34:10,450 YOU'VE BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS YOU CAN DO THIS. 597 00:34:10,450 --> 00:34:15,922 JUST RELAX." >> Reporter: THEY KNEW, BOTH OF 598 00:34:15,922 --> 00:34:17,424 THEM. HE'D BEEN GIVEN A SCRIPT TO 599 00:34:17,424 --> 00:34:18,191 READ >> WE WERE BOTH PLAYING A ROLE 600 00:34:18,191 --> 00:34:19,559 AFTER I ANSWERED THE IMMEDIATE QUESTIONS AND GOT THE 601 00:34:19,559 --> 00:34:20,760 INFORMATION THAT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HEARD, WHICH 602 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,197 WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO SAVE HIS LIFE 603 00:34:24,197 --> 00:34:43,083 THEN I SAID -- I CHANGED MY TONE AND IN CAME ME 604 00:34:43,083 --> 00:34:49,856 [ CRYING ] AND I TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I LOVED 605 00:34:49,856 --> 00:34:51,124 HIM AND HOW MUCH HIS KIDS MISSED HIM AND THAT I WOULD DO ANYTHING 606 00:34:51,124 --> 00:35:03,336 TO GET HIM BACK AND THAT THE MONEY DIDN'T MATTER. 607 00:35:03,336 --> 00:35:06,673 I'D GIVE HIM EVERYTHING I COULD. AND THEN I COULD HEAR HIS -- HIS 608 00:35:06,673 --> 00:35:17,650 TONE CHANGED COMPLETELY. AND -- AND IT WAS THE REAL HIM 609 00:35:17,650 --> 00:35:18,685 HE TOLD ME HE LOVED ME, TOO. THEN HE HUNG UP ON HIM 610 00:35:18,685 --> 00:35:22,889 >> Reporter: A JOYLESS CHRISTMAS ARRIVED. 611 00:35:22,889 --> 00:35:28,661 AND THEN NEW YEARS HOW LONG BEFORE THEY KILLED HIM? 612 00:35:28,661 --> 00:35:30,864 >> COMING UP - >> I KINDA KNEW IN MY HEART THAT 613 00:35:30,864 --> 00:35:35,502 I WOULD NEVER SEE MY FATHER AGAIN. 614 00:35:35,502 --> 00:35:36,569 >> DESPAIR SETS IN >> SHE THREW THE TELEPHONE 615 00:35:36,569 --> 00:35:41,274 ACROSS THE ROOM AND HIT THE WALL 616 00:35:41,274 --> 00:35:42,375 SHE WAS SO ANGRY WITH THEM >> THEN FROM THE SHADOWS, A 617 00:35:42,375 --> 00:36:02,395 LIGHT. >> Reporter: GOSSIP, AS EVERYONE 618 00:36:02,395 --> 00:36:04,531 KNOWS, HAS A WAY OF SNEAKING PAST EVEN THE MOST DETERMINED 619 00:36:04,531 --> 00:36:08,702 EFFORTS OF OFFICIAL SECRET-KEEPERS 620 00:36:08,702 --> 00:36:12,872 AND SOON SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE CHEWED WARILY ON A STORY THAT 621 00:36:12,872 --> 00:36:17,711 MADE THE ROUNDS -- EDUARDO VALSECA, KIDNAPPED 622 00:36:17,711 --> 00:36:22,349 HE MUST HAVE MADE ENEMIES, WENT THE STORY, AND THIS WAS PAYBACK. 623 00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:26,519 HE WAS PROBABLY ALREADY DEAD >> FRIENDS WOULD SAY THINGS TO 624 00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:28,088 ME LIKE, "OH, JAYNE, I'M SO SORRY ABOUT EDUARDO, WE LIKED 625 00:36:28,088 --> 00:36:31,224 HIM SO MUCH. AND SPEAK ABOUT HIM IN THE PAST 626 00:36:31,224 --> 00:36:33,326 TENSE AS IF HE WERE DEAD >> Reporter: EVEN ON THE 627 00:36:33,326 --> 00:36:35,962 PLAYGROUND, CLASSMATES TOLD JAYNE'S CHILDREN TO GIVE UP 628 00:36:35,962 --> 00:36:39,599 HOPE >> THE LITTLE KIDS WOULD GO UP 629 00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:42,235 TO MY CHILDREN AND SAY THINGS LIKE, "OH, I HEARD YOUR DADDY'S 630 00:36:42,235 --> 00:36:44,471 DEAD, THAT THEY FOUND HIM IN A PLASTIC BAG IN THE PARQUE 631 00:36:44,471 --> 00:36:48,074 JUAREZ." >> I'D SAY THAT WAS AROUND THE 632 00:36:48,074 --> 00:36:52,178 SIXTH MONTH, THAT I -- I KINDA KNEW IN MY HEART THAT I WOULD 633 00:36:52,178 --> 00:36:54,280 NEVER SEE MY -- MY FATHER AGAIN. >> Reporter: AND EVEN IF THEY 634 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,415 DID? >> IF HE'S GOING TO COME BACK 635 00:36:55,415 --> 00:36:57,951 SANE IF HE'S GOING TO COME BACK 636 00:36:57,951 --> 00:37:00,587 CRAZY. IF HE'S GOING TO COME BACK, YOU 637 00:37:00,587 --> 00:37:04,224 KNOW, HAVING TO BE IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION. 638 00:37:04,224 --> 00:37:05,859 >> Reporter: AND JAYNE WELL, THIS IS HER MOTHER WHO 639 00:37:05,859 --> 00:37:09,462 HEARD JAYNE TALKING TO THE KIDNAPPERS 640 00:37:09,462 --> 00:37:12,599 >> SHE WOULD CRY AND YELL AT THEM ON THE TELEPHONE. 641 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:15,235 AND WITH -- AND ONCE, WHEN THEY HUNG UP ON HER, SHE THREW THE 642 00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:20,473 TELEPHONE ACROSS THE ROOM AND HIT THE WALL AND BROKE THE 643 00:37:20,473 --> 00:37:22,542 PHONE. SHE WAS SO ANGRY WITH THEM 644 00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:26,212 YOU -- YOU CAN EITHER COLLAPSE OR CHALLENGE THEM. 645 00:37:26,212 --> 00:37:29,349 >> Reporter: GET SAD OR GET MAD. >> AS THE TIME WENT ON, SHE GOT 646 00:37:29,349 --> 00:37:32,585 ANGRIER AND ANGRIER. >> AND THEN JAYNE WOULD TURN ON 647 00:37:32,585 --> 00:37:36,823 HER COMPUTER TO FIND MESSAGES FROM A MAN BARELY HANGING ON 648 00:37:36,823 --> 00:37:39,826 I NEED YOU LIKE NEVER BEFORE HELP ME. 649 00:37:39,826 --> 00:37:44,531 BE COMPASSIONATE TOWARDS ME. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. 650 00:37:44,531 --> 00:37:49,769 SHE HAD TROUBLES OF HER OWN, BY THE WAY, BREAST CANCER 651 00:37:49,769 --> 00:37:51,871 BUT SHE KEPT THAT TO HERSELF AND AS THE ORDEAL CONTINUED, SHE 652 00:37:51,871 --> 00:37:55,075 OCCASIONALLY SLIPPED OFF TO AMERICA FOR TESTS. 653 00:37:55,075 --> 00:37:56,576 >> I -- I JUST GOT THERE I WOULD HAVE MRIS AND BLOOD 654 00:37:56,576 --> 00:38:00,780 TESTS, AND VISITS WITH THE ONCOLOGIST 655 00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:03,917 AND WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY AND -- AND I'D GET BACK ON THE 656 00:38:03,917 --> 00:38:06,519 PLANE, AND COME BACK >> Reporter: SHE GOT AN IDEA 657 00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:12,025 THE KIDNAPPERS WERE OBVIOUSLY WATCHING HER, SO JAYNE VERY 658 00:38:12,025 --> 00:38:13,860 PUBLICLY PULLED UP A MOVING TRUCK, GOT OUT SOME BUBBLE WRAP, 659 00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:18,064 AS IF SHE WAS GIVING UP, LEAVING. 660 00:38:18,064 --> 00:38:21,234 >> SHE WAS PACKING UP THE FURNITURE. 661 00:38:21,234 --> 00:38:22,469 AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME, I HAD TO ASK HER, I SAID, "ARE YOU 662 00:38:22,469 --> 00:38:25,939 MOVING?" ARE YOU GOIN' BACK TO THE 663 00:38:25,939 --> 00:38:28,041 STATES?" >> Reporter: OF COURSE NOT, BUT 664 00:38:28,041 --> 00:38:32,712 THAT BIT OF THEATER SEEMED TO WORK 665 00:38:32,712 --> 00:38:35,348 >> AFTER THAT, MOVING THE FURNITURE AROUND, THE TONE OF 666 00:38:35,348 --> 00:38:38,051 THE EMAILS CHANGED >> Reporter: TO WHAT 667 00:38:38,051 --> 00:38:43,390 >> THEY BEGAN TO DROP THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THEY WERE ASKING 668 00:38:43,390 --> 00:38:46,926 >> Reporter: NOW INSTEAD OF MILLIONS, THE KIDNAPPERS 669 00:38:46,926 --> 00:38:51,598 DEMANDED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT WAS MONEY SHE MIGHT BE ABLE 670 00:38:51,598 --> 00:38:53,166 TO BORROW FROM SOME WELL-HEELED FRIEND 671 00:38:53,166 --> 00:38:56,302 >> SO I STARTED ASKING PEOPLE AND SOME PEOPLE WOULD TELL ME, 672 00:38:56,302 --> 00:38:58,204 "YEAH, SURE. CALL ME ON SUCH AND SUCH A 673 00:38:58,204 --> 00:39:01,007 DATE." BUT THEN I WOULDN'T GET A -- 674 00:39:01,007 --> 00:39:04,144 THEY WOULDN'T ANSWER MY -- MY CALLS OR RETURN MY MESSAGES. 675 00:39:04,144 --> 00:39:07,781 >> Reporter: WHY >> WELL, THAT THEY SOMEHOW BY 676 00:39:07,781 --> 00:39:12,018 HELPING ME THEY WOULD EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO -- TO THIS SORT OF 677 00:39:12,018 --> 00:39:14,087 A THING SOMEHOW. >> Reporter: EDUARDO'S GROWN 678 00:39:14,087 --> 00:39:17,757 CHILDREN FROM HIS EARLIER MARRIAGE DID EVERYTHING THEY 679 00:39:17,757 --> 00:39:22,495 COULD TO HELP, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY. 680 00:39:22,495 --> 00:39:26,132 AND SO THEY ALL FELT VERY ALONE, AS THEY TRIED TO KEEP HOPE GOING 681 00:39:26,132 --> 00:39:27,767 AT THE RANCH >> I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE 682 00:39:27,767 --> 00:39:31,404 CAMERA AND GIVE A MESSAGE TO YOUR DADDY BECAUSE HE WILL SEE 683 00:39:31,404 --> 00:39:34,541 THIS WHEN HE GETS BACK >> I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND HE'S 684 00:39:34,541 --> 00:39:39,779 THE BEST DAD IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, AND I KNOW HE'S COMING 685 00:39:39,779 --> 00:39:42,949 BACK SOON. >> Reporter: AND THEN, QUITE 686 00:39:42,949 --> 00:39:47,620 LITERALLY IN THE DEPTHS OF THEIR DESPAIR, SOMETHING COMPLETELY 687 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:51,391 UNEXPECTED ONE PERSON, WHOM JAYNE HAD NOT 688 00:39:51,391 --> 00:39:53,393 APPROACHED FOR LOANS, WROTE A BIG CHECK, DEMANDED NO REPAYMENT 689 00:39:53,393 --> 00:39:57,597 OR COLLATERAL. THERE WAS A SINGLE CONDITION - 690 00:39:57,597 --> 00:40:01,001 THE BENEFACTOR'S IDENTITY BE KEPT SECRET. 691 00:40:01,001 --> 00:40:02,836 AND JAYNE FINALLY RECEIVED THE EMAIL SHE'D WORKED SO HARD TO 692 00:40:02,836 --> 00:40:05,438 GET. WE HAVE A DEAL 693 00:40:05,438 --> 00:40:08,608 IT READ -- BE READY TO DELIVER THE MONEY. 694 00:40:08,608 --> 00:40:11,444 THE FINAL AMOUNT, AT THE REQUEST OF THE FAMILY AND POLICE, WAS 695 00:40:11,444 --> 00:40:14,881 WITHHELD A FRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL 696 00:40:14,881 --> 00:40:19,052 DEMAND, BUT IT HAD TO BE IN U.S. $100 BILLS 697 00:40:19,052 --> 00:40:23,323 AND IT HAD TO BE DONE IN SECRET. >> I HAD TO GO IN AND COUNT IT 698 00:40:23,323 --> 00:40:26,426 IN A BACK ROOM AND MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WAS ALL IN ORDER. 699 00:40:26,426 --> 00:40:29,129 >> Reporter: THEN SHE CALLED ON HER ACTING SKILLS. 700 00:40:29,129 --> 00:40:31,831 STUFFED DOWN HER ANXIETY AND WALKED OUT OF THE BANK 701 00:40:31,831 --> 00:40:32,599 >> A COUPLE OF PEOPLE RECOGNIZED ME 702 00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:38,004 THIS IS A SMALL TOWN SO, I STOPPED AND TALKED TO 703 00:40:38,004 --> 00:40:40,640 PEOPLE AND -- AND EVEN PUT THE BAG DOWN 704 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,542 ON THE FLOOR BETWEEN MY FEET, AS IF IT WAS A YOGA BAG 705 00:40:42,542 --> 00:40:46,813 I FELT LIKE I WAS STUCK IN A MOVIE THAT I COULDN'T GET OUT 706 00:40:46,813 --> 00:40:48,915 OF >> Reporter: THE AFI AGENT 707 00:40:48,915 --> 00:40:52,052 REFUSED THE KIDNAPPERS' DEMAND THAT A FAMILY MEMBER DELIVER THE 708 00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:55,188 RANSOM, INSTEAD, TWO RANCH EMPLOYEES, BROTHERS, VOLUNTEERED 709 00:40:55,188 --> 00:41:02,062 TO DELIVER THE MONEY BUT -- WAS EDUARDO EVEN ALIVE? 710 00:41:02,062 --> 00:41:10,937 SHE DEMANDED PROOF AND GOT IN RETURN A HEART 711 00:41:10,937 --> 00:41:11,905 STOPPING PHOTO IT WAS HIM, ALL RIGHT. 712 00:41:11,905 --> 00:41:14,474 BUT THE ONCE ROBUST, YOUTHFUL EDUARDO WAS NOW A GAUNT, 713 00:41:14,474 --> 00:41:16,676 EMACIATED STRANGER WOULD THEY LET HIM GO? 714 00:41:16,676 --> 00:41:20,347 SHE WAS AT THEIR MERCY >>> COMING UP -- 715 00:41:20,347 --> 00:41:25,585 >> MY STEPSON FOUND OUR AFI AGENT CRYING 716 00:41:25,585 --> 00:41:26,753 >> HER WORKER KIDNAPPED, TOO >> Reporter: NOW YOU'VE GOT NO 717 00:41:26,753 --> 00:41:29,789 EMPLOYEE YOU'VE GOT NO HUSBAND. 718 00:41:29,789 --> 00:41:32,392 YOU'VE GOT NO MONEY. >> THAT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR THEM 719 00:41:32,392 --> 00:41:35,562 >> SOON THEIR WORLD WOULD CHANGE AGAIN, WITH A STRANGER AT THE 720 00:41:35,562 --> 00:41:38,164 DOOR >> MY MOM LOOKS OUT THERE. 721 00:41:38,164 --> 00:41:39,199 SHE WALKS OVER TO THE WINDOW AND LOOKS CLOSER 722 00:41:39,199 --> 00:41:56,516 >> HE COULD BARELY TALK. HE JUST WHISPERED. 723 00:41:56,516 --> 00:42:00,653 >> Reporter: JAYNE VALSECA WAS DESPERATE TO GET THE RANSOM PAID 724 00:42:00,653 --> 00:42:03,256 AND FREE HER HUSBAND AS DIRECTED, SHE GAVE THE 725 00:42:03,256 --> 00:42:06,426 SATCHEL PACKED WITH CASH TO THE BROTHERS, DROPPED THEM AT A 726 00:42:06,426 --> 00:42:09,562 DESIGNATED HOTEL IN MEXICO CITY AND RETURNED TO SAN MIGUEL WHILE 727 00:42:09,562 --> 00:42:15,301 THE BROTHERS WAITED WITH THE BAG OF MONEY 728 00:42:15,301 --> 00:42:18,438 TWO DAYS AND THEN, FINALLY, AN EMAIL WITH 729 00:42:18,438 --> 00:42:21,574 INSTRUCTIONS WEAR SUMMER CLOTHES, THOUGH IT 730 00:42:21,574 --> 00:42:23,243 WAS WINTER MARK A LETTER "T" ON THEIR CAR 731 00:42:23,243 --> 00:42:27,347 WITH DUCT TAPE BRING NO WEAPONS, NO CELL 732 00:42:27,347 --> 00:42:29,949 PHONES THE ADDRESS WAS A FRIED CHICKEN 733 00:42:29,949 --> 00:42:34,154 PLACE WHERE THEY FOUND A NOTE TAPED TO A PAY PHONE 734 00:42:34,154 --> 00:42:35,755 MORE DIRECTIONS. AND ON IT WENT, A MACABRE 735 00:42:35,755 --> 00:42:40,727 SCAVENGER HUNT, FROM RESTAURANT TO CONVENIENCE STORE TO 736 00:42:40,727 --> 00:42:42,529 RESTAURANT EACH STOP WITH A NOTE ON A PAY 737 00:42:42,529 --> 00:42:44,631 PHONE AND A MAP TO THE NEXT LOCATION 738 00:42:44,631 --> 00:42:49,936 FOR HOURS THEY DROVE THE GIANT CITY 739 00:42:49,936 --> 00:42:55,108 >> IN THE FINAL NOTE, ON THE INSIDE, THE NOTE SAID, "THIS IS 740 00:42:55,108 --> 00:42:58,778 A PHOTOGRAPH MAKE SURE THAT THE PERSON THAT 741 00:42:58,778 --> 00:43:01,414 MEETS YOU AT THE NEXT DESTINATION HAS THE MISSING 742 00:43:01,414 --> 00:43:05,085 PIECE. >> Reporter: IT WAS THE PROOF OF 743 00:43:05,085 --> 00:43:08,188 LIFE PHOTO, WITH A HOLE WHERE EDUARDO'S FACE SHOULD BE 744 00:43:08,188 --> 00:43:11,458 >> HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO GO DOWN A DARK ALLEY AT A SPECIFIC SPOT 745 00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:16,062 AND MEET THIS PERSON WHO WOULD HAVE THE OTHER PIECE OF THE 746 00:43:16,062 --> 00:43:17,197 PHOTOGRAPH >> Reporter: NOW THE BROTHERS 747 00:43:17,197 --> 00:43:19,199 UNDERSTOOD IT WAS AT AN END, AND THEY FOLLOWED THE KIDNAPPERS 748 00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:20,767 DIRECTIONS WITH ABSOLUTE PRECISION. 749 00:43:20,767 --> 00:43:22,869 THERE WERE EYES ON THEM. THEY KNEW IT 750 00:43:22,869 --> 00:43:26,072 THEY PULLED UP TO THE END OF AN ALLEY AS THEY HAD BEEN ORDERED 751 00:43:26,072 --> 00:43:29,142 ONE OF THE BROTHERS PICKED UP THE BAG OF MONEY, OPENED THE 752 00:43:29,142 --> 00:43:30,310 DOOR, GOT OUT OF THE CAR, WALKED DOWN THE ALLEY AND, TO THE 753 00:43:30,310 --> 00:43:36,483 REMAINING BROTHER'S HORROR, DISAPPEARED. 754 00:43:36,483 --> 00:43:41,221 A STRANGE CAR HOVERED NEARBY AS IF TO GUARD THE EXCHANGE 755 00:43:41,221 --> 00:43:43,823 IT WAS A POLICE CAR. AT THE VALSECA RANCH HOUSE IN 756 00:43:43,823 --> 00:43:45,091 SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, JAYNE AND THE FEDERAL AGENT HUDDLED AROUND 757 00:43:45,091 --> 00:43:53,266 THE DINING ROOM TABLE AND WAITED 758 00:43:53,266 --> 00:43:57,971 HOURS PASSED, AN ETERNITY. THE TENSION IN THE ROOM BECAME 759 00:43:57,971 --> 00:44:00,140 UNBEARABLE THEN, FINALLY, ONE OF THE TWO 760 00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:03,043 BROTHERS JAYNE HAD SENT TO DROP THE RANSOM MADE CONTACT. 761 00:44:03,043 --> 00:44:06,880 HE WAS STILL SITTING IN HIS CAR AT THE MOUTH OF THAT DARK ROAD 762 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,050 HE WAS TERRIFIED >> FINALLY THE AFI AGENT TOLD 763 00:44:10,050 --> 00:44:11,685 THE YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE TWO, WHO HAD GOTTEN LEFT BEHIND, TO 764 00:44:11,685 --> 00:44:16,856 PLEASE GO BACK TO THE HOTEL ROOM AND STAY BY THE PHONE. 765 00:44:16,856 --> 00:44:20,060 >> Reporter: THE REST OF THAT NIGHT AND ALL THE NEXT DAY, 766 00:44:20,060 --> 00:44:21,695 JAYNE, THE AFI AGENT AND THE YOUNG MAN IN THE HOTEL ROOM IN 767 00:44:21,695 --> 00:44:26,299 MEXICO CITY WATCHED THE PHONE, WILLING IT TO RING 768 00:44:26,299 --> 00:44:28,935 IT DID NOT >> IT TOOK ABOUT 24 HOURS. 769 00:44:28,935 --> 00:44:32,072 AND THEN I GOT AN EMAIL. IT SAID, IN A CYNICAL WAY, "WE 770 00:44:32,072 --> 00:44:34,974 HAVE THE PERSON YOU SENT WITH THE MONEY. 771 00:44:34,974 --> 00:44:37,811 WE'VE COUNTED THE MONEY. IT'S ALL THERE, IN UNMARKED 772 00:44:37,811 --> 00:44:40,947 BILLS, AS WE HAD REQUESTED." >> Reporter: BUT NOW, SAID THE 773 00:44:40,947 --> 00:44:43,650 KIDNAPPERS, NOW THEY WERE HOLDING JAYNE'S EMPLOYEE AND 774 00:44:43,650 --> 00:44:47,253 WOULD KEEP HOLDING HIM SO THAT WHEN THEY RELEASED EDUARDO, HE 775 00:44:47,253 --> 00:44:49,889 AND JAYNE WOULD HAVE TO COUGH UP EVEN MORE MONEY TO GET THAT MAN 776 00:44:49,889 --> 00:44:51,991 BACK WELL, WAIT A MINUTE. 777 00:44:51,991 --> 00:44:53,093 AT THAT POINT, NOW YOU'VE GOT NO EMPLOYEE 778 00:44:53,093 --> 00:44:56,096 YOU'VE GOT NO HUSBAND. YOU'VE GOT NO MONEY. 779 00:44:56,096 --> 00:44:58,832 >> BUT THAT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR THEM 780 00:44:58,832 --> 00:45:03,203 THESE PEOPLE NOT ONLY WANT EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE, 781 00:45:03,203 --> 00:45:05,705 EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN SELL, EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN GET A 782 00:45:05,705 --> 00:45:11,911 LOAN FOR, EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN BORROW 783 00:45:11,911 --> 00:45:15,048 THEY WANT TO WIPE YOU OUT. >> Reporter: NO ONE, NOT EVEN 784 00:45:15,048 --> 00:45:16,716 THE SEASONED FEDERAL AFI AGENT, PREDICTED THE KIDNAPPERS WOULD 785 00:45:16,716 --> 00:45:19,786 TAKE THE MONEY AND THE MAN WHO DELIVERED IT 786 00:45:19,786 --> 00:45:22,422 THAT AGENT WAS BY NOW PRACTICALLY A MEMBER OF THE 787 00:45:22,422 --> 00:45:24,491 FAMILY HE'D BEFRIENDED THE EMPLOYEES 788 00:45:24,491 --> 00:45:26,593 CHOSEN TO GO TO MEXICO CITY WITH THE MONEY. 789 00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:29,229 HE HAD BEEN THE COOL ONE WHO KEPT JAYNE GOING THROUGH HER 790 00:45:29,229 --> 00:45:35,068 MONTHS OF CRISIS BUT NOW? 791 00:45:35,068 --> 00:45:38,672 HE LEFT THE ROOM, STUNNED. >> MY STEPSON CAME INTO THE 792 00:45:38,672 --> 00:45:43,376 HOUSE SHORTLY AFTER. HE FOUND OUR AFI AGENT CRYING IN 793 00:45:43,376 --> 00:45:47,080 THE BACK ALLEY >> Reporter: THEY HAD FAILED 794 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,183 HAD THEY KILLED HIM AFTER ALL? AND IF NOT, WHERE WAS HE 795 00:45:50,183 --> 00:45:52,819 THE KIDNAPPERS PROMISED EDUARDO'S RELEASE 48 HOURS AFTER 796 00:45:52,819 --> 00:45:56,489 THE DROP THERE WAS NO WORD, NO CALL, 797 00:45:56,489 --> 00:45:59,092 NOTHING TO SUGGEST THE KIDNAPPERS HAD OR WOULD MAKE 798 00:45:59,092 --> 00:46:00,694 GOOD ON THEIR CLAIM. AND HERE AT THE RANCH, THERE WAS 799 00:46:00,694 --> 00:46:05,899 A FAMILY TO CARE FOR LIFE HAD TO GO ON. 800 00:46:05,899 --> 00:46:11,705 TWO DAYS AFTER THE RANSOM DROP, IN A SAD, DISTRACTED CEREMONY, 801 00:46:11,705 --> 00:46:14,841 THEY LIT CANDLES ON A CAKE AND MARKED FERNANDO'S 13th BIRTHDAY. 802 00:46:14,841 --> 00:46:16,443 >> THE ONLY THING I WISHED FOR WAS, YOU KNOW, IF MY DAD'S 803 00:46:16,443 --> 00:46:19,579 ALIVE, PLEASE JUST BRING HIM BACK 804 00:46:19,579 --> 00:46:23,750 >> Reporter: AND THEN, REST OF THE DAY, THEY TRIED TO RESUME 805 00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:26,886 SOMETHING LIKE A ROUTINE ROUTINE IN LIMBO, FORCED 806 00:46:26,886 --> 00:46:30,056 NORMALCY THERE WERE SMALL TEETH TO BRUSH, 807 00:46:30,056 --> 00:46:34,227 BEDTIME STORIES TO READ. THE NEXT MORNING, HER HEART 808 00:46:34,227 --> 00:46:38,431 HEAVY, JAYNE WILLED HERSELF OUT OF BED, GOT BREAKFAST FOR THE 809 00:46:38,431 --> 00:46:39,632 KIDS >> AS I'M CLEARING THE DISHES, 810 00:46:39,632 --> 00:46:42,902 SOMEONE WALKED BY. IT WAS VERY QUICK. 811 00:46:42,902 --> 00:46:44,704 AND IT WAS SOMEONE WHO LOOKED VERY THIN AND FRAIL. 812 00:46:44,704 --> 00:46:47,841 AND VERY, VERY OLD AND HAD A BASEBALL CAP, 813 00:46:47,841 --> 00:46:51,644 FLUORESCENT YELLOW BASEBALL CAP ON, DARK CLOTHING. 814 00:46:51,644 --> 00:46:55,181 >> Reporter: NOW WHAT? SHE KNEW THE KIDNAPPERS HAD BEEN 815 00:46:55,181 --> 00:47:01,021 WATCHING THE HOUSE WAS THIS ONE OF THEM, HERE WITH 816 00:47:01,021 --> 00:47:05,158 SOME FRESH HORROR? >>> COMING UP -- 817 00:47:05,158 --> 00:47:11,464 WHO WAS THAT QUIET STRANGER? FACE TO FACE WITH A GHOST. 818 00:47:11,464 --> 00:47:29,282 >> HE JUST FELT SO COLD. IT WAS -- IT WAS LITERALLY AS IF 819 00:47:29,282 --> 00:47:33,553 >> Reporter: IT WAS HER 16th WINTER IN MEXICO 820 00:47:33,553 --> 00:47:35,588 EDUARDO HAD BEEN GONE 7 1/2 MONTHS 821 00:47:35,588 --> 00:47:39,225 SHE'D SOLD WHAT SHE COULD, SENT THE MONEY, PLAYED HER HAND AND 822 00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:42,896 STILL DIDN'T KNOW. HAD THEY MURDERED THE LOVE OF 823 00:47:42,896 --> 00:47:45,598 HER LIFE AFTER ALL IT WAS MORNING IN THE KITCHEN. 824 00:47:45,598 --> 00:47:48,702 JAYNE STARED OUT THE BACK DOOR OF THE RANCH HOUSE IN SAN 825 00:47:48,702 --> 00:47:51,071 MIGUEL AND THAT'S WHEN SHE SAW IT 826 00:47:51,071 --> 00:47:53,907 THERE WAS A SKELETON OUT THERE, A WALKING DEAD MAN 827 00:47:53,907 --> 00:47:56,509 >> MY MOM LOOKS OUT THERE. SHE WALKS OVER TO THE WINDOW AND 828 00:47:56,509 --> 00:47:58,611 LOOKS CLOSER >> Reporter: IT TOOK A MOMENT TO 829 00:47:58,611 --> 00:48:03,350 REGISTER IT WAS EDUARDO 830 00:48:03,350 --> 00:48:07,020 SHE OPENED THE DOOR. >> I PULLED HIM INTO ME AND PUT 831 00:48:07,020 --> 00:48:09,322 MY ARMS AROUND HIM AND HE JUST FELT SO COLD 832 00:48:09,322 --> 00:48:12,759 IT WAS -- IT WAS LITERALLY AS IF HE -- HE WAS ALREADY DEAD. 833 00:48:12,759 --> 00:48:14,828 AND I JUST STARTED KISSING HIM ALL OVER HIS CHEEKS. 834 00:48:14,828 --> 00:48:20,600 HE COULD BARELY TALK HE JUST WHISPERED. 835 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,669 TOLD ME, "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH." >> Reporter: IT WAS AS IF HIS 836 00:48:22,669 --> 00:48:27,941 FREEDOM HAD COME AT THE LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT BEFORE DEATH 837 00:48:27,941 --> 00:48:30,043 AND THERE BY THE DOOR, AS SHE HELD HIM IN HER ARMS, HE BEGGED 838 00:48:30,043 --> 00:48:33,546 HER FOR HER SPECIAL BANANA PANCAKES 839 00:48:33,546 --> 00:48:36,850 >> HE SAID, "WHEN I WAS TRYING TO DREAM ABOUT WHAT IT COULD BE 840 00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:40,587 LIKE COMING BACK, IF I EVER WAS ABLE TO, I COULD ALWAYS SEE YOU 841 00:48:40,587 --> 00:48:45,792 STANDING THERE AT THE STOVE. I COULD SEE IT FROM THE BACK, 842 00:48:45,792 --> 00:48:48,395 MAKING MY FOOD." >> Reporter: IT WAS THE MORNING 843 00:48:48,395 --> 00:48:52,098 AFTER FERNANDO MADE HIS WISH, OVER HIS BIRTHDAY CAKE, FOR THIS 844 00:48:52,098 --> 00:48:55,235 VERY THING TO HAPPEN THAT'S SOME BIRTHDAY GIFT. 845 00:48:55,235 --> 00:49:06,613 >> JUST GRATEFUL BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT IN MY LIFE. 846 00:49:06,613 --> 00:49:07,580 I GOT MY DAD BACK. >> I JUST SPRINTED DOWN THE 847 00:49:07,580 --> 00:49:08,815 HALLWAY, AND I SAW HIM IN THE KITCHEN KNEELING DOWN LIKE THIS, 848 00:49:08,815 --> 00:49:10,383 WITH HIS ARMS OPEN AND I GAVE HIM A HUG 849 00:49:10,383 --> 00:49:11,651 AND -- AND THE FIRST THING THAT I NOTICED WAS TOUCHING HIS BONES 850 00:49:11,651 --> 00:49:13,019 AND -- >> Reporter: SKIN AND BONES, 851 00:49:13,019 --> 00:49:19,859 YEAH >> -- AND HE WAS PALE, AND HE 852 00:49:19,859 --> 00:49:23,029 LOOKED DEAD BUT CONSCIOUS. >> I REMEMBER I DIDN'T BELIEVE 853 00:49:23,029 --> 00:49:26,633 THAT THAT WAS MY DAD I THOUGHT MY MOM HIRED AN ACTOR 854 00:49:26,633 --> 00:49:29,369 TO PLAY DAD. >> Reporter: AS THE OLD EDUARDO 855 00:49:29,369 --> 00:49:32,872 CREPT BACK INTO THAT CADAVEROUS BODY, SURROUNDED BY HIS 856 00:49:32,872 --> 00:49:36,042 CHILDREN, HIS PLATES OF FOOD AND THE WOMAN WHO FOUGHT FOR HIM 857 00:49:36,042 --> 00:49:39,179 EVERY MINUTE OF THOSE MONTHS, WHO CRIED FOR HIM, WHO SAVED HIS 858 00:49:39,179 --> 00:49:41,281 LIFE ALWAYS JAYNE 859 00:49:41,281 --> 00:49:43,249 >> HE FOLLOWED ME AROUND A LOT HE WOULDN'T LET ME OUT OF HIS 860 00:49:43,249 --> 00:49:44,050 SIGHT, NOT EVEN TO USE THE RESTROOM 861 00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:47,387 HE WANTED TO FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE 862 00:49:47,387 --> 00:49:53,393 >> Reporter: AND HERE HE WAS, RESTORED 863 00:49:53,393 --> 00:49:58,064 >> I HADN'T SEEN MYSELF IN A MIRROR FOR 7 1/2 MONTHS. 864 00:49:58,064 --> 00:50:00,233 >> Reporter: "I'M LIVING EXTRA HOURS NOW," HE TOLD US 865 00:50:00,233 --> 00:50:03,837 BUT IN THOSE FIRST HOURS OF FREEDOM, HE FOUND IT HARD TO 866 00:50:03,837 --> 00:50:07,007 STAND. HE COULD BARELY WALK 867 00:50:07,007 --> 00:50:09,476 HE HAD LOST HALF HIS BODY WEIGHT -- WEIGHED BARELY 868 00:50:09,476 --> 00:50:15,882 80 POUNDS AND COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW TRULY AWFUL HE LOOKED. 869 00:50:15,882 --> 00:50:20,620 >> THE FIRST TIME THAT I SAW MYSELF AGAINST THE MIRROR, AND I 870 00:50:20,620 --> 00:50:24,290 LIFTED MY T-SHIRT, I PUT IT BACK ON IMMEDIATELY 871 00:50:24,290 --> 00:50:29,529 I COULDN'T BELIEVE I LOOKED LIKE PURE BONES AND SKIN. 872 00:50:29,529 --> 00:50:32,132 I JUST -- IT WAS TOO MUCH. >> Reporter: OF COURSE, GIVEN 873 00:50:32,132 --> 00:50:34,734 WHAT HE HAD BEEN THROUGH, HE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE SURVIVED 874 00:50:34,734 --> 00:50:38,938 AT ALL THE DOCTOR WHO FINALLY EXAMINED 875 00:50:38,938 --> 00:50:43,143 HIM NOTED LATE STAGE SEVERE STARVATION, LIVER DAMAGE, 876 00:50:43,143 --> 00:50:47,347 CONCUSSION, THREE BROKEN RIBS AND SEVERE STOMACH INFECTIONS. 877 00:50:47,347 --> 00:50:49,115 HE HOBBLED AROUND, BENT AND BRITTLE, HAD TO BE SUPPORTED UP 878 00:50:49,115 --> 00:50:52,585 OR DOWN THE STAIRS >> IT'S LIKE THEY SUCKED THE 879 00:50:52,585 --> 00:50:54,154 LIFE OUT OF ME THEY JUST TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY 880 00:50:54,154 --> 00:50:56,356 FROM ME. >> Reporter: DEAD, IN A WAY. 881 00:50:56,356 --> 00:50:59,926 ALIVE, BUT DEAD. >> EXACTLY 882 00:50:59,926 --> 00:51:02,529 EXACTLY. >> Reporter: AND YET, WITHIN 883 00:51:02,529 --> 00:51:05,699 THOSE FIRST HOURS AND DAYS OF FREEDOM -- 884 00:51:05,699 --> 00:51:10,670 >> HE WAS ALREADY LAUGHING AND -- AND -- IT -- IT WAS AS 885 00:51:10,670 --> 00:51:12,572 IF, DRIP BY DRIP, LIFE WAS COMING BACK INTO THIS SKELETON 886 00:51:12,572 --> 00:51:14,074 >> Reporter: KIND OF LIKE THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR 887 00:51:14,074 --> 00:51:17,210 LIFE, IS IT? >> COMPLETELY. 888 00:51:17,210 --> 00:51:20,880 >> Reporter: AND THEN SHE'D SEE A CLOUD ON HIS FACE OR SENSE THE 889 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,551 TORMENT IN HIS DREAMS AT NIGHT HE WOULD SUDDENLY BE HAUNTED 890 00:51:24,551 --> 00:51:29,289 AGAIN. >> I HAVE THESE FLASHBACKS OF -- 891 00:51:29,289 --> 00:51:31,891 I'M NOT SURE IF I'M DREAMING AND IS THIS TRUE THAT I'M OUT? 892 00:51:31,891 --> 00:51:35,095 OR IS JUST A REFLECTION OF MY THOUGHTS 893 00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:38,164 >> I WOULD WAKE UP EARLY EVERY MORNING AND GO CHECK IF -- THAT 894 00:51:38,164 --> 00:51:39,232 THAT WASN'T A DREAM. I'D WAKE UP -- 895 00:51:39,232 --> 00:51:42,369 >> Reporter: STILL THERE >> YEAH. 896 00:51:42,369 --> 00:51:44,471 I WOULD RUN UP TO HIS ROOM AND -- AND KNOCK AND SEE HIM GET 897 00:51:44,471 --> 00:51:46,573 UP "OKAY, HE'S -- HE'S BACK." 898 00:51:46,573 --> 00:51:51,811 >> Reporter: BUT THEY ALL KNEW THEIR LIVING NIGHTMARE WASN'T 899 00:51:51,811 --> 00:51:53,380 OVER THE KIDNAPPERS STILL HELD THEIR 900 00:51:53,380 --> 00:51:57,117 EMPLOYEE, WERE STILL THREATENING THE WHOLE FAMILY WITH DEATH. 901 00:51:57,117 --> 00:52:00,787 AND EDUARDO NEEDED TO TELL JAYNE, AS HE IS ABOUT TO TELL 902 00:52:00,787 --> 00:52:07,060 US, ABOUT HIS ASTONISHING ORDEAL 903 00:52:07,060 --> 00:52:08,061 >>> COMING UP -- >> Reporter: THIS IS 904 00:52:08,061 --> 00:52:10,196 UNBELIEVABLE HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR SANITY? 905 00:52:10,196 --> 00:52:13,833 >> MORE THAN SEVEN MONTHS IN HELL 906 00:52:13,833 --> 00:52:17,504 EXACTLY WHAT HAD HE ENDURED? >> I THOUGHT, "THIS IS IT. 907 00:52:17,504 --> 00:52:20,674 HE'S GONNA SHOOT ME. AND THEN I START HEARING 908 00:52:20,674 --> 00:52:40,326 THESE -- SOUNDS AND -- I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS GONNA DO. 909 00:52:40,326 --> 00:52:46,099 >> Reporter: EDUARDO VALSECA IS A CHARMING AND OUTGOING MAN WITH 910 00:52:46,099 --> 00:52:51,338 A READY LAUGH, AN INFECTIOUS ZEST FOR LIFE. 911 00:52:51,338 --> 00:52:54,474 HOW, WE WONDERED, GIVEN WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR, IS THAT 912 00:52:54,474 --> 00:52:57,110 STILL POSSIBLE HE CALLS IT THE BOX. 913 00:52:57,110 --> 00:53:00,246 SO THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE 914 00:53:00,246 --> 00:53:02,816 >> EXACTLY >> Reporter: WE BUILT A REPLICA, 915 00:53:02,816 --> 00:53:08,088 A PRECISE COPY OF THE MISERABLE CONTAINER IN WHICH EDUARDO WAS 916 00:53:08,088 --> 00:53:11,224 HELD FOR 7 1/2 MONTHS. HERE'S WHERE THE AIR GOES IN 917 00:53:11,224 --> 00:53:14,361 HERE'S WHERE IT'S PUMPED OUT GEEZ 918 00:53:14,361 --> 00:53:16,062 I -- YOU KNOW, I -- I -- I WOULDN'T FIT IN THIS DAMN 919 00:53:16,062 --> 00:53:19,599 THING. >> NO, NO, NO, NO. 920 00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:21,701 >> Reporter: JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL, THE INSIDE SURFACES 921 00:53:21,701 --> 00:53:26,873 ARE COVERED IN DARK, ABRASIVE RUG. 922 00:53:26,873 --> 00:53:28,608 A SINGLE BULB IN THE CEILING AN ELECTRONIC EYE, WATCHING. 923 00:53:28,608 --> 00:53:30,543 THE BOX IS ONLY SLIGHTLY WIDER THAN OUR OWN SHOULDERS 924 00:53:30,543 --> 00:53:32,712 BARELY LONG ENOUGH TO LIE DOWN IN 925 00:53:32,712 --> 00:53:37,417 BUT THIS -- THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE 926 00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:44,257 HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR SANITY? >> WHEN I FIRST ARRIVE HERE, AND 927 00:53:44,257 --> 00:53:46,760 I REPEAT MYSELF OVER AND OVER AND OVER, "CALM YOUR MIND DOWN." 928 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,928 >> Reporter: WHEN HE FIRST CAME HERE 929 00:53:48,928 --> 00:53:53,667 THAT WAS THE VIOLENT AMBUSH IN THE JEEP, OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL 930 00:53:53,667 --> 00:53:59,939 THEN THE BLOODY, SEMICONSCIOUS, HOODED RIDE THAT FOLLOWED, A 931 00:53:59,939 --> 00:54:02,042 BLIND HUSTLE INTO A BUILDING, UP A STAIRWELL, ON SOMEONE'S 932 00:54:02,042 --> 00:54:05,679 SHOULDER, THE STRIPPING OF ALL HIS CLOTHES, THE SUDDEN 933 00:54:05,679 --> 00:54:07,347 CONFINEMENT IN A BOX >> AND -- AND SINCE THE FIRST 934 00:54:07,347 --> 00:54:09,883 MINUTE, THAT'S THE ONLY THING I EVER SAW, JUST THAT BOX. 935 00:54:09,883 --> 00:54:14,087 >> Reporter: THEN THE VICIOUS DAILY BEATINGS 936 00:54:14,087 --> 00:54:16,690 AND THE RULES. RULE ONE, NO TALKING -- EVER 937 00:54:16,690 --> 00:54:19,092 COMMUNICATION WAS BY HANDWRITTEN NOTE 938 00:54:19,092 --> 00:54:21,795 THE KIDNAPPERS WOULD SIGNAL WHEN THEY WANTED TO ENTER THE BOX 939 00:54:21,795 --> 00:54:23,530 >> ALWAYS TWICE. ALWAYS LIKE THAT 940 00:54:23,530 --> 00:54:26,666 [ TWO KNOCKS ] >> Reporter: AND THAT WAS YOUR 941 00:54:26,666 --> 00:54:30,837 SIGNAL TO DO WHAT? >> TO PUT A -- A PILLOWCASE OVER 942 00:54:30,837 --> 00:54:32,939 MY HEAD AND IMMEDIATELY GO LIKE I AM RIGHT NOW, PUT MY HEAD 943 00:54:32,939 --> 00:54:35,075 AGAINST THE WALL ALWAYS 944 00:54:35,075 --> 00:54:37,711 >> Reporter: SO YOU SEE -- YOU'D NEVER SEE THEIR FACES. 945 00:54:37,711 --> 00:54:40,280 >> NEVER EVER, EVER. >> Reporter: THEY WATCHED HIM ON 946 00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,750 THE WEBCAM, KEPT HIM NAKED, FED HIM AN OCCASIONAL PIECE OF FRUIT 947 00:54:43,750 --> 00:54:46,586 OR A SALAD A SMALL BUCKET SERVED AS HIS 948 00:54:46,586 --> 00:54:49,356 TOILET IT WAS RARELY EMPTIED. 949 00:54:49,356 --> 00:54:51,825 HIS KIDNAPPERS KEPT THE LIGHT BURNING, DAY AND NIGHT, BLASTED 950 00:54:51,825 --> 00:54:59,666 THE INSIDE OF THE BOX WITH HIGH VOLUME MUSIC 951 00:54:59,666 --> 00:55:04,371 * >> I SAY, "PLEASE, JUST TURN OFF 952 00:55:04,371 --> 00:55:07,540 THE MUSIC JUST ONCE, PLEASE. THEY SAY, "IF WE TURN OFF THE 953 00:55:07,540 --> 00:55:10,677 MUSIC AND YOU'RE ABLE TO HEAR WHAT WE TALK ABOUT, THEN WE HAVE 954 00:55:10,677 --> 00:55:13,046 TO KILL YOU. >> Reporter: HOW LOUD WAS THIS 955 00:55:13,046 --> 00:55:16,950 MUSIC? >> VERY LOUD 956 00:55:16,950 --> 00:55:20,053 TO THE POINT THAT I LOST 50% OF MY HEARING ON THE RIGHT SIDE 957 00:55:20,053 --> 00:55:22,722 >> Reporter: THE BEATINGS, SAID EDUARDO, INTENSIFIED EACH TIME 958 00:55:22,722 --> 00:55:26,359 HE WAS ORDERED TO WRITE JAYNE A NEW LETTER BEGGING HER TO PAY. 959 00:55:26,359 --> 00:55:29,963 >> HE BROKE MY BONES AND ALL THAT, JUST KICKING ME. 960 00:55:29,963 --> 00:55:34,734 I COULDN'T FEEL A SHAPE OF MY HEAD ANYMORE 961 00:55:34,734 --> 00:55:36,836 IT WAS FULL OF BUMPS >> Reporter: HE SECRETLY MARKED 962 00:55:36,836 --> 00:55:39,973 OFF THE PASSING DAYS ON SAVED SCRAPS OF PAPER. 963 00:55:39,973 --> 00:55:41,541 SLOWLY, HE STARVED IF THEY GAVE HIM A BIT OF 964 00:55:41,541 --> 00:55:44,678 CHICKEN, HE'D EAT THE BONE AS WELL 965 00:55:44,678 --> 00:55:48,348 AN EGG, THE SHELL. AND THE TORTURES INTENSIFIED 966 00:55:48,348 --> 00:55:50,984 AND THE KIDNAPPERS SENT HIM NOTES TELLING HIM JAYNE DIDN'T 967 00:55:50,984 --> 00:55:54,621 CARE ABOUT HIM, HAD MOVED ANOTHER MAN INTO THE RANCH TO 968 00:55:54,621 --> 00:55:56,723 LIVE WITH HER. AND IN THE ENDLESS HOURS OF 969 00:55:56,723 --> 00:56:02,028 COFFIN-LIKE SOLITUDE, DOUBTS ATE AT HIS MIND. 970 00:56:02,028 --> 00:56:04,597 >> I START FEELING MIXED FEELINGS 971 00:56:04,597 --> 00:56:07,267 I THOUGHT MAYBE SHE'S FEELING THAT THEY GONNA KILL ME ANYWAY, 972 00:56:07,267 --> 00:56:10,870 AND THEY GONNA TAKE THE LITTLE BIT OF MONEY THAT -- THAT -- 973 00:56:10,870 --> 00:56:12,572 THAT WE HAVE >> Reporter: THEY FORCED HIM TO 974 00:56:12,572 --> 00:56:16,109 WRITE THOSE ACCUSING LETTERS TO JAYNE, HE SAID 975 00:56:16,109 --> 00:56:18,178 AND WHEN SHE DIDN'T PAY, THEY GAVE HIM A NOTE ANNOUNCING THEY 976 00:56:18,178 --> 00:56:21,881 WOULD SHOOT HIM. >> THEY CAME IN. 977 00:56:21,881 --> 00:56:25,051 THEY COVER MY FACE THEY HANDCUFF ME 978 00:56:25,051 --> 00:56:27,654 THEY -- THEY PUT ME FACE DOWN ON THE FLOOR. 979 00:56:27,654 --> 00:56:29,189 THEY PUT THE GUN RIGHT ON MY LEG, AND THEY SHOT ME RIGHT 980 00:56:29,189 --> 00:56:34,794 THERE. AND THE PAIN IS TREMENDOUS 981 00:56:34,794 --> 00:56:37,597 IT'S LIKE A BOMB COMING FROM THE INSIDE OF YOUR BODY, OUT 982 00:56:37,597 --> 00:56:39,265 >> Reporter: THEN, TWO WEEKS LATER, AGAIN THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN 983 00:56:39,265 --> 00:56:45,972 ADVANCE -- "YOU WILL BE SHOT. 984 00:56:45,972 --> 00:56:49,175 >> AND -- AND NOW HE SHOT ME IN THE LEFT ARM AND RIGHT HERE. 985 00:56:49,175 --> 00:56:53,313 AND AGAIN, HE DIDN'T WANNA SHOOT THE -- THE BONE. 986 00:56:53,313 --> 00:56:54,881 SO HE WENT -- HE WENT FROM HERE, AND IT CAME OUT ON THE OTHER 987 00:56:54,881 --> 00:56:57,517 SIDE I WAS NOT AFRAID OF DYING 988 00:56:57,517 --> 00:57:05,392 BECAUSE I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. 989 00:57:05,392 --> 00:57:08,561 IF I HAD HAD A PIECE OF GLASS OR IF I HAD HAD ANYTHING, I WOULD 990 00:57:08,561 --> 00:57:10,630 HAVE KILLED MYSELF >> Reporter: AND SO HE THOUGHT 991 00:57:10,630 --> 00:57:14,300 OF HOME, OF HIS WIFE'S BANANA PANCAKES 992 00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:16,903 HE IMAGINED THE FACES OF HIS CHILDREN 993 00:57:16,903 --> 00:57:20,573 >> I WOULD HEAR FERNANDO SAYING, "DAD, I MISS YOU." 994 00:57:20,573 --> 00:57:27,380 AND I WOULD SEE EMILIANO SO CONFUSED 995 00:57:27,380 --> 00:57:31,584 I WOULD MISS NAYA'S BEAUTIFUL GREEN EYES 996 00:57:31,584 --> 00:57:37,357 >> Reporter: HE WAS IN HIS BOX FOR A TOTAL OF 225 DAYS. 997 00:57:37,357 --> 00:57:39,392 AND THEN, ONE MORNING -- >> HE PUT ME AGAINST THIS WALL 998 00:57:39,392 --> 00:57:40,560 WITH THE HANDCUFFS AND -- AND I THOUGHT, "THIS IS 999 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:48,301 IT HE'S GONNA SHOOT ME. 1000 00:57:48,301 --> 00:57:49,369 [ SIGH ] I WAS SCARED 1001 00:57:49,369 --> 00:58:00,347 AND THEN I START HEARING THESE SOUNDS 1002 00:58:00,347 --> 00:58:01,414 AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS GONNA DO 1003 00:58:01,414 --> 00:58:03,016 >> Reporter: BUT THEY DIDN'T SHOOT HIM. 1004 00:58:03,016 --> 00:58:05,118 INSTEAD, THEY SHAVED HIM AND DRESSED HIM AND TOOK THE PROOF 1005 00:58:05,118 --> 00:58:06,686 OF LIFE PHOTO JAYNE WAS ABOUT TO FIND IN HER EMAIL. 1006 00:58:06,686 --> 00:58:10,857 AND THEN THEY TIED THE HOOD BACK ON HIS HEAD AND PUT HIM IN A CAR 1007 00:58:10,857 --> 00:58:15,028 AND BROUGHT HIM HERE THEY ORDERED, "FACE THE WALL." 1008 00:58:15,028 --> 00:58:19,232 IT WAS A CEMETERY WALL TO DIE 1009 00:58:19,232 --> 00:58:24,037 A VOICE BEHIND HIM SAID, "START COUNTING." 1010 00:58:24,037 --> 00:58:28,541 >> SO I START COUNTING FROM 1 TO 200 RIGHT HERE AND - 1011 00:58:28,541 --> 00:58:29,442 >> Reporter: DID YOU GET ALL THE WAY TO 200 1012 00:58:29,442 --> 00:58:34,047 >> YES ABSOLUTELY 1013 00:58:34,047 --> 00:58:36,583 OH, I WAS SO SCARE -- YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T WANNA SCREWED IT UP 1014 00:58:36,583 --> 00:58:41,054 >> Reporter: AND THEN HE TURNED AROUND, AND THEY WERE GONE 1015 00:58:41,054 --> 00:58:44,891 YOU HAD BEEN IN THAT BOX ALL THAT TIME, AND HERE YOU ARE 1016 00:58:44,891 --> 00:58:49,062 STANDING ALL ALONE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, UNDER THE 1017 00:58:49,062 --> 00:58:50,663 SKY. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE 1018 00:58:50,663 --> 00:58:55,368 >> THE FIRST TIME IN 7 1/2 MONTHS THAT I COULD FEEL 1019 00:58:55,368 --> 00:58:58,071 THE WIND AND I COULD MOVE MY LEGS AND 1020 00:58:58,071 --> 00:59:01,641 JUST MOVE AWAY FROM THE WALL AND -- AND - 1021 00:59:01,641 --> 00:59:03,677 AND IT FELT REALLY LIKE WALKING IN A DIFFERENT PLANET. 1022 00:59:03,677 --> 00:59:06,346 >> Reporter: HIS LEGS WERE SO WEAK HE STUMBLED AND FELL AS HE 1023 00:59:06,346 --> 00:59:09,549 HOBBLED TO A NEARBY ROAD HE FELT IN HIS POCKET. 1024 00:59:09,549 --> 00:59:14,821 A FEW PESOS IN THERE HE HAD NO IDEA WHERE HE WAS. 1025 00:59:14,821 --> 00:59:17,390 >> THERE WAS AN OLD MAN ALREADY SITTING THERE, WAITING FOR THE 1026 00:59:17,390 --> 00:59:21,027 BUS FROM MEXICO CITY I TOLD HIM WHERE I WAS GOING - 1027 00:59:21,027 --> 00:59:23,663 RANCHO LOS CHARCOS AND HE TOLD ME, "THIS IS THE 1028 00:59:23,663 --> 00:59:26,266 RIGHT BUS. >> Reporter: WHICH IS HOW, EARLY 1029 00:59:26,266 --> 00:59:31,037 THAT MORNING, EDUARDO VALSECA ARRIVED AT HIS OWN BACK DOOR AND 1030 00:59:31,037 --> 00:59:35,709 ASKED HIS WIFE TO MAKE BANANA PANCAKES 1031 00:59:35,709 --> 00:59:38,812 UNMITIGATED JOY. AND TERROR 1032 00:59:38,812 --> 00:59:44,084 TERROR OH, YES. 1033 00:59:44,084 --> 00:59:46,686 IT WASN'T OVER >> I COULDN'T EVEN RELISH IN THE 1034 00:59:46,686 --> 00:59:49,856 MOMENT HAVING MY HUSBAND BACK BECAUSE WE WERE STILL DEALING 1035 00:59:49,856 --> 00:59:52,459 WITH THESE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: NOW, REMEMBER, THE 1036 00:59:52,459 --> 00:59:55,095 KIDNAPPERS WERE HOLDING JAYNE AND EDUARDO'S EMPLOYEE, THE MAN 1037 00:59:55,095 --> 00:59:59,799 WHO'D VOLUNTEERED TO DELIVER THE RANSOM AND, FOR HIS TROUBLE, WAS 1038 00:59:59,799 --> 01:00:03,470 SNATCHED AT THE DROP SITE. SO NOW A NEW ROUND OF EMAILED 1039 01:00:03,470 --> 01:00:05,038 DEMANDS BEGAN ARRIVING >> WE -- WE STARTED NEGOTIATING. 1040 01:00:05,038 --> 01:00:09,209 IT WAS LIKE THE WHOLE THING ALL OVER AGAIN 1041 01:00:09,209 --> 01:00:11,311 >> Reporter: BUT THIS TIME, THE KIDNAPPERS PROMISED TO KILL NOT 1042 01:00:11,311 --> 01:00:15,548 JUST THE EMPLOYEE, BUT THE WHOLE FAMILY 1043 01:00:15,548 --> 01:00:17,117 ALL OF THEM. >> SO YOU'RE STILL TERRIFIED, 1044 01:00:17,117 --> 01:00:20,220 YOU KNOW >> I JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT 1045 01:00:20,220 --> 01:00:22,422 WASN'T OVER. >> Reporter: THE FEDERAL POLICE 1046 01:00:22,422 --> 01:00:25,992 ASKED THEM TO GO TO MEXICO CITY TO BE DEBRIEFED BY SENIOR 1047 01:00:25,992 --> 01:00:29,262 OFFICIALS. BUT THEY WEREN'T PREPARED -- HOW 1048 01:00:29,262 --> 01:00:35,402 COULD THEY BE -- FOR WHAT THEY'D HEAR THERE 1049 01:00:35,402 --> 01:00:38,004 >>> COMING UP -- THE ENTIRE FAMILY, SUDDENLY IN 1050 01:00:38,004 --> 01:00:41,174 DANGER AGAIN >> I LOST MY BEST FRIENDS. 1051 01:00:41,174 --> 01:00:42,542 I LOST MY HOME >> EVERYTHING CHANGED. 1052 01:00:42,542 --> 01:00:45,345 EVERY SINGLE THING THAT YOU COULD IMAGINE. 1053 01:00:45,345 --> 01:00:48,782 >> AND THE CRUELEST SETBACK OF ALL. 1054 01:00:48,782 --> 01:00:51,117 >> THAT WAS THE WORST THING IN MY LIFE, MORE THAN THE 1055 01:00:51,117 --> 01:01:10,303 KIDNAPPING, THOUGH THAT WAS >> Reporter: OFFICIALS OF THE 1056 01:01:10,303 --> 01:01:12,238 FEDERAL POLICE LISTENED VERY CAREFULLY WHILE JAYNE AND 1057 01:01:12,238 --> 01:01:15,342 EDUARDO TOLD THEIR TERRIFYING STORY. 1058 01:01:15,342 --> 01:01:18,478 BUT WHAT THE OFFICIALS SAID IN RESPONSE WAS SHOCKING. 1059 01:01:18,478 --> 01:01:21,614 AND FINAL. "YOU MUST LEAVE THE COUNTRY 1060 01:01:21,614 --> 01:01:26,720 NOW," THEY WERE TOLD, "FOR YOUR SAFETY." 1061 01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,455 THEIR GUARD HUSTLED THEM BACK TO THE RANCH, ALLOWED 48 HOURS TO 1062 01:01:28,455 --> 01:01:31,091 PREPARE. AND THEN, IN A MOMENT, IT WAS 1063 01:01:31,091 --> 01:01:35,795 OVER THEY GATHERED WHAT THEY COULD 1064 01:01:35,795 --> 01:01:41,101 CARRY, LEFT BEHIND CLOTHES AND DOLLS AND DONKEYS AND DOGS, 1065 01:01:41,101 --> 01:01:46,806 BUNNY RABBITS. AND THEY LEFT. 1066 01:01:46,806 --> 01:01:53,113 LEFT FOREVER THE KIDNAPPERS HAD LEFT EDUARDO 1067 01:01:53,113 --> 01:01:56,783 ALIVE IF BARELY, BUT PARADISE? PARADISE WAS LOST. 1068 01:01:56,783 --> 01:01:59,919 >> I LOST MY BEST FRIENDS. I LOST MY HOME 1069 01:01:59,919 --> 01:02:04,891 I LOST EVERYTHING THAT I KNEW ABOUT LIFE 1070 01:02:04,891 --> 01:02:07,260 JUST LIKE THAT, GONE >> Reporter: THEY CAME TO 1071 01:02:07,260 --> 01:02:12,499 AMERICA, TO JAYNE'S MOTHER'S PLACE, TO START ALL OVER AGAIN 1072 01:02:12,499 --> 01:02:16,069 >> I WANTED CHANGE AFTER THAT HAPPENED 1073 01:02:16,069 --> 01:02:18,705 I WANTED A NEW ENVIRONMENT, AND I WANTED CHANGE. 1074 01:02:18,705 --> 01:02:20,874 >> WE NEEDED A RESET BUTTON AFTER -- AFTER EVERYTHING. 1075 01:02:20,874 --> 01:02:22,442 >> EVERYTHING CHANGED FROM ONE DAY TO ANOTHER 1076 01:02:22,442 --> 01:02:25,078 EVERYTHING EVERY SINGLE THING THAT YOU 1077 01:02:25,078 --> 01:02:27,147 COULD IMAGINE. IT'S LITERALLY TWO DIFFERENT 1078 01:02:27,147 --> 01:02:30,316 LIVES. >> Reporter: THAT KIDNAPPED 1079 01:02:30,316 --> 01:02:32,485 EMPLOYEE, BY THE WAY THE KIDNAPPERS SIMPLY RELEASED 1080 01:02:32,485 --> 01:02:36,089 HIM NEARLY THREE MONTHS LATER, NO RANSOM AT ALL 1081 01:02:36,089 --> 01:02:38,992 THE FEDERAL POLICE CONTINUED TO MAINTAIN THAT THE KIDNAPPING WAS 1082 01:02:38,992 --> 01:02:43,863 THE WORK OF A MARXIST REVOLUTION PARTY CALLED THE EPR 1083 01:02:43,863 --> 01:02:50,270 BUT THERE WERE NO ARRESTS. THERE WERE NO ANSWERS. 1084 01:02:50,270 --> 01:02:52,405 AND GRADUALLY, THE MEMORY OF THEIR TERROR WAS MIXED WITH 1085 01:02:52,405 --> 01:02:56,543 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIFE THEY'D LEFT BEHIND. 1086 01:02:56,543 --> 01:02:59,679 WHICH IS, IN PART, WHY A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER EDUARDO'S 1087 01:02:59,679 --> 01:03:03,883 RELEASE, HE AND JAYNE DECIDED TO RETURN WITH US TO THEIR BELOVED 1088 01:03:03,883 --> 01:03:05,051 RANCH. BUT IT HAD TO BE SECRET, EDUARDO 1089 01:03:05,051 --> 01:03:09,122 TOLD US. NO ONE COULD KNOW THEY WERE 1090 01:03:09,122 --> 01:03:11,791 COMING >> BECAUSE YOU -- YOU NEVER KNOW 1091 01:03:11,791 --> 01:03:12,792 WHO IS INFORMING THESE -- THESE PEOPLE 1092 01:03:12,792 --> 01:03:14,861 >> Reporter: OF COURSE >> THEY KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT 1093 01:03:14,861 --> 01:03:21,167 THE KIDS THEY KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT US. 1094 01:03:21,167 --> 01:03:22,369 ANYBODY COULD BE THERE TELLING THEM, YOU KNOW, "HERE, THEY'RE 1095 01:03:22,369 --> 01:03:25,872 BACK." >> Reporter: BODYGUARDS WOULD 1096 01:03:25,872 --> 01:03:28,074 COME ALONG TOO, A STRANGE ACCESSORY NOW GIVEN WHAT A FREE 1097 01:03:28,074 --> 01:03:31,611 AND HAPPY PLACE THE RANCH USED TO BE. 1098 01:03:31,611 --> 01:03:34,214 THAT FIRST NIGHT, THOUGH, IN YOUR OLD BED IN THE HOUSE. 1099 01:03:34,214 --> 01:03:36,349 WAS THAT A LITTLE WEIRD GETTING BACK INTO THAT 1100 01:03:36,349 --> 01:03:44,691 >> OH, IT WAS GREAT. I MEAN, REALLY 1101 01:03:44,691 --> 01:03:45,725 >> AND I SLEPT WELL KNOWING THAT WE HAD BODYGUARDS. 1102 01:03:45,725 --> 01:03:47,327 >> Reporter: IT WAS JUST AS THEY LEFT IT. 1103 01:03:47,327 --> 01:03:48,895 THEIR CLOTHES STILL FILLED THE CLOSETS. 1104 01:03:48,895 --> 01:03:52,565 FAMILY PORTRAITS DECORATED THEIR ROOMS. 1105 01:03:52,565 --> 01:03:57,303 EVEN THE DOGS GREETED THEM AS IF THEIR FORCED DEPARTURE HAD BEEN 1106 01:03:57,303 --> 01:04:02,042 YESTERDAY. THERE WAS A HAPPY REUNION AT THE 1107 01:04:02,042 --> 01:04:05,145 SCHOOL JAYNE HELPED FOUND. THEY LED HER AROUND THE CAMPUS 1108 01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:09,849 TO SHOW OFF THE PROGRESS THEY'D MADE IN HER ABSENCE. 1109 01:04:09,849 --> 01:04:15,622 >> WOW, IT LOOKS AMAZING >> Reporter: HOW PAINFUL THAT 1110 01:04:15,622 --> 01:04:17,724 ABSENCE HAD BEEN THEIR TRIP BACK TO THE RANCH 1111 01:04:17,724 --> 01:04:21,895 COINCIDED WITH EDUARDO'S 61st BIRTHDAY 1112 01:04:21,895 --> 01:04:25,065 SO JAYNE HASTILY ORGANIZED A FIESTA WITH ONLY CLOSE AND 1113 01:04:25,065 --> 01:04:30,270 TRUSTED FRIENDS. AND THEY, IN A MAGIC EVENING, 1114 01:04:30,270 --> 01:04:33,840 WERE TRANSPORTED BACK INTO THE WORLD THEY LEFT BEHIND 1115 01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:41,281 A WORLD THEY LOVED * 1116 01:04:41,281 --> 01:04:48,088 >> IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL FOR JAYNE AND I. 1117 01:04:48,088 --> 01:04:49,322 WAS JUST, LIKE, 100% THERAPY TO GO BACK TO THE PLACE AND BE -- 1118 01:04:49,322 --> 01:04:54,361 AND FEEL HAPPY ABOUT IT AND FEEL SAFE ABOUT IT. 1119 01:04:54,361 --> 01:04:56,463 IT WAS FANTASTIC >> Reporter: THE UNEASE, IF 1120 01:04:56,463 --> 01:05:00,133 THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, THAT ACCOMPANIED JAYNE AND EDUARDO 1121 01:05:00,133 --> 01:05:03,303 BACK TO THEIR RANCH IN SAN MIGUEL HAD VANISHED. 1122 01:05:03,303 --> 01:05:07,040 THIS WAS HOME, AND IT WAS TUGGING HARD 1123 01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,042 COME BACK. AND THEN - 1124 01:05:09,042 --> 01:05:11,144 WHAT JUST HAPPENED JUST -- JUST NOW, WHAT HAPPENED? 1125 01:05:11,144 --> 01:05:15,348 >> OKAY, WELL, EDUARDO CAME THROUGH THE DOOR WITH THE LAWYER 1126 01:05:15,348 --> 01:05:16,616 AND TOLD ME THAT NOW THE ENTIRE TRAIN HAS BEEN DESTROYED ON THE 1127 01:05:16,616 --> 01:05:21,087 INSIDE IT'S BEEN RANSACKED. 1128 01:05:21,087 --> 01:05:24,758 >> Reporter: IT WAS THE PULLMAN CAR, EDUARDO'S INHERITANCE FROM 1129 01:05:24,758 --> 01:05:26,860 HIS FAMOUS FATHER, THE TRAIN IN WHICH HE WOOED JAYNE AS THEY 1130 01:05:26,860 --> 01:05:28,061 FELL IN LOVE HE'D BROUGHT IT TO THE RANCH, A 1131 01:05:28,061 --> 01:05:32,599 SORT OF MAGIC SHRINE TO THEIR LOVE AND HIS PAST. 1132 01:05:32,599 --> 01:05:34,167 SOMEONE, WHILE THEY WERE RIGHT HERE AT THE RANCH, HAD BROKEN 1133 01:05:34,167 --> 01:05:37,837 IN, SMASHED IT UP. THEY WERE BEING WATCHED. 1134 01:05:37,837 --> 01:05:42,075 IT FELT LIKE A WARNING AND THE POLICE 1135 01:05:42,075 --> 01:05:43,643 >> WE CALLED THEM. THEY SAID THEY COULDN'T COME 1136 01:05:43,643 --> 01:05:47,280 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE GASOLINE 1137 01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:51,084 IMAGINE THE ANSWER FOR A POLICE FORCE TO SAY THAT THEY CANNOT GO 1138 01:05:51,084 --> 01:05:55,622 TO THE RANCH BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GASOLINE. 1139 01:05:55,622 --> 01:05:58,825 >> Reporter: AND QUITE SUDDENLY, THEY KNEW. 1140 01:05:58,825 --> 01:06:01,461 IT WAS OVER. >> I'M JUST FEELING LIKE THAT 1141 01:06:01,461 --> 01:06:03,596 I'M SO OVERWHELMED WITH THE SITUATION THAT WE'RE LIVING IN 1142 01:06:03,596 --> 01:06:08,234 IN MEXICO TODAY THAT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT 1143 01:06:08,234 --> 01:06:12,038 I JUST CANNOT BEAR IT ANYMORE. I WANNA GET FAR AWAY FROM HERE 1144 01:06:12,038 --> 01:06:17,677 >> Reporter: SO EDUARDO SAID GOOD-BYE TO HIS NATIVE LAND. 1145 01:06:17,677 --> 01:06:20,814 JAYNE WAS HIS COUNTRY NOW. THE WOMAN HE SAW AT THE PHONE 1146 01:06:20,814 --> 01:06:23,516 BOOTH ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. WHOM HE WOOED ON HIS TRAIN CAR 1147 01:06:23,516 --> 01:06:27,253 WHO MADE A FAMILY AND SAVED HIS LIFE 1148 01:06:27,253 --> 01:06:31,825 WHO, AS HE SAT CRUMPLED IN HIS BOX, KEPT HIM ALIVE. 1149 01:06:31,825 --> 01:06:33,393 AND IN LOVE. >> I ALWAYS KNEW LOVE IS 1150 01:06:33,393 --> 01:06:38,098 IMPORTANT, BUT NEVER AS IMPORTANT AS I KNOW NOW. 1151 01:06:38,098 --> 01:06:42,302 SO YOU LEARN -- IT CHANGES YOUR LIFE FOREVER, FOR SURE 1152 01:06:42,302 --> 01:06:47,173 >> Reporter: BUT IT DOES NOT MAKE LIFE FAIR 1153 01:06:47,173 --> 01:06:49,709 WE HAVE TO TELL YOU, THOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO SO, THAT 1154 01:06:49,709 --> 01:06:52,746 JAYNE VALSECA'S BREAST CANCER RETURNED FULL FORCE. 1155 01:06:52,746 --> 01:07:00,086 AND FOUR YEARS AFTER SHE FOUGHT FOR AND WON EDUARDO'S FREEDOM, 1156 01:07:00,086 --> 01:07:02,155 SHE DIED THAT HAD TO BE A DARK TIME FOR 1157 01:07:02,155 --> 01:07:05,825 YOU. TERRIBLE TIME. 1158 01:07:05,825 --> 01:07:07,427 >> THAT WAS HORRIBLE THAT WAS THE WORST THING IN MY 1159 01:07:07,427 --> 01:07:10,030 LIFE MORE THAN THE KIDNAPPING, THOUGH 1160 01:07:10,030 --> 01:07:13,867 THAT WAS TERRIBLE. >> IT WAS DEFINITELY THE MOST 1161 01:07:13,867 --> 01:07:17,904 DIFFICULT TIME OF MY LIFE, LOSIN' THAT WOMAN. 1162 01:07:17,904 --> 01:07:23,109 YEAH >> SHE WAS A HERO. 1163 01:07:23,109 --> 01:07:31,418 SHE WAS -- SHE WAS A BAD ASS YEAH, SHE WAS AMAZING. 1164 01:07:31,418 --> 01:07:33,053 I LOOK AT HER AS, LIKE, THE PERSON I WANNA BECOME ONE DAY. 1165 01:07:33,053 --> 01:07:35,155 >> I'M VERY LUCKY TO HAVE HAD A -- A WOMAN LIKE THAT AS A 1166 01:07:35,155 --> 01:07:38,825 MOTHER VERY LUCKY 1167 01:07:38,825 --> 01:07:44,064 >> Reporter: NOW HER PRESENCE HOVERS OVER EVERYTHING 1168 01:07:44,064 --> 01:07:48,234 BUT THEY ARE REALISTS. SHE IS GONE, NOTHING THEY CAN 1169 01:07:48,234 --> 01:07:50,537 DO SO DID IT MATTER ANYMORE, 1170 01:07:50,537 --> 01:07:54,074 FINDING OUT WHO KIDNAPPED AND TORTURED EDUARDO ALL THOSE 1171 01:07:54,074 --> 01:07:59,245 225 DAYS OR CATCHING WHOEVER IT WAS? 1172 01:07:59,245 --> 01:08:00,814 >> I PUT THAT AWAY I -- I WASN'T EVEN THINKING OF 1173 01:08:00,814 --> 01:08:02,682 IT I -- OF COURSE I WANTED JUSTICE, 1174 01:08:02,682 --> 01:08:04,017 BUT I DIDN'T - >> Reporter: BUT YOU ACCEPT THAT 1175 01:08:04,017 --> 01:08:08,655 YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER GET IT >> YEAH, YEAH, EXACTLY 1176 01:08:08,655 --> 01:08:11,291 >> I WAS PISSED OFF, AND I WAS SICK AND TIRED OF -- OF 1177 01:08:11,291 --> 01:08:13,893 SUFFERING OUT THERE THAT I WAS HAPPY TO BE BACK HERE, AND ALL I 1178 01:08:13,893 --> 01:08:17,564 WANTED TO DO IS NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. 1179 01:08:17,564 --> 01:08:20,166 >> Reporter: DID YOU, AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY, THINK, "I'M 1180 01:08:20,166 --> 01:08:25,939 NEVER GONNA FIND OUT WHO DID THIS TO ME, WHO DID THIS TO US, 1181 01:08:25,939 --> 01:08:27,574 AND I'LL JUST GIVE UP" >> AFTER -- AFTER THE -- TIME 1182 01:08:27,574 --> 01:08:30,110 WENT BY, AND I KNOW THESE GUYS, THE POLICE AND THE GOVERNMENT 1183 01:08:30,110 --> 01:08:33,279 AND ALL OF THAT. THEY WILL NEVER CALL ME BACK, 1184 01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:37,484 AND THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT IT. I TOTALLY LOST HOPE. 1185 01:08:37,484 --> 01:08:41,654 >> Reporter: AND THEN, OUT OF THE BLUE TOTAL FLUKE, SOMETHING 1186 01:08:41,654 --> 01:08:45,325 AMAZING HAPPENED ALL BECAUSE OF ONE NERVOUS CAB 1187 01:08:45,325 --> 01:08:52,665 DRIVER AND A SEVERED FINGER. AND A HARROWING TALE 1188 01:08:52,665 --> 01:08:56,403 >>> COMING UP -- >> HE SAYS THEY GRABBED A VERY 1189 01:08:56,403 --> 01:09:00,507 DANGEROUS KIDNAPPER, "THAT WE REALLY, SERIOUSLY THINK IS THE 1190 01:09:00,507 --> 01:09:01,608 SAME GUY THAT GRABBED YOU. >> AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, AN 1191 01:09:01,608 --> 01:09:08,915 ARREST AND COULD IT BE? 1192 01:09:08,915 --> 01:09:10,483 WAS THIS HIS PRISON? >> WOW, IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE 1193 01:09:10,483 --> 01:09:29,269 THIS IS THE PLACE. >> Reporter: THE NEWS FROM SAN 1194 01:09:29,269 --> 01:09:33,440 MIGUEL DE ALLENDE HAD BEEN DRAMATIC, REMARKABLE 1195 01:09:33,440 --> 01:09:36,176 HERE IT WAS FROM THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, A MONTHS' LONG 1196 01:09:36,176 --> 01:09:42,349 KIDNAPPING SOLVED, WITH AN ARREST 1197 01:09:42,349 --> 01:09:45,485 >> THE KIDNAPPERS DEMANDED LARGE RANSOMS THAT MUST BE PAID IN 1198 01:09:45,485 --> 01:09:49,689 U.S. DOLLARS >> Reporter: BUT WAS THIS THE 1199 01:09:49,689 --> 01:09:54,394 REVOLUTIONARY GROUP EDUARDO HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT AGAIN AND AGAIN? 1200 01:09:54,394 --> 01:09:58,598 NO THIS WAS A CHILEAN NATIONAL, A 1201 01:09:58,598 --> 01:10:01,768 RESIDENT OF SAN MIGUEL, AND HIS KIDNAPPING BUSINESS APPEARED TO 1202 01:10:01,768 --> 01:10:12,212 BE FREELANCE FOR THE MONEY. 1203 01:10:12,212 --> 01:10:13,513 THE KIDNAPPER HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH ABDUCTING THIS RESIDENT OF 1204 01:10:13,513 --> 01:10:16,416 SAN MIGUEL HER ORDEAL 1205 01:10:16,416 --> 01:10:18,485 EDUARDO, NOW LIVING IN A WASHINGTON, D.C., SUBURB, HEARD 1206 01:10:18,485 --> 01:10:21,654 OF THE ARREST FROM A MEXICAN NEWSPAPER REPORTER 1207 01:10:21,654 --> 01:10:25,325 >> HELLO, EDUARDO. >> AND HE SAYS, "I WORK FOR 1208 01:10:25,325 --> 01:10:28,995 REFORMA AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE AWARE, THEY GRABBED, IN SAN 1209 01:10:28,995 --> 01:10:30,563 MIGUEL, A VERY DANGEROUS KIDNAPPER THAT WE REALLY, 1210 01:10:30,563 --> 01:10:34,701 SERIOUSLY THINK THAT IS THE SAME GUY THAT GRABBED YOU." 1211 01:10:34,701 --> 01:10:37,904 >> Reporter: WAIT -- HIS KIDNAPPER? 1212 01:10:37,904 --> 01:10:42,609 NOW EDUARDO HAD TO KNOW. AND SO DID WE. 1213 01:10:42,609 --> 01:10:47,847 WAS IT TRUE? SO NOVEMBER, 2019, MORE THAN A 1214 01:10:47,847 --> 01:10:50,483 DECADE SINCE HE'D BEEN TAKEN WE TOOK HIM WITH US TO SAN 1215 01:10:50,483 --> 01:10:55,188 MIGUEL TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT SUDDENLY MATTERED A GREAT DEAL 1216 01:10:55,188 --> 01:10:59,359 INDEED REPORTERS VERONICA ESPINOZA AND 1217 01:10:59,359 --> 01:11:07,634 ANA LUZ SOLIS REPORT EXTENSIVELY ON THE KIDNAPPINGS IN SAN 1218 01:11:07,634 --> 01:11:08,468 MIGUEL HOW MANY KIDNAPPINGS WERE THERE 1219 01:11:08,468 --> 01:11:10,937 IN SAN MIGUEL IN THE LAST TEN YEARS? 1220 01:11:10,937 --> 01:11:14,074 >> Translator: TEN KIDNAPPINGS THAT I KNOW OF 1221 01:11:14,074 --> 01:11:16,276 >> Reporter: AND IN EVERY CASE, NAKED IN A BOX, THE STARVATION, 1222 01:11:16,276 --> 01:11:21,348 THE EXTORTION METHODS -- ALL WERE THE SAME. 1223 01:11:21,348 --> 01:11:27,654 AND, BIT BY BIT, THIS PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS COLONIAL TOWN 1224 01:11:27,654 --> 01:11:30,290 BECAME FEARFUL >> Translator: THE PEOPLE NO 1225 01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:32,359 LONGER HAVE THE SAME TRUST THEY ONCE HAD IN THIS PARADISE. 1226 01:11:32,359 --> 01:11:37,097 >> Reporter: BUT NOW, BY ALL APPEARANCES, THEY GOT HIM. 1227 01:11:37,097 --> 01:11:39,699 THE PERSON BEHIND IT ALL >> Translator: THERE WERE A 1228 01:11:39,699 --> 01:11:42,836 SERIES OF STATEMENTS MADE BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES AND FROM THE 1229 01:11:42,836 --> 01:11:44,904 STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, THAT SAID THAT HE WAS IN FACT 1230 01:11:44,904 --> 01:11:47,540 THE LEADER OF ALL OF THESE KIDNAPPINGS, INCLUDING 1231 01:11:47,540 --> 01:11:49,642 EDUARDO'S. >> Reporter: AND AFTER HE WAS 1232 01:11:49,642 --> 01:11:54,347 CAUGHT THE KIDNAPPINGS STOPPED. 1233 01:11:54,347 --> 01:11:58,551 ANA LUZ TOOK US TO THE PLACE THE KIDNAPPER WAS APPREHENDED. 1234 01:11:58,551 --> 01:12:02,188 TOLD THE STORY OF THE CABBIE WHO WAS PAID TEN TIMES THE FARE TO 1235 01:12:02,188 --> 01:12:05,859 DELIVER A PACKAGE THAT FELT DISTURBING 1236 01:12:05,859 --> 01:12:08,461 >> AND WHEN HE FELT THE PACKAGE, IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING REALLY 1237 01:12:08,461 --> 01:12:11,097 STRANGE IN THERE >> Reporter: INSIDE WAS THE 1238 01:12:11,097 --> 01:12:14,768 FINGER OF THE KIDNAPPED WOMAN AND A RANSOM LETTER. 1239 01:12:14,768 --> 01:12:18,405 BUT THE CABBIE COULD SEE THE MAN WHO GAVE HIM THE PACKAGE AND THE 1240 01:12:18,405 --> 01:12:20,573 MONEY WAS TAILING HIM. THE TAXI CAME ALONG AND PAR -- 1241 01:12:20,573 --> 01:12:22,075 JUST STOPPED UP HERE OR SOMETHING? 1242 01:12:22,075 --> 01:12:23,643 >> RIGHT WHERE YOU SEE THAT CAR COMING 1243 01:12:23,643 --> 01:12:25,745 >> Reporter: YEAH. >> THAT'S WHERE HE CAME. 1244 01:12:25,745 --> 01:12:28,882 >> Reporter: THE CABBIE WAS TERRIFIED. 1245 01:12:28,882 --> 01:12:30,483 HURRY, HE BEGGED THE POLICE. >> THE POLICE TOLD HIM, JUST 1246 01:12:30,483 --> 01:12:33,586 PULL UP LIKE YOU ARE PUTTING GAS IN THE CAR 1247 01:12:33,586 --> 01:12:36,189 >> Reporter: SURE. >> AND THAT'S WHEN THEY CAME IN. 1248 01:12:36,189 --> 01:12:40,393 >> Reporter: THE COPS ARRESTED THE MAN BUT HAD NO IDEA YET WHO 1249 01:12:40,393 --> 01:12:45,098 HE WAS AND WHILE THEY FIGURED IT OUT, 1250 01:12:45,098 --> 01:12:46,666 THE MAN MADE A PHONE CALL. TO THIS MODERN SUBURBAN 1251 01:12:46,666 --> 01:12:49,803 APARTMENT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SAN MIGUEL 1252 01:12:49,803 --> 01:12:51,905 >> NANCY WAS KEPT THREE MONTHS IN THIS HOUSE. 1253 01:12:51,905 --> 01:12:55,575 >> Reporter: RIGHT IN A RESIDENTIAL, I MEAN VERY 1254 01:12:55,575 --> 01:12:58,311 SUBURBAN LOOKING PLACE, RIGHT? WHERE, FOR MONTHS, THE KIDNAPPER 1255 01:12:58,311 --> 01:13:01,348 AND HIS CONFEDERATES HAD BEEN HOLDING THAT FRENCH-AMERICAN 1256 01:13:01,348 --> 01:13:04,484 WOMAN. NAKED, STARVING, A WOODEN BOX 1257 01:13:04,484 --> 01:13:09,723 FOR A CELL THE DETAILS SO SIMILAR TO 1258 01:13:09,723 --> 01:13:12,325 EDUARDO'S CASE >> SO THEY HAD THE WOOD AROUND 1259 01:13:12,325 --> 01:13:16,062 AND THEY HAD SORT OF, LIKE, PLASTIC THAT KILLS THE SOUND 1260 01:13:16,062 --> 01:13:17,697 SORT OF, LIKE, IN A -- HOW DO YOU CALL THAT -- LIKE, A -- A -- 1261 01:13:17,697 --> 01:13:19,165 >> Reporter: SOUNDPROOFING MATERIAL 1262 01:13:19,165 --> 01:13:20,700 SO - >> SOUNDPROOF -- SOUNDPROOFING 1263 01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:21,868 MATERIAL - >> Reporter: -- SO SHE COULD 1264 01:13:21,868 --> 01:13:22,602 SCREAM AND NOT BE HEARD. >> RIGHT 1265 01:13:22,602 --> 01:13:24,938 THAT'S RIGHT >> Reporter: AND THE KIDNAPPER'S 1266 01:13:24,938 --> 01:13:32,812 PHONE CALL FROM THE GAS STATION WAS TO HIS CONFEDERATE IN THERE. 1267 01:13:32,812 --> 01:13:37,517 >> SO HE SAID -- THE -- THE CRIMINAL SAID, "TELL CARLOS TO 1268 01:13:37,517 --> 01:13:40,720 CLEAN THE BOX. SO ONE HOUR LATER AFTER THAT 1269 01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:42,222 CALL, NANCY WAS TOTALLY WALKING BY HERSELF 1270 01:13:42,222 --> 01:13:46,926 >> Reporter: THEY JUST LET HER GO 1271 01:13:46,926 --> 01:13:49,095 >> THEY JUST LET HER GO. >> Reporter: THEN ANA LUZ TOOK 1272 01:13:49,095 --> 01:13:53,299 US FARTHER OUT, BEYOND THE SUBURBS, TO THIS BRIGHTLY 1273 01:13:53,299 --> 01:13:55,335 COLORED COUNTRY HOUSE, SURROUNDED BY ACRES AND ACRES OF 1274 01:13:55,335 --> 01:14:00,040 PRIVACY. HERE, SHE SAID, WAS WHERE THE 1275 01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:04,811 KIDNAPPER LIVED A SOLIDLY MIDDLE CLASS LIFE 1276 01:14:04,811 --> 01:14:07,914 >> AND IF I CLOSE MY EYES, WHEN WE WERE COMING ON -- ON -- ON -- 1277 01:14:07,914 --> 01:14:10,050 ON THE CAR RIGHT NOW, ON THE WAY HERE, IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT 1278 01:14:10,050 --> 01:14:11,051 I FELT >> Reporter: THE SORT OF - 1279 01:14:11,051 --> 01:14:12,619 COBBLESTONE ROAD >> THE COBBLESTONES AND ALL 1280 01:14:12,619 --> 01:14:15,755 THAT >> Reporter: AS WE APPROACHED, 1281 01:14:15,755 --> 01:14:21,061 EDUARDO WAS TENSE. WAS THIS WHERE HE WAS HELD ALL 1282 01:14:21,061 --> 01:14:24,731 THOSE 7 1/2 MONTHS A DECADE AGO? >> SHE'S CERTAIN, THEN, WHEN - 1283 01:14:24,731 --> 01:14:26,733 WHEN THE TIME I WAS CAPTURED, HE OWNED THIS HOUSE 1284 01:14:26,733 --> 01:14:31,471 AND NOBODY ELSE WAS LIVING HERE. SO THAT -- THAT'S A GREAT 1285 01:14:31,471 --> 01:14:34,240 POSSIBILITY HERE I CAN RECOGNIZE -- WOW 1286 01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:37,077 IT REALLY, REALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS IS THE PLACE, MY FRIEND 1287 01:14:37,077 --> 01:14:39,312 >> Reporter: WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW. >> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 1288 01:14:39,312 --> 01:14:41,915 >> Reporter: WELL, WELL. ALL RIGHT. 1289 01:14:41,915 --> 01:14:44,517 >> THIS IS INCREDIBLE. >> Reporter: THE PROPERTY IS 1290 01:14:44,517 --> 01:14:49,255 DERELICT, HAS BEEN LONG ABANDONED. 1291 01:14:49,255 --> 01:14:51,858 EDUARDO SCOURED THE FLOORPLAN BASED ON SOUNDS HE HEARD IN 1292 01:14:51,858 --> 01:14:52,992 CAPTIVITY. WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE IN HERE, 1293 01:14:52,992 --> 01:14:56,563 KNOWING THAT IT COULD BE THE PLACE? 1294 01:14:56,563 --> 01:15:01,301 >> IT WILL FEEL LIKE -- LIKE FINDING A TREASURE 1295 01:15:01,301 --> 01:15:06,539 BECAUSE JUST KNOWING THAT THESE GUYS KEPT ME HERE AND ALL THAT, 1296 01:15:06,539 --> 01:15:09,142 OPENS ANOTHER LEVEL IN MY MIND THAT THIS IS THE PLACE 1297 01:15:09,142 --> 01:15:13,847 BUT YOU KNOW, I'M NOT 100% SURE. AND I'M GONNA TELL YOU WHY 1298 01:15:13,847 --> 01:15:20,120 BECAUSE AFTER A FEW MONTHS, THEY CHANGED ME TO ANOTHER BOX. 1299 01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,756 AND WHAT I REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY IS THAT WE WALK IN THE SAME 1300 01:15:22,756 --> 01:15:23,857 SECOND FLOOR FOR A WHILE >> Reporter: SO THIS IS PRETTY 1301 01:15:23,857 --> 01:15:29,729 SMALL. >> THIS IS VERY SMALL. 1302 01:15:29,729 --> 01:15:33,400 >> Reporter: AND THEN WE SAW IT. LYING IN THE DUST OF THIS 1303 01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:34,267 ABANDONED PLACE. OH, WHAT'S THAT? 1304 01:15:34,267 --> 01:15:35,835 >> A PICTURE OF HIM. LOOK AT -- LOOK AT THIS. 1305 01:15:35,835 --> 01:15:37,404 IT'S A PICTURE OF HIM AND -- AND -- AND -- AND HIS WIFE 1306 01:15:37,404 --> 01:15:40,540 >> Reporter: THIS IS PICTURES OF THE -- OF THE KIDNAPPER. 1307 01:15:40,540 --> 01:15:44,377 >> WE FOUND ON THE FLOOR AND -- AND -- AND THE -- THE 1308 01:15:44,377 --> 01:15:49,983 ELECTRIC BILL WITH HIS NAME ON AND THAT'S HIM AND HIS WIFE -- 1309 01:15:49,983 --> 01:15:52,719 KISSING -- KISSING HER >> Reporter: THE WORDS THAT GO 1310 01:15:52,719 --> 01:15:56,222 WITH THESE GRAINY PICTURES, THE NAME, THE IDENTITY, THE 1311 01:15:56,222 --> 01:16:01,494 PERSON -- WERE LIKE A KNIFE IN THE HEART. 1312 01:16:01,494 --> 01:16:03,596 A BETRAYAL LIKE NO OTHER >>> COMING UP -- 1313 01:16:03,596 --> 01:16:05,699 >> I DON'T EVEN WANT TO LOOK AT THEIR FACES. 1314 01:16:05,699 --> 01:16:09,869 >> I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM. 1315 01:16:09,869 --> 01:16:14,607 >> A HEART-STOPPING REALIZATION. THE MAN WHO KIDNAPPED EDUARDO 1316 01:16:14,607 --> 01:16:36,396 WAS VERY CLOSE TO HOME >> Reporter: THERE ARE SOME 1317 01:16:36,396 --> 01:16:41,634 SHOCKS, SOME BETRAYALS ALMOST BEYOND DESCRIBING, THAT CAN SUCK 1318 01:16:41,634 --> 01:16:42,335 OUT FAITH IN HUMANITY. IN TRUST 1319 01:16:42,335 --> 01:16:46,373 >> LOOK AT HIM LOOK AT HIM! 1320 01:16:46,373 --> 01:16:50,076 >> Reporter: LIKE THIS PHOTO OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE A LOVING 1321 01:16:50,076 --> 01:16:53,713 HUSBAND. HIS NAME IS RAUL ESCOBAR 1322 01:16:53,713 --> 01:16:55,815 AND HE IS A KIDNAPPER. >> THAT -- THAT WAS REALLY 1323 01:16:55,815 --> 01:17:00,020 INCREDIBLE >> Reporter: THE MAN WHO 1324 01:17:00,020 --> 01:17:03,123 TORTURED, STARVED, SHOT, CUT OFF HIS VICTIM'S FINGER WAS, SAID 1325 01:17:03,123 --> 01:17:07,327 MANY WHO KNEW HIM, CHARMING, A GOOD FRIEND, A WILLING HELPER, 1326 01:17:07,327 --> 01:17:10,463 THE LIFE OF ANY PARTY. HE GOT MARRIED IN THE BEACH 1327 01:17:10,463 --> 01:17:13,066 HOUSE OF HIS LAST VICTIM >> I -- I WAS IN -- IN SHOCK 1328 01:17:13,066 --> 01:17:16,736 >> Reporter: AND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ESCOBAR AND EDUARDO -- 1329 01:17:16,736 --> 01:17:20,907 MAYBE EVEN MORE PAINFUL. THREE YEARS BEFORE EDUARDO'S 1330 01:17:20,907 --> 01:17:24,577 KIDNAPPING, ESCOBAR ENROLLED HIS SON IN THE WALDORF SCHOOL, 1331 01:17:24,577 --> 01:17:27,714 EVENTUALLY BECAME A SCHOOL TRUSTEE. 1332 01:17:27,714 --> 01:17:31,418 IT WAS THE VERY SCHOOL JAYNE VALSECA BUILT ON THEIR RANCH 1333 01:17:31,418 --> 01:17:37,157 AND THERE HE HAD ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT 1334 01:17:37,157 --> 01:17:40,293 EDUARDO'S FAMILY AND A PERFECT VANTAGE POINT TO WATCH JAYNE AS 1335 01:17:40,293 --> 01:17:43,430 SHE NEGOTIATED TO WIN HER HUSBAND'S FREEDOM, BUT IT GOT 1336 01:17:43,430 --> 01:17:47,200 EVEN WORSE >> NOT -- NOT ONLY FOR THAT, BUT 1337 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:53,273 HE WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN FROM CHILE. 1338 01:17:53,273 --> 01:17:56,076 AND SHE HAD A SON, AND THE SON WAS DATING MY GRANDDAUGHTER. 1339 01:17:56,076 --> 01:17:59,679 >> Reporter: HERE THEY ARE YEARS AFTER EDUARDO'S RELEASE, 1340 01:17:59,679 --> 01:18:03,350 THIS IS THE KIDNAPPER'S STEPSON WITH EDUARDO'S GRANDDAUGHTER 1341 01:18:03,350 --> 01:18:08,588 >> SHE REALLY LOVED THE WHOLE ENTIRE FAMILY. 1342 01:18:08,588 --> 01:18:13,293 SO TO KNOW THAT THIS IS THE GUY THAT DESTROY OUR FAMILY, AND 1343 01:18:13,293 --> 01:18:15,228 THEN WE HAVE TO LEAVE OUR COUNTRY AND ALL THAT BECAUSE - 1344 01:18:15,228 --> 01:18:20,633 THAT'S -- THAT'S TOO MUCH TO DIGEST 1345 01:18:20,633 --> 01:18:23,236 >> Reporter: DO YOU SEE HIS SERVICE ON THE PTA AND 1346 01:18:23,236 --> 01:18:26,106 INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOL AS BEING A COVER FOR HIS CRIMINAL 1347 01:18:26,106 --> 01:18:28,475 ACTIVITY >> OH, WITHOUT A DOUBT 1348 01:18:28,475 --> 01:18:32,679 THE ANSWER OF THAT IS VERY SIMPLE 1349 01:18:32,679 --> 01:18:35,815 HE LOOKED LIKE A WONDERFUL FATHER, A WONDERFUL HUSBAND AND 1350 01:18:35,815 --> 01:18:39,152 CARING AND ALL THAT. >> Reporter: ESCOBAR IS SERVING 1351 01:18:39,152 --> 01:18:42,088 A 60-YEAR SENTENCE FOR HIS LAST KIDNAPING -- THE WOMAN WHOSE 1352 01:18:42,088 --> 01:18:46,426 FINGER HE SEVERED. HE HAS SINCE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO 1353 01:18:46,426 --> 01:18:49,429 A JAIL IN CHILE AND WILL POTENTIALLY SERVE MORE TIME FOR 1354 01:18:49,429 --> 01:18:53,600 OTHER CRIMES AND ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, 1355 01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,236 THE EVIDENCE LINKS HIM TO MANY, IF NOT ALL, OF THE SAN MIGUEL 1356 01:18:56,236 --> 01:19:01,007 KIDNAPPINGS, INCLUDING EDUARDO'S. 1357 01:19:01,007 --> 01:19:04,644 SEVERAL OF THOSE WHO WERE ALSO TOUCHED BY THE TRAUMA AT ONE 1358 01:19:04,644 --> 01:19:06,713 POINT AGREED THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO US, TELL THE 1359 01:19:06,713 --> 01:19:10,350 STORY. SOME OF THEM HELD EVEN LONGER 1360 01:19:10,350 --> 01:19:12,686 THAN EDUARDO BUT WHEN THEY CAME TIME? 1361 01:19:12,686 --> 01:19:14,054 NO THEY DID NOT WANT TO APPEAR ON 1362 01:19:14,054 --> 01:19:20,326 CAMERA THEY WERE AFRAID 1363 01:19:20,326 --> 01:19:22,395 THE REASON THE KIDNAPPERS' KNOWN 1364 01:19:22,395 --> 01:19:25,031 ACCOMPLICES FLED THE COUNTRY AFTER HIS ARREST 1365 01:19:25,031 --> 01:19:29,769 BUT MAYBE THERE WERE MORE. NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE. 1366 01:19:29,769 --> 01:19:34,474 SOME SAY THEY'VE MOVED ON TO ANOTHER PART OF MEXICO 1367 01:19:34,474 --> 01:19:37,077 AND ESCOBAR? HIS SENTENCE IS VERY LONG, 1368 01:19:37,077 --> 01:19:40,246 BUT -- DO YOU HAVE ANY HOPE AT ALL THAT 1369 01:19:40,246 --> 01:19:42,349 THE AUTHORITIES WILL TRY TO INVESTIGATE HIM FOR YOUR 1370 01:19:42,349 --> 01:19:49,155 KIDNAPPING AND THE OTHER KIDNAPPINGS? 1371 01:19:49,155 --> 01:19:52,292 >> FROM ONE TO TEN, ZERO I KNOW THE AUTHORITIES DON'T 1372 01:19:52,292 --> 01:19:54,894 GIVE A DAMN. >> Reporter: THE FEDERAL 1373 01:19:54,894 --> 01:19:57,530 GOVERNMENT WON'T COMMENT ON POTENTIAL PROSECUTION OF ESCOBAR 1374 01:19:57,530 --> 01:20:02,235 FOR THE OTHER SAN MIGUEL KIDNAPPINGS. 1375 01:20:02,235 --> 01:20:03,703 AND AS FOR THE VALSECA CHILDREN? >> I DON'T EVEN WANNA LOOK AT 1376 01:20:03,703 --> 01:20:05,372 THEIR FACES. >> I DON'T -- I DON'T WANT 1377 01:20:05,372 --> 01:20:08,008 ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM I WANT THEM -- 1378 01:20:08,008 --> 01:20:12,178 >> ROT IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE 1379 01:20:12,178 --> 01:20:14,781 YEAH, I WISH I COULD SAY THAT I FORGIVE AND BE AS BIG AS MY MOM 1380 01:20:14,781 --> 01:20:17,484 AND MY FATHER ARE, BUT IT'S JUST -- IT'S JUST NOT THE CASE 1381 01:20:17,484 --> 01:20:21,621 >> Reporter: BUT THEY'VE MOVED ON 1382 01:20:21,621 --> 01:20:24,224 THEY'RE IN COLORADO NOW. COLLEGE, JOBS. 1383 01:20:24,224 --> 01:20:29,996 AND THEY'VE INHERITED FROM THEIR PARENTS A STUBBORN REFUSAL TO 1384 01:20:29,996 --> 01:20:32,599 LIVE IN THE PAST >> I JUST TRY TO STAY GRATEFUL 1385 01:20:32,599 --> 01:20:37,003 EVERY SINGLE SECOND THAT I GET UP IN THE MORNING AND KNOW THAT 1386 01:20:37,003 --> 01:20:40,473 I'M -- THAT I'M OKAY AND I HAVE THESE PEOPLE IN MY LIFE. 1387 01:20:40,473 --> 01:20:43,076 I MEAN, AFTER ALL THE HELL THAT WE WENT THROUGH TOGETHER AND ALL 1388 01:20:43,076 --> 01:20:45,979 THE PAIN, IT HAS MADE US UNBREAKABLE. 1389 01:20:45,979 --> 01:20:47,781 >> Reporter: YOU WENT THROUGH IT TOGETHER 1390 01:20:47,781 --> 01:20:50,917 >> EXACTLY AND WE'RE FINALLY SETTLING INTO 1391 01:20:50,917 --> 01:20:53,953 IT, I FEEL LIKE. >> Reporter: THE LOVELY RANCH 1392 01:20:53,953 --> 01:20:58,258 HOUSE OUTSIDE SAN MIGUEL IS OWNED BY DEVELOPERS NOW. 1393 01:20:58,258 --> 01:21:01,394 THEY'RE DIGGING AWAY ON 16 NEW HOME SITES HERE. 1394 01:21:01,394 --> 01:21:05,598 WHAT'S IT LIKE TO SEE YOUR PLACE CARVED UP THIS WAY AND CHANGED 1395 01:21:05,598 --> 01:21:08,201 IN THIS -- THIS -- THESE SIGNIFICANT WAYS 1396 01:21:08,201 --> 01:21:10,937 >> A LOT OF EMOTIONS, FOR SURE I DON'T SEE MYSELF BACK IN HERE 1397 01:21:10,937 --> 01:21:16,076 AGAIN AT ALL SO YEAH. 1398 01:21:16,076 --> 01:21:19,746 I TRIED NOT TO BE EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT AND NOT TO THINK SO 1399 01:21:19,746 --> 01:21:24,984 MUCH ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT - IT'S JUST PAINFUL. 1400 01:21:24,984 --> 01:21:28,655 >> Reporter: AND SO IS THIS. THE WALDORF SCHOOL HAS LEFT THE 1401 01:21:28,655 --> 01:21:31,791 VALSECA RANCH. THE CLASSROOMS AND PLAYGROUNDS, 1402 01:21:31,791 --> 01:21:36,496 JAYNE'S DREAM, ARE ABANDONED, DERELICT 1403 01:21:36,496 --> 01:21:41,234 >> IT TOOK FOREVER TO DO THESE THINGS 1404 01:21:41,234 --> 01:21:42,836 SLOWLY, LITTLE BY LITTLE SO I PLANTED THOSE BIG TREES 1405 01:21:42,836 --> 01:21:44,371 NOW. YOU KNOW 1406 01:21:44,371 --> 01:21:47,507 >> Reporter: YEAH, YEAH. >> AND NOW THEY'RE BIG 1407 01:21:47,507 --> 01:21:53,813 SO THAT -- THAT TELLS ME, "WOW, I'M REALLY GETTING OLD." 1408 01:21:53,813 --> 01:21:59,619 YEAH THE BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES -- I 1409 01:21:59,619 --> 01:22:02,756 CAN'T JUST FEEL SADNESS IN MY -- IN -- IN MY HEART. 1410 01:22:02,756 --> 01:22:03,790 YOU KNOW LIFE IS TOO SHORT. 1411 01:22:03,790 --> 01:22:06,960 >> Reporter: YOU DON'T LET THE SADNESS IN 1412 01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:12,232 >> NO. YOU HAVE TO FIND EXCUSES FOR 1413 01:22:12,232 --> 01:22:15,368 BEING HAPPY EVERY DAY INSTEAD OF BRINGING EXCUSES NOT TO BE 1414 01:22:15,368 --> 01:22:22,242 HAPPY. >> Reporter: THAT MIGHT BE THE 1415 01:22:22,242 --> 01:22:24,778 SECRET OF LIFE, YOU KNOW >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1416 01:22:24,778 --> 01:22:28,415 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1417 01:22:28,415 --> 01:22:30,083 AT 10:00, 9:00 CENTRAL AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU 1418 01:22:30,083 --> 01:22:32,619 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS." 1419 01:22:32,619 --> 01:22:37,323 I'M LESTER HOLT. FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD 1420 01:22:37,323 --> 01:22:37,557 FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD NIGHT.