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In a place that felt like paradise. Id be packing lunches the kids getting dressed. Reporter theyd pile into the jeep for the short drive to school. Fernando, the eldest, would ride the four wheeler out ahead of them. In the car, theyd sing with the little ones just like always. No idea what was waiting. What was about to happen here in paradise. She, the woman who went through it, the one youre about to meet, is jayne. J. A. Y. N. E. , a detail that will matter later. And she must have been a beautiful baby. This baby, in fact. This is her first tv commercial at 7 months for the red cross. And there she is in a mcdonalds commercial back when she was a High School Student in silver spring, maryland. An actress and did a lot of tv commercials, bit roles in movies and soap operas. I dont care if i get wrinkles. Reporter thats jayne on the big screen beside bette midler in the movie stella. She had robert real interested for a while. Acting skills. They would become, as you shall see, life or death crucial. But then, we cant know the future, can we . Not when life seems perfect and safe and strong . Its kind of like one of these fairytale stories. Reporter or at least it was then, it was 1992. She was 25. And it was unexpected, unanticipated, like some bizarre lottery of life. Jayne was at a pay phone in a washington, d. C. , suburb, she just happened to lock eyes with a divorced art dealer named Eduardo Valseca. Eduardo, who she would find out, was one of the nine children of jose Garcia Valseca, mexican newspaper baron, who 50 years ago ruled a publishing empire. Would be an equivalent in the u. S. Of who . William randolph hearst. An article published in newsweek in 1950 says that he actually had a larger readership at that point in time than hearst did. Reporter thats when Garcia Valseca ran his papers from a luxury pullman train car. The one which, decades later, eduardo owned. Though, when he invited this beautiful woman hed just met to mexico for a train ride, she had no idea that the train was his. Were walking toward it and this man comes out with a white jacket, white gloves, black bowtie with a silver tray, i was just completely speechless. Reporter she soon discovered that the train car was about all eduardo had of family fortune. The rest, along with the newspaper empire, had long since withered away. But jayne fell for a man, not money, and what eduardo lacked in fortune he replaced with laughter and passion and a huge enveloping personality. Jayne was in love, and soon married, and swept off to mexico, to a fresh place for a new life, new roots, new family. And that famous name, valseca. One thing the legacy did afford them was the chance to live pretty much anywhere they wanted to. And eduardo suggested a town in North Central mexico called San Miguel De Allende, 450 years old, rich obviously in history, but also in culture and art. A place so desirable and so lovely that almost 10 of the population is composed of people who moved here from some other country. She rubbed shoulders here with other expatriate americans, and canadians, europeans. And fell hard for mexico. Here, far away from the notorious crime of mexico city. We didnt feel threatened. I would say that san miguel then and perhaps even now is probably statistically as safe or safer than many of our u. S. Towns and small cities. Reporter and here they built a business in real estate, buying old places, tarting them up, selling again. And, of course, having children. It had been a big dream of mine to live in the country and to have a big organic garden and fruit trees and horses and lots of animals for the kids to play with. It was luck when this place came up, or what felt like luck, before that terrible morning. It was a rundown 1,000acre ranch. And it was in foreclosure. They bought it for, well, it was embarrassingly cheap. It was a great deal, but at the time it was a pile of rocks, literally. Every little bit of money that we made, everything we could manage to save we started putting into the ranch. Reporter they even found and restored a magnificent old fountain that once sat on the long lost valseca estate. And no surprise, part of their building plan involved that stately old railroad car. One of the marvelous parts about ending up with this piece of property was it just happened that railroad went right through it. Reporter jayne was behind their home movie camera as the car was towed to its new home on the ranch. Were so happy on the train. Reporter and happy here. They built a real ranch house among the mesquite trees and surrounded it with fine big gates. Outbuildings, a garden for her, a riding ring and fine Spanish Horses for him. And for three growing children, a magic place, happy and secure. Fernando. Emiliano. And baby nayah. The children were the heart of it, really. Theyd do anything for the children. So jayne told eduardo about an Education System called waldorf schools, not then and he said, well, lets bring the school to mexico. So we formed a parent group and got moving on founding a school. Reporter they donated land, part of the ranch, recruited other families, built the school. We started with a couple of classrooms. Actually they were originally going to be stables for horses, and we converted them into classrooms. Reporter and now, every morning, the quartermile commute down their own quiet country lane to school had become a family ritual. Wed go out the door, get in the jeep, and the morning routine was singing all the way to school. Which was really the only routine that we had. Reporter fernando had a pet donkey then, road it to school. That or a fourwheeler, always out ahead. We would follow along and the kids would love to sing the same songs, they never tired of singing the same ones every morning. Reporter so now it was that perfect morning june 2007. And they bumped and sang, noisy and happy, down the dusty road. And of course they did not understand, how could they, that this was the last moment of pure innocence any of them would ever know. I mean, immediately were hit from behind. A violent awakening. He held the gun to my head. As terror invades paired. Paradise. Let there be peace on earth how can you see yourself in new glasses. Without your glasses . At lenscrafters, our unique camera and screen system lets you compare yourself in four different frames at time. Lenscrafters loves eyes can anybody help us . echo help us, help us. Dont go it alone. This veterans day event sears experts will help you save 40 or more on kenmore hot buys and save 20 or more on hot buys from other top brands. Sears. House experts for home owners. Take one of those pillows and take a big smell. They smell really fresh what if we told you we washed these sheets 7 days ago. Really . 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And asked the administrator if she knew who the gentleman was or if he needed help. And she looked over and looked across the parking lot and said, i dont know who he is. He must be waiting for someone. Reporter eduardo was behind the wheel of the jeep, listening to the radio. The strangers car was beyond it, at the back of the lot. As i walked to the jeep where my husband was, i looked across and made eye contact with them and actually smiled, and he smiled back. Reporter eduardo put the jeep in gear, pulled away. The strange car fell in behind them. A pickup truck comes out of nowhere. It catches up to us, and the man driving turns and looks at us and the look was really scary. Reporter you saw him . We both got this creepy feeling. Just the way the man looked at us. Reporter now that strange car and the pickup truck raced to positions beside and in front of the jeep. Eduardo said, something is definitely not right. What is this guy doing . Reporter and then in moments it was obvious. Jayne and eduardo were being chased, herded like cattle into a chute with no escape. In the distance we see the compact car, which has raced up our interior road, cut in front. Reporter here she relived it, the horrified moment as the car in front of them suddenly stopped, and eduardo slammed on his brakes. Immediately we were hit from behind. It was a split second and there was a man coming out of the passenger side of the car coming at eduardo, and hes got a hammer in one hand and a handgun in the next. Reporter the masked man shattered the window and landed a hard blow to eduardos head that sent blood gushing down his face. The first thing i started thinking of was my children. Are my children going to lose their parents right now . Reporter a second attacker ran at jayne, yanked open her door, pulled her from the jeep. She screamed, kicked at him, grabbed the fence beside her. The barbed wire sliced through her finger. Her attacker forced her down. While im laying on the ground he just points the gun at my forehead and tells me in spanish to get up. The first thing i said to him was, please dont kill me, i have three children. Reporter then they hustled jayne and eduardo into a waiting suv. Unseen accomplices snapped pillowcases over their heads and tightly bound their hands and feet. Eduardo was hysterical. I dont think he was completely hearing me. He probably had a concussion. Reporter the suv sped away. Jayne tried to comfort eduardo. One of the abductors threatened more pain. He kept yelling at him, shut up, you [ bleep ], or ill give you another one. And you could tell he was trying to disguise his voice. Reporter within minutes, word of the attack got back to the school. Something was wrong. A teacher rushed to the nowabandoned jeep. I went with my partner and the left window was all broken and blood was in the ground. I had a feeling it was a kidnapping. Reporter in the suv, under that gagging pillowcase, jayne struggled to breathe. She reached out for eduardo. I felt blood all down his arm. Reporter then she felt the blood pouring from her own slashed finger. She tried to memorize each bump and turn as the suv veered onto the highway toward san miguel, then, minutes later, pulled over, stopped. Someone yanked eduardo from the suv. He screamed. I hear the doors of the vehicle open and after i hear them shut i can no longer hear my husbands muffled screams. Then i hear what sounds like the engine of that car revving as if its pulling away. Reporter jayne managed to lift the pillowcase hood in time to see eduardo vanish. I am able to make out the type of car that it is, more or less, and i memorize the license plates. Reporter and just as quickly, she realized she was alone. Theyd all left. I was bound so i threw myself over the seat, ended up in the floor, pulled myself up, opened the door and literally hopped as if i was in a sack race to the highway in flipflops. Reporter an elderly man stopped to help. He had a machete but no cell phone to call police. Frantically, jayne tried to flag down passing cars. All hit the accelerator, not the brake. Please stop and help me, but i imagine it looked pretty scary to see a woman bleeding, desperate, bound in duct tape next to a guy with a machete. Reporter then in sheer desperation jayne stepped in front of an oncoming bus. He was coming this way. I jumped in front and i just put my hands up like this. And i hoped he would stop. Reporter but no cell phone on the bus, either. Now the bus driver flagged down a taxi. And the taxi driver called the police. Now all of this information is going from the police to the taxi driver, the taxi driver to the dispatcher, the dispatcher to the police, to the dispatcher and the whole way around. It was like playing telephone. Reporter was there still time for the police to seal off the town, save her husband . And i thought, because i have this description and the plates, i thought for sure they would just run off in every direction, seal off san miguel, anded have him, end of story. But it didnt go that way. Reporter no, it didnt. Jayne says the police tried one escape highway, no other. And no eduardo. These people carried this whole operation out with such precision and such surprising professionalism, which seems a strange word to even use. Reporter how long did it take them . Seconds. They were cool as cucumbers. Reporter but that was just the first clue. On the ground beside the suv in which the kidnappers abandoned jayne, was another, inside an envelope addressed to jayne. The first thing that went through my mind, i realized that they spelled my name correctly. My name is jayne, spelled with a y. So it was really scary to see on the envelope that theyd spelled my name right. Reporter nobody spells your name right . No, no. Reporter and inside the envelope . The ransom note says, senora, go home, open this email with this password. And we have eduardo. Eduardo is with us. Wait for our message to arrive. Reporter it was then she understood. The kidnappers had been watching them, stalking them, researching every small detail. It immediately made me realize i needed to be very careful and very smart about the choices i was about to make. My husbands life was on the line. Reporter coming up, what would she tell her children. It was the hardest thing i ever had to do. Reporter and who would she turn to help. I thought this is what youre sending me to deal with this . The chance to win free mcdonalds fries, for four sundays in a row . I can take the pain. 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And every time that we would tell that we dont have the money, so, they cut a finger and they send us the finger. Reporter but that was mexico city, one of the kidnapping capitals of the world, where jayne had heard that thousands are snatched every year, wealthy and poor, from mansions, the backs of taxis, from taco stands. The kidnapping situation in mexico is outrageous. Reporter this woman, ana maria salazar, had been reporting it for years on tv. The breakdown of law and order, the mess in police forces. You dont have a criminal Justice System that has the ability to go after all these people. But the other problem is corruption. Theres corrupt cops at the federal level. Theres corrupt cops at the state level. And theres corrupt cops at the municipal level. People just dont trust their cops. Reporter which is why, she says, so many kidnappings go unreported, making it impossible to know just how many thousands take place in mexico. But this was safe little san miguel, where eduardo had always said do you think anybodys going to come out here in the country . Thats not going to happen. Reporter but it had happened. Finding help fast. Im sitting there in the dirt in need of stitches, and i at that point i have two cell phones going. Reporter but why . Wouldnt the police just take over . Well, no. Not in mexico. Jayne herself, in this supremely vulnerable moment, would have to decide which police, if any, she could trust to get her husband back. You can allow the local or state police to handle the situation. You can go to the mexican equivalent of the fbi which is the afi or afee as theyre called here and let them handle it on a federal level or you can go to a private consultant that you pay out of out of your own pocket and they will negotiate it privately. You dont know what to do when someones saying, hey im selling you back your daughter. Reporter jayne had heard about other kidnappings. Like the one seven years earlier when kidnappers snatched this mans 25yearold daughter, and in minutes he had to make the impossible decision. I knew i should go with the police, the problem was which police. One of the toughest gangs was headed by the police who was in charge of the antikidnapping group. So with that in mind i knew i couldnt go with the state police. Reporter he chose the federal police, who negotiated with the kidnappers, arranged a ransom payment. And still, in the transfer, could not prevent the murder of his daughter. What was jayne to do . Shed heard all the stories. Sometimes police themselves were involved in kidnappings. I knew that there was a possibility that that yes, there were people that i that were perhaps right there with me and you that i could not trust. Right, and youd know that the experience of of well healed people had been go to this private organization, itll take care of you. Right. Reporter so as cars whizzed by and the dirtcaked blood dried on her skin, jayne placed calls all around the world to private companies that specialize in kidnap negotiation. They knew all the questions to ask. They said, how many vehicles were were involved . What did the note say . Can you describe the people . What did their guns look like . Reporter must be a sophisticated operation, they told jayne. Negotiating would be difficult and expensive. At least 2,500 hundred u. S. Dollars a day plus expenses, far more than she could afford. She wondered, could the state police help her . She asked them how successful theyd been solving kidnappings. They said, oh yeah, weve weve resolved 100 . And i said, really . So, does that mean you got 100 of the victims back and you caught the bad guys . And they said, yes. Eventually weve gotten all of them. It really made me feel very uneasy and untrusting. Because i know that 100 of the parking violations dont get resolved. Reporter there was only one choice left. The mexican version of the fbi, the a. F. I. , or afee, the elite unit of the federal police, which might at least might get eduardo back alive. Reporter so she made the call, went back at the ranch, cleaned up her wounds and braced herself to tell the children. The two youngest would be satisfied temporarily with a story about eduardo being on a business trip. But not fernando, then 12. He had to be told. And anyway, she needed him now. It was very, very tough. Try explaining to a child that his fathers just been stolen for money. The hardest thing ill ever have to do. Id never seen my mom like that. She looked like if the worse thing happened to her. Reporter hes grown fast since his father was kidnapped. Even so, for his own safety, were hiding his face. I asksk her was it by criminals or what do you mean taken . And she said he was kidnapped and thats all she said. And i just stood quiet. I couldnt believe it. How did he take it . Devastated. I just said to him, you know, you have to know that i will do everything humanly possible to get your father back. If it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. Reporter fernando was just a boy. But not for much longer. He fled to his special spot, his private place, away from the house. I got on my motorcycle and went up to this rock. Its a pretty big rock and it overlooks our ranch. I just started crying. Reporter it was later when he learned this was likely the on his family. He never went back. Now it was evening. Im hoping that ill get home like they told me, ill open the email, there will be a message and whatever i have access to, they can have it all, okay, just give him back. So im im at that point hoping this is gonna be open and shut deal in less than 24 hours. Reporter jayne got ready for the arrival of the federal afi agent. The federal police had promised he would move in right away and live on the ranch until he got eduardo back. She felt like she was waiting for the cavalry to arrive. She let hope grow. I expected him to roll in in some kind of bulletproof suburban and be big and burly and hopefully a little mature and having done this quite a while. Reporter and then, at 3 00 am, the afi agent called. Could someone come and pick him up in town, he asked . He had come from mexico city by he looked like a high school or maybe freshman in College Student with a backpack, a baseball cap, glasses, tiny, and i thought, what is going on . You mean this is what youre sending me to deal with this . And so the first things i asked him after shaking his hand was, are you armed . And he said no. And i said, why not, for gods sake . Reporter seasoned criminals had engineered a seamless plan to steal her husband. And all she had on her side was a short skinny kid with no apparent backup, no car and no gun. Coming up, the kidnappers send a message from the shadows. They have a demand impossible to meet. 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Not just jaynes agent, of course. We have as many as 25 kidnappings at a time. Reporter still, she might have been reassured by this. A state of the art lab on standby to identify the voices of any kidnappers who might call you. We have 2,374 voices related with kidnappings and extortions. But on day one, all that expertise coughed up only this piece of very bad news the people who grabbed eduardo . Were almost certainly said the police part of a fringe marxist Political Group called the epr. One detail was striking from the beginning. Left on eduardos carseat was a brand new hammer. Was it the weapon used in the attack or Something Else . I found out that it was it was actually a calling card and that thats not unusual and that this group always leaves behind a hammer, which really gave me the creeps. Reporter jaynes agent considered the evidence and made a prediction. You need to brace yourself and pace yourself because this is not gonna be over in 24 hours, like youd like. As a matter of fact, this is not a based on previous experience with this particular group, if this is going to be months, if youre lucky. Reporter what was it like to hear that . I thought i was gonna go crazy. I thought for sure id have a nervous breakdown right then and there. She just had this face i cant describe it. It was terrible. It looked like a dead person. I was just so scared. And i put my bed and my brothers bed together and i slept with him. Reporter what was it like going to bed that first night, there was no going to bed. I couldnt i couldnt even eat. Where was my husband . What kind of conditions was he in . How was he being treated . Was he even alive . How do you sleep . There was no way. Reporter in historic san miguel, though eduardo was a prominent local citizen, life went on as if nothing had happened. Antipoverty activist. A panelist on a local tv show. In fact, this is a recording of the very broadcast aired the night before he was taken. This is the host of the show, back then san miguels mayor and coowner of the tv station. But what was she able to do free eduardo, or find his kidnappers . Not a thing. How often was it reported on the television or radio . No, we never said anything. Reporter a request, she said, from the federal police. They said no comments in the radio station, no comments in the channel because we dont want these people to be afraid or whatever. And they could do something to eduardo. So it was like mouth closed. Everybody was acting as if nothing was happening. Reporter everybody, perhaps, but jayne, whos need for information was making her crazy. Remember, the kidnappers said, go home, youll get an email with our demands. But on day one there was no email, nor on day two, nor three, nor day four. And then after five full days and nights of sleepless torture, jayne turned on her computer and read the news. We hope the senora has arrived well to her house. For the liberation of eduardo we are demanding the amount of 8 million u. S. Dollars. Reporter 8 million. Send the money, said the email, in u. S. Currency. 100 bills, unmarked. And now im thinking theyre just going to kill him. Because i didnt have that kind of cash. Reporter but remember what happened to that other womans husband, when she told kidnappers she couldnt meet their demands . They cut a finger and they send us the finger. Reporter wealth is relative of course, and can often be an illusion. Anybody familiar be with the idyllic ranch here outside san about eduardo, scion of a famous publishing empire, might quite reasonably have assumed that he was among mexicos superrich. But that would be a mistake. It was the mistake the kidnappers made, a mistake that was about to become jaynes very serious practical problem. I didnt have access to anything, really, beyond our what was in our checking account. Reporter the fact of the matter was the valsecas were house poor. Theyd put everything they had into the ranch. And at recession prices, even if she could sell it, shed get a small fraction of 8 million. There in the dining room, jayne showed the email to her federal agent and realized he was not surprised. You know, jayne, you have to realize that this is the way this works. Youre going to be learning the ropes here. They hope to get that amount, but this is where we start negotiating. Reporter the kidnappers set the rules. Jayne must respond to their emails in the want ad section of a specific newspaper. Her first ad, they demanded, would go in the animals and pets section and read buy a chow chow dog austin, vaccinated with complete pedigree, 8,000 pesos. Meaning, of course, 8 million to buy back eduardo. They started out at 8 million, what did you respond . Basically went out saying were very concerned for the puppys wellbeing, we dont want any harm to come to him, mixed into the words. And your request is beyond our economic possibilities. 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Reporter jayne and her placed those bizarre want ads saying they didnt have the 8 million u. S. Ransom. And the response, a few weeks into the ordeal, eduardos kidnappers turned up the pressure. They began including, in their untraceable emails, letters from eduardo himself. And what he wrote in those letters was awful. Im suffering more than i can manage. They beat me, they tie me up, im naked, i havent eaten, im going crazy, i cant handle this torture anymore. It was horrible. There was something about seeing his handwriting and the way he described it, it just it destroyed me, broke my heart. That was the first time i had to take a tranquilizer. But there was more, and it was worse, the letter took an accusing turn. Our children are going to know that by not paying money you left me to die. Reporter you left me to die in a frightening way and our children will know that you did that. And i would have gotten you out already if it had been me. Whats it like . Even in the worst possible situation i knew that some of those things did not come from him, that he was writing what he was told to write. That was very clear to me. Reporter she was desperate. All she had was a household checking account. Theyd put the cars, the ranch the savings accounts, in eduardos name, try as she might, she couldnt touch it. I felt so helpless, i wanted to do something i wanted to take him out of that hole. Reporter so she began selling things. First to go, the Spanish Horses eduardo loved so much, sold for a fraction of their value. We had lots of rabbits and so i started selling rabbits. I sold sheep, i sold machinery. Everything i could sell i sold. Reporter all at fire sale prices . Uhhuh. Reporter all of it made hardly a dent. They wanted 8 million. She raised 20,000. In her ads, she begged the kidnappers to understand she would never have the millions they wanted. They retaliated. They had started saying in their emails to me that if i didnt come up with the money on a certain date, that they were going to start cutting off his fingers. Reporter and when jayne didnt, couldnt, pay the answer was swift. It said that ive been fooling around enough. And that eduardo had sent me a package. Reporter she was horrified. Was it his fingers . The federal agent, afraid for jaynes safety, sent someone else to follow the kidnappers directions to the buried package wrapped in plastic. And . It was not severed fingers. It was a sheaf of ious, signed by eduardo. With these, wrote the kidnappers, jayne could get a loan for the ransom. I was supposed to now use to go to people to hopefully be more successful in raising funds that way. Reporter oh, she tried. But local businessmen dismissed the ious as likely forgeries. Summer passed. And then, october, four months into his captivity, another email, with a letter from eduardo. Theyd injected him with aidstainted blood, he wrote. And then, his words turned ugly, like a man she didnt know. Who are you, really . He wrote. I never thought you could be this cruel and stubborn and such a bitch. When the hell are you going to pay . The words, she felt sure, were not his, but the torture, the daily horrors . She could only imagine. Thanksgiving approached. The children pulled out old home videos and huddled in their mothers bed. For a long time the kids watched it every single day after school. Sometimes when they werent around id go in and just watch the part where he blew me the kiss and said i love you, again and again. And then the next email arrived, and a photo was attached. Eduardo crumpled in a corner, reporter it was november. Five months into the ordeal, when the kidnappers seemed to tire of the game. The email, eduardo is going to receive his first gunshot in his left leg unless there is a change in the total amount offered to seven figures. It wasnt a bluff. A photo followed with the bloody proof. I snapped that day. I couldnt cry. I didnt react. Reporter did you see these photographs of eduardo . I told my agent that he needed to start being my filter. That i would not be reading anymore letters and i would not look at any photographs if he wanted me to get through this and get through this sane. So that was the deal. Reporter two weeks later, they shot eduardo again, this time in an arm. To make matters worse the newspaper, her only way of communicating with her husbands tormentors had become suspicious and refused to take more ads. And i had to communicate what was happening to the kidnappers, because if they didnt let me place at least one last ad, it would look like i had lost interest, and i was no longer communicating. I had to now beg the woman on the phone to please allow me to place one more, and i would never do it again. Reporter the negotiations switched to another paper, but then the phone calls began. I thought it would be someone disguising their voice and thats what i had been trained for. Reporter the agent had warned her it might happen, had even prepared dialogue for her to memorize, and kept this erase board handy so he could prompt her. But it wasnt the kidnappers who got on the phone. I was shaking. I didnt know what to do. Reporter it was eduardo. But the things he said. This could not be the man she loved, but it was. And then he started calling me names. Youre such a bitch. How could you do this . Its my money. It was more of the same that id been getting in the letters that they had forced him to write. Reporter she turned to the young federal agent. And he told me, jayne, youve been preparing for this. You can do this. Just relax. Reporter its like the man youre desperate to have home, and who miss horribly, is on the phone with you. Youre listening to his voice. And you find youre kind of arguing with this voice. It was absolutely bizarre. And it was, we were both playing a role. After i answered the immediate questions, and got the information that i wanted to make sure that they heard, which was very important to save his life. Then i said i changed my tone and in came me. And i told him how much i love him. And how much his kids missed him. And that i would do anything to didnt matter. Id give him everything i could. And then i could hear his tone changed completely. And it was the real him. He told me he loved me, too. Then they hung up on him. Reporter the phone calls were untraceable. The kidnappers demands unrelenting. The psychological pressure excruciating. And there was Something Else. Years earlier, jayne had beaten an aggressive form of Breast Cancer. And she worried, could it come back as she tried to free her husband . A joyless christmas arrived. New years. How long before they killed him . A new demand, a new sign of hope. He was instructed to go down a dark alley at a specific spot. Into action. 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I mean, i think everybody thought that. You watch in the television that people that have been kidnapped in three or four days, or maybe in a month or two, but this was two, three, four, five, seven. Reporter yes, seven months. For most of that time, the kidnappers refused to budge from their demand for a ransom of close to 8 million u. S. And when jayne went into town to beg their friends for loans, money to secure his release, she watched their eyes glaze over. Friends would say things to me like, oh, jayne, im so sorry about eduardo, we liked him so much. And speak about him in the past tense as if he were dead. Reporter even on the playground, classmates told jaynes children to give up hope. The little kids would go up to my children and say things like, oh, i heard your daddys dead, that they found him in a plastic bag in the parque juarez. Reporter and then jayne would turn on her computer to find messages from a man barely hanging on. I need you like never before. Help me. Be compassionate towards me. I cant take it anymore. Her own troubles, the cancer she needed to keep at bay, she kept to herself. And, as the ordeal continued, she occasionally slipped off to america for tests. I i just got there. I would have mris and blood tests. And visits with the oncologist. And whatever was necessary. And and id get back on the plane, and come back. Reporter and then, more than half a year in, suddenly something new. The kidnappers demands dropped into the into the midsix figures. That was money she might be able to borrow from some well heeled friend. So i started asking people, and some people would tell me, yeah, sure. Call me on such and such a date, but then i wouldnt get a they wouldnt answer my my calls or return my messages. Reporter lots of people, she discovered, didnt want to get involved. Why . Well, that they somehow by helping me they would expose themselves to to this sort of a thing somehow. Reporter at the ranch, eduardos grown children from a earlier marriage, desperate, also did everything they could to help, but they didnt have that kind of money. And so they all felt very alone, in their Little Family circle, as they tried to keep hope going at the ranch. I want you to look at the camera and give a message to your daddy because he will see this when he gets back. I love him so much and hes best dad in the whole wide world because i know hes coming back soon. Reporter and then, quite literally in the depths of their despair, something completely unexpected. Two individuals, whom jayne had not approached for loans, went to her, separately, and wrote big checks. Both declined jaynes offers of guarantees or collateral. Both had a single condition that their identities be kept secret. Which is how a new flurry of negotiations began with the kidnappers, and jayne finally received the email shed worked so hard to get. We have a deal, it read. Be ready to deliver the money. The final amount, at the request of the family and police, was withheld. A fraction of the original demand, but it had to be in u. S. 100 bills. And it had to be done in secret. In the bank, only the manager knew what jayne was doing. I had to go in and count it in a back room and make sure everything was all in order. Reporter then she called on her acting skills, stuffed down her anxiety and walked out of the bank. A couple of people recognized me. This is a small town. Everyone knows you. So, i stopped and talked to people. And and even put the bag down on the floor between my feet, as if it was a yoga bag. I felt like i was stuck in a movie that i couldnt get out of. Reporter the kidnappers wanted a Family Member to make the drop. The federal agent said absolutely not, that would only invite a hostage exchange. So, i went to two of our employees that had been with us for over ten years. And they said without hesitation, absolutely. Reporter the kidnappers agreed to the substitution. Jayne drove those employees, two brothers, to mexico city, four hours on country highways and then followed very precise what was about to happen in this great city, were it to happen to someone else, would make a fine suspense flick in some saturday night cineplex, but it was happening to jayne, and she could have no idea as she came here with her satchel full of money, whether she was going to free her husband or walk into a trap. Reporter were the kidnappers watching her, as she checked the brothers into the hotel they specified . Was she now in danger . She felt an itch in her back as she drove through the gargantuan metropolis. No incident. She returned to san miguel, where she put a doctor and psychologist on standby. And called a charter service. She might need a helicopter. And silence. She demanded proof that eduardo was still alive. She got in return a heart stopping photo. It was him, alright. He must be alive. He was holding that days newspaper. But the once robust, youthful eduardo was now a gaunt, emaciated stranger. In their mexico city hotel, the brothers waited with the bag of money. Two days. No word. And then finally, an email. The men you chose have to leave the hotel at 5 00 pm. They were to wear summer clothes even though it was winter. They must mark the letter t on their car with duct tape. There could be no weapons, no cell phones. Any hint of the federal police and the deal was off. The two brothers were ordered to a Fried Chicken place blocks from the hotel. There would be a note taped to a pay phone. They found it. It was directions to the next stop. On it went, a macabre Scavenger Hunt from restaurant to Convenience Store to restaurant. Each stop with a note on a pay phone, a map to the next location. For hours they drove the giant city. In the final note, on the inside, the note said, this is a photograph. Meets you at the next destination has the missing piece. It was the proof of life photo. With a hole where eduardos face should be. He was instructed to go down a dark alley at a specific spot and meet this person who would have the other piece of the photograph. Now the brothers understood it was at an end, and they followed the kidnappers directions with absolute precision. There were eyes on them, they knew it. They pulled up to the end of an alley as they had been ordered. One of the brothers picked up the bag of money, opened the door, got out of the car, walked down the alley and to the remaining brothers horror, disappeared. Reporter there in his cold fear in his car in the dark, he waited. And minutes ticked into hours. It was a trap. His brother was taken. Later, jayne would learn that a to guard the exchange. It was a police car. Youve got no employee, no husband, no money. Seven months of heart break and now she was out of options. But jaynes journey was about to change again. With a quiet stranger at the door. 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Now we get way cleaner clothes way faster reporter at the valseca ranch house in San Miguel De Allende, jayne and her federal agent huddled around the dining room table and waited. Minutes passed, an eternity. The tension in the room became unbearable. Something was wrong, she had mexico city, she had paid the ransom, shed put a helicopter on standby, she had done everything they had asked her to do and no phone call, no message, no eduardo. Then finally, one of the two brothers jayne had sent to drop the ransom made contact. He was still sitting in his car at the mouth of that dark road. He was terrified. His brother had disappeared into the dark holding onto the sack full of 100 bills. He hadnt come back. And some kind of police car was hovering around. But whoever was in the car did not behave like police. Something was wrong. We had his younger brother wait for him at that same spot half the night. And we got more and more nervous as every minute ticked by. Finally the afi agent told the younger brother of the two, who had gotten left behind, to please go back to the hotel room. And stay by the phone. Reporter the rest of that young man in the hotel room in mexico city watched the phone, willing it to ring. It did not. It took about 24 hours. And then i got an email. It said in a cynical way, we have the person you sent with the money. Weve counted the money. Its all there. In unmarked bills, as we had requested. But now, said the kidnappers, now they were Holding Jaynes employee and would keep holding him, so that when they released eduardo, he and jayne would have to cough up even more money to get that man back. Reporter well, wait a minute. At that point, now youve got no employee. Youve got no husband. Youve got no money. But that wasnt enough for them. These people not only want everything that you have, everything that you can sell. Everything that you can get a loan for. They want to wipe you out. They have no problem with that. Thats exactly what they want. Treat you like you were the criminal all along. No one, not even the seasoned federal afi agent predicted the kidnappers would take the money and the man who delivered it. That agent was by now practically a member of the family, hed befriended the employees chosen to go to mexico city with the money. He had been the cool one who kept jayne going through her months of crisis. But now . He left the room, stunned. My step son came into the house shortly after, he found our afi agent crying in the back alley. Reporter they had failed. The kidnappers had every dollar it took jayne seven months to gather. Now theyd kidnapped jaynes employee. But they hadnt released eduardo. Had they killed him after all . And if not, where was he . The kidnappers promised eduardos release 48 hours after the drop. There was no word, no call, nothing to suggest the kidnappers had or would make and here, the ranch, there was a family to care for. Life had to go on. Two days after the ransom drop in a sad, distracted ceremony, they prepared a cake to Mark Fernandos 13th birthday. I blow the candles out. And i remember thinking, i wish for my dad to come back. Reporter Something Like routine resumed. Routine in limbo, on autopilot. There were small teeth to brush, bedtime stories to read, breakfasts to prepare. It was the morning after fernandos birthday wish. She was in the kitchen. And as im clearing the dishes someone walked by. It was very quick. And it was someone who looked very thin and frail. And very, very old. And had a baseball cap, fluorescent yellow baseball cap on, dark clothing. Reporter she knew the kidnappers had been watching the house. Was the stranger one of them . Im fumbling for the keys to open the front door to see who this person is, and as im trying to get the door open, i look up and i dont think anything could have prepared for for what i saw. An also block activity in the bowel. Im really struggling to find relief. 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And thats when she saw it. There was a skeleton out there, a walking dead man. It took a moment to register. It was eduardo. All but unrecognizable, a suddenly old man, emaciated, skin and bones. She opened the door. I pulled him into me and put my arm around him. And he just felt so cold. It was literally as if he was already dead. And i just started kissing him all over his cheeks. He could barely talk. He just whispered. Told me, i love you so much. Reporter it was as if his freedom had come at the last possible moment before death. Earlier, jayne had put doctors and a psychologist on standby for just such a moment as this. He refused them. And there by the door, as she her for her special banana pancakes. He said, when i was trying to dream about what it could be like coming back if i ever was able to, i could always see you standing there at the stove. I could see it from the back making my food. Reporter jayne tried to cushion the children from the shock of what they were about to see. So, i brought him his bandana and his hat. And a sweater to try to cover up his bones. It was the morning after fernando made his wish, over his birthdayayake, for this very thing to happen. And i just ran and gave him a hug. He didnt have any meat on him at all. It was just, like, if i was grabbing his carcass. Reporter and there he stayed, as the old eduardo crept back into that cadaverous body, surrounded by his children, his plates of food, and the woman who fought for him every minute of those months, who cried for him, who saved his life. Always jayne. He followed me around. He wouldnt let me out of his sight, not even to use the restroom, he wanted to follow me everywhere. And here he is now, restored. I hadnt seen myself in a mirror for seven and a half months. Reporter eduardo Garcia Valseca uses an expression when he talks about life after captivity. Im living extra hours. And in those first hours of freedom, he found it hard to stand, he could barely walk. He had lost half his body weight, weighed barely 80 pounds. And could not believe how truly awful he looked. The first time that i saw myself against the mirror, and i lifted my tshirt, i put it back on immediately. I couldnt believe i looked like pure bones and skin. I just it was too much. Reporter of course, given what he had been through, he probably shouldnt have survived at all. The doctor who finally examined him, noted late stage severe starvation, liver damage, concussion, three broken ribs, and severe stomach infections. But though the kidnappers told him theyd injected him with tainted blood he did not have hiv or aids. He hobbled around, bent and brittle, had to be supported up or down the stairs. Its like they sucked the life out of me. They just took everything away from me. Dead in a way. Alive, but dead. Exactly. Exactly. Reporter and yet, within those first hours and days of freedom. He was already laughing and and it it was as if drip by drip life was coming back into this skeleton. Kind of like the first day of the rest of your life. Completely. Reporter and then, shed see a cloud on his face, or sense the torment in his dreams at night. He would suddenly be haunted again. He would wake up repeatedly all night and just reach over and touch me just to make sure that it was really true, that i was there and that he wasnt dreaming. Reporter at night, shed hear him stirring. And hed fall out of bed. I didnt remember that i was sleeping on a bed. And still i have these flashbacks of im not sure if im dreaming and is this true that im out . Or is just a reflection of my thoughts . Reporter and then morning would come, and with it the living nightmare. It wasnt over. The kidnappers still held their employee, were still threatening the whole family with death. And eduardo needed to tell jayne, as he is about to tell us, the real and shocking story. 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How do you keep your sanity in here . When i first arrive here and i repeat myself over and over and over, calm your mind down. Reporter when he first came here. That was the violent ambush in the jeep, outside the school. Then the bloody semi conscious hooded ride that followed, a a stairwell, on someones shoulder, the stripping of all his clothes, the sudden confinement in a box. And since the first minute, thats the only thing i ever saw, just that box. Then the vicious daily beatings. And the rules. Rule one, no talking. Ever. Communication was by handwritten note. The kidnappers would signal when they wanted to enter the box. Always twice. Always like that. Reporter and that was your signal to do what . To put a pillowcase over my head and immediately go like i am right now put my head against the wall. Always. Reporter so you see youd never see their faces. Never ever, ever. Reporter they watched him on the webcam, kept him naked, fed him an occasional piece of fruit or a salad. A small bucket served as his toilet. It was rarely emptied. His kidnappers kept the light burning, day and night blasted the inside of the box with high volume music. I say, please, just turn off the music just once, please. They say, if we turn off the music and youre able to hear what we talk about, then we have to kill you. Reporter how loud was this music . Very loud. To the point that i lost 50 percent of my hearing on the right side. It was a combination of the loud music and the beating of my head. So, you know, when sometimes i went like this after they left the room, i couldnt feel a shape of my head anymore. It was full of bumps. Reporter the beatings, said eduardo, intensified each time he was ordered to write jayne a new letter begging her to pay. And he will hit me so hard for so long, that i think he only stop when he run out of energy. He will go on and on and on and on, he broke my bones and all reporter in the days after he was taken from the jeep, he prayed with some confidence that his confinement would be brief. He wrote notes to his captors saying he wasnt the wealthy man theyd taken him to be. Surely, he thought, theyd check and discover that. I had nothing but high hopes. I thought, this is my last week. I really believe in my head, this is it. Next week, im getting out of this box. Reporter but he didnt get out. Not for a minute. Not for a second. He secretly marked off the passing days on saved scraps of paper. Slowly he starved. If they gave him a bit of chicken, hed eat the bone as well, an eggthe shell. And the tortures intensified and the kidnappers sent him notes telling him jayne didnt care about him, had moved another man into the ranch to live with her. And in the endless hours of coffinlike solitude, doubt ate at his mind. I start feeling mixed feelings. That they gonna kill me anyway, and they gonna take the little bit of money that we have. They forced him to write those accusing letters to jayne, he said. And when she didnt pay, they gave him a note announcing they would shoot him. They came in, they cover my face. They handcuff me. They put me face down on the floor. They put the gun right on my leg, and they shot me right there. The pain is tremendous. Its like a bomb coming from the inside of your body, out. Reporter then, two weeks later, again the announcement in advance, you will be shot. And now he shot me in the left arm, and right here. And again, he didnt wanna shoot the bone. So he went from here and it came out on the other side. I was not afraid of dying, because i couldnt take it anymore. And you give up. If i had had a piece of glass or if i had had anything, i would have killed myself. Reporter and so he thought of home, of his wifes banana pancakes. He kept himself going by dreaming of singing with a mariachi band, like he did at his wedding. He imagined the faces of his children. I would hear fernando saying, dad, i miss you. And i would see emiliano so confused. I would miss nayas beautiful green eyes. Reporter he was in his box for a total of two hundred and twenty five days. And then one morning. He put me against this wall with the handcuffs and i thought, this is it. I was scared. And then i start hearing these sounds, and i didnt know what he was gonna do. Reporter but they didnt shoot him. Instead they shaved him and dressed him, and took the proof of life photo jayne was about to find in her email. It was about 4 am, he reckons, when they tied the hood back on his head, put him in a car, and brought him here. They ordered, face the wall. It was a cemetery wall. Was he to die . A voice behind him said start counting. Dont turn around till you hit 200. So i start counting from 1 to 200 right here. Reporter did you get all the way to 200 . Yes, absolutely. Oh, i was so scared, you know, i didnt wanna screwed it up. And then he turned around and they were gone. Reporter you had been in that box all that time and here the middle of the night under the sky. What was that like . I felt the wind and the space and i could see the stars and those lights so far away. The first time in seven and a half months that i could feel the wind. And i could move my legs and just move away from the wall and it felt really like walking in a different planet. Reporter in a lunch box there were two boiled eggs, an apple and a few pesos the kidnappers had given him for the trip home. His legs were so weak he stumbled and fell as hobbled to the nearest highway, he had no idea where he was. There was an old man already sitting there waiting for the bus from mexico city. I told him where i was going Rancho Los Charcos and he told me, this is the right bus. Reporter which is how, early that morning, Eduardo Valseca arrived at his own back door, and asked his wife to make banana pancakes. Terror . Oh, yes. It wasnt over. I couldnt even relish in the moment having my husband back because we were still dealing with these people. Reporter now, remember, the kidnappers were Holding Jayne and eduardos employee, the man whod volunteered to deliver the ransom and for his trouble was snatched at the drop site. So now a new round of emailed demands began arriving. We started negotiating. It was like the whole thing all over again. Reporter but it wasnt quite the same. And thus the terror. The kidnappers promised to kill not just the employee if their demands were not met. They vowed to murder eduardo and jayne and fernando and emiliano and little nayah. All of them. Were going to kill each one of you, and the little bit of money you have left that you didnt give us is now going to be enough to be bury each one of the members of your family. 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Here at Police Headquarters they were suddenly surrounded by a protective ring of men with assault weapons. The police hustled them back to the ranch. Allowed 48 hours to prepare, and then the son of one of mexicos great newspaper barons, with jayne and his family, was escorted out of the land he loved. That kidnapped employee, by the way . The kidnappers simply released him nearly three months later, no ransom at all. By then, jayne and eduardo and their children had squeezed into what they expected would be a temporary exile, two months or so at jaynes mothers house in america. Why just two months . Mostly because federal police assured them they had significant leads, they still insisted they knew the group responsible, a Marxist Revolution Party called the epr. And besides, one of the officials whod debriefed eduardo was soon promoted to commissioner of federal police and hadnt he promised personally that hed aggressively chase down the abductors . But two months grew to three, then six. No word. I tried to call different times the higher officials in mexico. They have never answered me back, answered my telephone calls. Reporter eduardo did wonder, sometimes, if theyd have to be like this man. Follow up . Whats that . Reporter remember him . His daughter was killed by kidnappers. And afterward, he says, the federal police did nothing, so he closed his business and tracked the criminals down himself and delivered them for trial. I know, thats not that way it should be. But it was the only way to do it if i wanted to have justice. Justice is something in mexico that that you wont get if you dont fight for it. Reporter jayne and eduardo did what they could to fight for it, too. But after two years had gone by, the conclusion seemed inescapable. When you get pulled into this whole world, the authorities in mexico basically tell you, look, youre going to be paying ransom. You know, its as if theres no other option. Its as if theyre theyve given up from the beginning. So all we can do is hold your hand and help you through the amount you can pay, we pay it. Next. Next. Reporter we arranged an interview with the commissioner of the federal police, the man who debriefed eduardo, fecundo rosas rosas. The search for the kidnappers is continuing, he said, nonstop. Are you close to an arrest in this case . Its a systematic job that does not allow us to give advances as to people being captured. We usually speak after the events have taken place. Investigation continues . It is a permanent investigation with a systematic focus. Reporter but there was one crucial piece of information the commissioner did pass on to us. The same thing his officers had been telling jayne and eduardo all along, the epr had taken eduardo. Yes, we do have information, precise information. Reporter national security, he said, prevented him from revealing more. I asked for proof, how did they know . Reporter but mexican journalist, alejandro jimenez, a specialist in terror groups and kidnappings, says his contacts inside the epr assured him repeatedly they would certainly have taken responsibility for kidnapping eduardo had they done it. But they didnt do it. Still the federal police told jimenez that i should forget about the case, that it was a closed case, that he paid the ransom, nothing more. Reporter it was an odd reaction, he said. And to him, suspicious. Our reflex as mexican journalists is to suspect. Theyre blaming a Guerilla Group without showing proof, theyre hiding something. Police could have been involved, or maybe members of the military. Which is what tends to happen in highimpact kidnappings. Up in their temporary american refuge, jayne and eduardo were feeling a pull to say something, get involved. Well, you know what . I think that the moment you cower into a corner and keep your mouth shut you become a part of the problem. So is that the example that i want to give to my kids . Reporter by now theyd been away two years. And gradually, month by month, the memory of their terror had come to be mixed with a nostalgia for the life theyd left behind. Which is, in part, why jayne and eduardo decided to return with us to their beloved ranch. A place to tell their story. It had to be secret. No one could know they were coming. They could stay only a few days. During their time in america, eduardo had become convinced someone close to the family must have passed information to the kidnappers before. What if they did it again . Because you you never know who is informing these these people. Of course. They knew everything about the kids. They knew everything about us. Anybody could be there telling them, you know, here, theyre back. Reporter bodyguards would come along too. A strange accessory now given what a free and happy place the ranch used to be. That first night, though, in your old bed in the house. Was that a little weird getting back into that . Oh, it was great. And i slept well knowing that we had bodyguards. Reporter it was just as they left it. Their clothes still filled the closets, family portraits decorated their rooms. Even the dogs greeted them as if their forced departure had been yesterday. Eduardo threw himself back at his old jobs mending fences, fixing broken bits, checking on a crop. Of course the stables were still empty, his horses gone for ransom. And then an old friend hears eduardo is home and brings his own horses. His first ride since leaving the box. Finally, like they are home again. Theres a happy reunion at the school jayne helped found. They lead her around the campus to show off the progress theyve made in her absence. Wow, it looks amazing reporter how painful that absence has been. Their trip back to the ranch coincides with eduardos 61st birthday. Jayne hastily organizes a fiesta. Only close and trusted friends are invited. Party food prepared, the favorite charro suit out of the closet. And they, in a magic evening, are transported back into the world they left behind. A world they loved. In those months in the box, of singing again with mariachis. Tonight, he does. [ singing in spanish ] it was just wonderful. For jayne and i was just like 100 therapy to go back to the place and feel happy about it and feel safe about it. It was fantastic. Reporter was it possible to come back . Could they find a way to feel safe . Could they have all this again . As we interview jayne about that very possibility, the answer quite suddenly began to reveal itself. What just happened . Just now, what happened . I cannot bear it anymore. Here. Constipated . Trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. 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Imagine the answer for a police force to say that they cannot go to the ranch because there is not enough for gasoline. Reporter and quite suddenly, they knew. It was over. Eduardo examined the destruction in the stately old rooms, the broken heirlooms, and jayne was familiar well of fear. To love is a risk as everyone knows. But jayne unreservedly loved mexico. She fell hard for a man and his country. She romanced its customs, its people, its extraordinary beauty, it was all perfect to her. But now, what she feels is deeper than setback or ordinary loss. To jayne it feels like betrayal. Its heartbreak. Im just feeling like that im so overwhelmed with the situation that were living in in mexico today that i just cant stand it. I just cannot bear it anymore, i want to get far away from here. Reporter neither one had to say it. Their life in mexico, 16 years of paradise, was done. And then . They put their fine big ranch up for sale, and though their rental in america was a far more discovered, mattered not at all. It did matter to them that they paid back those anonymous donors who helped buy eduardos freedom. And it mattered to jayne, when we came to visit, that the little place looked festive. A household that celebrated just about everything. Especially their own survival. If i continue to hold onto this in a negative way, then they just the cminals just keep on committing a crime against us every day, and im not going to let that happen. Reporter in the years since we met jayne and eduardo, local authorities in san miguel told us there have been perhaps three more kidnappings of similar long duration. Eduardo has frequently been told dont talk to the media. The kidnappers are still out there. Might be dangerous. Advice rejected. You are potentially setting yourself up as a target, however. Criminals is to speak about it, to come with solutions. But if you keep quiet, like most people do, how are you going to come up with a solution . Reporter some fellow citizens of san miguel have expressed discomfort about eduardos outspokenness. Eduardo thinks he knows why. Some people that we know have express madness that we shouldnt say anything because it affects tourism. So they prefer it will affect the real estate values in san miguel. So lets lift the carpet, lets just sweep the dirt underneath. Because its better not to say anything, not to scare anybody away. Reporter it was in the box where eduardo felt it. Isolated, starved, beaten, beset by the glaring light, deafening noise, the fear of death. It was a revelation. And he hasnt been the same since. Nothing really matters. Material things have nothing. Reporter for eduardo, it came down, finally, to her. The woman he saw at the phone booth all those years ago, whom he wooed on his train car, who made a family and saved his life. Who, as he sat crumpled in his box, kept him alive. And in love. I always knew love is important, but never as important as i know now. So you learn. It changes your life forever, for sure. Reporter we have to tell you, though it is difficult to do so, that Jayne Valsecas Breast Cancer returned full force, and four years after she won eduardos freedom, she died. And so now, their love story is focused on their children, for whom she is not present, but certainly not gone, either, for any of them. She was the center of our own universe, for the kids and for me. And suffering when the criminals took me away from my kids and my wife, the loss of her has been harder by far. Reporter it would be perfectly understandable if he were bitter. But he is not. The emotion he feels when he thinks of yne is gratitu. And if they had said you are only going to live four years with the love of your life, i would have taken even four hours. I would have taken four days, four months