to pay, so neil paid, and he was supposed to pay neil 50% later. of course he did not pay him. then, some years later, around 1991, gary tried to get neil to go into business with a high flying real estate mogul. and, their meetings were held not in a boardroom, but in a series of limousine. because they could keep neil captive audience in the limousine. says wanted a finder s fee for the arrangement, but in the meantime carrie had to pay for all the wine and dining, it was very costly. and they re in the limousine, says gary asked neil for a loan. using pam phillips wedding ring as collateral. and this was a magnificent ring, it had two appraisals, that i remember, one about 235, 000, the other close to 250,000. he wanted an 80,000 dollar cash loan. the doctor says neil agreed, but
even though elisa s captors forced her to report a message early on, they never actually sent it to her family. no pictures, no talking to elisa? alicia? no. so jaime asked the ringleader questions only his daughter could answer, the name of her grandmother and godfather. and when you got the right answers back on the line, what was that feeling? at least we knew that she was alive. translator: okay, okay, we will do everything you tell us, but take care of my daughter, please. the levys knew that they needed to come up with cash for the kidnappers. how much money where you prepared to send them? the only thing we really have is this house, so the bank offered us 80,000 dollar loan on the house. 80,000 is less than 10% of the $1 million the kidnappers wanted. in desperation, jaime called his family back in new york. my brother was going to cash in his retirement plan, and my other sister was going to do
some laundry, we heard from our own correspondent there, ed lavender, it sounded like court documents, that may have been the home of his aunt or relative, police were not willing to go that far, they do believe the 80,000 dollar reward money that was offered did help bring this suspect to justice. i want to bring in now andrew mccabe, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director, andy, i am struck once again by the power of the public. the public in the partnership between the public and their eyeballs in law enforcement that then goes and execute the capture and it worked. alison, i m telling you, it is one of the most powerful tools in law enforcement has, to work with today. that is, essentially, crowd sourcing the investigation. it is so important, and one of these man hunt situations to get the photograph of the offender out there, to get the name and identity out there.
border certainly, there was also a lot of analytics. we were given brief updates but the past couple of days. it s all these pieces coming in from there was an 80,000 dollar reward and they were trying to together, but how it could be, mehdi, that they had him, initially, within a two miles search radius, and then he was gone for days. that s one of the open-ended questions right now. and authorities are probably breathing a sigh of relief because there was deep concern that this guy was armed and dangerous. three firearms at least in his house, and we re warning the public that there was potentially a handgun that he used as well. so, here we are with a community that has been unnerved staying in their homes, a lot of them walking around with their everywhere they went. and just completely disoriented here for the last several days. it appears that we may have a resolution tonight. you mentioned, a moment ago, that we had learned that new information about the su
after days on the run, the man hunt is over for the suspect in the killings of five family members and neighbors in texas. he is an undocumented immigrant, who is deported four times, and the fbi will have a news conference in just moments. first, cnn s josh campbell is joining us live, josh, you are learning some new details from your sources about how authorities were able, ultimately, to find the suspect after just days ago, they were, saying they had zero leads. that s right, law enforcement has been very quiet about this investigation as it s ongoing. they ve been blasting out the suspect photo, as well as information about those 80,000 dollar reward, as they ve been fanning out across south texas to try and find him. i m told from law enforcement sources, ultimately, what authorities were able to do, surveil the suspect s wife, which led to a resident that