home alone. and my heart started pounding. and he said, we have arrested adam. and then, i fell to my knees, and i started crying. the next day i woke up, it was my 34th birthday. on the front page of every newspaper in canada was his face. a face that i had not seen in over five years. i came in right after, and she was crying. she said, they got him, they got him. they got adam. and what were your feelings? i was crying. i could not even speak. and immediately, my mind went to, well, there is going to be a trial. and i will have to testify in that trial. and the weight of that, what that really meant to me and would mean to my life became real. amanda is about to take the witness stand and come face to face with her captor, at last. coming up. she was crying, she was upset. i was so afraid to see this man again. what would happen inside that courtroom?
first, we have a boardroom set of four-hour meeting, the book publisher arrives, knocked on the door, comes on in. him and i are allegedly old friends. this is the publisher. nice to meet you. they are actually both undercover agents? both undercover agents. we had a bit of chitchat, sit down, go over the contract. and adam, as we had done in mauritius, he goes over everything he had done. so, you will be the negotiator between people who had amanda and nigel, and who else? and i told lorena that they accepted the thing. right. i am the spokesman. right. i m i am an intelligent person. an educated person. it played out like a movie,
i m craig melvin. amanda lindhout was working to move past the trauma from her kidnapping. meanwhile, investigators had hat hatch declaring plantings near one of her captors. and then who called himself adam. after years of phone calls, emails and other an undercover investigator had earned adam stress. now, it was time to tighten the net. continuing with the capture, here s kate snow. as the hunt for her kidnappers progress, amanda continued to recover and heal. part of that journey included sharing her story with the world. four years after being freed, she released her memoir, a house in the sky. it became a best seller. in my own life, friends, families, book love people, say to me have you read this book? you ve reached a lot of people. most people never will be kidnapped, but people know pin and loss and adversity that they don t think that they can get through. so, what i feel people find in
money, money, money, money. listen to me, please. okay? amanda mom, you need to pay the million dollars now, because they ve started to torture me. the calls were agonizing. the families of both amanda and nigel, desperate to have their children home, eventually hired a private security company to help. months went by and one night, amanda s captors came to her room. they marched me outside and then had me sit down on the cement and they produce a small saw and began sawing through the chains that had been on my ankles for ten months. amanda and nigel hadn t seen each other for months. but now, they were thrown into the back seat of a car and driven into a dark, somali night. we re both crying. guns surround the car that we re in. and i think, this is it. then, a man appeared at the
himself had been taken hostage. and they had threatened him. in the end, his defense did not work. the man known as adam was found guilty of kidnapping. for his crimes, he was sentenced to 15 years in a canadian prison. victory for amanda lindhout. he read a victims impact statement at sentencing. in it, she addressed adam. i am the victim. i am also the survivor, she said. i am the one who will go out and live the lessons of this. i choose to lean in to the lesson, and challenge of finding forgiveness, compassion and peace. those words, bringing to a close not one, but two improbable stories. amanda s kidnapping, and the year spent in pursuit of justice. ten years of your life? ten years. five years for the undercover operation, ten years until conviction. worth it? absolutely. he is sitting right now in this country, in prison. do you ever think about that?