and this is dateline. i just can t imagine to be held in captivity. dad, just send the money. that s all they want. they have an american kid. a 14-year-old kid in the middle of the jungle. they re thinking they have the jackpot. they were vacationers turned prisoners. a mother and son, kidnapped by terrorists. we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. 10 million, from me? are you losing your mind? a harrowing international hostage drama. this is a big operation, this is not just a drag tag group of people. anything can happen, there are no guarantees. can a father to negotiator to bring them home? prepare for the worst. i m getting worried. i m getting so worried. a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. hello, and welcome to dateline, they were on a dream vacation when suddenly a mother, her teenage son, and a cousin were all kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. but the wo
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but it was actually me, no choice. i know i want to pay something. just to make sure they are safe. the week after the kidnapping, heiko wired a ransom payment, close to $5, 000, to a bank account in the philippines. i was thinking i pay that money and is over. but they started wanting more and more and more. more weeks went by. mr. so reduced his demands from 10 million to 2 million. then 1 million. still impossible, of course. so the kidnappers turned up the heat. they put kevin on the line. that. yeah. are you there? how are you doing? we need you to send the money. i know that and i am ready. but all i have over here i will send. dad. dad. just send the money. that s all they want. heiko maxed out his credit e heat. still impossible, of course. so the kidnappers turned up the heat. they put kevin on the line. that. yeah. are you there? how are you doing? we need you to send the money. i know that and i am ready. but all i have over here i will
that s all they want. heiko maxed out his credit cards. board money from whomever he could. but it never seemed to be enough. as the incidents grows from weeks into months, we end up with so many boards that we have to work our way down this hallway. daniel girsch was one of the hostage negotiators assigned to heiko. and i guess it gets to the point where we don t think we re making progress. heiko feels like we re not making progress. you just hope. that s all. you just hope. but hope was hard trying on two. the kidnappers kept threatening beheadings. and even worse, they put gerfa on the phone and beat her while she talked to heiko. sweetheart, what are you doing over there? i know, honey. i m just so just tell them i don t have 1 million. please do that. i want this to stop. and i i told them that you don t have anything.
they didn t kill her. instead, they dropped her off on a footbridge nary village and told her, they would be in touch, soon. the started to disappear in the dark ocean. and i knew right than, that my connection to kevin was gone. it was worse than being in prison. there was no freedom for me. she got in touch with the philippine military. was evacuated to manila, the philippines capital. back in lynchburg, lead fbi negotiator mark thundercloud thought he knew why the kidnappers released gerfa. their intent was to let her go to help raise more money. and now she is out, now she has got to talk to these people. someone needs to be there with her. heiko decided he should stay in lynchburg to, try to find the money. and mark thundercloud moved his operations from the family s kitchen to a hotel room in manila. and there as one month passed, and then another, they tried to help gerfa deal with mr. so. december 6th was the last day with that we talk with mr. so. basically he was sa