one moment, she had her whole life in front of her, the next it s a gun at your neck. abducted by strangers. she said, don t move, don t scream. this u.s. citizen taking deep into the wilderness, chained to a tree, pulled there might be worst in-store, her family out of their mind and worry. i could not believe it. the american embassy leaping into action. this is going to be a long process, not to be salt overnight. but could she do something to save herself? with a suppressing to, she set in motion a daring plan you would unlock the lock while no one was guarding you. and then one night in the darkness i started seeing flashlights. was the nightmare over or about to start all over again? hello and welcome to
with a blanket and put ourselves on top of her, so that she could not be harmed again. the man cradling elisa in a bulletproof blanket was pepe, the undercover agent from the ecuadorian anti kidnapping police. he said, it s okay, elisa, i ve been with jaime. when i heard my parents name, i was happy. translator: she began to hug me, and we told her what we always say to those we rescue, welcome to liberty. elisa alicia got the phone call. i remember i was still in bed, and she started screaming. everyone jumped up. translator: we all scream and got up, it was the best moment of my life. you feel that you could just breathe again. she was safe, but was she really all right? they would have to wait hours to find out. the rescuers whisked elisa
i was thinking we had a car accident, and i hit my head, and i am dreaming or something. you re dreaming? yeah. but it was aid that bear that elisa could not escape. the man with the gun spoke to her directly. he said, yeah, don t move or scream, if you help, nothing will happen to you. elisa the not say a word or move a muscle. two men pushed her into the well of the vehicle and threw a blanket over her head. they put handcuffs and put something in my mouth something in your mouth? like a gag? something like that. elisa was driven for more than an hour along bumpy, rural roads, and then the trooper pulled to a second stop. the door opened. she heard someone approaching. this guy touches my arm and says, if you collaborate, everything will be fine. behave and come with us. elisa realized she
one of elisa s brothers drops her off with a driver of a trooper, whose supposed to take her to the meeting. you pull up with your brother, you see the blue trooper, you get out and get right in? yeah. still, as she drove off, she had her brother right down the troopers license plate number, just in case. at first, things seemed fine. the driver was calm and friendly, but about an hour into the trip, he picked up two strangers, who said that they needed a ride, but that s not what they wanted. just points me with something here and says, don t move, don t scream, shut up, don t do anything. it s a gun? yeah. at your neck? yeah. coming up elisa s family learned what has happened to her, and after a chilling phone call do you want her alive, or do you want her dead? they wonder, what can they possibly do to bring her home? when dateline continues. ing! non-drowsy claritin knocks out symptoms
is common for victims to keep quiet about their trauma. that line of questioning is presented indicated on some of the oldest sexist myths and misunderstandings that we have. first of all, the overwhelming majority of women don t scream, don t report, they don t go back the next day to see if there is video footage. that is simply not what people do in general. i think that it is important to know that when people are terrorized and rendered helpless and stunned by a sudden assault as she was, we often don t to what we imagine we might do, you know, we often don t scream or run or do any of the things that in our fantasies we thought we might do. instead we fall back on things that are habitual often. for e. jean, it was fighting.