they started at 5:00 in the afternoon and, from what i understand, they didn t get the final message until about 1:00 in the morning. wow. in the final note, on the, inside the note said this is a photograph, make sure that the person that needs to at the next destination has the missing piece. it was the proof of life photo with a hole where eduardo s 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. we now, the brothers understood that it was not an n, and they followed the kidnappers direction with complete precision. they had eyes on them. they knew. did they pull up to an all of the alley. one of the brothers picked up the bag of money, open the door, got out of the car, walk down the alley, and to the remaining brothers who were, disappeared. a strange car hovered nearby
then she felt the blood pouring from her own slashed finger. she tried to memorize each bump and turn as the suv veered on the highway toward san miguel. then minutes later, pulled over, stopped. someone yanked eduardo from the suv. he screamed. i hear the doors of that vehicle open. and after i hear them shut, i can no longer hear my husband s muffled screams. then i hear what sounds like the engine of that car revving as if it is pulling away. jayne managed to lift the pillow case hood just in time to see eduardo vanish. i am able to make out the type of car that it is, more or less, and i memorized the license plates. just as quickly, she realized she was alone. they had all left. i was bound, so i threw myself over the seat, ended up on the floor, pulled myself up, opened the door, and literally hopped as if i was in a sack race to the highway in flip-flops. an elderly man stopped to help.
right. i would have gotten you out already if it had been you. right. 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. she was desperate. all she had was a household checking account, they put the cars, the ranch, the savings accounts in eduardo s name. try as she might, she couldn t touch it. i felt so helpless. i wanted to do something. i wanted to take him out of that hole and 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 so i started selling rabbits. i sold sheep. i sold machinery. everything i could sell, i sold. all the fire sale prices? mm-hmm. all of it made hardly a dent. they wanted $8 million, she raised $20,000. in her ad she begged the kidnappers to understand she
life at jayne and eduardo s ranch was divided now, into the joyous before and the somber after. the kidnapping of eduardo valseca brought with it an unrelieved trauma, soon all the children understood it was no business trip their father had taken. within hours, the word spread, was whispered around the school, around the neighborhood, around the town. jayne, still in shock, tried to keep life normal. even helping her children s teachers at school, as if everything was just the same. she was very bad inside because we know her, and she was suffering. but she was trying to be okay with in front of the children.
we are demanding the amount of $8 million. $8 million. send the money, said the e-mail, in u.s. currency, $100 bills. i was very upset and really concerned because i thought, how am i ever going to get him back. now i m thinking that they re just going to kill him because i didn t have that kind of cash. but remember what happened to that other woman s husband when she told kidnappers she couldn t meet demands? they cut the finger and they send us the finger. wealth is relative, of course, and can often be an illusion. anybody familiar with the idyllic ranch here outside san miguel, anybody who heard about eduardo, scion of the famous publishing empire, might quite reasonably have assumed he was among mexico s super rich, but that would be a mistake. it was the mistake the kidnappers made, a mistake that was about to become jayne s very serious practical problem. i didn t have access to