that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 years ol
untraceable emails letters from edoardo himself. i m suffering more than i can manage. they beat me, they tie me up. i m naked, i haven t eaten. i m going crazy. i can t handle this torture anymore. it was horrible. it destroyed me. she began selling things. first the spanish horses eduardo love so much. sold for a fraction of their value. i sold sheep, i sold machinery. everything i could sell, i sold. i remember taking up all my money from my piggy bank and giving it to my mom, saying here. please just use this to get that back. i just want him back. all of it made hardly a tenth. they wanted 8 million, she raised 20,000. they had started saying in the emails to me that i didn t come up with the money on the certain date they were going to start cutting off his fingers. and when jane didn t, couldn t pay. the answer was swift.
was somebody watching us nearby in the grass, which was really close by. we jayne under federal police advisors doubly place those want that saying that they didn t have the 8 million u.s. ransom. and the response? a few weeks into the ordeal, eduardo s kidnappers turned up the pressure. they began including in their untraceable emails, letters from eduardo himself. we i am suffering more than i could manage. they beat me, the timing, up i m nick and, i haven t eaten, i m going crazy. i can t handle this torture anymore. it was horrible. it destroyed me. so, she began selling things. first to go, the spanish horses eduardo loved so much. sold for a fraction of their value. i sold sheep. i sold machinery. everything i could sell, i sold. we? i remember taking up all the money from my piggy bank and just giving it to my mom and sing, here, please just use this to get that back, i just
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
will know that you did that. 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 would never have the millions