if this can be accomplished, the prosecutor wrote, i believe it is in all parties best interests that it be done as quickly as possible. reporter: at any time do you know there was some kind of negotiation with the knapp egypt to say, okay, we give. we re going to bring these kids back? not that i m aware, no. reporter: a judge heard the case and sentenced her to ten years in prison, on multiple counts. a sentence later reduced to three years. a 60-year-old woman, she began serving her time here at the maryland s women s prison in jessup, maryland. 14 months passed, then the only banking chip michael shannon had left to get back his children, disappeared. she was suddenly gone. reporter: deported back to egypt, before the state of maryland, before the prosecuting attorneys, before even michael