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. it s a big operation, it s not this ragtag group of people. anything can happen, there are no guarantees. kind of father turned negotiator help bring them home. we prepared him for the worst. i am getting so worried. a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. dateline. hello, and welcome to dateline. they were on a dream vacation when suddenly a mother, her teenage sond all kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. but the worldwide hostage drama be resolved before it was all too late? here with heart of darkness is keith morrison. they lay in wait, unseen underneath the green canopy, armed to the teeth, immersed and there to find extremist beliefs, hunting, stalking, deadly in this particula
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they were to home from a philippine vacation. instead, they are in the clutches of something horrific. i felt like i was in a dream, wasn t real. i was thinking, what? gerfa s husband had stained behind in lynchburg, and was at work when he aired. you must have been terrified? yes, it was impossible to think about it, but pictures don t lie. they didn t. there they were, on philippine television, incomprehensible images. kevin and gerfa s passports, suitcases, relatives. gerfa, kevin, and one gerfa of s cousins kidnapped by a boat in the dead of night. i was thinking, no, that doesn t happen to us! nobody think it s going to happen to us, right? yeah, but, my wife s heart
committed here, flashed halfway around the world and came crashing down out of nowhere on a modest working class family. in lynchburg, virginia. i got a phone call for my mother. the first thing she said was gerfa and kevin are kidnapped in the philippines. kidnapped? her mother tried to wrap her hand around the considerable. gerfa was there and, kevin gerfa s-year-old son. they were to home from a philippine vacation. instead, they are in the clutches of something horrific. i felt like i was in a dream, wasn t real. i was thinking, what? gerfa s husband had stained behind in lynchburg, and was at work when he aired. you must have been terrified? yes, it was impossible to think about it, but pictures don t lie. they didn t. there they were, on philippine television, incomprehensible images.