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
two brothers jane had sent to drop the ransom made contact. he was still sitting in his car, at the mouth of that dark road, he was terrified. finally he afi agent told the younger brother of the two who had gotten left behind to go back to the hotel room and stay by the phone. the rest of that night and all the next day jane, the afi agent and the young men in the hotel room in mexico city watch the phone, willing attorney ring. it did not. it took about 24 hours and i got an email, it said, in a cynical way, we have the person you send with the money, we ve counted the money it s all there. and marked bills as we had requested. but now with the kidnappers, now they were holding janes employee and would keep holding him so that when they released eduardo, he and jane would have to cough up even more money to get that man back. wait a minute, at that point you have no employee, you have no husband, you have no money? that wasn t enough for them.