Nothing was easy about going back to Columbia.

You could hike and bleed all day and cover just a couple miles.

It didn't really occur to us how dangerous it was.

Four soldiers just materialized out of the bush.

We're surrounded and it's just crazy.

They were going to take me into the jungle and put a bullet in my head.

I'm going deep into my wife's family history, digging up the cold case of her murdered great-grandmother.

And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family patriarch?

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From Wundere, this is locked up abroad. I'm your host Jim Clemente.

Columbian Ambush is the story of Mark Wenovin. In 2001, Mark's a 21-year-old student at the University of

Colorado, born in Columbia, he'd been adopted by an American couple when he was a baby.

Now he feels the need to go back to find his roots. He hopes it'll be an adventure that'll give

his life meaning. He decides he doesn't want to go the tourist route. He wants to walk across the Darien

Gap. 126 kilometers of dense jungle between Panama and Colombia.

There are many dangers, including the FARC, a left-wing guerrilla army funded by drug trafficking and kidnapping operations.

Mark has a romantic view of them as freedom fighters working for a better Columbia and doesn't

believe in the danger.

Ignoring all warnings, he and his two traveling companions begin the journey

and they're ambushed by murderous paramilitaries.

They suffer harrowing consequences that in the end,

Mark can't help but feel responsible for.

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