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The Ranch

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Valseca siblings’ lives are changed when their father is taken hostage in an orchestrated abduction. For the first time, they open up about how their mother faced a band of international criminals to bring their father home. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired March 20, 2020.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Deadline.

0:04.0

We lived in a fairy tale where everything was perfect.

0:08.0

First day of school, then all of a sudden there's that demon, that black spirit, that darkness.

0:15.0

He just points at the gun at my forehead.

0:19.0

The first thing I started thinking of was my children.

0:21.0

At first I was like, what does kidnap to me?

0:24.0

My dad was stolen by bad guys.

0:26.0

I lost everything that I knew, just like that, gone.

0:30.0

It was such a mystery.

0:32.0

Who was behind it? It was just tearing me apart.

0:34.0

I was suffering so much.

0:36.0

I just said I would do everything humanly possible to get your father back.

0:39.0

If it takes everything we have, everything I can humanly do.

0:43.0

I saw things that no 12-year-olds should see.

0:46.0

I mean, just a cruelty.

0:49.0

Incredible. Fear and agony.

0:51.0

Like when is this gonna end?

0:52.0

Or the hell that we went through together and all the pain?

0:56.0

It is made us unbreakable.

1:10.0

Here's Keith Morrison with The Ranch.

1:16.0

The green and white taxi barreled down the highway.

1:19.0

Something was wrong.

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