Hi, I Survived listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson.

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This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

All of a sudden, I hear something electric, like an engine.

And he pushed my head against the wall and started shaving up all of my hair off everything.

Real people.

Email came in from the kidnappers, threatening that if I didn't have a substantial amount of money to offer on a specific date,

that they would be injecting him with HIV-tainted blood.

Who faced death?

You're in a small space with music, loud day and night, and a bright light, day and night.

And they're in total control and there is a camera

in the highest point of the box,

then they're watching you.

And live to tell how.

How do you put a price tag on somebody's life?

How do you explain kidnapped for ransom?

This is I survived.

It's June 2007 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

American-born Jane and her husband of 15 years, Eduardo, live in Mexico.

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