I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Deadline.

We lived in a fairy tale where everything was perfect.

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

He just points at the gun at my forehead.

The first thing I started thinking of was my children.

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

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 it? It was just tearing me apart.

I was suffering so much.

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

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

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

I mean, just a cruelty.

Incredible. Fear and agony.

Like when is this gonna end?

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

It is made us unbreakable.

Here's Keith Morrison with The Ranch.

The green and white taxi barreled down the highway.

Something was wrong.

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