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American Coyote

TRAILER: American Coyote

American Coyote

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This is the story of Elden Kidd, a legendary coyote and unlikely hero, who helped over 1000 migrants come to the United States from Mexico. American Coyote is a 10-episode series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It all

0:02.0

It all began one night under the stars in the Mexican desert

0:07.0

After the trip I drove my van back with all my equipment.

0:12.0

Eldon Kidd, a 20-something Southern California Beach Boy, a father of five,

0:18.0

and the owner of his own adventure tour company

0:21.0

was returning from a trip he'd led through the Mexican jungle.

0:24.8

I stopped in Veracruz in the mountains, pulled over in a desert clearing and went to sleep. At that time I could hear a little bit of whimpering and crying and noises.

0:39.0

Would awoke Eldon that night.

0:41.0

And I thought that it could have been some kind of an animal.

0:45.0

Would change his life forever.

0:47.0

Looked in the back where my equipment was stored and there were two teenage girls that had stowed away.

0:55.0

Written on one of the girls' hands in smudge black ink was a phone number,

1:00.0

a residence in San Jose, California.

1:03.0

When Eldon called, the father of the two young stowaways answered.

1:08.0

The father pleaded with me, can you bring him up to the border,

1:11.0

at least bring him to the border. I agreed. And that's how it came to be that

1:17.1

Eldon Kidd found himself driving north towards the US-Mexico border, two frightened teenagers in tow about to knowingly commit

1:26.7

his very first felony. And I thought, can I do this again somehow?

1:35.0

From the team behind American Skyjacker comes an epic new crime series about a man who became

1:41.5

a coyote. a man whose reputation earned him the trust and faith of

1:47.2

over 1,000 migrants in search of a new life.

1:51.0

After doing this and adjusting my moral compass, I decided this is something that I could do to make a living.

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