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"They knelt down, they had images of the devil, of Santa Muerte, they made pleas, they made offerings, it was something horrible,” he said. Several survivors who spoke to Noticias Telemundo Investiga talked about the kidnappers' cult of death.
David was ill and had already resigned himself to dying, but he was concerned that Ximena would remain alive and in the hands of criminals. That is why he asked them that if they were going to kill him, that they also kill his daughter.
“I was afraid that my daughter would grow up at their hands, so I was determined to lose my life, but with my daughter,” he said.
‘You know we don’t play’
While David and Ximena went through their hell, Denis was living through his own.
Denis had borrowed money from his co-workers, friends from an amateur soccer league in Nashville, and relatives in North Carolina. In total he was able to raise $4,000. But when he spoke to the kidnappers, they insisted that he must pay the full fee if he wanted to see his family members alive.
That day the kidnappers called back and put his brother on the phone: “Brother, if you can’t do it, it's OK, leave me here and they can tear me to pieces," David said. "If you can’t get the money, leave me here and God will take charge of me."
Denis said it was like a goodbye. "He knew that I was exhausted here, that I didn’t have any money, because everything I had they had already taken."