They can't see anybody.

They can't hear anybody and nobody's around to hear them.

If they scream, they're dragged out of this van still bound and dumped onto the desert floor.

When they laid us down about two feet apart, side by side.

And I thought, Well, this is where they're gonna shoot us.

It's out of a movie.

They're literally in the desert looking for buried treasure.

Remember, he can't deposit his money from the medical marijuana business in a bank.

They believe he has buried a $1,000,000 somewhere out here and they're gonna dig it up and they're gonna be millionaires.

They ask him one more time.

Where is the money?

Dollars.

Where is the $1,000,000?

And for the final time, he tells him there is no $1,000,000.

And then the question is, Well, now what?

And this is where it gets really horrible.

They decided tow, take things, Thio A pretty terrible place.

If we're not gonna get our money, we're gonna take something.

Your That's what he said is is he I thought, Am I hearing things and they take a serrated knife.

I couldn't believe what was happening.

Okay?

It was like a bad dream was cutting off my roommates and singing and singing like and back and forth and back and forth.

The guy was a total sadist.

He's a psychopath, and I could do nothing about it.

And there was no sound from my room, mate.

Torture, torture, plain and simple.

And she hears the sound of this liquid coming out of some sort of a container.

I was afraid they were splashing him with lighter fluid and they were going to set us on fire.

It turns out that it was bleach poured all over the victim.

Bleach destroys DNA.

So if you're planning a crime like this, you will use bleach to cover your tracks.

So after the mutilation, one of them bends over to marry, still hog tied and blindfolded, and they touch her with a knife.

And they tell her if you find the night you could set yourself free.

Guy throws the knife.

He said, Today's your lucky day, right?

Like thank you so much.

You've kidnapped me.

You've terrified me.

I think you killed my friend, and somehow I'm lucky.

Now Now, with the kidnappers gone and the light of dawn just starting to appear, Mary uses her knees to push up her blindfold and still bound.

She somehow finds that knife in the dirt, cuts her feet free and rushes over to Michael.

And as soon as I pulled the gag off, he just took a deep breath and he said, Oh, that feels so much better And I thought, Oh, thank God he's alive And she tells Michael, You know what?

I hear cars.

I'm gonna walk until I find a car and I'm gonna get us help.

And this woman walks out barefoot through the California desert because she sees lights off in the distance.

That might be a road.

So we're talking about real heroism here, and it hurt a lot.

I walked as fast as I could.

I couldn't run.

I got to the highway.

I'm screaming.

Somebody, please, somebody stop!

Somebody please help.

Fortunately, the police officer happened to be going the other way and saw me.

And suddenly, what are the chances?

That morning I was on my way to work when I saw a woman walking along the right shoulder of the road he could tell that something must be wrong here.

As I got closer to your, I could see that her hands were behind her.

Back on there was what looked like a white plastic.

Stick it out from both sides behind her back.

And he realizes immediately that this is something major in something completely out of the ordinary.

As soon as I realized that it was zip ties and a blindfold, I realized that I'm gonna have to start taking pictures of married before I could cut the restraints off of her.

He's such a pro, he realizes That's valuable evidence.

And I said, Officer, my friend and I were kidnapped in Newport Beach.

Thank you.

And she tells him, I have a friend I was laying in the desert just up the hill.

We need to say we don't know where he waas.

She told me that he was in the mountains and I think to myself, Holy crap.

I hope she could narrow it down.

Just there's a lot of mountains around here.

Mary gets into the car with Sergeant Williams.

Mary directed a cell thought how a 14 to a dirt road that led West.

We're going off road to look for a second victim.

This is it.

It's pretty desolate and uninhabited.

Mary took us to this gate right here, and we got to the gully before they even see the victim.

They are overpowered by this stench in the air.

It was heavy.

It was actually made me choke.

He had been doused with from head to toe.

Right about here's were Michael.

I was laying on its side.

It's an overwhelming sight, even for a seasoned deputy.

He starts photographing, so we get to see what his injuries look like.

You can see the brutality of what happened to this poor man.

You could tell that he was hurt really bad.

He was a mess.

Now Deputy Williams and his team have a job to do and that to try to find Michael's severed body part, that's what they're doing.

If they can find it, then they can reattach it.

But he was nowhere to be found.

He didn't just separate.

He took it with him to ensure that he would suffer for that the rest of his life.

I mean, imagine that law enforcement at this point is left with the question of who would do this And where are they now?

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