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Vancouver_ Kidnapping A Wealthy Asian Girl (Full Documentary) 72 Hours_ True Crime _ Dark Crimes · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: Playing with a human life is the most cruel game
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  Speaker 1: of all. Life is always a gamble, especially for newcomers
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  Speaker 1: to a country.
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  Speaker 2: And wealth doesn't always protect you. In fact, it can
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  Speaker 2: put you at a much greater risk.
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  Speaker 1: Because no matter where you go, the old country is
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  Speaker 1: never far behind. In true crime, investigation and conviction may
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  Speaker 1: take years. But every detective knows that the crucial clue
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  Speaker 1: is always there, somewhere in the first 72 hours.
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  Speaker 2: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1998.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Gordon Black is quickly setting up a special operations
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  Speaker 1: team to investigate the brutal kidnapping of Selina Fong, a
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  Speaker 1: young Asian woman, 18 years old.
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  Speaker 3: When myself and the others were brought in to this investigation,
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  Speaker 3: it was some six and a half hours after the
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  Speaker 3: actual crime had taken place.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Black has no clue why the family has waited
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  Speaker 1: this long to call the police. He has sent two
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  Speaker 1: undercover officers to the Fong's house. Stu McDonald will be
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and ears, backed up by.
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  Speaker 2: Translator Alan Lai.
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  Speaker 1: Selina's mother, Miki Fong, barely speaks English, so she tells
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  Speaker 1: her story in Cantonese.
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  Speaker 2: She says it all started innocently when someone rang the bell.
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  Speaker 1: A delivery man was at the door with a gift
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  Speaker 1: for Selena. But the man and two others forced their
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  Speaker 1: way into the house.
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  Speaker 4: She was quite frightened at that time and she froze basically.
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  Speaker 4: They physically took her upstairs to the bedroom where they
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  Speaker 4: bound her and removed her clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Fong says that the men started to take compromising pictures,
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  Speaker 1: threatening to broadcast the video on the internet if she
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  Speaker 1: didn't obey their orders. Shortly after four o'clock, she heard
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  Speaker 1: Selena coming home from school.
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  Speaker 2: The kidnappers were waiting for her.
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  Speaker 3: She was wrestled to the ground. Her eyes were covered.
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  Speaker 3: She was threatened. She was struck. She was placed in
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  Speaker 3: just a position of abject terror. Both the mother and
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  Speaker 3: the daughter were trying to calm each other while these
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  Speaker 3: men were trying to subdue the victim.
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  Speaker 1: The kidnappers made their demands clear. They wanted half a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars in ransom. And no contact with police, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: Selena would be killed.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout her ordeal, Mrs. Fong was struck by one fact.
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  Speaker 3: These individuals spoke perfect Cantonese dialect. Her thoughts were immediately
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  Speaker 3: cast to the fact that these people were from her
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  Speaker 3: native country of Hong Kong which heightened her level of fear.
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  Speaker 1: In Hong Kong and China, kidnapping for ransom has been
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  Speaker 1: a common crime for centuries. The kidnappers are often professionals.
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  Speaker 1: Abductions are seldom reported.
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  Speaker 4: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Fong says that when she managed.
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  Speaker 1: To free herself, she immediately phoned her husband, who was
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  Speaker 1: in Hong Kong on business.
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  Speaker 2: She told him of the kidnapper's demands.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband was at a loss. In Hong Kong, he
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  Speaker 1: would know how to proceed. The rules of the game
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  Speaker 1: are simple.
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  Speaker 2: Kidnap, contact, pay. But in Canada, the rules may be different.
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  Speaker 1: So he told her to call Vancouver police while he
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  Speaker 1: caught the next flight home. Alan Lai was born in China.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that getting the Fongs to trust the police
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  Speaker 1: will not be easy.
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  Speaker 5: Gaining her confidence was the most important thing for us
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  Speaker 5: as the police to do. We needed to reassure her
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  Speaker 5: that everything that was discussed was going to be dealt
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  Speaker 5: with in confidentiality and the fact that we will do
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  Speaker 5: everything we can to help save her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: While police wait for the kidnappers to establish contact, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Black and his tactical team make their first move. Set
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  Speaker 1: up undercover surveillance of the Fong house.
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  Speaker 2: He also starts to follow his only lead in the case,
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  Speaker 2: the victim and her family.
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  Speaker 3: Why would this particular family be selected in what is
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  Speaker 3: a normally very peaceful community, a community is devoid of
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  Speaker 3: violence or threats like this. So we expanded our inquiries
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  Speaker 3: to cover Hong Kong, the father, his business dealings.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Black learns that David Fong is a very successful businessman.
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  Speaker 2: As is often the.
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  Speaker 1: Case in Hong Kong, he sometimes conducts business over the
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  Speaker 1: gambling table. His business ventures give him the ability to
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  Speaker 1: acquire substantial amounts of cash very quickly. The kidnappers have
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  Speaker 1: done their homework. It takes David Fong over 24 hours
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  Speaker 1: to arrive back in Vancouver. He already has part of
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  Speaker 1: the kidnappers ransom, over a hundred grand in cash. He
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  Speaker 1: will be the one dealing directly with the kidnappers when
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  Speaker 1: they make contact. That night, Detective Black sneaks into the
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  Speaker 1: Fong's house and has his first meeting with David Fong.
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  Speaker 1: Fong must be won over to their strategy. The first
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  Speaker 1: phone call with the kidnappers will set the tone for
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  Speaker 1: the whole negotiation.
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  Speaker 3: We needed to alert him to what he might face
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  Speaker 3: on the telephone and why certain things should and shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be said. Basically, what we're going to do, why we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do it, and what we expect will happen.
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  Speaker 1: This goes against David Fong's plan to pay the ransom
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  Speaker 1: and get his daughter back as.
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  Speaker 2: Soon as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But Detective Black warns him, Selina is likely to be
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  Speaker 1: killed if he does this. Nearly three days have gone
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  Speaker 1: by since Selina's abduction and still no word from the kidnappers.
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  Speaker 1: For the Fongs, seconds pass like hours.
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  Speaker 5: First phone call came in and the father picked up
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  Speaker 5: the phone He was quite upset, very distraught. The only
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  Speaker 5: thing he was worried about was the safe recovery of
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  Speaker 5: his daughter.
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  Speaker 2: They patched Black's headquarters into the Fong's house.
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  Speaker 3: The call came from a male, and it was evident
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  Speaker 3: right away that the voice was disguised through some electronic mechanism.
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  Speaker 3: They were very direct. They weren't prepared to negotiate with
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  Speaker 3: the father. It was one-sided, basically telling him, this is
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  Speaker 3: how things are going to be from here on in.
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  Speaker 1: The kidnappers are dictating the terms. Either David pays the
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  Speaker 1: half million dollars immediately, or Selena dies. Minutes after the
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  Speaker 1: first phone call, Selina Fong's kidnappers call again. Detective Black
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  Speaker 1: has carefully coached David Fong on what to say.
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  Speaker 3: I had asked him at one point to be hysterical.
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  Speaker 3: I needed real tears from him. I needed a man
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  Speaker 3: sobbing at the potential harm to his daughter. And I
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  Speaker 3: needed him to give virtually an Academy Award performance.
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  Speaker 2: He pleads for his daughter's life, begs to talk to her.
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  Speaker 1: The kidnappers have no idea that his tears are only
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  Speaker 1: to convince them he will play by their rules. But
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  Speaker 1: the kidnappers ignore David's plea. They don't let him talk
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  Speaker 1: to Selena. Selena's parents and the police have no idea
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  Speaker 1: of the ordeal she is going through. but they are
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  Speaker 1: well aware of what kidnappers do to young women. Detective
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  Speaker 1: Black and his team have tried to trace the two calls,
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  Speaker 1: but the kidnappers are pros. They keep the calls too
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  Speaker 1: short for police to pin down their location. In addition
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  Speaker 1: to monitoring the calls, surveillance maintains a web of undercover
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  Speaker 1: officers surrounding the Fong's house.
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  Speaker 6: There were those that were in the observation posts around
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  Speaker 6: the house. There was another ring of surveillance in vehicles.
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  Speaker 6: And then there was teams of surveillance units that had
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  Speaker 6: the ability to follow somebody away from the house should
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  Speaker 6: a vehicle or a person show up.
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  Speaker 1: But surveillance reports nothing out of the ordinary. Later that day,
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  Speaker 1: a third call comes in. The kidnappers give David Fong
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  Speaker 1: his instructions. Be ready to pay the ransom any time
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  Speaker 1: in the next 48 hours.
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  Speaker 3: They were very assertive that he leave his home on
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  Speaker 3: short notice, that he take large sums of money to
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  Speaker 3: a specific location, drop it off and leave, and his
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  Speaker 3: daughter would be sent home at a later date.
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  Speaker 1: With each call and each passing hour, David is more
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  Speaker 1: and more tempted to revert to his way of solving
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  Speaker 1: the crisis. He's raised additional cash He now has the
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  Speaker 1: half million dollars and is ready to trade for his daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Detective Black needs to keep him on track.
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  Speaker 1: That means stall the ransom payment and keep negotiating until
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  Speaker 1: he can take control of the situation.
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  Speaker 3: You can sum it up as a big waiting game.
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  Speaker 3: What is going to be their next move? And have
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  Speaker 3: we possibly thought of every scenario we can in order
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  Speaker 3: to be prepared to respond?
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  Speaker 1: Four days after the abduction, the kidnappers call in the
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  Speaker 1: dead of night. They want to set up the ransom
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  Speaker 1: drop-off for the next day. But, reluctantly, David follows Detective
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  Speaker 1: Black's tactics. He won't pay, he says, until he talks
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  Speaker 1: to his daughter.
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  Speaker 2: The tactics work.
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  Speaker 4: And she stated she was okay, they were treating her okay,
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  Speaker 4: just to pay the money and don't call the police
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  Speaker 4: and it seemed like a very scripted conversation.
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  Speaker 1: David tells her to be strong, to hold on. Hearing
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  Speaker 1: Selina's voice is a great relief for David Fong. But
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  Speaker 1: more than ever, he wants to forget about the whole
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  Speaker 1: police strategy. Moments later, the kidnappers call back. Now that
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  Speaker 1: they've given David Fong proof Selina is alive, they want
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  Speaker 1: the money. For David, it's the moment of truth. Deal
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  Speaker 1: with the criminals in his own way, or play it
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  Speaker 1: out the way police have advised? He decides to stick
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  Speaker 1: with Black's plan. Pleadingly, he tells the kidnappers he cannot
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  Speaker 1: come up with the whole ransom. The kidnappers' rage gives
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  Speaker 1: David Fong a moment of complete despair. What if this
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  Speaker 1: charade means death for his daughter?
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  Speaker 3: The demands that we put on the father throughout the
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  Speaker 3: negotiation process were really something that no human being would
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  Speaker 3: like to face.
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  Speaker 2: An hour, then two.
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  Speaker 1: The kidnappers have agreed to lower the ransom by $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 2: Detective Black has just won another round.
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  Speaker 1: But that same night, Unbeknownst to police, the kidnappers are
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  Speaker 1: calling a vote. Once they collect the ransom, does Selena
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  Speaker 1: live or die? It doesn't take them long to agree.
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  Speaker 1: Death to Selena.
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  Speaker 7: Death to Selena.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Black is preparing for what he senses is the
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  Speaker 1: final round with the kidnappers.
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  Speaker 2: But for this crucial showdown, he needs to.
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  Speaker 1: Coach David Fong face to face.
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  Speaker 2: The key to keeping his.
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  Speaker 1: Daughter alive will depend on how well David plays his hand.
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  Speaker 2: The strategy is this.
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  Speaker 1: On the next call, David must refuse to pay the
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  Speaker 1: ransom unless Selina is brought to the drop-off and is
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  Speaker 1: exchanged on the spot for the money.
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  Speaker 2: And if the kidnappers don't give in, then he must
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  Speaker 2: threaten to pull out.
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  Speaker 3: We told him, we're going to ask you to do
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  Speaker 3: this today, and when you do that, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: say it's all over, they're not going to deal with
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  Speaker 3: you anymore. And when they do that, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: phone you back within a very short time and start
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  Speaker 3: again as if it never happened.
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  Speaker 1: When the next phone call comes in, a surveillance team
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  Speaker 1: spots a blue car, driven by an Asian man talking
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  Speaker 1: on a cell phone. They put a surveillance detail on him.
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  Speaker 1: Later that day, police watched the blue.
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  Speaker 2: Car pull up to a green car parked on a street.
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  Speaker 1: The driver of the blue car switches with the other driver,
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  Speaker 1: who is also Asian. Then they both drive off. Both
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  Speaker 1: cars are followed. Les Flewelling, who's in charge of surveillance,
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  Speaker 1: keeps on the trail of the first man they spotted.
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  Speaker 1: The man drives straight to a deserted parking lot. He
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  Speaker 1: makes one quick stop and takes off.
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  Speaker 6: When it appeared to be safe enough to have an
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  Speaker 6: officer go over and look in the dumpster, one of
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  Speaker 6: the officers made his way over, pulled the package out
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  Speaker 6: that this guy had dumped in, took a look inside,
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  Speaker 6: and a number of the victims' clothing items were inside
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  Speaker 6: this bag.
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  Speaker 1: Police now have proof that they have tracked down two
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  Speaker 1: of the three kidnappers, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Are hot on the trail of one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Another call comes in. David's performance on the phone has
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  Speaker 1: been effective. The kidnappers agree to bring Selena to the
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  Speaker 1: drop-off point. Rendezvous is set within the hour. Now, police
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  Speaker 1: are hoping to rescue Selena. The driver of the green
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  Speaker 1: car leads police to a house where he meets up
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  Speaker 1: with the other man. The kidnappers are observed putting a
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  Speaker 1: big duffel bag in the trunk of one of the cars.
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  Speaker 1: But police can't be sure which one. Detective Black is
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  Speaker 1: on the move now. He's hooked up to the surveillance
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  Speaker 1: team and the Fong house.
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  Speaker 2: A call comes in to David Fong. The kidnappers put
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  Speaker 2: Selena on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: She appeared to.
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  Speaker 4: Be weak, weaker in voice, weaker in it was quite
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  Speaker 4: apparent that she was not being treated well and that
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  Speaker 4: she was losing her will.
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  Speaker 1: Police realize that Selena is in one of the cars
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  Speaker 1: they are trailing.
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  Speaker 2: The question is, which one? Based on cell phone triangulation,
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  Speaker 2: they target the blue car.
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  Speaker 3: We instructed that the takedown of the first vehicle happen.
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  Speaker 1: The Fongs listen live to the takedown via a radio hookup.
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  Speaker 6: All three radio channels broke out in chaos. Most of
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  Speaker 6: the officers converged on the one car that they believed
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  Speaker 6: the victim was in.
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  Speaker 7: He had the girl.
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  Speaker 1: I said he had the girl.
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  Speaker 3: The victim wasn't in the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Black wonders, has he just signed Selina's death warrant
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  Speaker 1: by revealing the police involvement?
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: But Detective Flewelling is still following the second car.
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  Speaker 6: The adrenaline was pumping so hard. And was screaming at him, police,
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  Speaker 6: you know, put your hands up, put your hands up.
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  Speaker 6: And I put him on the ground and I went
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  Speaker 6: down on top of him. And I was telling him
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  Speaker 6: that you're under arrest for kidnapping.
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand?
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  Speaker 6: And it was at that point that he said, she's
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  Speaker 6: in the trunk.
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  Speaker 2: Flewelling's partner sees a duffel bag, but it's not moving.
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  Speaker 6: She looked weak, and you could tell that she'd been
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  Speaker 6: through an ordeal. She looked very scared. But when I
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  Speaker 6: approached her and said, I'm a police officer, everything's okay,
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  Speaker 6: you could see the relief in her face that it
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  Speaker 6: was finally over.
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  Speaker 3: We ran the gamut of frustration, anger, tears, and ultimate
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  Speaker 3: joy that we as a group were able to rescue
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  Speaker 3: this young woman. And there isn't any one of us
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  Speaker 3: that will forget our involvement in this investigation for as
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  Speaker 3: long as we live.
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  Speaker 2: But one shadow remains for the police.
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  Speaker 3: This was too well orchestrated, too well planned, too well
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  Speaker 3: carried out. We believe that somewhere out there is a
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  Speaker 3: level higher than these people, perhaps dealing with organized crime,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps connected to gang activity.
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  Speaker 1: Police charge Gary Chong and Chi-Yi Chan with kidnapping. Each
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  Speaker 1: is sentenced to 14 years in prison. They never revealed
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  Speaker 1: the identity of the third man. The leader of their
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: triad is still out there.
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  Speaker 2: The stories on 72 Hours are true. The detectives and
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  Speaker 2: forensic scientists are the ones who actually worked on the case.
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  Speaker 1: The names of the.
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  Speaker 2: Victims are fictitious. The names of the convicted are real.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.