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>> you were supposed to get some money. >> yes. >> we didn't think it would work. >> face to face with her kidnapper at last. >> i just broke down. >> it's still hard for you. >> would she get justice? >> i got the courage and that moment. i said i'm ready. >> hello, and welcome to dateline. amanda lindhout was a fearless young journalist willing to brave the most dangerous hotspots. then, suddenly, she became the story. kidnapped by rebels in somalia. what she endured at the hands of her captives nearly destroyed her. what happened after she was free was almost just as terrifying. here is kate snow with the capture. >> amanda. amanda, i love you. >> imagine being the mother on the other end of this call.

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mother lorinda about her plans. you are thinking what? i would really rather she did not go. >> do you think, you were a little headstrong? >> i was headstrong. i don't think i spent enough time thinking about, what would happen if something did go wrong? >> soon enough she would find out how wrong things could go. on the plane into mogadishu, she remembers a fellow passenger turning to her and her colleague nigel with a stern warning. >> he said to me, your head, your head alone is worth half a million dollars in mogadishu. be careful. >> as amanda left the airport, the capitol city was chaotic. at home, amanda's mother worried about her daughter. >> i just made sure every time i talk to her that i told her i loved her. >> amanda managed to tamp down

her nervousness and get to work on her third day in somalia, she was in a car with nigel, chasing a story. >> the vehicle started to slow down, and i looked up. about a dozen armed men were emerging from where they had been hidden. all of them with a k-47's. my door was pulled open and i found myself lying facedown in the dirt, spread eagle with a gun held to the back of my head. >> terrifying. >> asked, is this about money? and he said to me, it may be something like that. >> all the way back in canada, her mother, lorinda, stopped hearing from her daughter. she began to fear the worst. she didn't want to be right, but she knew kidnappings were common in somalia. you must've felt helpless. >> i felt we were so far apart and we didn't know where our daughter was. >> i think i would've been a

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a hostage video on al jazeera. she was crushed. it was a first time she had seen amanda, and she did not look good. what were you feeling as you watch it? >> i just want to bring her home. never, never let her go. >> weeks turned into months, and then there captors separated amanda and nigel. >> why was i so important? >> that day and the days that followed were among the very worst. suddenly, i am alone with my own thoughts and my mind. >> amanda's mind ran wild. she feared she would be raped, and then one day, captor entered her room. it turns out your fears were justified. >> he did cross that line and my worst fears were realized. my whole experience in captivity really changed. >> somehow, she held on.

then one night, amanda was jostled awake and driven out into the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. >> they brought me over to an acacia tree and had menial. my head is pulled back, and then there was a serrated knife . >> the ruthless kidnappers told a desperate amanda, she only had three minutes to plead for her life. with her traumatized mother on the other end of the call. >> if you guys don't pay $1 million for me by one week, they will kill me. okay? tonight they have brought me out to kill me. >> amanda. amanda, stay strong. stay strong. >> the call made it harder not to let my imagination go. >> did you keep it together? >> edges felt like i had to.

that i had to be strong for her. >> canada does not pay ransom to kidnappers. if clarinda wanted to buy amanda spritam, she was on her own. a world away in somalia, amanda and nigel locked in separate rooms had discovered something. if they each stood at their windows, they could hear each other. they began to hatch a plan. >> nigel realized we might have a chance to escape out the bathroom window, whichever seemed like an impossible idea. >> each time they use the bathroom, they chipped away the mortar holding the bricks together blocking the window. then they would replace the loose bricks until one day, the whole was big enough, and they made a break for it. >> from the moment i drop down out of the bathroom window and hit the sound below, i knew it was bad.

>> they sprinted for a mosque, the one place where they thought they would be safe. >> right before we stepped in, i looked back and i saw one of our young captors. >> and said the mosque one person stepped forward to try to help amanda. someone she will never forget. >> it was the first woman i had seen in about five months. when she hugged me and held onto me, it was the first time in those five months that i felt something akin to being safe. >> that feeling would be fleeting. >> i just clung on to her, and i started pouring out my heart to this woman. she began pleading with my captors to let me go. >> her pleas were ignored. the kidnappers signaled -- circled amendment -- amanda.

>> that woman threw herself on top of me and was drug partway across the floor with me. until she could not hang on anymore, and right before they pulled me out the door the mosque, looked back and i saw her on the floor. she had tears pouring down her face, and she still had her hands outstretched to help me. >> you don't know what happened to that woman? >> no, don't. >> after the escape attempt, they grew frustrated and at him to get out on lorinda. >> if i had the money, i would pay you. we are not playing games. it's you that are playing games. >> i am playing a game? you should see my game. >> the escape attempt made things much worse for amanda. they tied your arms and legs and pulled your body up by ropes and leave you.

>> yeah, it's hard for me to go back to that and think about what happened to me during those three days. >> after that, adam forster on the phone again. it's one of the hardest calls to listen to. >> amanda. >> mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, please listen. >> amanda. >> mom, you need to pay the million dollars now because they've started to torture me. >> the calls were agonizing. the families of both amanda and nigel desperate to have their families, hired a private security company to help. months went by and one night, amanda's captors came to her room. >> they marched me outside and had me sit down on the cement, and they produced a small saw and began sawing through the

change that had been on my ankles for 10 months. >> amanda and nigel had not seen each other for months, but now they were thrown into the backseat of a car and driven into the dark night. >> we are both crying. guns surround this car we are in . i think this is it. >> then a man appeared at the window. >> he says, why are you crying? here, talk to your mother. she said to me, amanda, you are free. >> amanda's mother the renda had never stopped negotiating, and adam had agreed to accept $680,000 for both amanda and nigel. the captives flew out of somalia and landed in nairobi. they were whisked away to a hospital. mother and daughter finally reunited. >> i barely recognized her.

it was relief. it was joy. it was hard, hard ache. to see her like that. >> i would not be here now if it was not for my mother. she gave me life and saved my life. >> amanda lindhout was finally safe, back with her family, but adam, the one who tormented them so much was not finished with them yet. a single word from him would bring it all back. >> coming up. >> does your heart stop? >> it was scary that he could find me. >> a facebook message from across the world, and a daring undercover plan to catch a kidnapper. kidnapper.

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kate snow (voiceover): amanda lindhout was back home in canada, struggling to move beyond the horrific events in somalia e amanda lindhout was back home in canada, struggling to move beyond the horrific events in somalia and trying to cope with the idea that the captors whoso terrorized her might never be brought to justice. is amanda tried to get her life back on track, there was an interaction. >> i enrolled in a university program and it was during a break between classes, i was checking my emails and as i

received a facebook message. >> one word. kelo. from the last person she ever wanted to hear from. >> it was a message from adam. >> dude your heart stop? >> it was scary that he could find me even though i was safe and was at home. it was disarming. >> that one simple message was about to launch a new and dangerous chapter of her story. the messages did not stop there. lorinda heard from adam too but her communication with them extended beyond hello. out of the blue, you get this facebook message from adam. it must've been shocking. >> it was a total shock. it was kind of terrifying too. it felt like it was right in my space again. >> adam taunted lorinda. said he was reaching out

because he had journals amanda had written in captivity, deeply personal writing, that helped her get through it all. what were you thinking when you replied back? >> i was hoping i could get him to send amanda's journals. >> but if lorinda one of those precious journals, adam said she would have to pay. for lorinda it was outrageous. her daughter's kidnapper tractor down with more demands for cash. that is when she reached out once again to the royal canadian mounted police. a staff sergeant named larry got a call from his bosses. >> we became aware that adam had been in touch with her. at that point, my team was engaged to pursue that to the full extent. >> a 30 year veteran, he ran priority undercover projects for the real canadian mounted police.'s mission? find adam. if that was even his name. he reaches out on facebook which means you have his facebook address, right? >> we do.

we know he is in somalia. we suspect he is using an alias. the principal course of action is, who is adam? and so, to do that, we have to engage him directly through an undercover operation. >> an undercover agent will try to get in touch with adam? >> yes. >> this is a canadian investigator who we agreed to refer to pies cover name, ak. i want to acknowledge we are hiding your identity. we changed your look. because you are an undercover agent. >> correct. >> a.k.a. reached out that adam by phone. the undercover agent told him he was a media consultant for amanda's family. amanda didn't know about ak or what he was doing. all she knew was that adam's facebook messages triggered some kind of investigation. >> i didn't know what was going

on. i knew there was the hope to catch this guy. >> ak and adam communicated for years. it was slow work but ak knew pushing too hard to crater the operation and patience paid off. >> i received an email one day which was scanned copies of 16 letters. >> they looked like letters but they were pages ripped from amanda's journals. adam originally asked for thousands of dollars for them, but now? >> i call him and ask about this and he said i sent you the letters . i don't need money for them. our relationship involved that he trusted me now. >> then adam shared a new idea. he told ak he was a scholar and wanted to write a book, a history of somalia as implausible as that sounds to investigators, was an unexpected gift, way to get adam on the hook. you are telling a kidnapper

who you believe was involved in this major kidnapping, a lot of crimes, that you will help him publish a book? >> yes. >> it sounds like something out of a movie. >> we referred to this operation is the hail mary play. we didn't think it would work and we were surprised ourselves. >> you didn't think you would say i want to write a book and i want to pursue this with you? >> he convinced himself he wanted to write this book and he was able to write this book. >> that is your in. >> we thought how are we going to move this forward? how will we gather evidence because that is our goal? gathering evidence and maybe one day bringing him to justice. >> money. fame, to amanda, was a kind of page the good trapper kidnapper. >> it fits in line with what i knew of this man. he struck me as the kind of guy whose ego was so big.

if somebody told him he's capable of writing a book, he would think that. >> the hail mary play was in motion, but investigators knew they needed more than phone calls and emails. the next move? get adam to meet in person. >> coming up. >> you need to see him. >> we need to see him to identify him fully. ly. craig melvin: when "dateline" continues. [music playing] your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel. nothing beats it. i recommend pronamel active shield because it actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. i think that this product is a game changer for my patients. it really works. icy hot. ice works fast. ♪♪ heat makes it last. feel the power of contrast therapy. ♪♪ so you can rise from pain.

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sean kingston and his mother were indicted on federal charges of committing within $1 million worth of fraud. they are accused of falsely claiming the executed bank wires or other monetary payment transfers for high-end items. r i'm craig melvin. amanda lindhout was working to move past the trauma welcome back to dateline. craig melvin. amanda lindhout was working to move past the trauma from her kidnapping, meanwhile, investigators hatched a daring plan to snare one of her captors. a man who called himself adam. after years of phone calls and emails, an undercover investigator earned adam's trust and now it was time to tighten the net , continuing with the capture. as a hunt for kidnapper progress, amanda began to heal. part of the journey including sharing her story with the world.

four years after being freed, she released her memoir. a house in the sky. it became a best seller. >> in my own life, friends, family, book club people say to me, have you read this book? you have reached a lot of people. >> most people have not been kidnapped but people know pain and loss and adversity they don't think they can get through. what i feel people find in the pages is inspiration and a reminder that they are strong too. >> her strength would become crucial to the operation underway. investigators knew they had her kidnapper, adam, on the hook. they also knew in order to get justice for amanda, they needed more than long distance conversations. we need to see him. >> we need to see him to identify him fully. >> whose idea was it to meet face-to-face? >> it was his idea.

>> imagine meeting him face-to- face, but where to do it? somalia? too dangerous. canada? too risky. how about paradise? four hours away from the kidnapper's homeland of somalia, this island with its pristine beaches, crystal-clear water, beautiful mountain vistas, and luxury resorts. ak convince the kidnapper that he would serve as his book agent and of item adam here to talk about the project. adam lives in mogadishu in a difficult place to live. you are bringing him to a place where europeans come on vacation. >> it solidified my status as an international business person. somebody who had the means to get him what he wanted which was a book contract. >> adam took the bait. here he is with ak. did you get nervous that he was figuring out who you were?

>> i did initially and he turned to me and he said, what did you think of me? i buttered him up and said your english is great and you've come a long way from humble beginnings. and i turned it on him as it what you think of me? >> first, that you were intelligent, but now we are brothers. >> against a backdrop of serene stillness and beauty, the brothers continue to talk. even relax. they each had something to gain in this face-to-face meeting. he had one objective. getting the book deal. it seemed you had one objective. >> definitely we head one objective. >> the objective was to see him and confirm that adam was a man who had terrorized amanda and lorinda. they wanted him to admit his involvement in the kidnapping. that is where the phony book deal came in. >> we knew he was interested in writing a book. we brought up propp and one was a book cover we decide.

i was going to sign a contract with them that laid out our relationship, vis-@-vis, the publisher. >> the contract had a trap. adam would have to disclose any wrongdoing in his past. >> it special paragraph we inserted. disclosure paragraph to encourage him to tell us his story. >> he signed and incredibly, he told his story, including details of his involvement with the kidnapping. can you believe he is saying this? >> in my head, i was dancing. it was amazing. you couldn't ask for better evidence. >> he described his role in one of amanda's worst days. the hostage video on al jazeera. >> i showed him a video that aired on al jazeera and he pointed to himself as if he is proud of this. he said, i'm the one that shot the video. >> amanda remembers a video and adam that day.

>> adam was setting the stage for this video. i would say there was a great deal of excitement among all of them that they were going to be doing this little video, and in their minds, getting attention and money. >> in mauritius, investigators accomplished two big things. they identified adam as a kidnapper and got him to admit his crimes. after all of that work, it still was not enough to arrest adam. the law prohibited ak from recording the confession. so, you have no video or audio of what he is saying. >> correct. >> investigators when it to have the strongest evidence a good against adam in order to persecute him under canadian law. you are leaving mauritius with success but you need more. >> we do. >> how did you feel when your left ear? >> conflicted. >> you are watching him going back to somalia. >> as investigators, we

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his crimes on canadian soil. why did you need him to go to canada? >> we didn't want him to be arrested overseas. we wanted him in the country to deal with him in the most efficient way. >> they had to get him there. ak had to convince him the fake book deal was real. he thinks you are his book agent. >> i am his book agent so we got to the point where he would meet the publisher so it was my job to send him a plane ticket which is difficult to do if you want to fly somebody out of somalia. >> difficult is an understatement. you bring an international kidnapper into canada. >> correct. >> that doesn't sound easy. >> the dichotomies were usually keeping terrace outside the country. >> planning an itinerary for a kidnapper would take time, and threaten the operation. ak play the long game. >> i kept putting him of saying will meet the publisher

soon. at one point, i had to fake a heart attack. >> you head to fake a heart attack? >> that was the way we were able to put him off for a while. >> in real life you were doing other cases. after years of hard work and delays for amanda and her mother, everything was in place and adam was on a plane to canada. >> he arrives in autobahn comes in, there's big hugs, and we sit down and we talked about the impending book deal. the publishing deal about to be signed. >> adam was looking forward to a different future. little did he know that is precisely what he would get out of this deal. >> i go into the room and we have a boardroom set up for the meeting, then the book publisher arrives. knocks on the door and comes in and we are allegedly old friends. >> this is, my star. >> nice to meet you? >> you were both undercover agents. >> we have a bit of chitchat

and we go over the contract. adam, as we've done, we went over everything he had done. >> you would be the negotiator between the people who had amanda and nigel into was? >> i told you lorinda. i am the spokesman. i am intelligent person. educated person. >> played out like a movie. >> he is confessing to you his crimes. >> after the three months, then, you, as far as i understand it from what they told me, you were the person on the phone. >> yes. i'm working. >> you were supposed to get. some money. >> yes. i was expecting more than they gave you. >> after that meeting, you walked out. >> we signed the contract. everybody is very happy.

we were walking out because i said we're going on a tour of ottawa, but that did not happen. >> you were both arrested. you were still undercover. >> uniform police handcuffed us both. >> he must've been shocked. >> he was. you could see he was clearly thrown by this. i had to play it up, get your hands off my client. what are you doing. this is ridiculous and they handcuffed does both and lettuce into different directions. i went for a beer and he went to jail. >> it had been seven years since amanda had been chained in some all the, terrorized and tortured by her kidnappers for 460 days. now, adam was in chains himself. amanda was home when she got the news. >> i answer the phone, and i was home alone. my heart started pounding. he said, we've arrested adam. i fell to my knees and i

started crying. the next day i woke up and it was my 34th birthday. on the front page of every newspaper in canada was his face. a face that i had not seen in over five years. >> i came in right after, and she was crying. i think she's said they got him. they got adam. >> what were your feelings? >> i was crying. i couldn't even speak. >> immediately, my mind went to, there's going to be a trial. i will have to testify in the trial. the weight of that and what that really meant to me and would mean to my life became real. >> amanda is about to take the was snow standing come face-to- face with her captor, at last. coming up. >> she is crying. >> i was so afraid to see this

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investigative teams perseverance, and i wish to thank them for their excellent work. >> with the investigation over, it would be up to amanda to keep adam behind bars. it would take everything she had to do it. >> i'm going to have to testify and paste this man in court. >> you have to see him. before that could happen, amanda would have to assist the prosecution team in building its case against the kidnapper. >> we would meet every couple of months for 2.5 years. >> that is exhausting. >> it was exhausting and it was a difficult story for me. there was real active trauma in the telling of the story. i so appreciated the time that they took with me. guiding me through the process. as the trial date was getting

closer, i can't even say it became easier. the idea of facing him cost me a lot of pain. >> croft was the lead prosecutor. what were the biggest challenges? >> one was the magnitude of the file. more than 700 emails between ak and adam alone. the second challenge was, are the witnesses going to be able to testify? >> the man known to amanda and lorinda is adam was actually a 40-year-old somali national named ali omar ader. he pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping. on october 5, 2017, the trial began in the kidnapping of amanda lindhout. >> the biggest day of my life. >> dateline was with her as she made her way to the courthouse. what was going through your head? >> in those moments before entering the courtroom, i wondered if i could do it.

i was so afraid to see this man again. the thought of seeing his face, but i gathered myself. i needed to do that as much for myself as anything. >> i just saw you gather yourself there when you said it. it is still hard for you. >> it is. i expected always will be. this is real-life pain. then, the doors open and i walked into the courtroom, and adam was sitting directly in front of me. i kind of crumbled. >> now came the moment for amanda to testify against her kidnapper. can you describe it for me? >> she was crying. she was upset. she looked at adam in the box, and she stopped crying and gave him a look like i would never want anybody looking at me like that.

>> what kind of a look? >> seeing him sitting across from me as a prisoner in that box, that was also the truth. >> it's a reversal. >> exactly. he looked so small in a way, sitting in that box. >> in her testimony, amanda spoke about how adam terrorized her. she was on the stand for one long day. >> okay, my name is adam. >> her mom lorinda's spent three days a chord listening to the phone calls that would prove crucial to the case. >> i am not lying to you. >> you do not want amanda to be harmed. >> you have to relive it. >> yeah. it was, the truth was being told. there was a small part of me that actually felt sorry for him.

>> compassion for him >> adam's defense was that he, himself, had been taken hostage and they had threatened him. >> in the end, his defense did not work. the man known as adam was found guilty of kidnapping for his crimes, he was sentenced to 15 years in a canadian prison. victory for amanda lindhout. amanda ready victim in impact statement. in it, she addressed adam. i am the victim. i am also the survivor, she said. i am the one who will live the lessons of this. i choose to lean in to the lesson and challenge of finding forgiveness, compassion, and peace. those words bringing to a close not one but two improbable stories. amanda's kidnapping and the years spent in pursuit of justice. 10 years of your life.

>> 10 years. five for the undercover and five for the conviction. >> he is in prison right now in this country. do you think about that over? >> it is justice, but i don't take joy in any suffering of any other human being. >> have you forgiven adam? >> i can't say yes or no to that. it's not forgiving because adam deserves to be forgiven. i deserve to have the freedom in my life of not being full of that anger all the time and keep putting my feet towards forgiveness. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. hing. hello. i am andrea canning, and this is dateline. >> it is