eduardo valseca, kidnapped? epidemic hadn't spread to this famously safe retreat. no, it must have been some vicious payback, something to do with eduardo himself. and even friends like mayor lucy nunez assumed eduardo was dead. >> i mean, i think everybody thought that. you watch in the television that people that t ve been kidnapped in three or four days, or maybe two, three, four, five, seven. >> reporter: yes, ven months. for most of that time, the kidnapaprs refused to budge e om their demand for a ransom of close to $8 million u.s. and when jayne went into town to beg their friends for loans, money to secure his release, she watched their eyes glaze over. >> friends would say things to me like, "oh, jayne, i'm so sorry about eduardo, we liked him so much." and speak about him in the past tense as if he were dead. >> reporter: even on the playground, classmates told jayne's children to give up hope. >> the little kids would go up to my children and say things like, "oh, i heard your daddy's dead, that they found him in a plastic bag in the parque juarez."." >>

in a washington, d.c., suburb, she just happened to lock eyes with a divorced art dealer named eduardo valsecauardo, who she would find out, was one of the nine children of jose garcia valseca, mexican newspaper baron, who 50 years ago ruled a publishing empire. would be an equivalent in the u.s. of who? >> william randolph hearst. an article published in "newsweek" in 1950 says that he actually had a larger readership at that point in time than hearst did. >> reporter: that's when garcia valseca ran his papers from a luxury pullman train car. the one which, decades later, eduardo owned. though, when he invited this beautiful woman he'd just met to mexico for a train ride, she had no idea that the train was his. >> we're walking toward it and this man comes out with a white jacket, white gloves, black bowtie with a silver tray, i was just completely speechless. >> reporter: she soon discovered that the train car was about all eduardo had of family fortune. the rest, along with the newspaper empire, had long since withered away. but jayne fell for a man, not money, and what eduardo lacked in fo