Debra Hall
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57 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Debra Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I heard sirens at the same time I felt the truck kind of jerk over to the side, and I asked him, were you speeding? What have you done? He said, no, I wasn't speeding. At that point, we were probably a mile and a half as a crow flies from the border. We were so close to being home.
The policeman walked up to the window. He didn't even get a chance to really talk to him.
At that same exact second, another car came around and blocked us in. It happened so incredibly fast.
Very precise in their movements. All the other guys, except for that first one, had their faces covered. They just had this portion of their eyes showing.
In the truck, Chris had a radio that is specifically made for off-road racing. Right before they were opening the door, I grabbed the mic and I said, is anyone out there? We need help. And no one came back on the race radio.
Once they realized that the race radio was there, they ripped it off the mount. They ripped out the wires.
There were guys in the back seat with the kids with guns on them as well.
tried to reach back behind me and touch them and pat their legs or rub their legs and I just kept telling them I love you and it's gonna be okay. The whole time I'm doing this, there's this guy with a gun in my side yelling at me to shut up and keep my head down.
Chris and Tyler were working as part of a pit crew for the Baja 1000. Tyler started racing motorcycles when he was five.
As a family, we have traveled to Mexico a lot.
Cabo San Lucas is the very south tip of the Baja Peninsula. It's amazing. The day before we came back, we had stopped along a little spit of beach coming up the peninsula. And probably 35 people met up with us in this deserted beach. And we all barbecued and drank beers on the beach and camped out overnight. And that was probably the most perfect day we've ever had down there. It was awesome.
The plan was to stop in another city and sleep. I'm using the cell phone and calling the hotel and confirming, yes, we're going to check in late. We still want that room. Please hold the room. No problem, Mrs. Hall. Keep coming. We've got your room. When we get there, the room's gone. I really think that was the turning point.
just go forwards five hours and sleep in our own bed. At the time, it seemed like an okay idea.
I could hear Chris breathing really heavily like in through his nose and kind of shuddering out through his mouth. I could hear Tyler breathing really really heavily and I never heard a peep out of Davinia.
It's all right. Chris is the even-keeled one in our family. He kind of sets the tone for things. If he turned white, gray, he looked like he was going to be sick. If he's scared, I'm scared.
These are my babies. They don't need this. Just let them walk away. We're out in the middle of nowhere. My kids are not going to hurt you. They're not going to call anyone. Just let them go. And they didn't care.
I think the gunmen were nervous once they discovered it was an entire family in the truck and that scared me in itself because the dynamics have changed. They're nervous too.
And then they made a right hand turn off the toll road but not at an exit or anything. And then drove up into the hills.
When we were traveling, it was November of 2007, we weren't aware of any issues that were happening across the border that would make us question traveling on the road at night or traveling on the road alone.
They kept asking us, who are you? What's your name? What do you do for a living? Where's the race car?
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