Debra Hall
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57 appearances
1 recordings
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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They were going through the trailer, just ransacking everything.
I told them, you know, this is all the cash we have on us. This is our name. We're not anyone. I mean, we're just somebody's family.
You've got eight to ten guys with guns. I just did not want them touching my daughter. I was scared to death of that.
As a parent in that situation, I felt like the most horrible person there is. because there wasn't anything we could do to help the kids.
Where they took us, really dark. Like pitch black, not be able to see your hand in front of your face, pitch black out.
He's still breathing really heavily. And I looked over and they were putting him into a ditch on his knees, pointed away from me. And there were two men with guns, one on each side, and Tyler in the middle. And I thought, oh my god, they're going to shoot my baby. This is it. And I just didn't want to see that happen. Just, I'm just scared. Our friend George had driven down with Chris and Tyler.
The second day we were in Cabo, George said when he woke up that he'd had a bad dream, he dreamt that there were guns and somebody was killed, and he just couldn't shake this bad feeling. He said, I just need to leave. In retrospect, I think George had this dream. It was a premonition. We should have all left. When the hotel gave away our rooms, that was a sign.
And we had two signs, and we ignored them both. And now look what happened. When they put Tyler in the ditch, I was physically ill. One of the gunmen placed me in the same ditch about eight feet from him. and he kind of shoved me down into the dirt, and I crawled over to where Tyler was, and the guy yelled something at me, and I'm like, told me to stop. I'm like, you know what? No.
You're throwing us in a ditch. If he's going to kill us in a ditch, I'm not going to be eight feet from my baby. He threw a sleeping bag over Tyler and I, and I thought... They're going to shoot us. This is it. They're putting the sleeping bag on us so that when they shoot us, they don't get blood on them.
The last thing that I remember seeing before they threw the sleeping bag over Tyler and I is Tyler's head. I crawled over and I just put my hand over his head and kind of held his head. And I was whispering to him that I loved him and I was so very sorry that we got us into this. And he was like, it's OK, Mom. It's OK. I love you. It's OK.
Tyler was sick, and we were all just so cold from being out exposed to that cold fog and air for so long. So we wrapped the sleeping bags around Tyler, and Chris just said, come on, we're walking. We're getting out of here.
There were cactus, there were trees, there were bushes, there were barbed wire fences everywhere. The rocks were wearing flip-flops and we're trying to go down steep goat trail type, no trail terrain. I mean, just not something that you would ever walk on if you were wearing hiking boots. I mean, it was just bad.
God's supposed to take care of you and give you only what you can handle, and now we've got some other yahoo shooting us. It was crazy.
She was in the ninth grade when they had the shooting at the high school. Fourteen.
I didn't know she was okay until I actually saw her. I was never so glad to see her in my life. She was shaking.
And she came out, and she said, get in here right now. And she pulled us in, and she took us into her home. And she was a lifesaver, literally. An amazing woman. She gave me her jacket. She said, what can I do for you? I said, can we use your bathroom when we're all just, do you have water? And she gave us her water. And she said, you can use my bathroom.
She said, it doesn't flush, but I'll carry the buckets of water to flush the toilet for you.
And we all said, no, don't call the police. The police are who had us. Don't call the police. She said, no, no, I'm going to call. I know the men in my department. It's going to be OK. And she called the police department in her little Colonia, and two men came in a pickup truck. And they put Davinia and I in front with the driver and put Chris and Tyler in the back with the other policemen.
And we did not want to be separated.
We were sweaty, bruised, just a mess.
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