Divinia Hall
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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When I was a kid, I had a strange fear of being kidnapped. That always scared me. It always freaked me out that there might be somebody that wanted to take me and I'd never see my family again. We were headed home from a family vacation in Mexico. Family trips to Mexico have always been wonderful, and we've been going for as long as I can remember.
We'd been pulled over by police before. It's never really been a big deal. So he pulled over.
So at that point, there was nowhere we could go. They really trapped us in.
There were eight to 10 gunmen. There's men surrounding our truck.
They all had guns with silencers on them. They told us to put our heads down and shut up. I remember my brother saying, oh God no, please no. After being told for I don't know how many times that you're gonna die, there's not a lot of other options to think.
When all this was happening, a guy climbed into the truck on my brother's side.
And another man jumped in the driver's seat.
He's very adventurous. Ever since my dad would take him, he would jump in a car. and help out where he could with changing tires or handing a driver a water bottle. Anything he could do to spend the day in the dirt.
We got up really early in the morning to drive home. At first we were caravanning on the way home and those caravans get a little broken up.
My dad said, please take it all. Leave us here. Just whatever you want, take it. Leave us here. And the guy took his gun and put it to my dad's forehead and said, shut up. I was so afraid that I was gonna watch my dad get shot right there in front of me six inches from where I was standing.
They said they were gonna shoot us, that we were gonna die.
They drove us onto a dirt road up into the mountains above Tijuana. I don't know exactly where I was because they made us keep our heads down and they stopped.
Where's all the money? My dad told them, I'm just a truck driver. There's no race car. I'm just a truck driver. I think these people wanted money. I think they thought we were somebody who we weren't.
They dug for money and cell phones.
I remember them rubbing down my legs to check my pockets and my pants. I remember somebody grabbing at my neck, looking for any jewelry.
It was creepy. I didn't want them near me. I know my dad didn't like the fact that they were running, you know, grabbing at my legs and my neck and stuff, trying to look for things. And I couldn't imagine having to watch his daughter have that happen.
My mom kept asking these guys to please just leave my babies here and take what they want, just leave the kids alone. And they were mocking her. She would say, please just leave my babies here. And they would be like, oh, please, please just leave my babies here. It was cruel.
Tyler was shaking and crying. He was very, very upset. He had a gun pointed at his side the entire time we were there. I just kept trying to hold his hand, tell him that I love him. I mean, I tried to tell him it's gonna be okay, but how do you tell somebody it's gonna be okay when they have a gun in their side?
We got to the top of the mountain and they stopped again.
These men pulled my dad and I out of the driver's side and my dad instantly just wrapped his arms around me and he hugged me and he told me he was sorry and that he loved me. And they pulled my mom and my brother out of the passenger's side.
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