Samantha Geldenhuis
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Podcast Appearances
With the one missing piece of the puzzle, says Assistant U.S.
But it took two years to work a deal between the two countries.
A deal that eventually led federal agents to this little house in Malulaba.
One of the agents said to me, you must be really relieved, but I wasn't relieved.
I knew that my life would change, my children's lives would change.
One week earlier, their dad had died from bone cancer.
I'm very lucky to be able to say the last thing I said was, I love you.
Now she and Reese faced losing their mother to prison.
I said, Sam, you know how we never had communication with the family and friends in the U.S.?
I said, well, I was married before, and I'm going to jail now because I'm an accused of kidnapping.
I said, I had to keep you safe all those years ago.
I had to call her back and say, wait, does that mean that Dad wasn't my dad?