Ana Elizondo

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It is interesting that the kidnappers said she was chosen because her father was engaged in illegal activity.



A woman who was kidnapped, held for ransom and driven to an area near the Mexican border has opened up about her traumatic experience. Ana Elizondo made headlines in 2012 after she was kidnapped from a parking lot when she was leaving a night class at the University of Texas, Pan American.
The psychology graduate student, 27, was blindfolded and transported through several cars as her abductors made a failed attempt to cross the Mexican border.

She escaped the hands of her captors the following day unharmed and said she tried to keep in good spirits for much of the time she was kidnapped. On Tuesday she will open up about her experiences on the popular true crime documentary show House of Horrors: Kidnapped on Investigation Discovery. Elizondo has said in prior interviews that she was determined to look strong throughout the kidnapping, according to the Panamerican Online. She said in 2013: '(I thought) which one of these guys is going to rape me? All these thoughts were going through my head.'I was very kind to them. I cracked jokes with them to get out of the situation mentally. 'They saw me as a good person and I think that's why I wasn't physically harmed or raped or anything like that.'

An investigation revealed that Elizondo was targeted by the kidnappers because her father was a well-known wealthy business man in the area, according to The Inquisitr. The men demanded a $160,000 ransom when they first called Elizondo's father.She was told by the kidnappers that her father lived a secret life and sold alcohol and cigarettes to the Mexican drug cartel.

But eventually, one of the kidnappers introduced Elizondo to his mother, who helped her escape to another location where her parents could reach her. The kidnappers, named as Milton Treviño, Miguel Angel Cruz Navarro, 35, and Onan Herrera-Sanchez, 28, were all arrested.

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I have wondered about this same thing with the Earons case. I dont know anything that would point to any illegality by the victims, but I wonder if they had some relation to criminal activity. Janelle Cruz can be connected to a major drug smuggler in the Irvine area. Lyman Smith's connection is well known. D/S had some important business connections. O/M were doctors and could have been prescribing drugs. There is a legitimate medical connection in many of the cases. The Harrington's were in the medical field as well. I wonder what Patricia's past experience might have been. But if there was some activity by the victims in which they flirted on the edge of a drug culture, would the secret have died with them? Would their relatives have spoken about it? Would they have known? I dont wish to speak ill of the victims, but this case doesnt make sense without something which connects the victims.

I had a friend who spent much time in rehabs, AA, and NA. She spoke quite often of the people who were users and could maintain their composure so that no one knew. She also spoke of the doctors who she was able to talk out of script. Back in the 70's and 80's it wasnt that big of a deal for them. She worked at a hospital in the 80's and the script flowed freely, especially for employees. I have heard of some people today who get prescriptions, and rather then taking them they sell the drugs for extra money. This woman I am speaking of, she grew up as a patient. She was a victim of a child molester, and in her teens her doctors started her on medications, which culminated in her having a major addiction to pills in her twenties and thirties. As a point of interest, the young man who molested her and her neighbor, was a 17 year old young man who is now a policeman. I wonder if he developed a drug problem later in life? Maybe some other type of addiction? Someday I might contact him, or his employers. IDK. He ruined her life, and he was never punished for it. God only knows what kind of cop he is now.

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Some people can recover from a traumatic event like a molestation and other spiral out of control. I wish we had a better understanding of how to manage the different personalities. Drugs certainly don't seem to be the correct course of treatment for someone who is in emotional pain over the long term but some doctors will prescribe to what the patients request or keep trying treatments until they find one that satisfies the patient and gets them to stop complaining of an ailment. Should a doctor not acquiesce? Yes, but doctors are just people who are trying to help their patient.

Honestly, at this point I don't think the link is drugs. I think there is something stranger going on if these cases are all tied dating back to the Jack the Ripper series. Although, for the EARONS case, the killer could have used drugs in his selection criteria for victims.

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Who was Jack the Ripper (aside from the one way back)?