Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting

Tamara de Lempicka Adam and Eve painting
Claude Monet The Road To Chailly painting
had prepared myself [for], 'Your husband's dead — there was an airplane crash,' you know, accidents," she says. "I never expected to hear, 'Jason's been kidnapped.'" Days of captivity turned into weeks. A month passed. Weber and his fellow hostages struggled to maintain hope. They knew negotiations were ongoing and figured a deal would be struck soon. Lisa Weber knew little about negotiations with the kidnappers until she read in a newspaper that her husband's captors had demanded a ransom of $80 million. Watching their captors, Weber and the other hostages guessed that things had taken a turn for the worse, however. More and more rebels were joining the caravan and the stress was palpable. At one point, a gunfight broke out among the guerrillas.