By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributorA family vacation in Peru turned into a vicious nightmare for three Americans who say they were brutally attacked by residents of a countryside village.
The Jackson, Wyo., residents were abducted while looking for a place to camp for the night. Eventually, they were freed after their captors forced them at gunpoint to sign a document blaming their injuries on a drunk-driving accident.
“We begged for mercy. We thought we were going to die for 11 hours,” Jed Wolfrom recalled for NBC in a TODAY segment that aired Friday.
Wolfrom and his wife, Meghan Doherty, had been celebrating the 30th birthday of Wolfrom’s sister, Jennifer Wolfrom, on Dec. 29. The three had gone on a mountain hike and were settling for the evening in the village of Palca before heading to their next destination, Machu Picchu.
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