“First hand,” came the cryptic, chilling answer. “I won't do anything until I see a photo that O'Neil is OK,” Jorge wrote back. Now they demanded $26,000 more, but gave confusing directions, first instructing Jorge to pay in the morning, then ordering him to deposit a fifth of the money immediately - without providing a bank account. The kidnappers had already withdrawn about $16,000 from O'Neil's bank accounts. “If it occurs to you to do something rash, you will not hear from me or your little sponsor again.” “Pay great attention because I will not say it again,” the kidnappers said in Spanish. The messages were from O'Neil's phone - but not from O'Neil. They were eating seafood at a restaurant on the malecón when the Mexican's phone suddenly began to buzz. The sun dipped over the ocean as Jorge drove them south to Mazatlan. The same charisma that had made him the centre of attention as a kid in Chevy Chase, Maryland - leading his little brother Chris and their friends through Rock Creek Park, refereeing fights after school at Blessed Sacrament, captaining dodgeball games - made him popular in the gay-friendly resort town. O'Neil had moved there in 2006 after visiting a few times. They had met six months earlier when Donnie and his wife visited O'Neil in Mazatlan, a city known as the Pearl of the Pacific. “Si, yo estoy aqui,” replied Donnie McGean, O'Neil's oldest brother.
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“Hola amigo, you there,” Jorge Guillen Gonzalez wrote on Facebook messenger on 26 October 2016. How could the 53-year-old not see it coming? How could O'Neil fall prey to the same trap that had claimed Brian six years prior? The question this time was less why than how. After agreeing to meet someone through a dating app, O'Neil disappeared - as did $16,000 from his bank accounts. But by 25 October 2016, that caution had waned.