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Denise Huskins: My Kidnapping Story (FBF)
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- Crime & justice
Join Alex in the studio for a powerful interview with kidnapping and assault survivor Denise Huskins. In 2015, Denise was taken from her boyfriend’s house in the middle of the night. She was held for days, drugged, and assaulted before finally being released by her captors. But when Denise told the police what had happened to her, nobody believed her. In fact, they attacked her. They called her a liar, hoaxster, fraud, and the real life “Gone Girl.” They claimed she’d made it all up for fame and attention. Today, Denise is here to tell her incredible story of overc...
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Daddy gang picture this it's a typical day for you. You just got off of work you go pick up a pizza You head over to your boyfriend's house for dinner and you guys are just hanging out and you eventually start having one of those Emotionally deep conversations that goes on for hours about just the status of your relationship. You've been dating for seven months You're just trying to figure out are we doing this or we not?
Eventually you're exhausted, you decide you're staying together, you're happy, you're in love, you go to bed. And then imagine at 3 a.m. you're woken up and blinded by a bright white light laser beams across your body and you hear a taser go off somewhere in the room. A voice you don't recognize tells your
boyfriend to lay on his stomach and commands you to tie him up. You just woke up. You're confused. You're disoriented. You have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. Who are these people or what are they here and what do they want? And the next thing you know, you have blacked out swim goggles put over your eyes so you can't see anything and headphones
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