Real life ‘Taken’: Father breaks into boat to save daughter after she was kidnapped, drugged

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: After a teen vanished from her home, father Frank Gervasi began a heroic search for his missing daughter, even breaking into a boat to rescue her from the alleged kidnapper. Following the girl’s safe return, police arrested her suspected captor, and they now believe that the teen’s abduction may have been part of a sex trafficking operation. Phillip Hamilton joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong
0:05.9	language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it
0:11.7	disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime News, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar
0:17.0	cases from across the country every week. I'm your host, Anna Garcia. Our case this week,
0:22.3	it's being described as a real-life version of the movie Taken. That's the movie where actor Liam
0:28.7	Nissen jumps on a yacht to save his daughter who has been kidnapped and trafficked. Well, this case is from
0:35.8	Long Island, New York, where a father of a missing 14-year-old girl
0:40.3	says that he found his daughter on a docked boat and rescued her. She had been missing for a month.
0:47.5	Police have charged a 64-year-old man with rape and kidnapping, and the DA says more people may be charged. We're recording this on
0:56.9	Friday, January 10th of 2025. Our guest today is Philip Hamilton, a criminal and civil
1:03.5	defense attorney based in New York, a legal analyst who you see on TV all the time and a dear
1:09.0	friend of the show, Philip, welcome. It's so good to see you.
1:13.1	And the Happy New Year, always good to see you. Thanks for having to be back.
1:16.6	Happy New Year. Yes, happy New Year to everyone. This is the first podcast of 2025. Unbelievable.
1:22.0	January marks like five years that I've been doing this podcast. Wow. That's crazy.
1:28.0	Crazy, crazy, crazy.
1:29.5	All right.
1:29.9	So let's get to this case, which is both frightening and disturbing.
1:33.7	It's from Patchhog, New York, which is on Long Island.
1:36.5	Now, for three weeks, the parents of a missing 14-year-old had been pleading with the news,
1:43.4	pleading with social media to help find their daughter.
1:46.8	The dad said that he received an anonymous tip, that his daughter was being held on a yacht,
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