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Jul 2024
54m 53s

The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapping I Can’t...

The New York Times
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On Nov. 12, 1974, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s father’s childhood friend Jack Teich was kidnapped out of his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He was arriving home from work when two men forced him into their car at gunpoint and took him to a house where they chained and interrogated him. On the second day of his kidnapping, Jack’s w ... Show More
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