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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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A Texas father found his 15-year-old daughter after she was kidnapped taking the family dog for a walk on Christmas, because of a tracking app on his phone. Using parental controls, he was able to find her in her kidnapper’s pickup truck in a partially wooded area and alert police. It’s a frightening story with a significant lesson for all of us parents.
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| 0:06.0 | Hey there, everybody. It is Monday, December 29th. And boy, is there a scary story that every parent needs to hear out of Texas. |
| 0:16.6 | It happened on Christmas Day. 15-year-old girl goes out to take her family dog for a walk. |
| 0:22.6 | And when she doesn't come back in time, her father used his quick thinking, pulled up his |
| 0:29.1 | phone, he had a tracking app, was able to find his daughter, and it is shocking where it |
| 0:36.3 | led him. And with that, everyone, thank you for joining us. Babe, did you, |
| 0:42.0 | I can only imagine as the father of a soon-to-be 13-year-old girl, this story had to send chills down |
| 0:49.6 | your spine. I don't know why it was so aggravating to me that it happened on Christmas Day. |
| 0:55.6 | That's not about, look, any day that your child disappears and somebody takes them, |
| 1:01.4 | especially a guy takes a girl, that type of kidnapping thing, it's awful, it's tragic, |
| 1:06.4 | you can't piss a dad off more, period. I don't know why. It was such an aggravating factor for me. |
| 1:11.8 | It seems like a lot has been happening around the Christmas holidays that just, you know, |
| 1:16.4 | even when we were talking about Brown University, so close to the holidays. Another story we're |
| 1:19.9 | talking about this morning. A woman accidentally shot straight bullet on Christmas Day. |
| 1:25.1 | Some about Christmas Day really pisses me off about this story. Yeah, this is, I mean, of all days, as you point out, any day would be terrible for this to happen. But this also, you just think about it, you're living in a suburb, the family lived just outside of Houston, it's Christmas Day. You don't think anything. Like, I wouldn't be worried at all about my 15-year-old |
| 1:45.1 | going out to walk the dog. And it was a lovely day. Houston had nice weather. It wasn't some cold blizzard up in it, right? Yeah. It was fairly pleasant in Texas around Christmas Day. It was a nice day. You wouldn't think anything of it. So yeah. And then also, I would also, you might give it a little time. Oh, she's not back. Maybe she ran into somebody |
| 2:01.5 | she knows. Maybe she's talking to this neighbor or that. You just would never, your guard would be |
| 2:06.9 | completely down. So kudos to this dad who jumps on his phone. He sees that his daughter is about |
| 2:13.5 | two miles from his home. So that's alarming, right? And then he sees it's in kind of a wooded |
| 2:20.0 | area. So he takes off and it leads him to this partially wooded area. And he finds his daughter |
| 2:26.9 | and the family dog in a pickup truck with a 23-year-old man who police describe as partially nude. Those moments, |
| 2:38.4 | what goes through this father's mind when he sees this? Oh, I mean, there was a weapon involved |
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