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The Survivor Squad

Part 1: Citizen F's American Nightmare w/ Denise Huskins

The Survivor Squad

Collier Landry

True Crime, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

2.9 • 956 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 1 of a Two-Part Interview with Denise Huskins Make 2024 your year of language mastery with Babbel! Visit https://babbel.com/collier and receive 55% off your Babbel subscription. Be a better you, one language at a time! *Rules and restrictions may apply. About our guest: Denise Huskins In March 2015, Denise and her boyfriend at the time, now husband Aaron Quinn, were victims in a home invasion. The intruders bound them up with zip ties, blinded them with blackout goggles, and forced them into a closet. Denise was then kidnapped. Aaron was able to break free later to call the police. Aaron told the police that Denise was being held ransom for two payments of $8,500. The Vallejo police never took him seriously. The police had his phone turned off where they could have had Denise’s location traced to be saved. Denise was then dropped off two days later by her family in Huntington Beach at her parents' house. The police and media did not believe them naming Denise the real-life gone girl. Instagram: @huskins.denise https://www.instagram.com/huskins.denise/?hl=en The Book: https://victimf.com Netflix Series: American Nightmare • Survivor Squad Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/thesurvivorsqaud • Terra’s links: https://linktr.ee/terranewell • Collier’s links: https://collierlandry.com/links It's important to consider seeking support from a licensed mental health professional or support group. Talking to a trusted friend/family member can also be beneficial in overcoming trauma and its aftermath. •Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ •Trauma-Recovery.org: https://trauma-recovery.org/ •American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org/ •National Institute of Mental Health: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml •National SA Hotline 1-800-656-4673 https://www.rainn.org/ •National Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-7233 https://www.thehotline.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Trigger warning. This podcast discusses themes centered around emotional, physical, and sexual violence.

0:07.0

While the stories of the survivors are meant to be inspiring and informative,

0:10.3

listener discretion is advised. If you are struggling with any of the

0:13.8

aforementioned issues, links to resources can be found in the show notes of today's

0:18.4

episode. In my time in captivity, my captor wasn't overtly violent and he was even at times overly polite and it was clear it was deliberate as a way of psychological manipulation, but there was things about him that I felt like perhaps he's had a prior trauma and this is his way of rectifying that and he's

0:47.7

projecting that onto me so I'm going to I'm going to hold back all of those deep instincts of I'm one of fight,

0:56.1

scream, you know, whatever I can to run. I'm going to suppress that and listen and try to pick up any information I can from him.

1:07.4

And so I would turn my body to him.

1:09.3

I would listen almost like I was a therapist, but I was trying to give him support and I was really just trying to connect with the human part of him that would maybe come to the decision to not kill me.

1:25.0

Hi survivors, I'm Teragnuall. And I'm Collier Landry, and this is The Survivor Squad Podcast.

1:30.0

Yay, another episode.

1:32.0

Another episode and a wild episode, a wild story, very, you know,

1:38.0

of the moment documentary, American Nightmare,

1:41.0

and we have a fantastic guest today.

1:44.6

Denise Huskins is joining us to give us a slightly different perspective than she's

1:49.7

given other people who have interviewed her about the story behind American nightmare, right Tara?

1:54.7

Yes, no, it was really great interviewing Denise.

1:58.7

I connected with her on Instagram.

2:00.9

I saw everyone talking about American Nightmare people are messaging me telling me

2:06.3

hey you need to have her on Survivor Squad people were messaging the Survivor Squad

2:10.8

Facebook too and Instagram.

2:13.2

I don't know if they were messaging you to call here.

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