John Cassavetes' Former Son-in-Law Arrested in Horrific Kidnapping Case
The 49-year-old former son-in-law of director John Cassavetes was arrested this week after he allegedly stalked and kidnapped a 16-year-old Staten Island girl, holding her captive in his California trailer for days.
Buck Wylde Murphy is currently being held in lieu of a $1 million bail for the horrifying alleged five-day assault, which police say began online. According to the Staten Island Advance, an ex-cop private detective pieced most of the story together and passed the information on to local cops:
The girl, who lives in a Mid-Island neighborhood on Staten Island, first started getting social media messages from Murphy during the fall, said [retired NYPD Captain Sean] Crowley.
Murphy posed as a 19-year-old, but the girl rebuffed the advances, Crowley said.
She's just 'No, no, no, no, no,'" Crowley told the Advance. "He somehow tricks her to open a file which has a virus in it, and that allows him to get full access to everything on her computer. And that's where he gets all this information that he uses later on to threaten her."
He threatened to kill her family, repeating their addresses and phone numbers to her, then arranged her trip to California, Crowley said.
"He sends a cab to the house and tells her to get in the cab, if she's not in the cab, he'll know and he'll come there and kill the family," Crowley said. "So she gets in the cab and goes to the airport."
Crowley says he used phone and flight records to find the teen, saying "She's recovering, but she has a long way to go."
Murphy—who had previously been married to Cassavetes' daughter, Alexandra—is reportedly scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on kidnapping, rape, criminal threats and stalking charges.
