On March 16, 1984, Jody Plauché's father Gary killed the boy's rapist, Jeff Doucet, at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport — while television cameras were rolling. Jody Plauché was kidnapped by his karate teacher when he was 11 years old — then his father took deadly revenge. Karate teacher Doucet had snatched Plauche’s 11-year-old son Jody before inflicting a horrific campaign of sexual abuse and grooming as he took the boy nearly 2,000 miles from his home in Louisiana to a motel in California in March 1984 .