Hey everyone. it's Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.

We are still rolling with our I Survived series.

Yeah, and this week's episode pretty much sounds like it's straight out of a horror film.

Quite frankly, all of these have so far.

I cannot imagine being in that situation at all and then having to deal with the aftermath of it.

So let's go ahead and jump in.

And as we know, none of us are strangers to true crime.

Young girls go missing, unfortunately, more than anyone would like and never come back.

And that is the theme here as well.

That is until one brave 15-year-old girl decided that she was not going down without a fight.

But before we get to that, we need to go back to July 19th of 1963 when Richard Evanitz was born in South Carolina.

His mom and dad were separated when he was just a little baby.

They got back together and they separated again, got back together, officially divorced in 1985.

Richard was the big brother and he had two younger sisters.

The three siblings, when their dad was there, endured.

And that's pretty much the only way that they describe it.

The father, Joseph, passes out from drinking on a very regular basis when he was there.

And when he is not passed out, he's verbally abusing the kids consistently, calling them morons and peons,

helping with their homework, he would just yell at them. It was a trend that he was verbally

abusive. Now when Richard was just six years old, Joseph got into a rage. He was heavily drinking and he drowned Richard's dog right in front of him. This killed the dog. That same year, Joseph would try to drown Richard. But he failed. Richard's sister, Jennifer, would say this about their childhood. We lived in a prison. Joe was a very controlling person.

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