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Corpus Delicti

246: Survival: Colleen Stan

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Colleen Stan was hitchhiking to visit a friend when she was picked up by a family with a baby. While it seemed harmless, it was anything but... It would be 7 more years before Colleen Stan was free.


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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.1

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.2

And welcome back to Corpus to Look Tight.

0:28.1

We are still in our survival series, believe it or not.

0:32.3

Yeah, this one has been a lot.

0:34.2

I was telling Jen after we recorded last week that why are the worst of the worst

0:40.3

in the Survivor series. And we actually got to talking about it. And it was an interesting point.

0:44.7

We were like, well, I guess it's because we know what really happened. You know, maybe all the

0:49.6

stories are this bad, but we don't know because they didn't survive.

0:55.3

So with that said, this episode does come with a big old trigger warning.

1:01.0

It does get pretty graphic.

1:03.1

I will say the survivor has been pretty open with her story, which is why we are comfortable sharing it.

1:08.7

But this can be disturbing.

1:10.8

It talks about rape, torture, etc.

1:13.4

Seriously, it's heavy.

1:15.9

You've been warned.

1:18.2

On May 19, 77, Colleen Stan, she's 20 years old.

1:24.2

She's hitchhacking from Eugene, Oregon, to California.

1:29.8

Colleen was born December 31st,

1:36.4

1956. She was going to visit a friend for her birthday, and she left at 11 o'clock that morning with a sleeping bag and a backpack. Colleen's not a stranger to hitchhacking, and she considered

1:43.2

herself to be really pretty cautious about it.

1:46.1

She's not going to get in the car with just anyone. She had made it most of the way that day.

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