Escape from Colorado
The Knife: A True Crime Podcast
Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Newly married and just a month into her pregnancy, Toni’s husband becomes physically abusive. Thousands of miles from her family, Toni carefully plans to escape with her children as her estranged husband’s harassment only escalates. Today, Toni hopes that telling her story will help others suffering from abuse to get help and to find safety.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.2 | Everyone thinks they'd never join a cult. |
| 0:09.5 | But it happens all the time to people just like you. |
| 0:12.2 | And people just like us. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Lola Blanc. |
| 0:14.6 | And I'm Megan Elizabeth. |
| 0:15.9 | We're the hosts of Trust Me, a podcast about cults, manipulation, and the psychology of belief. |
| 0:21.4 | Each week, we talk to fellow survivors, former believers, and experts to understand why people get pulled in and how they get out. |
| 0:28.1 | Trust me, new episodes every Wednesday on Exactly Right. |
| 0:31.6 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.1 | This story contains adult content and language. |
| 0:39.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:42.8 | It's around 9 o'clock, I believe, at night. |
| 0:45.3 | We hear the garage opening, and my son hears it. |
| 0:48.4 | We freak out. |
| 0:49.7 | Honestly, I didn't tell my son this, but I thought that was it. |
| 0:51.9 | I was like, he's going to, you know, hurt us. |
| 0:54.3 | Like, this is it. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome to The Knife. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm Hannah Smith. I'm Pasha Eaton, and this week we'll speak with a woman named Tony Nova. |
| 1:16.8 | In 2020, Tony was living in San Diego when she met a man and quickly fell in love. |
| 1:22.0 | Like so many people experienced during COVID, her relationship timeline escalated since she and her boyfriend seemingly |
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