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I Survived

I Couldn't Breathe and I Remember Feeling Like I Was Falling Asleep

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Anita is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Brothers Jim and Glen are struck by lightning on top of the highest mountain in the continental United States. Sabret is working as a propane truck driver when she is attacked during a delivery and decides to fight back.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing some listeners.

0:04.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:07.1

That's when he told me, he didn't take me to rob me.

0:10.8

He had sexual needs and I was there to fulfill them.

0:14.1

Real people.

0:15.5

The wounds were like somebody taking a branding iron and branded me.

0:20.2

It wasn't blood. It was melted flesh and body parts.

0:26.6

Who faced death.

0:28.5

I couldn't breathe.

0:29.7

I'm losing it.

0:31.2

And I just, everything just tunneled out and lights out.

0:35.4

And lived to tell how. And then he would offer me dinner, watch a movie,

0:41.9

and he would write me again before he would put me in the box for the night. This is I

0:46.7

survived. It's June 1998 in Kokomo, Indiana.

0:57.9

Anita is a 21-year-old who lives with her parents.

1:01.4

She has just finished college and is working the afternoon shift at the post office.

1:06.5

My mom came in on the morning of June 25th and woke me up, told me I need to be up and doing

1:11.9

stuff and, you know, just graduated college and wanted to sleep in.

1:16.3

And at that time, she left for work and I went back to sleep for a few hours.

1:21.4

By 10 a.m., both of Anita's parents had gone to work.

1:25.1

And the next thing I know, the telephone's ringing in the door, there's a knock on the door.

1:30.0

And I answered the phone, ran over, answered the door, and Victor Steele was at the door.

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