I'd Have to Make Them Think I Was Dead
I Survived
A&E / PodcastOne
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In a brutal pack attack, 21 year old Christi is repeatedly raped and beaten beyond recognition by three hardened criminals who follow her from a bar to her truck.
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| 0:00.0 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence. |
| 0:08.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:20.8 | I remember saying you know God just let me pass out and never once did I want to die I just wanted to pass out whether they would think that I was dead. |
| 0:29.6 | Christie Flynn has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and grew up exploring the outdoors. |
| 0:35.6 | A lot of fishing and we live right by the river so I would do trot lines and stuff with my dad. |
| 0:41.6 | We used to catch likehead catfish like 150 pounds. Yeah, yeah, big ones. We wasn't messing around and then we got an older sister and a younger brother and we used to go swimming in a spring. I couldn't |
| 0:56.2 | imagine getting in that cold water now but yeah it was good. By 1991, 21-year-old Christie had moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was working for the state's |
| 1:09.7 | highway department. |
| 1:11.2 | I have my heavy equipment operators license is what got it started and then they |
| 1:16.8 | train me for my class A CDL with all my endorsements. So I was practicing driving a diesel rig. |
| 1:24.0 | Did you always kind of want to do these like big machinery jobs? |
| 1:29.0 | Actually, it happened because a man told me that women couldn't do it. |
| 1:35.0 | So... |
| 1:37.0 | Christie was a very devoted mother to her young son, who she was raising with a help from her mother. |
| 1:43.4 | And when she wasn't taking care of her son, she loved to shoot Poole. |
| 1:47.8 | I was actually, I shot on the Poole League for years and we went to different bars shooting pool and for tournaments and |
| 1:57.8 | stuff. We'd go there and shoot you know it just like a regular game and then you have five players and you decide you |
| 2:07.2 | know by the games who wins they add them all up. This is how she met her good friend Henry. It was funny because I met him because I had |
| 2:17.6 | went to another bar to shoot pool and we had a tournament that night and everybody was trying to get me with him because he was a big old chopped tall Indian and that was the only Indian guy they knew and I was Indian so they tried to set us up but we ended up being good friends. |
| 2:36.2 | And how often did you guys hang out? |
| 2:38.8 | About every week on Monday night. |
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