I Don't Want To Die Like That
I Survived
A&E / PodcastOne
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In September of 1992, 17-year-old Jennifer Asbenson is kidnapped and driven into the most desolate part of Palm Desert, CA. Her attacker, 32-year-old Andrew Urdiales, has already killed multiple women before luring his latest victim into his car. Jennifer recounts in her own words her fight to stay alive and escape the clutches of her would-be killer.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Huggy's Little Movers. |
| 0:03.3 | Get your baby's butt into Huggy's Best Fitting Dipper. |
| 0:06.5 | Huggy's Little Movers. We gotcha, baby. |
| 0:09.0 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, violence, and suicide. |
| 0:18.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:21.2 | And it just blows my mind that you could feel so comfortable with another human being |
| 0:30.8 | and not know what kind of monster they really are. |
| 0:35.0 | Jennifer Aspenson grew up in Morango Valley, California, |
| 0:40.0 | a small town near Palm Springs. |
| 0:42.0 | Her dad moved the family to an empty property |
| 0:45.1 | when she and her brother were young. We just basically lived on the mountain like |
| 0:50.2 | like we were camping. We rarelyhed we ate canned foods we eventually got a |
| 0:56.7 | double wide trailer with no electricity we lived in that while my dad built the house |
| 1:02.1 | growing up out there obviously was not |
| 1:04.8 | idyllic and Jennifer's parents weren't making the situation any better. My dad |
| 1:10.3 | was an alcoholic, a nonviolent alcoholic. |
| 1:14.6 | He was the type that could drink alcohol all day long, |
| 1:18.2 | still drive home, still do anything, and you would never even know that he had been drinking. |
| 1:27.0 | And he didn't want to come home because my mom was very depressed and my brother was handicapped. |
| 1:35.0 | I think that my mom never liked me. |
| 1:37.5 | My mom was very abusive. |
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