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I Survived

I Fell Into a Deep Dark Place

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

12 year old Thadius is carried outside of his home while asleep, by a man who turns out to be his captor, rather than his father. Kristen is kidnapped, led into a stranger's car at gunpoint & taken to his home while in her freshman year at the University of Delaware. Kimball, his brother, sister in law, & friend Mike are stranded on a boat 2 miles away from shore, surrounded by 43 degree water. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some viewers.

0:05.0

Listen or discretion is advised.

0:07.0

I was being tortured and if I tried to breathe he would just pull harder.

0:12.0

One, two, three waves hit up. I tried to breathe, he would just pull harder.

0:13.0

One, two, three waves hit us right in a row,

0:16.0

and the boat just disappeared.

0:19.0

He kept twisting and twisting the skin, like a twisted rubber band.

0:24.4

My feet were backwards.

0:26.2

And every time he told me to stop,

0:28.0

he would make me respond, yes, master.

0:31.9

Real people who faced death and lived to tell how.

0:35.0

This is I survived.

0:37.0

It's May 2003 in Newark, Delaware.

0:41.0

19-year-old Kristen has just finished her freshman year at the University of Delaware.

0:46.4

My friends in my dorm, everyone was getting ready to go out, just having a good time, and it was around 11 o'clock that we left the dorm.

0:56.4

It was only maybe an hour that I was out with them and I just decided that I didn't really want to be out anymore so I decided to walk home.

1:07.0

I called to my friend Klett who was still at the dorm at the time she still hadn't left and I asked her to meet me halfway because I didn't want to walk the whole way by myself.

1:20.0

Kristen arranged to meet her friend outside a convenience store.

1:23.1

I got there before she did, and so I decided to sit down on a curb that was in a fire lane.

1:31.3

It was a well-lit area and there's cars driving by, there's people walking down the

1:36.2

sidewalks. It was around midnight. This black sedan comes up and rolls down his window and says if I give you $100 will you put on these

1:51.1

handcuffs? He was in his mid-20s and had really, really, really long hair,

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