I Felt Like There My Life Goes, That Was My Shot

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Talk Radio

3.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Amy meets a man at a party who attacks her after offering to take her for a ride. Tyler is 14 years old when he and a friend are attacked by a classmate after a school dance who sexually assaults him and sets him on fire. Jeff is on a snowmobile trip with ten friends when they are hit by three consecutive avalanches.

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0:00.0	Hi, I Survived listeners. I'm Marissa Pinson. And if you're enjoying this show, I just want to remind you that episodes of I Survived as well as the A&E Classic Podcast, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, and American Justice, are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation Channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year.
0:22.4	And now onto the show.
0:24.5	This episode contains stories involving violence against children.
0:28.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:30.9	He didn't even say anything.
0:32.8	He just put his hands around my throat and started squeezing.
0:37.4	Real people. I've been buried twice already. There's no... put his hands around my throat and started squeezing.
0:38.2	Real people.
0:40.9	I've been buried twice already.
0:44.0	There's no way I can survive getting hit again.
0:45.6	Who faced death?
0:49.8	That's when he taken a knife and cut my throat.
0:51.7	And lived to tell how.
0:55.1	I felt like there my life goes.
0:56.8	That was my shot.
0:58.7	This is I survived.
1:08.4	It's September 2003 in DeSoto, Missouri.
1:11.8	23-year-old Amy is the mother of two little boys.
1:14.4	She has recently broken up with the boy's father.
1:19.2	I was pretty upset, and I needed what I thought would be just a night out.
1:23.9	So my mother agreed to keep my children, and I went out for the night.
1:26.4	Amy went to a party held by a friend.
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