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I Survived

I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The House of Horrors

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In November of 1986, 25-year-old Josephina Rivera's life comes to a devastating halt when she's kidnapped by 43-year-old Gary Heidnik. Over the next four months, Josephina lives shackled in a basement while her captor abducts four more women to hold hostage in his "house of horrors." Josephina recounts a gripping tale of endurance and the shrewd calculations that helped her devise a plan of escape.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.3

Listener discretion is advised.

0:06.6

Police have arrested 43-year-old Gary Heidnick, charging him with numerous counts of kidnapping and rape.

0:12.9

He was a monster.

0:14.6

Human body parts were discovered in his house.

0:17.4

Nothing is going to stop Gary.

0:19.4

Adding more victims is his diabolical plan.

0:22.6

He comes up behind me and starts choking me. Then he puts me in this hole. I'm like,

0:28.6

oh, gosh, this guy's going to bury me here.

0:30.6

Authorities say three women were rescued from Hydenick's basement. They were found chained,

0:34.6

semi-nude, and starving. He's raping us. He's beating us.

0:40.2

He would administer severe electric shocks. Her whole body just, bam, hit the floor.

0:47.5

It doesn't sound believable because it's so crazy. I said, I'm walking out of here the hell

0:54.0

walked in here. She's going to do what she has to do. It's about crazy. I said, I'm walking out of here the way I walked in here.

0:55.0

She's going to do what she has to do.

0:57.0

It's about survival.

0:58.0

My heart was pounding.

1:00.0

It was just a one-shot deal.

1:02.0

I'm sitting there, you know, trying to figure out what the hell to do, you know?

1:05.0

I started chopping up the body.

1:10.0

I dismembered the body and I, you know, started burning it on the stove.

1:17.2

Real people who faced death and lived to tell how.

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