I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The House of Horrors
I Survived
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🗓️ 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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| 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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