I SURVIVED: I Can't Believe I'm Still Alive
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 1992, 19-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon tries to help a man who was down on his luck when he attacked her in her own home. In an effort to stay alive, she wages a physical and psychological war against the man who tries to kill her, Tommy Lynn Sells.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, A&E has another true crime podcast that I think you'd really like to hear. |
| 0:06.0 | The I Survived podcast is based on the classic true crime TV show. |
| 0:10.4 | It's heroing stories about people who have faced death and lived to tell the tale. |
| 0:15.6 | We'll be dropping new episodes of I Survived every Saturday right here in this feed. |
| 0:20.5 | If you like what you hear, go subscribe to the podcast now. |
| 0:24.0 | Wherever you listen to podcasts weekly. |
| 0:26.5 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence. |
| 0:35.2 | Lysner discretion is advised. |
| 0:39.2 | I didn't care what happened to my body anymore. |
| 0:42.5 | I was wanted to live. I just wanted to get out alive. |
| 0:46.5 | I did not want my life to end that day in that way. |
| 0:52.8 | In 1992, 19 year old Fabian Weatherspoon was living in Charleston, West Virginia. |
| 1:00.8 | I was living with my fiance. He was being sent to Alabama for boot camp for the army. |
| 1:06.7 | We were living with his mother at the time. |
| 1:09.4 | And while my fiance was going to be away at boot camp, she thought, well, wouldn't you like your own space? |
| 1:14.5 | My boss is going to go away and she has a cat. |
| 1:17.5 | Would you like to cat sit for her? |
| 1:19.3 | And so I was a little nervous at first, but I did respect her offering me some privacy in that |
| 1:26.0 | little bit of time alone. So I said yes. |
| 1:28.0 | In the morning of May 13th, I had decided to go to the health department downtown |
| 1:34.4 | to get a pregnancy test because I thought maybe there might be a possibility that I was pregnant. |
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