Hi, I Survived listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson.

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He said, you know, I've committed the perfect crime. They don't have any idea who I am, where you are,

and he was proud of himself.

Real people.

When this lifeboat hit the water, then I was scared.

That's the point where I really, really felt in fear of my life.

Who faced death? And he said, God told me to kill you,

and then he slashed my throat,

almost over and back,

ear to ear, twice.

And lived to tell how.

But I found that when I pleaded with him to stop,

he laughed, and he just continued. So I learned early on that this is an evil man

and that I had to just take it. This is I survived. It's April 1998 in Millsboro, Delaware.

Debbie lived in a quiet suburban neighborhood working as a hospice nurse.

It was a spring day. I decided that I was going to plant rose bushes.

When Nino arrived home, he parked the car and came over to me.

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