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Cold Case Files

I SURVIVED: I Knew I Wasn't The Only Victim

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted, held captive and tortured for three days. Her escape from the brink of death would stop The Toybox Killer, David Parker Ray, from harming any other women.  Sponsors: Angi: Download the free Angi mobile app today or visit Angi.com   AMCN: Visit airmedcarenetwork.com and use offer CODE: ISURVIVED when you join. That’s ISURVIVED, with no spaces.  PDS Debt: PDS DEBT is offering free debt analysis to our listeners just for completing the quick and easy debt assessment at www.PDSDebt.com/survived Take back your financia l freedom today by visiting PDSDEBT.com/survived.  Rocket Money: Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions – and manage your expenses the easy way – by going to RocketMoney.com/SURVIVED  

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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 harrowing 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, wherever you listen to podcasts weekly.

0:26.9

An A&E original podcast.

0:29.6

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and extreme violence.

0:35.2

Listen or discretion is advised.

0:40.6

Seeing the room set up with the police systems and the ceiling and everything he had and then the

0:48.4

tape, I knew it was something he did all the time. And at that point I knew they had did this to

0:54.4

other women. Cynthia Vihill Harameo grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and had a rough childhood.

1:05.3

I was born to a 15 year old mother and a 17 year old father. Growing up I didn't have much family.

1:12.8

The family I did have didn't believe me on a situation that had occurred in the family.

1:18.8

And so I felt like I didn't have nobody once. They didn't believe me.

1:24.6

And my mother was the only one that believed me but she was on drugs real bad.

1:29.4

And I had to go with her every night while she did drugs and work the streets and did what she

1:36.8

did during the night time. I had ended up on the streets because my mother had been found dead

1:43.1

in southwest Albuquerque and they put her death off as a drug overdose and didn't investigate

1:51.1

how she ended up in a ditch. So after my mother passed away I basically had nobody.

1:59.6

In March of 1999 22 year old Cynthia had been staying in a motel and needed money to pay the bill.

2:07.9

I was living and working on the streets in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I had been working as a

2:15.2

prostitute and selling drugs often on for six years. I was running from a boyfriend that I had

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