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This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and extreme violence.

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Seeing the room set up with the pulley systems and the ceiling and everything he had and then the tape. I knew it was something he did all the time.

And at that point, I knew they had did this to other women.

Cynthia V. Hill Haramio grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and had a rough childhood.

I was born to a 15-year-old mother and a 17-year-old father.

Growing up, I didn't have much family.

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

and so I felt like I didn't have nobody once.

They didn't believe me.

And my mother was the only one that believed me,

but she was on drugs real bad.

And I had to go with her every night

while she did drugs and worked the streets

and did what she did during the night time.

I had ended up on the streets because my mother had been found dead in

Southwest Albuquerque and they put her death off as a drug overdose and didn't

investigate how she ended up in a ditch.

So after my mother passed away, I basically had nobody.

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

I was living and working on the streets in Alpkirky, New Mexico.

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