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This episode contains stories involving violence against children.

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I know at that point that it's going to be it's life and be fighting for my life.

Real people. He says, say your prayers. And I say my prayers as he takes at a knife and he begins

to cut my throat over and over again.

Who faced death?

And he just kept tugging, kept ripping, kept,

and then finally, it was off, right?

He'd remove my scalp.

And live to tell how.

I remember thinking, I'm not going like this.

I'm not, this isn't, I'm not going like this this is I survived

It's August 1994 in British Columbia, Canada.

Louis and Wade are consultants for a timber company.

They are flown into a mountainous area to assess its potential for logging.

You're out in the wilderness.

You're out in the middle of nowhere.

You have the birds, you have the wind whistling through the trees.

You're remote. the wind whistling through the trees.

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