I SURVIVED: I've Got Bad News For You, You've Just Been Kidnapped
Cold Case Files
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3.8 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Martin is 13-years-old when he is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile who chains him up in a buried box on a hill. Jason, Dave and Joe are on a canyoneering trip when a flash flood launches them over a cliff and intro a fight for survival.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I Survived listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson. |
| 0:02.9 | And before we get into this week's episode, I just want to remind you that episodes of I Survived as well as the A&E Classic podcast's cold case files, city confidential, and American justice are all available ad free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation Channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. |
| 0:23.3 | And now onto the show. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode contains stories involving violence against children. |
| 0:28.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:31.6 | I had to get out of it. |
| 0:33.6 | We're so afraid. |
| 0:35.6 | And then he looks me straight in the eye and he says, I've got bad news for you. |
| 0:39.4 | You've just been kidnapped. |
| 0:41.4 | Real people. |
| 0:42.7 | Wow, I can't believe I'm going to die like this. |
| 0:45.2 | And the water went up over my face and I don't have a choice. |
| 0:48.8 | I was going to drown. |
| 0:50.8 | Who faced death? |
| 0:52.5 | We just couldn't hold anymore. |
| 0:57.0 | And just in this violent rush, just got you know propelled out the mouth of this canyon. And lived to tell how. He had tied me |
| 1:04.0 | with wire. Within 10 minutes I was stripped naked and raped for the first of four times that day. |
| 1:14.2 | This is I survived. |
| 1:22.5 | It's January 1973 in Portsmouth, Virginia. |
| 1:26.9 | 13-year-old Martin and his family have moved from the country to the city. |
| 1:31.2 | When a heavy snowfall closes schools, Martin has to babysit his brothers and sisters. |
| 1:36.7 | My parents went to work and the kids were at home, six of us, |
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