I SURVIVED: I've Got Bad News For You, You've Just Been Kidnapped

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

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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