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Cold Case Files

I SURVIVED: I Was Petrified Because Now He Can Come Back and Find Me Again

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

David is 14-years-old and hitchhiking home when his ride takes a dark turn. David is assaulted physically and sexually by the man known later as the freeway killer. Sandy is a nanny working for environmental researchers in the forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo when she is attacked by a 14-foot Nile crocodile. Maura has just returned home to her children when she is abducted by a knife-wielding stranger already covered in blood. Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 

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0:00.0

Hi I survive listeners I'm Marissa Pinson 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 Podcasts cold case files, city confidential and American Justice are all available ad free on the new

0:15.2

A&E Crime and Investigation channel on Apple Podcast and Apple Plus for just 499 a month

0:20.6

or 3999 a year.

0:23.4

And now onto the show.

0:25.6

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.

0:29.4

Listener discretion is advised. He was sadistic and I was scared to death. Real people. I think I knew

0:38.0

that this was going to be a choice between Miami and my life.

0:44.0

Who faced death?

0:45.8

He said, I am going to chop you up in little pieces

0:50.2

and sprinkle you into the hills. And live to tell how. and

0:53.0

live to tell how.

0:54.0

I realized if I didn't do what he said

0:57.0

that I was going to end up dead.

0:59.0

This is I survived. It's September 1974 in Orange County, California.

1:10.0

14-year-old David lives in Huntington Beach with his mother.

1:13.5

He is enjoying the last day of summer vacation.

1:16.5

The next day was my first day of high school.

1:19.0

I'd been hanging out with my friends all summer in Garden Grove and it was time to go home.

1:25.0

I left and I was going to go hitchhike home.

1:28.0

Back then everybody hitchhiked.

1:30.0

It was on every corner you would see a kid. I walked across the street from my friend's

1:35.4

house and this car pulled up beside me and the guy inside he asked me where I

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