I SURVIVED: I Was Waiting To Die and It Was Taking Forever

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kaye is home with her son when she is stabbed over 45 times by a man who brakes in. Johnny is trapped for 16 days in his wrecked car in a deep ravine. Scott and his friend Michael are college freshmen when they are carjacked by a man who takes them to a remote location and shoots them each in the head.

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0:00.0	Hi, I Survived listeners. I'm Marissa Pinson. And if you're enjoying this show, I just want to remind you that episodes of I Survived as well as the A&E Classic Podcast, 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.
0:22.4	And now onto the show.
0:24.4	This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:28.5	Listener discretion is advised.
0:31.4	He put a knife in my throat and was basically trying to root my larynx out.
0:36.6	Real people.
0:38.3	I knew the clock was ticking on getting an infection that would go throughout my body and
0:44.3	ultimately kill me.
0:46.3	Who faced death.
0:48.3	I was more or less waiting to die and it seemed like it was taking forever. And lived to tell how.
0:56.2	At that point, I made it my mind.
0:58.2	I was going to fight. I was coming out of there.
1:00.2	I was going to get my son out of that house.
1:02.6	This is I survived.
1:10.8	It's September 1995 in Laurel, Delaware.
1:14.9	Kay lives with her son in a mobile home park.
1:18.2	My son and I lived alone.
1:20.6	I was a single parent.
1:21.5	He was 12.
1:22.9	I was a full-time insurance agent.
1:25.5	I worked a couple of side jobs. It's a small community. Everybody
1:29.8	knew everybody. I came home from work and I helped my son with his homework while I was cooking
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