I SURVIVED: If I go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Paul Dennis Reid Jr., a country-star wannabe, spends nights robbing fast food joints and killing innocent workers. One of those workers, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez, recounts the night he faced off with Reid in a stock room and managed to survive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, A&E has another true crime podcast that I think you'd really like to hear. |
| 0:06.1 | The I Survived podcast is based on the classic true crime TV show. |
| 0:10.5 | It's harrowing stories about people who have faced death and lived to tell the tale. |
| 0:15.7 | We'll be dropping new episodes of I Survived every Saturday right here in this feed. |
| 0:20.6 | If you like what you hear, go subscribe to the podcast now, wherever you listen to podcasts weekly. |
| 0:30.2 | This episode contains descriptions of violence. |
| 0:33.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:39.3 | Like, okay, he's got a gun, he's obviously he's wants the money and I hope he just |
| 0:47.2 | get the money and go but he wasn't like that. |
| 0:51.5 | In March of 1997, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez was 29 years old and had just moved to Nashville, |
| 1:04.0 | Tennessee. I came to Nashville, Tennessee to work with my brothers and cousins and construction. |
| 1:10.8 | When I moved to Tennessee, I didn't I didn't speak, it was nothing. No English at all. |
| 1:17.4 | It's a few words. While I was working for work and construction with my brothers and cousins, |
| 1:24.5 | we used to go to a couple of locks away, it was at McDonald's, so we used to go to for breakfast, |
| 1:30.8 | Sunday morning or Saturday morning sometimes. And it's one of those days I just |
| 1:35.9 | I was stuck into the manager and that restaurant. In my language in Spain, we couldn't |
| 1:41.2 | speak any English in that day. And I asked him, he's going to application for work and he just say, |
| 1:47.2 | yes, you're going to work with me. I can teach you how you work in here and I can give you an |
| 1:52.0 | application right now. He said, yes, fine. Jose was put on the evening shift and had only been |
| 1:58.2 | working there for three days. He was closing the restaurant with manager Ronald Santiago and his |
| 2:04.5 | co-workers Robert Sewell and Andrea Brown. On the third day, Sunday night, we was working to, |
| 2:12.3 | I think they closed at 11. So after 11, we stayed there for another hour probably. I was doing |
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