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Cold Case Files

I SURVIVED: If I go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K 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.  Sponsors: AMCN: Visit airmedcarenetwork.com and use offer CODE: ISURVIVED when you join. That’s ISURVIVED, with no spaces  Angi: Download the free Angi mobile app today or visit Angi.com   Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive dot com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive. 

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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

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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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