Hey cold case fans, A&E has another true crime podcast that I think you'd really like to hear.

The I Survived podcast is based on the classic true crime TV show.

It's heroing stories about people who have faced death and lived to tell the tale.

This is episode one, but we'll be dropping new episodes of I Survived every Saturday right here

in this feed. If you like what you hear, go subscribe to the podcast now, wherever you listen to

podcasts weekly. This episode contains descriptions of violence. Listen to our discretion is advised.

Yes, we were a victim that night and we were victimized again in the courtroom, but am I going to

stay a victim for the rest of my life? That is not an option. Michelle Renee didn't have an easy

childhood. Her dad was abusive and she was desperate to leave the house. There were times where

you know, we were separated and taken away from our parents. There were times we didn't have

water and electricity. I grew up in a very, very challenging home. I decided, you know, everything

with my parents, I ran away at 15 and I got a job at Burger King and I've been working ever since,

and I just never really dealt with my childhood. I kind of just pushed it aside and never really

dealt with it and thought I'm just going to move, you know, just steamroll straight ahead.

Little did you know that the coping skills she used with her dad would be put to the test one late

November night in 2000. This is I survived. The podcast where we talk to women who've lived through

the worst things imaginable and all the tragic, messy and wonderful things that happen after survival.

I'm Caitlin Van Maal. It started out as a very normal day rushing out the door, getting, you know,

my daughter to school, getting to work and one thing really stood out during the day is a gentleman

came in that just seemed odd and that was really the only thing that stood out and after he left,

I didn't think anything else about it. Michelle's daughter, seven year old Brea, also enjoyed a very

typical day. I was at school and then I was like an open-house thing for my school that night.

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