I SURVIVED: The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When Amanda, a school teacher, is carjacked and abducted by an escaped inmate, she quickly forms a game plan: play along and stay alive. In order to convince her abductor that they are friends and get out alive, she is forced to make decisions she never thought she would face.
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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. |
| 0:06.0 | The I Survived podcast is based on the classic true crime TV show. |
| 0:10.4 | It's heroing stories about people who have faced death and lived to tell the tale. |
| 0:15.6 | This is episode one, but we'll be dropping new episodes of I Survived every Saturday right here |
| 0:21.2 | in this feed. If you like what you hear, go subscribe to the podcast now, wherever you listen to |
| 0:26.7 | podcasts weekly. This episode contains sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:34.9 | I didn't mind telling people what happened, but I realized really quickly that people were |
| 0:40.0 | really nervous when I told them. In 2008, Amanda was working as an ESL teacher at a high school |
| 0:46.8 | in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was not actually really intent to move to Charlotte. I just thought |
| 0:52.2 | I would go somewhere outside of North Carolina, actually, but I got this internship and then |
| 0:57.8 | my aunt and uncle actually lived in Charlotte. I lived with them at the beginning, but at that time, |
| 1:03.7 | I had a roommate who was my best friend. She was 24 years old and hadn't been teaching for long, |
| 1:09.3 | but she loved it. I worked in working with kids for a really long time, so I taught some lessons |
| 1:14.5 | when I was a kid and I worked as a tutor in college and I really liked it and I really loved my job. |
| 1:21.3 | I was teaching at a very high poverty school and we were like 90% of the students were below |
| 1:27.8 | the poverty level. Basically, all my kids were from different countries. I had a lot of kids who |
| 1:34.0 | had limited formal education in the past, so they hadn't been in a formal school setting before |
| 1:40.0 | they came to the US. That was really cool. What does this only mean is a teacher, but it was just |
| 1:44.8 | having a teacher that cared about them was really important. It was a fun experience to have, |
| 1:51.0 | kids who really wanted to be in the classroom and I really loved it. |
| 1:54.8 | School had just resumed after winter break and Amanda left during her lunch to get some candy |
| 1:59.5 | for her students as motivation. Just as she was about to return to school, she was approached by a man |
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