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Cold Case Files

I SURVIVED: This Is Terror - Part I

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Rowan describes how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by Rodney Alcala during a party at his Hollywood home. She never told her parents what happened and always wondered if he would go on to hurt someone else. Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.  

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0:00.0

An A&E, Original Podcast.

0:03.0

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.

0:08.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:10.0

I just knew he was angry at me.

0:13.0

I thought it was going to be an argument.

0:14.8

I thought he might slap me or hurt me,

0:16.6

but I certainly didn't expect what actually happened.

0:25.0

Morgan Rowan was a teenager living in Los Angeles in the 1960s.

0:30.0

The six used to be just an unusual time.

0:32.0

It was a time where everybody tried to just love each other.

0:35.6

How we cared about was peace.

0:37.2

We wanted to end the war.

0:38.8

A lot of people took drugs to find greater meetings.

0:42.0

I didn't really need that. I was never really into that. I was

0:46.2

much younger than most of the people that I hung out with. We would go up on Sunset Strip and

0:51.6

it was just hundreds of people walking around on the street and you would just talk to anybody.

0:57.0

In those years I was 15, 16, most people were 18 to 22. The music was incredible. Sunset Strip was just a

1:06.5

strip of different nightclubs and they all left the doors open so you would just be out in

1:12.4

the street you know know, singing or

1:13.8

dancing or whatever because you could hear all the music coming from all the

1:16.7

clubs. It was a fun time to be alive. I even with the bad things that

1:21.8

happened at the end I wouldn, I wouldn't trade it.

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