I Tried To Scratch His Face
I Survived
A&E / PodcastOne
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In November of 2016, Tiffany Taylor is held captive and brutally assaulted in Essex County, New Jersey after agreeing to give a ride to a man in exchange for some much-needed cash. What she doesn't realize however, is that her passenger is a serial killer--who's killed twice before, and is out for blood. Tiffany recalls in her own words how she used her quick wit and drive to survive to manipulate her would-be killer into unwittingly granting her a chance to escape his deadly clutches.
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| 0:00.0 | An A&E, Original Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. |
| 0:07.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.6 | What about all the other creeps? I'm just very extra paranoid now to be honest. |
| 0:20.0 | And it's creeps, all types of creeps out there. |
| 0:24.0 | Like, I'm always gonna have that fear. |
| 0:27.0 | Tiffany Taylor grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey in the 80s and 90s. |
| 0:36.0 | She was raised at Jehovah's Witness, but her neighborhood was rough, |
| 0:40.0 | and at 18 years old, she was influenced away from her pious upbringing. |
| 0:44.8 | Sex work I never really got into personally, |
| 0:50.5 | but what happened was I had bumped it to this guy and he made up this story about how he |
| 0:58.8 | had a kid that had cancer and he couldn't afford to take care of the bills from the hospital. |
| 1:09.0 | And he had asked me, can I help him? |
| 1:12.0 | And me being very gullible. he had asked me, can I help him? |
| 1:12.6 | And me being very gullible, being that I was so sheltered, |
| 1:16.8 | I believed him. |
| 1:17.8 | And so my first time dancing at like a club or anything period was actually at a strip club and I had brought my cousin with me to go along and dance with me. |
| 1:30.7 | Even though I was gullible I wasn't stupid at the same time, so I kind of was like holding all the cash and I was telling him that when it's time to pay that bill that I was going to go with him and personally pay it. |
| 1:47.5 | So I probably was dancing maybe for like two weeks and just holding the cash for me and my cousin or whatever and I was |
| 1:57.4 | hiding it because I was staying at that time at his place. I remember hearing this older guy, I guess I was like coaching him or whatever, |
| 2:09.7 | hearing their conversation, him saying, |
| 2:12.6 | she's not supposed to be holding any money. |
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