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He said, if you scream and if you turn around, I'm going to kill you.

Real people.

And we had no lights at that stage, nor had we any electric backup instruments.

So I was in this terrible situation of having no instruments to fly the airplane with.

Who faced death.

He looked like a monster, like rage had just taken over him.

And lived to tell how.

I thought for sure that these men were going to go and kill my husband.

This is I Survived. It's March 1989 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Debbie lives in a quiet neighborhood with her husband and two children.

Her husband, Rob, a police officer, is working the night shift.

That morning I got up and I was going to have an extremely busy day.

I had the children deposited at school and I came back home and

before Rob ever even got home from work, I had the entire upstairs clean.

He came home after being up for over 36 hours. He, of course, was exhausted.

Rob went upstairs to sleep.

I had to make a dessert for dinner with friends that evening. And so as I was plugging in the mixer, my eyes caught sight of, through the window,

of a man in my neighbor's backyard.

I thought I'm going to call the police and let them know.

As I was doing it, I remembered a phone call that I had gotten from my neighbor the day before.

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