I Was Waiting To Die and It Was Taking Forever

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Talk Radio

3.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kaye is home with her son when she is stabbed over 45 times by a man who brakes in. Johnny is trapped for 16 days in his wrecked car in a deep ravine. Scott and his friend Michael are college freshmen when they are carjacked by a man who takes them to a remote location and shoots them each in the head.

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0:11.7	Hi, I survived listeners. I'm Marissa Pinson. And if you're enjoying this show, I just want to remind you that episodes of I Survived, as well as the A&E Podcasts, Cold Case Files, City Confidential,
0:22.5	and American Justice are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation Channel
0:28.1	on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. And now onto the show.
0:35.5	This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:39.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:42.9	He put a knife in my throat and was basically trying to rip my larynx out.
0:48.0	Real people.
0:49.5	I knew the clock was ticking on getting an infection that would go throughout my body and
0:55.8	and they'll ultimately kill me.
0:57.9	Who faced death.
0:59.6	I was more or less waiting to die and it seemed like it was taking forever.
1:05.8	And lived to tell how.
1:07.8	At that point I made it my mind, I was going to fight.
1:10.4	I was coming out of there. I was going to get
1:12.2	my son out of that house. This is I survived. It's September 1995 in Laurel, Delaware. Kay lives with her
1:27.2	son in a mobile home park. My son and I lived alone.
1:31.7	I was a single parent. He was 12. I was a full-time insurance agent. I worked a couple of side jobs.
1:39.7	It's a small community. Everybody knew everybody. I came home from work and I helped my son
1:45.2	with his homework while I was cooking dinner. I put Nick to bed around 9, 9.30.
1:50.4	Kay went to bed about two hours later. Nick woke up and came out and said that there was a man
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