“Kidnapped In Broad Daylight.” – Interview with Kara Robinson Chamberlain

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

Turning Point USA

True Crime, Health & Fitness

5 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Remember all of the things you used to worry about when you were 15 years old - your first boyfriend, making the cheerleading team, or getting into your dream University? What about strategizing your escape from a serial killer’s apartment?

Kara Robinson Chamberlain experienced this very situation, when she was kidnapped from her friend’s front yard in 2002, forced into a storage container, and sexually assaulted. She was only 15 years old…and she escaped.

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0:00.0	When I was 15 years old, I was most stressed out about what I was going to be when I grew
0:11.0	up and if I should go to college or not.
0:13.2	In a lot of ways, I lived a very normal teenage life and I feel very blessed for that.
0:20.2	Today's story is the opposite of what a 15 year old should be worried about.
0:25.2	15 year old should be stressing about school.
0:27.0	They should be at sleepovers with friends playing sports or spending time with family, not
0:31.6	strategizing how to stay alive from within the apartment of a serial killer.
0:38.2	Teenagers are easily misunderstood.
0:40.2	They don't usually have things figured out.
0:41.8	I sure as heck didn't.
0:43.0	I mean, their brains are not even fully developed yet and people don't give them a lot of credit.
0:48.5	But today's story defies that.
0:51.5	In fact, it highlights the fact that strength and determination can come at any age in
0:57.8	spite of the darkest and scariest of circumstances and how important it is to not lose the ability
1:03.8	to think critically in life threatening situations.
1:07.5	So let's go back to when you were 15 or if you're still a teenager now, picture yourself
1:12.2	at your best friend's house.
1:14.1	You both have plans to do something fun later but before you can go, your friend's mom says
1:19.4	that your friend has some chores she needs to finish.
1:22.6	Being the good friend that you are, you offer to help, specifically with the outside chores
1:27.4	when your friend is inside her house.
1:29.6	When you're alone, a car pulls up and a man gets out.
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