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There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. There was a dog that lived next door,

and the neighbors used to let him out all the time,

and it was February, it was dark, it was cold.

Late at night in February of 1992,

23-year-old Christina Ruth hears a noise outside her

Columbus, Ohio home, and opens her back door. I went ahead and opened the door, and suddenly

this person, like, came into my doorway, and I went to shut the door, and he reached out and, like, slammed the door open.

The man forces his way in, turns out the lights before Christina can get a look at him and attacks.

We made it to the living room, where he had me, had his hands around my neck, and he was choking me and was beating my head into the floor.

And he kept saying he was going to kill me.

Christina Ruth has a choice to make and chooses life.

She submits to her attacker who begins to tear at her clothes.

During the attack, Christina retreats into her mind. You pray, you step out of your

body. It's just my body. It wasn't me. It was just my body. After three hours, the rapist leaves.

Christina dials 911 and is taken to the hospital where semen is collected.

As Columbus police worked the case, Christina braces for a long investigation.

And there just really wasn't much for them to go on.

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