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This episode contains stories involving violence against children.

Listener discretion is advised.

And started pretty much like any other day. I opened the front door and I went in and there was

someone in my house and he came up from behind me and put a knife to my throat. He had me lay down on the bed,

and then next thing I knew, he was on top of me.

He put the knife up to my throat and said,

are you going to tell anyone?

Then he said, you're not going to tell anyone,

and he cut across my throat twice.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

It's September 1999 in Noble, Oklahoma.

Nine-year-old Sarah Jones awakens in the middle of the night to find herself outside, being carried through a field.

When first I thought it was a dream, thinking that somebody took me outside and said that her house was burning down.

And then I put my foot down to see if I was actually outside.

And I just woke up and I was like, this can't be right.

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