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I Survived

This Is Terror - Part I

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Rowan describes how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by Rodney Alcala during a party at his Hollywood home. She never told her parents what happened and always wondered if he would go on to hurt someone else.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

An A&E original podcast.

0:03.3

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.

0:08.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:11.1

I just knew he was angry at me.

0:13.0

I thought it was going to be an argument.

0:14.9

I thought he might slap me or hurt me,

0:16.6

but I certainly didn't expect what actually happened.

0:24.6

Okay. But I certainly didn't expect what actually happened. Morgan Rowan was a teenager living in Los Angeles in the 1960s.

0:29.6

The 60s were just an unusual time.

0:32.6

It was a time where everybody tried to just love each other.

0:35.6

All we cared about was peace. We wanted to end the war.

0:38.3

A lot of people took drugs to find greater meetings.

0:41.3

I didn't really need that.

0:43.3

I was never really into that.

0:45.3

I was much younger than most of the people that I hung out with.

0:49.3

We would go up on Sunset Strip, and it was just hundreds of people

0:53.3

walking around on the street

0:55.0

and you would just talk to anybody.

0:57.0

In those years I was, you know, 15, 16, most people were 18 to 22.

1:03.0

The music was incredible.

1:05.0

Sunset Strip was just a strip of different nightclubs and they all left the doors open. So you would just be out in the street, you know, singing or dancing or whatever

1:14.6

because you could hear all the music coming from all the clubs.

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