This Is Terror - Part II
I Survived
A&E / PodcastOne
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Tali Shapiro describes her chilling abduction and assault when she was 8 years old. Rodney Alcala, the man who attacked her, would come to be known as "The Dating Game Killer."
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| 0:00.0 | An A&E, Original Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence. |
| 0:07.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.1 | This episode is also part two of our previous episode. |
| 0:13.7 | This is Terror. |
| 0:15.3 | If you haven't heard that one yet, go back and listen. |
| 0:20.2 | I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the gentleman that saw me hesitate to get in the car. |
| 0:25.0 | And allegedly, he was telling himself he was doing the most stupid thing he'd ever done in his whole life. |
| 0:31.0 | And I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for him. |
| 0:34.0 | In 1968, Tally Shapiro was a little girl living in Los Angeles with her parents and her older brother. |
| 0:44.8 | So in 1968, our house had burnt down on Kings Road off of sunset and we were living at the |
| 0:49.6 | Chateau, Vermont and normally I had a school bus that I'd caught to go to school but because |
| 0:55.3 | we were living at the Chateur, Vermont I was supposed to catch the public bus and I |
| 1:00.2 | didn't like the public bus so I would get up extra early and just walk to school. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm not sure my parents were aware that I walked to school, |
| 1:07.2 | but I did let them know that I didn't care |
| 1:09.5 | to go on the public bus by myself. |
| 1:11.4 | But I think they assumed I was getting on the public bus. On September 25th, |
| 1:15.0 | 1968, Tally started out for school like any other day. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm walking down sunset towards my school and this guy stops and |
| 1:29.5 | is trying to engage in conversation with me. I'm trying to blow him off as best as eight-year-old |
| 1:35.7 | little girl can. I say something that seems silly to me as in like, oh, I'm not supposed to |
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