A man is held hostage on a shuttle bus with several others by a man with a gun for over 8 hours in Atlantic City, New Jersey; a Bullhead City, Arizona, woman is sexually assaulted and shot after a botched home invasion leaves her friends and her husband dead.

Roger/Julie

Nate/Denna

Rosalie/Jane

A woman is sexual assaulted and imprisoned on a remote rural property; a young mother is abducted at gunpoint and subjected to hours of beatings and mental torture.

Amanda/Erinn

The mother of three is sexually assaulted, stabbed, and left to die in her burning home while her children are murdered; a man is carjacked at gunpoint, taken to a remote field, and shot when his ATM card fails to work.

Kristy/Jamison

A young woman is abducted by 4 armed men and sexually assaulted for 15 hours; two teenage sisters are attacked and raped while their uncle is shot by a masked gunman.

Kim/Erin & Claire

A Bethlehem, New York woman is attacked in bed with a fireman's axe by an unknown man after he murders her husband; A cook is left to die in a burning room after she is shot twelve times at close range by an unknown assailant in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Joan/Ida

A Gilmer, Texas, woman is abducted from the prison where she works by a convicted murderer, and held captive at gunpoint for 26 hours on the run with him, sparking the largest search in Texas history; a heavily pregnant woman is stabbed 27 times at a gas station in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, by a man who accuses her of beating up his sister.

A 15-year-old boy from Bothell, Washington, is shot through the jaw and plays dead for three hours during a horrific school shooting; and an elderly woman, whose daughter deals drugs, winds up stabbed four times in her yard in Barnardsville, North Carolina, in a case of apparent mistaken identity.

What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, “I Survived…” allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances — offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever.

Roger/Julie

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