I Survived...
I Survived incorporates interviews with stylized recreations to tell the stories of people who overcame unbelievable circumstances that changed their lives forever.
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Cast:Michelle Renee , Bill Spade , Josh Long , David Handschuh , Troy Driscoll , Matt Komorowski , Thomas Canavan , Fred Eichler , Kelly Reyher , Frank Razzano , Bonnie Giebfried , Victor Correa , Tony Rose , Betty Maxfield , Debra Puglisi-Sharp , Kevin Carstens , Heidi Hart , Christine Shannon
S1.E1 ∙ Bridget/Daryl/Ryan and John
Bridget is abducted by a man at gunpoint. Ryan and John are on a private plane with a friend and their friend's father when they are caught up in some bad weather. Daryl is stranded alone in the wilderness when a huge snow storm rolls in.
S1.E2 ∙ Brandi/Joseph/Sam and Suzanne
Along with her best friend Liz, Brandi Hicks was abducted by a man they picked up at a video store. The man killed Liz and showed Brandi the body before driving her to a deserted railway yard where he sexually assaulted and tried to kill her.
S1.E3 ∙ Christine and Heidi/Debbie/Jim
Christine and Heidi make it through a sinking Greek ferry that crashed on the rocks. Debbie is attacked and kidnapped by a man after he killed her husband. Jim is slashed by a crack addict neighbor and has to drive himself to the hospital.
S1.E4 ∙ Lonnie/Rulon/Stanley
Lonnie plays dead for four agonizing hours after her boyfriend chokes her and shoots her four times in the head. Rulon, a super-strong Olympic wrestler, gets stuck.
S1.E5 ∙ Denise/Nick/Leonilda
Denise is stabbed repeatedly by men robbing the store. Nick gets lost on a ski slope during a blizzard. Leonilda's ex-boyfriend takes her away by gunpoint and plans on killing her.
S1.E6 ∙ Wayne & Mary/Holly/Linda
Wayne and Mary woke up to find their farm house surrounded by a cloud of lethal chlorine gas following a rail derailment. Thus began a harrowing six hour ordeal until emergency services arrived, where they struggled to take a breath, coughed up blood and watched their metal appliances literally melt before their eyes. While Holly and her boyfriend Chris were taking a quiet stroll near the railroad tracks, they were accosted by a man demanding money. Both were bound, gagged and then brutally bludgeoned. Chris died at the scene, but miraculously Holly survived the assault and was able to seek help. Linda was driving to her lakeside cabin when she was run off the road in the middle of the night by four strangers. High on drugs, they viciously attacked her, demanded money, set her car ablaze, and left for dead in a deserted field. She was rescued by two teenagers in a passing car who saw the fire and dragged her to safety.
S1.E7 ∙ Cari/Kevin/Joe and Katherine
A woman is assaulted in a home invasion; A man has a large hook embedded in his neck; A couple survive a mall shooting.
S1.E8 ∙ Michelle/Troy & Josh
A bank manager is captured by three gunmen in combat clothes at her home. Her daughter and roommate are held hostage in exchange for her robbing her bank. Two teenagers are lost in the ocean in a small fishing boat without supplies for days.
S1.E9 ∙ Maria/Jerry/Melissa
Maria feared for her safety as one of her fellow employees at the hospital where she worked became increasingly volatile. She managed to get him fired, but a couple of months later, he burst into her office with a gun, shooting her and killing her colleague. Jerry swerved his car to avoid a deer and crashed over an embankment where a tree branch became lodged in his throat. Barely alive, he survived two days in the ravine until he finally he managed to drag himself to the road's edge where he was spotted and saved. Melissa and her two-year-old daughter were sleeping at home, when she was woken by an armed intruder. The man slashed and sexually assaulted her before stuffing her in the trunk of her car. He then drove around for hours, picked up his friends and assaulted her again. Finally he left the car, leaving a terrified and blinded Melissa to drive home to her abandoned daughter.
S1.E10 ∙ Virginia Tech Massacre/Minneapolis School Bus Crash
Hear harrowing story of how two students and a professor at Virginia Tech University managed to survive the 2007 massacre at the school. One of the students, Colin, had to lay motionless and play dead as the gunman shot him four times. We also chronicle the amazing story of the Minneapolis school bus with 52 children that plummeted 45 feet when a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in August 2007.
S1.E11 ∙ Jennifer/Sampson/Norina
When an intruder breaks into her apartment and sexually assaults and stabs her, Jennifer fights back with incredible courage. Sampson is a corn farmer in Kershaw County. While attempting to dislodge a corn cob stuck in his harvester, his hand is pulled into the machine. When the harvester catches on fire Sampson must make the agonizing decision to amputate his own arm or risk burning to death.
S2.E0 ∙ Death and Back
This special profiles the extraordinary stories of three ordinary people who literally died and then came back to life.
S2.E1 ∙ Daniel & Danielle/James & David/Karli
College students Daniel and Danielle's bucolic riverside stroll is interrupted by a cruel killer/rapist in a truck whose attack dog proved kinder than he is. Fortunately, this repeat offender will finally be jailed for the next several centuries. Wisconsin brothers James and David look forward to snowmobiling after the first sufficient blanket of the winter. Unfortunately, the specific paths to ride on and the river are often indistinguishable, as is truly being "on thin ice." A real-life test of biblical proportions, one brother must be willing to sacrifice his life for the other--should it come to this. Pretty Chicagoan Karli is beaten and doused with battery acid in her parking garage by a gang. Minus "concrete" evidence, she deduces the leader is punishing her shady ex-BF, and moves 20 miles away. The ringleader can only be jailed on unrelated drug charges. Little justice for Karli, as months later, history repeats itself, yet far worse. Enduring over 200 operations in two years, and with accomplices free, we can only hope for Karli's continued--survival.
S2.E2 ∙ Rev. Albert/Lois
A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
S2.E3 ∙ Jewish Federation/Alberto/Tamara
An ordinary Friday at the Seattle headquarters of the Jewish Federation turns nightmarish when a crazed gunman demands an end to the war in Iraq and shoots four workers. A criminal justice teacher is shot multiple times and poisoned twice by an unknown assailant. A young woman swims through shark-infested waters in a desperate bid for survival.
S2.E4 ∙ Christi/Fred/Maria
A single mother is kidnapped, stabbed and left for dead by three hardened criminals and her heroic survival is unforgettable. A long-haul truck driver must drive his 40-ton rig through the biggest fire in Utah History. A woman is stalked and brutally abducted by an ex-boyfriend.
S2.E5 ∙ Jackie/Todd/Stephanie
After five ruthless highjackers take control of an EgyptAir flight and begin executing passengers, a woman silently says goodbye to her loved ones when the hijackers pick her to be the next one to die. A surfer loses half of the blood in his body when a great white shark clamps its jaws around his entire torso and shakes him like a rag doll. A young mother is repeatedly assaulted and strangled in front of her 3-year-old son.
S2.E6 ∙ Jim & Neil/Jennifer/Tammi
A couple hiking in a national park must fight for their lives when they're attacked by a ferocious mountain lion. A young mother and her cousin are shot by a deranged gunman. A quick stop at a gas station threatens the life of a woman when she's taken hostage by a violent criminal on the run from the police.
S2.E7 ∙ Darren & Chastity/Ryan/Julie
A case of mistaken identity triggers a violent home invasion for Darren and Chastity who awake one night to find a man armed with a baseball bat in their bedroom. The gang member hits Darren over the head with the bat and then begins viciously attacking him. The arrival of their 11year-old son Dustin seems to calm the man who locks the terrified family in their bathroom as he ransacks their house. With his skull fractured and unable to protect his wife and son, Darren slips in and out of consciousness. The couple's sense of helplessness worsens when Dustin is taken from the bathroom and injected with methamphetamine then forced to help the man load their possessions onto a truck. As the second night approaches and Darren's condition worsens Chastity ventures out and manages to raise the alarm.
S2.E8 ∙ Donna/Danelle/Robert & Ana
A convenience store worker plays dead to escape her abductor. An endurance athlete faces her greatest challenge ever after falling 60 feet in a remote canyon. A couple put their lives on the line to protect their children in a home invasion.
S2.E9 ∙ Kelly/Rose/Lt. Prescott & Gwen
A mother of three survives a prolonged attack from her estranged husband. A newly pregnant woman is horrifically injured when she is caught in a fish processing machine on a boat 160 miles from land. Ten people are held hostage in a library by a man armed with a bomb and a gun.
S2.E10 ∙ Sarah/Sherman & Dee/Ellen
A heavily pregnant woman is viciously attacked by a woman obsessed with making the unborn child her own. A couple cling to the rafters of their home as Hurricane Ike unleashes its fury on them. A woman fends off a man who has hidden in her family home for days before brutally attacking her.
S2.E11 ∙ Teri/Angela/Ed
A mother is jammed into a trash can filled with snow and left to die by her ex-husband. A young woman scrambles to escape a gruesome pile up of injured bodies after an escalator malfunctions at a sports stadium. A bar owner is savagely set upon by three men in a random attack carried out as part of a gang initiation.
S2.E12 ∙ Alfred, Jan & Jerry/Ebony
Three survivors from the ill-fated UA Flight 232 relive the terrifying moments leading up to and after one of America's worst ever aviation disasters. A young woman violently assaulted by two men displays extraordinary courage to flee her attackers.
S2.E13 ∙ April/Mark/Jesse
A young woman is brutally assaulted then set on fire by her attacker. A man is forced to amputate part of leg after it is caught in a drive shaft. An act of kindness backfires on a long distance motorist who is left fighting for his life at the roadside.
S2.E14 ∙ Jens & Jim/Dawn/Agnes
With her six and nine year old daughters, Dawn is minding a friend's beach house when four armed men arrive threatening to shoot Dawn in front of her terrified children. When one of the men forces Dawn at gunpoint to an upstairs bedroom and demands that she take her clothes off, she refuses instead offering to take him to an ATM.
S2.E15 ∙ Brent/Susan/Denise
While working in a remote valley in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Brent Case is attacked by a massive grizzly bear that rips the scalp off the back of his head. He survives by playing dead. Susan's rural home is invaded by three masked gunmen who shoot both her and her husband. She grabs a gun from her bedroom and shoots one of the intruders. Another flees with the getaway vehicle. The third steals a truck and runs over his accomplice who was lying in the front yard. Denise is attacked in her apartment by a man posing as a maintenance man. Despite a skull fracture, she never stopped screaming.
S2.E16 ∙ Patrick/Renee/Sharon
A plucky teenager is shot after finding his mother being brutally attacked by her ex boyfriend, a diver is lost at sea for 23 hours before being rescued and a woman is shot through the eyes and blinded by an abductor but survives.
S2.E17 ∙ Timothy/Scott and Sean/Stacey
While out walking his dog in the woods, Timothy is attacked by a 400-pound grizzly bear as his faithful dog valiantly tries to distract the bear. Scott and Sean enjoy a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when a drifter arrives at their campsite, pulls a gun, and shoots them both. And Stacey and her best friend must call upon all their inner strength and remain calm when an attacker invades their apartment and seems ready to kill them both.
S2.E18 ∙ Dr. Roger and Dena/Sydney/Jennifer
Roger and Dena's home overlooking the San Pasqual Valley is everything they've ever dreamed of until Roger awakes one day to find a 40-foot wall of fire racing up the valley towards their house.
S2.E19 ∙ Phillip/Tunnelers/Karen
A missionary working in Haiti is ambushed, shot and held for ransom by a gang. A tunneler returns to an underground shaft minutes after escaping to rescue two colleagues from the flooded cavity.
S3.E1 ∙ Mary/Brooke/Sharene
A young runaway has her arms cut off in a horrific assault. A pregnant woman and her father flee a deadly firestorm. A woman survives multiple stab wounds in a drug fuelled attack by her enraged boyfriend.
S3.E2 ∙ Terry/Anne and Debi/Earleen
A family suffers multiple tragedy in a deadly home invasion. A mountain biker is mauled by a mountain lion, and a hotel receptionist goes into fight mode to survive a brutal attack by a man posing as a guest.
S3.E3 ∙ Maggie/Gary/Barbara
Astounding survival tactics are portrayed when 15-year-old Maggie is abducted during her early morning run. She is taken into a forest ravine, repeatedly assaulted and shot several times. Then, while visiting Africa, a 270 pound charging chimpanzee, one of 35 that escaped from a sanctuary, repeatedly attacks Gary and friends while stranded in a jungle area in a totaled car. During a robbery at the restaurant in which she works, Barbara somehow survives a shotgun to the head, by a supposed friend, while left to die in the freezer.
S3.E4 ∙ Jessyca/Derek/LaToya
A heavily pregnant woman is brutally attacked by her neighbor. A young girl endures years of abuse by a family friend before being abducted and held captive for 104 days.
S3.E5 ∙ Ron & Jill/Randy/Julie
A couple fight for their lives in a terrifying home invasion. A lineman is electrocuted while working alone up a 35 foot power pole.
S3.E6 ∙ Rudrani/Tracey/Teresa
A woman is left for dead when two terrorists storm the hotel she is staying in. A 14-year-old saves her brother when their home is destroyed in a tragic house fire.
S3.E7 ∙ Verna/Theo/Debra
A single mom is attacked by an old classmate after spurning his affections. A gold prospector survives five days in the Australian Outback. And a woman is left for dead after being carjacked then shot several times at close range.
S3.E8 ∙ Christine/Mike/Chris
A doctor's assistant is violently attacked at home by a former patient she spurned several years earlier. A man is attacked by a swarm of hornets on the roof of his holiday home and falls down a 100 foot bank. And, a boyfriend is shot and assaulted by his girlfriend when he tries to end their relationship.
S3.E9 ∙ Franklin/Jeff and Frank/Connie
A man and his wife survive a horrific plane crash that claims the lives of 125 passengers and crew. A heroic rescue bid goes horribly wrong for two fire fighters caught on a drifting ice floe. And, a woman is beaten and left for dead following a violent home invasion.
S3.E10 ∙ Brandy/Steve/James
A 16-year-old girl is abducted and assaulted by two gunmen. A deer hunter must drag himself up a dry creek bed for help after falling from a tree and breaking both his legs. A college student is used as a human shield when a gunman goes on a rampage in his school cafeteria.
S3.E11 ∙ Susan/John and Jean/Penny
Attacked in her home by a man hired by her husband, a woman fights back, killing him. A couple and their children survive against all odds when their yacht hits a reef in shark infested waters. A restaurant manager is left for dead.
S3.E12 ∙ Glen/Barbara
A man on a motorcycle trip in Columbia, on the way to the tip of South America, is captured by an armed Marxist rebel army. A 16 year old girl and her girlfriend on their way home from school are abducted, beat and stabbed by a man dressed in army fatigues in the woods near their homes.
S3.E13 ∙ Stephanie/Rich & Laura/Craig & Crystal
An ex-husband tries to kill his ex-wife in her home. A family of 7 are attacked by a swarm of bees while on a hike in the Sequoia National Forest. Two shooters commit mass murder at Columbine High school.
S3.E14 ∙ Alga/Blaine/Lincoya
A lady is abducted and attacked by a former church handyman. A man is trapped with 8 other men in a coal mine that was full of water for over 3 days. 2 robbers hold a man and his roommate hostage in their apartment.
S3.E15 ∙ Frederic/Henry & Becky/Missy & Mandy
An 11 year old boy and his mother are stabbed multiple times by an intruder. A family coming back from a missionary trip to the Bahamas have to fly their small plane after the pilot suffers a medical emergency. 15 year old twins are shot at by a 14 year old gunman after their early morning prayer group at high school.
S3.E16 ∙ Sharon/Al & Linda/Misty
A 21 year old woman is abducted outside her home by a knife wielding man. A man and his family fall through bad ice while snowmobiling on a frozen lake. Two girls walking home from a party are attacked by a man with a baseball bat.
S3.E17 ∙ Danielle/Deborah/Gordy & Betty
Yacht sinks during a unforecast storm. Couple in their 60's are held captive by an escaped convict. A 17 year old is attacked by her mother's boyfriend.
S3.E18 ∙ Albert/Matt/Kristie
A 17 yr old paratrooper is shot by a fellow soldier after target practice in a junk yard. A climber falls off a steep cliff in the New Zealand mountains. A 14 yr old girl is assaulted in her home by a guy that knows her sister.
S3.E19 ∙ Cults
Two women tell of their childhoods growing up in separate cults and the abuse they endured. A man tells of joining a cult with his wife and why he rejects his initial enthusiasm in the end.
S3.E20 ∙ Tere/Christa/Brian
An 11 yr old girl survived on a raft after her family was murdered and the yacht they were on sank. A young woman survived a house collapsing on her after a 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. A truck driver's load was stolen and he survived being shot by the robbers.
S3.E21 ∙ Gracia/Michelle/Richard
A missionary couple are abducted and held for ransom in the Philippines. A young woman is impaled by a branch while on a wilderness ride with her husband. A builder is attacked in his home by a masked intruder.
S3.E22 ∙ Tennille/Chris/Joyce
A bank teller is abducted at her home by a man with a knife and made to drive to secluded woods. A boat struck an unmanned barge at night and sinks with a group of five friends near San Diego. A man on a shooting rampage kills his wife and a restaurant owner and wounds the manager.
S3.E23 ∙ Lori and Pat/David/Kevin
A couple is attacked by two armed men in Baja Mexico while on a RV trip. A guy is caught in a tornado on Good Friday during a run on the Stones River Greenway . A man stabs a young pastor 37 times after breaking in his house.
S3.E24 ∙ Kristina/Jon/Amanda
A woman's boyfriend tries to murder her in her home. A man's arm gets stuck in the boiler in his basement for three days. A young girl is kidnapped and abused by a stranger.
S3.E25 ∙ Danielle/Amy/Mark
A woman is shot by a 14 yr old boy who she gave a ride. A woman breaks her legs on a hike in the Sierra Nevada mtns. While docking at a Mexican marina, a stranger boards a man's boat and brutally stabs him.
S3.E26 ∙ Teka/Robert/Debbie
A pregnant woman is kidnapped by a woman that tries to steal her unborn baby. A field geologist is mauled by a grizzly bear in Alaska while he is collecting samples. A woman is shot by her boyfriend's irrational drunk brother on Christmas.
S4.E0 ∙ 9/11
On September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack on American soil claimed the lives of 2977 people in New York City and another 125 in the Pentagon. These are the stories of twelve survivors--fire fighters, ambulance workers, defense officials and ordinary office workers who went to work on that sunny day, unaware that their lives were about to be forever changed.
S4.E1 ∙ Jennifer/Neely Ann
A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood.
S4.E2 ∙ Sharetha/Joe/John
After being abducted at knifepoint and gang raped, a seven month pregnant woman has her throat cut and is left to die; a man survives the terrifying crash of a Boeing 737 only to face freezing to death in an icy river; and when an armed man starts executing people inside a warehouse one man has to fight for his life by playing dead.
S4.E3 ∙ Kara/Dan/Tamecka
A 15-year-old girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.
S4.E4 ∙ Jason, Dave and Joe/Martin
A canyoneering trip becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a flash flood launches three men over two massive waterfalls, and a 13-year-old boy is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile before being chained up in a buried box and left to die.
S4.E5 ∙ Julie/John
A mother and her two young children are abducted and taken into the Florida Everglades by a crazed attacker; a man is mauled by a hungry bear and fights for his life in the driveway of his holiday cabin.
S4.E6 ∙ Harold/John/Lisa
A store manager and his staff are held up and shot by two killers; an 18-year-old has both his arms torn off in an accident on the family farm; a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer.
S4.E7 ∙ Yvette/Jeremy and Jenny/Arkesha
On their first date, a young woman and her friend are shot execution style at a deserted reservoir; two strangers' lives collide when they are caught up in a deadly train collision; and during one terror filled evening a 13-year-old escapes from the men who have abducted and assaulted her, only to be assaulted again by another man.
S4.E8 ∙ Anita/Jim/Glen/Sabret
A young woman is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Two brothers are struck by lightning on top of the highest mountain in the continental United States. A propane truck driver is attacked while making a delivery but she decides to fight back.
S4.E9 ∙ Amy/Jeff/Tyler
A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.
S4.E11 ∙ Jessica/Jeff and Mark/Kerri
A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a woman in her apartment; a savage attack by a grizzly bear leaves a man partially scalped and miles from help; and a blindfolded 16-year-old girl fights for her life after being abducted at knifepoint.
S4.E12 ∙ Lisa/Chris/Jeannette
A woman and her friend are carjacked and sexually abused. A man and his dogs survive a tornado in Alabama that destroys his house. A nine year old girl is raped, stabbed and kidnapped for three days.
S4.E13 ∙ Kaye/Johnny/Scott
A woman is stabbed over 45 times by a man that broke into her house. A man is trapped for 16 days in his wrecked car down in a deep ravine. Two college freshmen are shot in the head by a carjacker.
S4.E14 ∙ Eduardo and Jayne
A married couple are kidnapped in Mexico after taking their children to school. The husband is imprisoned in a small box for over 225 days while being held for ransom. The wife is left behind to get and pay the ransom.
S4.E15 ∙ Kim & Nina/Michael & Charles
Two women fight for their lives when an attacker ambushes them on a mountain trail; two men survive 14 hours adrift at sea.
S4.E16 ∙ Tanya/Andy/Denise
A 14 yr old girl is convinced by a 38 yr old man to run away and she is held captive his bedroom in his parents house for over 10 yrs. A park worker is badly mauled by a mountain lion while hiking. A woman is attacked after work late at night by a stalker that followed her home.
S4.E17 ∙ Paul/Tresse/Melissa
A man's home is set on fire and he is stabbed by two teenage home intruders. A man and 2 others cling to their capsized fishing boat for over 8 days in the Gulf of Mexico. A woman is imprisoned in her car trunk by an armed robber who pushes the car in a lake to kill her.
S4.E18 ∙ Angela/Pat/Tricia
A 17 yr old woman is taken to a secluded forest and sexually assaulted. A man's hand gets caught in farm equipment. A friend stabs and slashes a 14 yr old girl's throat.
S4.E19 ∙ Jenn/Neil and Blake/Tiffany
A woman's psychotic boyfriend attacks her with a meat cleaver. A man and his father are dumped in an icy Alaskan river. An intruder sexually assaults a woman and cuts her throat after she gets home from shopping.
S4.E20 ∙ Donna/Michael/Sheila
A terrified mother is abducted in broad daylight and assaulted by a man who threatens to shoot her baby. A plane crash leaves a man swimming for his life 17 miles from shore. And a young woman must play dead in order to survive.
S4.E21 ∙ Mijalina and Yvonne/Peter
An 11 year old's PVP addicted father attacks her and the neighbor lady with a steak knife. A contractor working on renovation for a man attacks him with a two by four and a big meat fork.
S4.E22 ∙ Crystal/Johanna
An ex-boyfriend assaults and shoots a teenage girl. A woman's husband violently attacks and rapes her.
S4.E23 ∙ Lenore/Steven/Ellen and Jim
A woman is stabbed 31 times by a customer in the shop where she works. A doctor is kidnapped by an armed sociopath criminal. A couple are hijacked by pirates in their boat off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean.
S4.E24 ∙ Midsi/Tammy/Leona
An eight yr old girl is abducted by a man as she walks home from school. A knife wielding man kidnaps a lady in a busy parking lot. A couple are shot by a man while hiking in the mountains.
S4.E25 ∙ Terri/Walter/James
A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.
S4.E27 ∙ Kirby/Suzanna/Raegan
Two people describe how they survived a gunman crashing his truck in the cafe they were in and then madly shooting everyone there. He killed 23 and wounded 20. It was the largest mass shooting at the time. A woman survives her ex boyfriend's brutal attack with a pry bar due to his jealousy of her current relationship.
S4.E28 ∙ Lynda/Kendra
A woman survives being choked and raped by a new friend that hid his criminal past. A young mother survives over 25 stab wounds from her ex-boyfriend.
S4.E29 ∙ Heather/Donna/Kim
A woman is viciously attacked by a motorist she offered to help. A wife and mother is violated in her bedroom in the night by a masked intruder. A robber slices through the young worker's neck at the convenience mart and leaves her to die.
S4.E30 ∙ Laurie/Sandra/Melinda
Laurie wakes up while being struck in the head repeatedly by an intruder. Sandra is attacked and stabbed while walking home from a night class. Melinda's apartment is invaded on a Sunday morning by a man who had her roommate's keys. Melinda manages to escape, leading to the capture of the man who may have been the most prolific serial killer in North American history.
S5.E2 ∙ Debbie/Ray/Jasmine
A woman is kidnapped from her house and raped in the woods outside it. A man survives a plane crash floating in the Pacific Ocean for 10 hours. A jealous ex husband kills his ex and two others but one woman survives being shot six times by playing dead.
S5.E3 ∙ Gilles/Angela and Richard/Jeffrey
A fake internet date brings a man face to face with a would-be serial killer.
S5.E4 ∙ Kim/John/Charlene
A young aspiring model is attacked by a neighbor that she thought was her friend. A man is kidnapped in the jungle and held for hostage. Robbers hold a family at gunpoint in their home.
S5.E5 ∙ A.J./Carolyn and Stacy/Lynne
A lone gunman shoots A.J. and his dad in the mall parking lot . He then shoots Carolyn, Stacy and Kristen in the mall card shop. Lynne is evacuated from a cruise ship by lifeboat in the middle of the Indian ocean during a storm.
S5.E6 ∙ Natasha/Tim/Kellie
Natasha was ambushed by a gunman as she entered her apartment building and raped at gunpoint. Due to a backlog of 17,000 unprocessed rape kits in New York City, her rapist wasn't identified until 14 years later. Tim survived a 2007 chemical plant explosion in Jacksonville, Florida. Kellie was attacked and raped by an intruder in her apartment in Orlando, Florida and had to wait 3 years before the DNA evidence was processed, identifying her rapist.
S5.E7 ∙ Audrey/Todd/Kimberley
A woman's estranged husband attacks her with a knife, hammer, and fire. A diabetic man gets lost in a Idaho snowstorm after wrecking in the wilderness. A woman is attacked in her home after her husband leaves for the day.
S5.E8 ∙ The Taliban: Jere
A journalist for CBS is captured by the Taliban when he is in their country looking to do a story on them.
S5.E9 ∙ Tricia and Linae/Jason/Mary
Two girls are abducted by two armed gunmen after they shot their parents and grandmother. A snowmobiler survives an avalanche. A former employee holds his ex boss hostage because he has a crazy fantasy of a life with her.
S5.E10 ∙ The Norway Massacre: Sofie/Adrian/Magnus/Rebekka
Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Norway's capital, Oslo, the bomber Anders Behring Breivik, now disguised as a policeman, makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer camp. During an 80 minute rampage he stalks and shoots the defenceless teenagers. Sofie, Adrian, Rebekka and Magnus survive the massacre, but 69 others die.
S5.E11 ∙ Louie and Wade/Sayeh
Two forest workers are attacked by a grizzly bear, leaving one of the men scalped. An eight-year-old girl and her younger sister are abducted by their mother s pedophile ex-boyfriend, who then rapes the older girl repeatedly.
S5.E12 ∙ John/Kevin/Helena
A disgruntled contractor executes the city officials he believes wronged him, but one, the City Attorney, fights back.
S5.E13 ∙ Brent and Hanna/Miranda and Karen
A stockbroker is shot five times by a former client on a shooting rampage. Two young sisters endure over four hours in an icy Alaskan lake after the boat they are on sinks. And a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.
S5.E14 ∙ Hostage: Keith and Marc
A routine drug surveillance mission over the Colombian jungle turns into a nightmare when Keith and Marc's plane crash-lands and they are captured by FARC guerillas and held hostage for five grueling years.
S5.E15 ∙ Amy/Trish and Darrell
A 25-year-old woman is brutally assaulted in her car by a co-worker who has asked her for a ride home; he then drives her to a secluded park where he sexually assaults her again, beats her with a branch and leaves her for dead.
S5.E16 ∙ Angel/Elyse/Richard
Two best friends find themselves targets for a crazed gunman who lures them to his apartment building. A professional skier seeking untracked powder snow does all the right things but still gets swept away by an avalanche.
S5.E17 ∙ Morgan and Aaron/David/Amanda
Two young Minor League ball players are hogtied and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel during Spring Training. A fishing boat carrying a crew of 26 catches fire and explodes in the icy Bering Sea.
S5.E18 ∙ Kristen/Kimball/Thadius
A 19-year-old student is dragged into a car at gunpoint and taken to a basement where she is chained up and sexually assaulted. A man swims over two miles in strong currents to reach the shore after his fishing boat sinks in the middle of a lake.
S5.E19 ∙ MIke/Chris/Neza
Hurricane Sandy hits the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, causing devastation and bringing New York City to its knees. One man is swept out to sea in pitch dark as his beachfront cottage is torn apart by waves.
S5.E20 ∙ Regan/Gary & Scott
A young girl and her best friend are abducted by serial killers. Two hunters crash their small plane in the remote Alaskan wilderness and are horrifically burned.
S5.E21 ∙ David/Sandy and Ken/Maura
A teenage boy is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured. A nanny is attacked by a 14-foot Nile crocodile in a remote African river. And a mother of two is abducted by a knife-wielding stranger who is covered in blood.
S5.E22 ∙ Singer/Romina and John
Four young Americans, kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan, face a desperate situation: kill or be killed. And a young couple's dream holiday at a Thai beach resort turns into a terror-filled fight for survival as a tsunami strikes.
S5.E23 ∙ Dorothy/Jim/Bud and Katrina
A woman is raped in front of her children before being shot in the head and left to die. A man picking berries alone is bitten by a deadly rattlesnake miles from help.
S5.E24 ∙ Bill, Mike and Ginger/Wanda
A gunman shoots at a Florida school board. A woman is abducted after a evening with her husband by three serial rapists.
S5.E25 ∙ Rhonda/Jason/Patrick
A young woman is abducted, sexually assaulted and stabbed and yet, incredibly, outwits her attacker. A man, who tries to save a neighboring family from a tornado, is sucked up 50 feet into the funnel cloud.
S5.E26 ∙ Shaunna & Brad/Lee/Emily
A woman and her boyfriend are shot by her ex-partner and left to die in a burning house. A man pinned by his arm in his wrecked van faces amputation to escape. And a young mother whose neck is sawn open by an intruder plays dead in order to live.
S6.E36 ∙ Cynthia, Russ & Carol; Ron & Christine
David and Doris Young took hostage 154 people at Cokeville Elementary School in 1986, Three of the survivors, teachers and a student give their account of the tragedy. Ron and Christine give their story of being attacked by a man with a wood machete outside their resort on the beach in Jamaica.
S7.E6 ∙ Michelle/Terri-Lynn/Jennifer
Abducted in the trunk of her own car, a woman suffers unimaginable horror at the hands of her three captors. Trapped in the ruins of a tornado ravaged building a young woman prepares to die. And an eight-year-old girl is kidnapped by a man who abuses her, cuts her throat and leaves her to die in a field.
S8.E1 ∙ Amanda/Erinn
A woman is imprisoned on a remote rural property, by a man who sexually assaults her and murders her boyfriend; and a young mother is abducted at gunpoint and subjected to hours of assault, beatings and mental torture.
S8.E2 ∙ Kristy/Jamison
The mother of three children 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, shot and left for dead when his ATM card fails to work.
S8.E3 ∙ Kim/Erin & Claire
A young woman is abducted by four armed men and held captive and sexually assaulted for 15 hours; two teenage sisters are attacked and raped and their uncle is shot by a masked gunman.
S9.E11 ∙ Shannon/Ken/Angela
A woman and her boyfriend are shot by her ex-partner and left to die in a burning house. A man pinned by his arm and his braked van faces amputation to escaped. And a young mother whose neck is sawn open by an intruder place dead in order to live.
