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The Nightmare He Created: 3 True Horror Stories of Abuse · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: When I got off the school bus.
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  Speaker 2: The very first thing that caught my eye was the
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  Speaker 2: patch of dark cloud overtaking the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 2: Mom told me to take the umbrella, but like always,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't bother to listen to her. As I walked
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  Speaker 2: down the narrow road surrounded by woods, I could hear
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  Speaker 2: low rumble of an upcoming thunderstorm. Cold wind started blowing
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  Speaker 2: my hair and jacket. Suddenly I felt someone was following me.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped and turned, but all I could see was
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  Speaker 2: the long empty road behind me. I began walking again
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  Speaker 2: when I saw a man coming out of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped in front of me and said, you need
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  Speaker 2: to come with me. I glanced at his face with
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  Speaker 2: a confusion, but he took out a badge from his pocket. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a cop and I caught your brother smoking in
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  Speaker 2: these woods. If you want his bail, you need to
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  Speaker 2: follow me. Then he said, on a serious tone. Now,
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  Speaker 2: my brother Max is no saint. So even though it
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  Speaker 2: all seemed pretty redundant, I still chose to follow this
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  Speaker 2: guy because he was a cop.
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  Speaker 1: Why would a cop lie to a fourteen year old? Right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. Mom will be so mad, I replied, nervously.
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  Speaker 2: The man didn't say anything more and started walking into
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  Speaker 2: the woods. Daylight has almost gone by then, and he
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  Speaker 2: turned on flashlight.
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  Speaker 1: To make way.
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  Speaker 2: As we walked, I could hear the coyotes howling at distance.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was getting worse, and I could see our
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  Speaker 2: house at the distance.
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  Speaker 1: Will you spend the night in jail?
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  Speaker 2: I asked with hesitation, but the guy didn't reply, just
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  Speaker 2: kept walking. I asked the same question again and he stopped.
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  Speaker 2: He suddenly held out a taser to my neck and screamed,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't no cop, so just shut up and keep walking.
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  Speaker 2: The hair at the back of my neck stood up.
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  Speaker 2: I've come pretty far from my house. Judging the distance
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  Speaker 2: in the weather, I was confident that if I try
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  Speaker 2: to run or scream, I'll probably be dead. I knew
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  Speaker 2: I half walked into a trap and was standing in
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  Speaker 2: the deep woods with my kidnapper.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, I'll do what you say.
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  Speaker 2: He stared at my face for five second, then grabbed
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  Speaker 2: my left hand and started to walk. I didn't protest,
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  Speaker 2: just let him do what he wanted so he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: hurt me more. After walking for half an hour, we
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  Speaker 2: reached near a big boulder. The man pointed the flashlight
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  Speaker 2: under the boulder and I could spot a trap door.
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  Speaker 2: He pulled it open and broken stairs led to a
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  Speaker 2: dark cavern.
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  Speaker 1: Get in, he screamed.
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  Speaker 2: I looked around me one more time, then quietly went in.
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  Speaker 2: It was an old bunker, probably made during the wars
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  Speaker 2: for the army to stay hidden during the nights. There
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  Speaker 2: was a rugged mattress in one corner and an old
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  Speaker 2: wooden chair next to it. Empty beer bottles were rolling
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  Speaker 2: on the floor, and a small light bulb hung from
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  Speaker 2: the ceiling, which looked new. So he had this all
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  Speaker 2: planned beforehand. What happened after is a lifelong trauma lasted
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  Speaker 2: for ten days.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up.
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  Speaker 2: He would go out once a day and assault me
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  Speaker 2: every night. I let him do vile things to me
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  Speaker 2: just so I can stay alive. At nights, I would
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  Speaker 2: wake up from pain and a dizzy state just to
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  Speaker 2: see him lying right beside me with an evil stare
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  Speaker 2: and an ear to ear smile. I could hear low
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  Speaker 2: sounds of birds chirping, owl hooting, lying on the dirty mattress,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how I counted days. Tears rolled down my
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  Speaker 2: cheek every time I thought of Mom and my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Will they ever find me how they know that I
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  Speaker 1: am here.
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  Speaker 2: I almost lost my hope when one day I saw
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  Speaker 2: the man playing game on his phone. I asked him
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  Speaker 2: if he let me play as well, since I have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do. By then, he has started to believe
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  Speaker 2: that a timid, naive girl like me won't even think
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  Speaker 2: about escape because she prefers being alive. My act of
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  Speaker 2: submission helped me to gain his trust, so when he
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  Speaker 2: gave me his phone, I continued playing on it. He
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  Speaker 2: wants me then dozed off drinking on the chair, and
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  Speaker 2: once he did, I texted my mom.
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  Speaker 1: I finally made the move.
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  Speaker 2: I deleted the text and pretend to fall asleep as well.
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  Speaker 2: My ears waited to hear the cops siren embarking of
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  Speaker 2: sniffer dogs.
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  Speaker 1: An hour went by, and finally I heard it.
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  Speaker 2: I opened my eyes to see my abductor going frantic.
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  Speaker 2: He was throwing glass bottles all over and cursing me, like, hell.
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  Speaker 1: You you called the cops on me.
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  Speaker 2: I trusted you, He shouted, hands up, You're under arrest.
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  Speaker 2: On September six of two thousand and six, fourteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Elizabeth show Off was kidnapped after she got off
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  Speaker 2: her school bus by a guy named Vincent phil Yaw.
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  Speaker 2: Vincent gained her trust by posing as a police officer.
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  Speaker 2: He walked her around in the woods and kept her
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  Speaker 2: prisoner in an underground bunker. Phil Yaw stripped her, restrained
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  Speaker 2: her with chains, and tortured her several times a day
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  Speaker 2: over the duration of her ten day captivity. On eleventh day,
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth convinced phil Yall to let her borrow his cellular
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  Speaker 2: phone to play games. Once she had his phone, she
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  Speaker 2: texted her mother and friends, who contacted the police. Phil
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  Speaker 2: y'all was arrested carrying a taser, pellet gun, and a knife.
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  Speaker 2: He was charged with kidnapping, possession of illegal weapons, and
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  Speaker 2: impersonating a police officer, with other assault charges.
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  Speaker 1: The night of April fifteenth began like any other.
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  Speaker 2: It was a Friday evening, and I was finally free
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  Speaker 2: from the grind of my job as a lawyer. I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed a fun dinner with some friends over drinks at
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  Speaker 2: a local pump. Nothing out of the ordinary, right, nothing
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  Speaker 2: that would prepare me for what was about to come.
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  Speaker 2: By the time I got back home, the hum of
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  Speaker 2: city life seemed to be dying down. I live alone
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  Speaker 2: in a fancy apartment complex in Houston, Texas, secured with gates, cameras,
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  Speaker 2: and round the clock guards. It was the kind of
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  Speaker 2: place you were supposed to feel safe at. I got
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  Speaker 2: out of the elevator, unlocked my door, and got in. Tired,
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  Speaker 2: I could only take off my shoes and threw myself
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  Speaker 2: onto the bed. Deep sleep came right away. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember if I was dreaming, but I do remember hearing
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  Speaker 2: a thud, like someone closed a door. My deep slumber
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  Speaker 2: prevented me from opening my eyes, but then I woke up.
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  Speaker 2: There was something heavy on me, pushing me into the mattress.
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  Speaker 2: My chest constricted, my throat sore with pain, reach down
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  Speaker 2: blindly and froze.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man. He was sitting on top of me.
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  Speaker 2: The pale moonlight coming from my window illuminated his bloodshot,
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  Speaker 2: evil eyes, staring right into my soul. He was holding
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  Speaker 2: a knife to my throat, which was sharper than my luck.
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  Speaker 2: Before I could scream, I felt cold, the cold steel
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  Speaker 2: on my neck. Don't make a sound, he spoke slowly.
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  Speaker 2: My mind was racing.
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  Speaker 1: Is this real? Is it'll hurt me?
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  Speaker 2: I whispered, my voice cracking. He smiled ear to ear
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  Speaker 2: and said, I can't promise that.
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  Speaker 1: My heart pounded in my chest.
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  Speaker 2: Fear rooted me to the spot, but survival instincts kicked in.
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  Speaker 2: I thrashed and screamed as loud as I could, hoping
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  Speaker 2: that someone, anyone would hear me. I started kicking my
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  Speaker 2: hands and legs, trying my best to push the man away.
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  Speaker 2: His knife flew into the dark corner of my still,
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  Speaker 2: he pinned me down with his weight. We struggled like
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  Speaker 2: this for a few seconds, and then out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: he ran the knife, aiming my neck. Pain exploded in
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  Speaker 2: my body and warm blood poured down my chest. I
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  Speaker 2: could feel air and blood choking my vocal cords. Damn,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really gonna die. I pressed both of my hands
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  Speaker 2: on my neck, trying my best to stop the bleeding,
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  Speaker 2: but the man gave me no mercy.
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  Speaker 1: He started dragging me off the bed.
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  Speaker 2: I kicked and clawed desperately, trying to get away from him,
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  Speaker 2: but he yanked me into the bathroom and threw me
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  Speaker 2: on the cold tiled floor. Trails of blood was everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Stay here, he barked, before stepping out of the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: My mind screamed at me to move. This is my
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  Speaker 2: only chance, I realized. I wedged myself against the bathroom door,
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  Speaker 2: planting my feet against the bathtub and pushing with everything
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  Speaker 2: I had. My hands were slit with blood as I
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  Speaker 2: pressed toilet paper to my throat, trying to stop the bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: Every sound outside the bathroom was amplified, the shuffle of
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  Speaker 2: his footsteps, the rustle of my belongings, and then I
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  Speaker 2: heard him closing the zipper of his pants.
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  Speaker 1: Is he done? Is he leaving? Silence?
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  Speaker 2: Minutes felt like hours as I waited, frozen in fear.
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  Speaker 1: What if he comes back? What if he stabs me again?
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  Speaker 2: At that moment of life and death, I could only
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  Speaker 2: see two options. Either I stayed here and bled to death,
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  Speaker 2: or I try saving my own life while I can.
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  Speaker 2: Summoning every ounce of strength, I pushed the door open.
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  Speaker 2: My hands slipped on the knobs, sticky with blood. Panic surged,
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  Speaker 2: but finally the door gave way. The apartment was eerily quiet,
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  Speaker 2: The power was cut off, and my landline was out
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  Speaker 2: of service. My attacker had done his homework, but something
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  Speaker 2: in my brain registered my office bone. With shaking hands
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  Speaker 2: and blurry vision, I dialed nine one one, nine one one,
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  Speaker 2: what's your emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Clung to the phone like a lifeline.
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  Speaker 2: The calm, steady voice spoke to me on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the line.
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  Speaker 1: I beat up my throat. I'm pleading.
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  Speaker 2: The dispatcher, Richard Everett, kept talking, anchoring me to reality.
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  Speaker 2: Stay on the line, Jennifer, help us on the way.
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  Speaker 2: I crouched by the door, holding my phone like a lifeline,
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  Speaker 2: my vision blurring, my head swimming from blood loss, but
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  Speaker 2: forcing myself to stay awake. I quietly whispered to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me, Jennifer, Stay with me.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Murray survived a harrowing attack in nineteen ninety five
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  Speaker 2: in Houston, Texas, when a man broke into her apartment.
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  Speaker 2: The intruder later identified as an off duty security guard
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  Speaker 2: Brian Gibson, who assaulted her and slashed her throat. Jennifer
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  Speaker 2: fought back fiercely and managed to lock herself in the
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  Speaker 2: bathroom despite severe injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Her nine one one call led.
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  Speaker 2: To a rapid police response, ultimately saving her life. Though
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  Speaker 2: Murray's throat was slashed by Gibson's knife, he missed her
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  Speaker 2: jugular vein by millimeters. Brian Wayne Gibson was convicted of
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  Speaker 2: attempted murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison. It
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  Speaker 2: was December twenty twenty two and I was scrolling through
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  Speaker 2: bumble again. Everyone around me was settling down, getting married,
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  Speaker 2: buying homes, starting families, and thirty years old, I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I was falling behind. Teaching kept me busy during
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  Speaker 2: the day and football was my escape, but the nights
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  Speaker 2: were so lonely. That's when I saw his profile, Ashley Gaddie,
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  Speaker 2: thirty three from Sydney's Inner West. His pictures showed a strong,
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  Speaker 2: confident man with intense eyes. I'm looking for something real,
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  Speaker 2: tired of the games, want to grab a coffee. We
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  Speaker 2: matched and within minutes he messaged me. He seemed different
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  Speaker 2: from the other guys, more mature, more focused on finding
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  Speaker 2: real love. When we met for our first coffee date,
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  Speaker 2: I felt butterflies in my stomach. He was even more
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  Speaker 2: handsome in person, with strong hands and a gentle smile.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I really want, a family, a real connection,
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  Speaker 2: someone to build my life with. Two dates later, I
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  Speaker 2: knew I wanted my friends to meet him. We rushed, maybe,
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  Speaker 2: but he was the one, or I thought so. So
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  Speaker 2: December seventeenth came and I was nervous. I'd never brought
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  Speaker 2: anyone to meet my friends before. The Christmas drinks at
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  Speaker 2: the pub in Martsen Park seemed like the perfect opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley arrived to pick me up and everything felt perfect.
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  Speaker 2: The night was going well. My friend's spent most of
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  Speaker 2: it getting to know him, my new man. Then came
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  Speaker 2: the drinking game. Someone asked about past relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there was this one night, stam.
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  Speaker 2: But just then I saw Ashley's face change. Instantly we
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  Speaker 2: should go. My friend Taylor offered to let us stay
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  Speaker 2: at her place since we'd both been drinking, and around
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  Speaker 2: one thirty am we went to the spare bedroom. The
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  Speaker 2: moment the door closed, I knew something was wrong, terribly wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley's face had completely changed. His gentle smile was gone.
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  Speaker 2: You just had to tell everyone about that guy, didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You, Ashley? It was nothing. It was before I met you.
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  Speaker 1: You made me look like an idiot. Ashley, Please, you're
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  Speaker 1: scaring me.
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  Speaker 2: Scaring you? You have no idea what fear is? Everything
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  Speaker 2: happened so fast. He jumped at me like a wild animal,
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  Speaker 2: throwing me to the ground. How he shut up His
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  Speaker 2: hands squeezed my throat so tight I couldn't breathe. I
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  Speaker 2: kicked and tried to fight back, but he was way
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  Speaker 2: too strong. Then the punches started coming, one after another
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  Speaker 2: after another, straight into my face.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, the pain. I'd never felt anything like it.
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  Speaker 2: Blood was running down my face and I couldn't even
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  Speaker 2: scream anymore. I tried so hard to push him off, me, scratching,
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  Speaker 2: hitting anything I could do, but he was just so
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  Speaker 2: much bigger than me. Everything was starting to go dark.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing I saw was his face. His eyes
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  Speaker 2: were wild, full of hate, his teeth clenched. God, he
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  Speaker 2: looked nothing like the sweet guy from my bumble matches.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, Taylor came to check on us. We
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  Speaker 2: hadn't come out of the room all morning. She opened
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  Speaker 2: the door, expecting to find us sleeping off our hangovers,
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  Speaker 2: but instead, guys, are you awake? There?
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  Speaker 1: There?
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  Speaker 2: I was just lying there on the floor. He'd thrown
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  Speaker 2: a blanket over me like I was garbage. My face
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  Speaker 2: was all smashed up and covered in dried blood. Ashley
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  Speaker 2: was gone. I never knew the truth about him. I
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  Speaker 2: never knew about the five women who had taken out
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  Speaker 2: AVOs against him. I never knew he'd been convicted of
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  Speaker 2: choking another girlfriend just a year before. I never knew
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  Speaker 2: he was on bail for assaulting another woman when he
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  Speaker 2: met me.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew I was dating a monster.
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  Speaker 2: The story was inspired by the real murder of Danielle
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  Speaker 2: Finlay Jones, a thirty one year old teacher from Sydney
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  Speaker 2: who met Ashley Gaddie, thirty three, on bumble in December
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: After just two dates.
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  Speaker 2: Danielle brought him to Christmas drinks with friends at a
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  Speaker 2: pub in Marsden Park. That night, they stayed at her
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  Speaker 2: friend Taylor's house in Cambrook, where Gaddie murdered her in
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  Speaker 2: the spare bedroom. Police documents revealed Danielle was beaten and
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  Speaker 2: strangled to death. Her body was discovered by Taylor the
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  Speaker 2: next afternoon, covered with a blanket. Gaddie fled the scene
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  Speaker 2: and was arrested two days later after a twelve hour
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  Speaker 2: standoff with police in the Blue Mountains. The investigation revealed
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  Speaker 2: that gaddy had a history of violence against women. Five
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  Speaker 2: different women had taken out AVOs against him between twoenty
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  Speaker 2: and sixteen and two than twenty one. Just one year
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  Speaker 2: before killing Danielle, he had been convicted of stalking and
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  Speaker 2: choking another girlfriend, but was deemed a low risk by
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  Speaker 2: a magistrate. At the time he met Danielle, he was
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  Speaker 2: actually out on bail for allegedly assaulting another woman. Gaddy
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  Speaker 2: was held in jail after his arrest, where he was
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  Speaker 2: later found dead in his cell. The case is led
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  Speaker 2: to stricter bail laws and better safety measures on dating apps.