There are precious few individuals who have managed to survive their encounters with serial killers. Anchored by People Magazine's in-depth reporting, these survivors share their terrifying and intensely emotional experiences with unimaginable evil.
In 1965, Rodney Alcala attacks a teenage girl - only to brutalize and rape her three years later. She feels guilty when she discovers he assaulted another girl soon after - but th…
A new romance between two college students derails when a sadist attacks them during a nighttime walk by the railroad tracks. Only one of them lives and she turns out to be the so…
A single mom, Barbara Mabee Abel, comes home to find a man holding her disabled sister hostage. He then tries to kidnap her young son, but she begs him to take her instead. She i…
Gary Heidnick, who runs a church out of his house and calls himself "The Bishop," abducts a woman and holds her captive. Soon, he imprisons six women in his basement and tortures …
In the suburbs of Chicago, a handsome man with searing blue eyes turns out to be a bloodthirsty monster hiding in plain sight and attacking young women at will. However, it takes …
1981, two men rape and shoot a young mother, forcing her fiancé to watch it all. After nearly dying, Cheryl Bartlett Fann, learns her attackers are a pair of serial killers who ar…