Denise McLain was a Dollar Store Manager in Jacksonville Carolina, who had to fight for her life with two knife-wielding robbers in a store hold-up. She was stabbed dozens of times, and had her wrist slashed as they stole money.
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Bridget Kelly was readying herself for bed one night when suddenly her apartment door was kicked in by a stranger. Forced at gunpoint to drive to an ATM and unload her account, the 24 year old began praying out aloud.
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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.
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Michelle, the Vice President at a bank in California, was playing with her 7 year-old daughter one evening, when three masked gunmen burst into her home.
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When Christine and Heidi boarded the Greek ferry the Express Samina they noticed that the lifeboats were old and crumbling and that the captain was not at the helm.
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Mental institution manager, Maria, feared for her safety when one of her employees became increasingly paranoid and aggressive towards her. She fired him but a couple of months later the former employee burst into her office with a gun.
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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 11 year-old son D...
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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 h...
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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.
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This special profiles the extraordinary stories of three ordinary people who literally died and then came back to life. Deb’s heart stops shortly after delivering her second child, Steve is brutally stabbed by his schizophrenic brother, and Michaela is severely injured in a deadly car accident--...
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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. Sydney, only 15 years old, bravely leaps 12 feet out of her house in a desperate attempt to escape tw...
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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.
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