Close Encounters with Evil

Rhonda Stapley was a student at the University of Utah when she was attacked by one of America's most infamous serial killers. Few women have survived the deadly embrace of Ted Bundy, Rhonda is one of them.

Art student Mo Lea moved from Liverpool to Leeds to begin an exciting new life at university. But her dream turned into a nightmare when she was attacked by the notorious Yorkshire Ripper.

For five years, Cindy Brown was married to Bobby Joe Long. During that time, she was physically and emotionally battered by her husband, who went on to kill 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Delia Balmer began a relationship with John Sweeney after meeting him in a pub in Camden Town, London. What Delia didn't know was that Sweeney was a murderer and, three and a half years later he had Delia lined up as his next victim.

When Tony Antonucci took up an apprenticeship with local contractor, John Wayne Gacy, he had no idea that his new boss was an active serial killer. Months later, Tony found himself handcuffed and facing the same grisly fate as Gacy's 33 other victims.

In December 2006, the bodies of five sex workers were discovered in Ipswich. It was a terrifying time for Jade Reynolds who worked in the red light district and soon discovered the killer, local man Steve Wright, was one of her clients.

In 1979, U.S. Army medic, Billy Joe Capshaw, was stationed in Germany. He had no idea that his roommate was a notorious serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer. Billy was raped and beaten by Dahmer but he somehow managed to live to tell the tale.

Jane Carson Sadler was in bed when she went to investigate a noise in her home. Downstairs, Joseph James D'Angelo, the notorious Golden State Killer, was lying in wait. Jane was brutally raped but survived at the hands of a man who murdered 13 people.