Escaped
Season 12009TV-14
Whether held captive by kidnappers or extreme elements, these true stories -- told through the eyes of those who lived through their nightmarish experience -- reveal how these individuals managed to escape to freedom.
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Episodes (10)
- 1. Cellar of TerrorApril 13, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Josefina Rivera has been held captive in a killer's cellar for months, and gradually, as more women are added, the torture increases. After two captives die, Josefina knows she must escape or face certain death. - 2. The Sniper's WifeApril 20, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
After enduring her husband's lies and kidnapping of their children, Mildred Muhammad fights back, divorces him and has her kids returned. When she restarts her life outside Washington, DC, she soon learns that he's the DC Sniper, and he plans to kill her. - 3. Torture in SuburbiaApril 27, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
In the early morning hours of July 29, 1995, 13-year-old Thad Phillips is kidnapped by 17-year-old Joe Clark, a local boy who has snuck into the Phillips' house. Over the next two days, he will viciously and methodically torture the young boy. - 4. Sold into SlaveryMay 4, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Nineteen-year-old Katya is growing desperate after being held by human traffickers for a year and forced into prostitution at a strip club. After eight months of torture, she begins to plot her escape. - 5. Cult MassacreMay 11, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Nearly one thousand people are living and working in Jim Jones People's Temple, yet to eighteen-year-old Brenda Parks, Jonestown is more hellish prison than heaven on earth. Brenda and her family secretly begin hatching a plan to escape. - 6. Hurricane at SeaMay 18, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
In October 1983, Tami Ashcraft and her boyfriend accept a job to sail a yacht from Tahiti to San Diego, but they encounter a dangerous category-four storm, and the radio goes dead. After a month lost at sea, Tami tries to make it to land. - 7. Backcountry BlizzardMay 25, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Eric LeMarque, a 34-year-old former hockey Olympian, had been snowboarding in the mountains, but now he's lost. He will learn the limits of what the human body can endure and that Mother Nature takes no prisoners. - 8. Lair of a SadistJune 1, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Cynthia Vigil has been held in a trailer and tortured by David Parker Ray and his female accomplice for days. She knows she must escape or face certain death. - 9. Marooned in MexicoJune 8, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Joe Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid had been fishing in the Sea of Cortez when they noticed the light was fading and the winds were picking up. What came next landed them on a barren, inhospitable island where they were stranded for two weeks. - 10. Obsessed KidnapperJune 15, 200945minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
Karen Kummerer is in the bathroom of a restaurant. Two days earlier, her former boyfriend kidnapped her at knifepoint, forced her into his car and began to drive, and now she leaves notes hoping that someone will alert authorities to help her escape.
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