I Survived a Serial Killer

Jennifer Asbenson recounts her fight to stay alive and escape the clutches of 32-year-old Andrew Urdiales, her would-be killer who kidnapped her in September 1992 when she 17.

In 1992, 19-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon tries to help a man who was down on his luck when he attacked her in her own home; she wages a physical and psychological war against the man who tries to kill her and helps police apprehend Tommy Lynn Sells.

In November 1988, 27-year-old Enietra Margette is walking to a party in South Los Angeles, when a neatly dressed man offers her a ride; soon after she gets into the car, the driver, Lonnie Franklin, shoots the passenger point-blank in the chest.

Morgan Rowan describes how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by Rodney Alcala during a party at his Hollywood home; three weeks later, Alcala would abduct and attack 8-year-old Tali Shapiro, who describes her chilling assault in her own words.

In September 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend's house in Garden Grove, Calif.; his assailant, William Bonin, has an appetite for assaulting young men and boys.

Vanessa Gay recounts her escape from Anthony Sowell in Cleveland, Ohio; detective Lemmy Griffin and prosecutor Rick Bombik walk through this murderer's capture and sentencing.