Bridget Kelly is raped, shot three times, and left for dead by an intruder in her home. Daryl is caught in a freak blizzard that threatens to bury him alive in his jeep. Two boys, Ryan and John, survive a plane crash and maintain cell phone contact with a 911 operator as rescuers desperately try to find them.
Brandi and her friend, Liz, offer a ride to man who turns on them, stabbing Liz repeatedly and beating Brandi and then throwing her into a river. Joseph and two other men are stranded on a rocky, barren island for 13 days. And Sam and Suzanne are kidnapped by a hitchhiker who forces them to drive several hundred miles at gunpoint.
Christine's and Heidi's trip on a Greek ferry becomes a nightmare when the boat begins to sink and the crew abandons the ship, leaving the panicked passengers to fend for themselves. Debbie suffers a five-day ordeal at the hands of an attacker, who keeps her blindfolded and gagged, rapes her, and forces her to sleep next to him. And a simple act of kindness results in a vicious assault for Jim when he is brutally attacked in his apartment by his neighbor after inviting the young man into his home to chat.
Lonnie plays dead for four agonizing hours after her boyfriend chokes her and shoots her four times in the head. Rulon, a super-strong Olympic wrestler, gets stuck in a semi-frozen stream when he goes snowmobiling and faces a big decision -- should he wait to be rescued or submerge himself in the freezing water to save his snowmobile and find a way out? And when a wise-cracking federal prosecutor is abducted by men with machine guns, he uses his unique talents and personality to show rapport with his captors in hopes they'll release him.
When Dollar Store manager Denise is savagely attacked by robbers, one thing keeps her alive -- her determination to make sure that her father would not have to attend her funeral. Nick, a former Marine, is put to the survival test when he's stranded on a mountain in a snow blizzard with no cell phone, no food, and no winter clothing. And Leonilda must quickly think of a way to escape when her boyfriend forces her into his car at gunpoint, and tells her he's going to shoot her and dump her body in the river.
Wayne and Mary woke up to find their farmhouse surrounded by a cloud of lethal chlorine gas following a rail derailment. Thus began a harrowing six-hour ordeal where they struggled to take a breath, coughed up blood, and watched their metal appliances literally melt before their eyes. While Holly and her boyfriend Chris were taking a quiet stroll near the railroad tracks, they were accosted by a man demanding money. Linda was driving to her lakeside cabin when she was run off the road in the middle of the night by four strangers. High on drugs, they viciously attacked her, demanded money, set her car ablaze, and left her for dead in a deserted field.
Cari, a young mother living in Chico, California, is brutally stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home, but knows she must survive the attack to save her son. A four-inch steel tow hook accidentally lodges into Kevin's throat, and any movement could sever his jugular vein and end his life. When a gunman shoots and injures several people at a mall in Tacoma, Washington during Christmas time, Katherine, a store manager must obey his demands or risk having her co-worker Joe shot point-blank in the head with a machine gun.
Three masked gunmen burst into Michelle's home and order her to rob the bank vault where she works or they'll blow up her 7-year-old. And teenagers Troy and Josh take a small sailboat out to an inlet to go fishing when they get caught by a dangerous current and are swept out to sea for six days. They must struggle to survive against heavy seas, freezing temperatures at night, burning hot temperatures during the day, and sharks that keep circling their boat.
Maria feared for her safety as one of her fellow employees at the hospital where she worked became increasingly volatile. Jerry swerved his car to avoid a deer and crashed over an embankment where a tree branch became lodged in his throat. Melissa and her two-year-old daughter were sleeping at home when she was woken by an armed intruder who slashed and sexually assaulted her before stuffing her in the trunk of her car.
This episode tells the harrowing story of how two students and a professor at Virginia Tech University managed to survive the April 16, 2007, massacre at the school. One of the students, Colin, had to lay motionless and play dead as the gunman shot him four times. We also chronicle the amazing story of the Minneapolis school bus with 52 children that plummeted 45 feet when a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in August 2007. Trapped in her seat, driver Kim held the brake, keeping the bus from rolling backwards, as counselor Jimmy and his co-workers rush to evacuate the children, including Kim's own daughter.
Jennifer, a young lawyer, must use all of her instincts to fight off an intruder who sexually assaults and stabs her. Sampson is a corn farmer faced with the agonizing decision of whether to amputate his own arm or risk burning to death when his hand is pulled into a harvester that catches on fire. Norina, a primary school principal must fight off a crazed man with a machete to save the lives of her students.
A romantic walk turns into a nightmare for two young friends when a man forces them into his truck at gunpoint and shoots them both. A snowmobile outing ends in a near-death experience for two brothers when they plunge through the ice of a frozen river. A woman is brutally attacked twice by the same gang of hoodlums.
A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
An ordinary Friday at the Seattle headquarters of the Jewish Federation turns nightmarish when a crazed gunman demands an end to the war in Iraq and shoots four workers. A criminal justice teacher is shot multiple times and poisoned twice by an unknown assailant. A young woman swims through shark-infested waters in a desperate bid for survival.
A single mother is kidnapped, stabbed and left for dead by three hardened criminals and her heroic survival is unforgettable. A long-haul truck driver must drive his 40-ton rig through the biggest fire in Utah History. A woman is stalked and brutally abducted by an ex-boyfriend.
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 his entire torso and shakes him like a rag doll. A young mother is repeatedly assaulted and strangled in front of her 3-year-old son.
A couple hiking in a national park must fight for their lives when they're attacked by a ferocious mountain lion. A young mother and her cousin are shot by a deranged gunman. A quick stop at a gas station threatens the life of a woman when she's taken hostage by a violent criminal on the run from the police.
A family is subjected to a vicious attack during a brutal home invasion. A rail yard worker risks his life to save a town. A realtor is attacked by a man posing as a client.
A convenience store worker plays dead to escape her abductor. An endurance athlete faces her greatest challenge ever after falling 60 feet in a remote canyon. A couple put their lives on the line to protect their children in a home invasion.
A mother of three survives a prolonged attack from her estranged husband. A newly pregnant woman is horrifically injured when she is caught in a fish processing machine on a boat 160 miles from land. Ten people are held hostage in a library by a man armed with a bomb and a gun.
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.
A mother is jammed into a trash can filled with snow and left to die by her ex-husband. A young woman scrambles to escape a gruesome pile up of injured bodies after an escalator malfunctions at a sports stadium. A bar owner is savagely set upon by three men in a random attack carried out as part of a gang initiation.
Three survivors from the ill-fated UA Flight 232 relive the terrifying moments leading up to and after one of America's worst ever aviation disasters. A young woman violently assaulted by two men displays extraordinary courage to flee her attackers.
A young woman is brutally assaulted then set on fire by her attacker. A man is forced to amputate part of his 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.
Two friends, Jim and Jens, and their fathers fly to Mexico for a fishing trip, but turbulence forces their plane to crash land and the foursome must fight for their lives in the ocean. Dawn is plunged into a nightmare when four armed men invade their beach home and threaten to shoot her right in front of her two young daughters. And while working at a convenience store, Agnes is abducted by an armed robber, who takes her to an open field and forces her to open the car trunk, where she finds another terrified woman bleeding from a gunshot wound.
After finishing a surveying job in a remote forest area, Brent finds himself face to face with a massive seven-foot-tall grizzly bear that begins to attack him. In a desperate attempt to save her and her husband's life, Susan grabs the .22 caliber pistol in her bedroom and engages in a gun battle with three masked men who invade their house late one night. And Denise must fight for her life when she is brutally assaulted by a man who gains entrance to her apartment by claiming to be a maintenance man.
While on a spear-fishing outing, Patrick's friend is pulled out to sea and struggles to survive as four-foot waves batter him in the darkness. Anne and her son, Ian, fight for their lives when they're attacked by Anne's gun-wielding ex-boyfriend. Driving home from a friend's house late one evening, Sharon is shot by another driver, who then takes her to an apartment where he continues his vicious assault on her.
While out walking his dog in the woods, Timothy is attacked by a 400-pound grizzly bear as his faithful dog valiantly tries to distract the bear. Scott and Sean enjoy a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when a drifter arrives at their campsite, pulls a gun, and shoots them both. And Stacey and her best friend must call upon all their inner strength and remain calm when an attacker invades their apartment and seems ready to kill them both.
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 two attackers. And after Jennifer ends her relationship with her overly possessive boyfriend, he breaks into her home with a gun and terrifies Jennifer and her son for hours while a SWAT team descends on the house.
A young runaway has her arms cut off in a horrific assault. A pregnant woman and her father flee a deadly firestorm. A woman survives multiple stab wounds in a drug fuelled attack by her enraged boyfriend.
An Emory, Texas man's family suffers a deadly home invasion arranged by his own daughter. Two mountain bikers are mauled by a mountain lion on a remote trail in Mission Viejo, California. A hotel receptionist in Columbus, Mississippi goes into fight mode to survive a brutal attack by a man posing as a guest.
A 15-year-old is snatched off the street on an early morning run. A man goes head-to-head with a killer chimpanzee, and a woman is shot and left for dead in a freezer with two slain co-workers.
A 14-year-old girl from Eau Claire, Wisconsin is kidnapped and held captive by her neighbor who has sexually assaulted her numerous times before. A man crawls down Mount Adams in Washington State after breaking his ankle. A pregnant woman is attacked in Memphis, Tennessee by her meth-addicted neighbor.
A Fort Worth, Texas couple fight for their lives in a terrifying home invasion. A lineman is electrocuted while working alone up a 35-foot power pole in Rowley, Iowa. A Charlotte, North Carolina woman makes a desperate dash for safety after being repeatedly stabbed by her ex-boyfriend.
A woman is left for dead when two terrorists storm the hotel she is staying in. A 14-year-old saves her brother when their home is destroyed in a tragic house fire. A woman is left permanently scarred in a deadly domestic abuse incident.
A single mom is attacked by an old classmate after spurning his affections. A gold prospector survives five days in the Australian Outback. A woman is left for dead after being carjacked and then shot several times at close range.
A doctor's assistant is violently attacked at home by a former patient who she spurned several years earlier. A man in Georgia is attacked by a swarm of hornets on the roof of his holiday home and falls down a 100 foot bank. In Missouri, a man is shot and assaulted by his girlfriend when he tries to end their relationship.
A man and his wife survive a plane crash that killed 125 passengers and crew after 3 men hijack it. A heroic rescue bid goes horribly wrong when 2 men are stranded on an iceberg with several other people on frigidly cold Lake Saint Clair. A woman is beaten, raped and left for dead after 2 men break into her remote Tyler, Texas farmhouse and kill her husband.
A 16-year-old girl is abducted and assaulted by two gunmen. A deer hunter drags himself up a dry creek bed after falling out of a tree and breaking both legs. A college student is used as a human shield by a gunman on a rampage.
A man is taken hostage by Marxist rebels. Two girls walking home from school are abducted, sexually assaulted, and left for dead.
A woman fights back when attacked in her home. A family survives shark-infested waters. A restaurant manager is left for dead.
A woman survives three shotgun wounds to the head. A family is attacked by bees. Two teenagers narrowly survive the infamous Columbine massacre.
Attacked and abducted by a church handyman, an elderly woman is left in the trunk of her car to die. A miner and eight co-workers survive 77 hours trapped in a rapidly flooding coal mine. A student and his roommate are held captive by two masked gunman who make no secret of their intention to kill them.
A boy witnesses a stabbing attack. A family's pilot collapses in midair. Two sisters are caught in the middle when a shooter goes on a rampage.
A woman is lucky to be alive after being assaulted by a man who has murdered before. A family's snowmobiling outing on a frozen lake turns to horror when the father falls through the ice. Two teenage girls encounter a killer, but only one survives the nightmare.
A missionary working in Haiti is shot and held for ransom by a gang. A man goes into a flooding underground cavity to rescue two co-workers. A wife is viciously assaulted by her husband.
Attacked in her home by her mother's boyfriend, a 17-year-old girl fights to stay alive after having her throat cut. An experienced sailor escapes from a sinking yacht only to watch three of her fellow crew members die in horrific circumstances. And an elderly couple are terrorized by an escaped convict who holds them hostage in their own home.
A soldier at Fort Bragg is attacked by a fellow soldier who wants to kill him. A British hiker breaks his leg and survives in the New Zealand mountains for 11 days. A 14-year-old girl comes home to find her sister murdered by a killer who's still in the house.
A self-proclaimed prophet turns a young girl into a sex slave. A man is brainwashed by a dangerous cult. A young woman breaks free from a violent religious organization in which she was raised.
An 11-year-old girl is stranded on a sinking yacht. An aid worker in Haiti is buried alive in the aftermath of an earthquake. A truck driver's cab is invaded by armed men.
A couple is kidnapped in the Philippines by Islamic militants. A woman is impaled in the neck by a branch that smashes through her car window, A man is attacked by a home intruder.
A girl is abducted and raped. A diver on a boat has an accident in the middle of the night. A restaurant manager gets in the middle of a deadly domestic argument.
A California couple faces life-threatening danger during a robbery in Mexico. A pastor is disemboweled during a home invasion. A walk in the woods turns into a tornado survival story.
A woman is attacked by her boyfriend, who stabs her in the chest and skull. A man is trapped in his basement for three days with his arm caught in a boiler. A teacher is kidnapped and held hostage by a carjacker.
A live theater actress is abducted by a teen and shot in the head. A hiker is critically injured in a 60-ft. fall into a ravine. A man is attacked on his docked boat by an intruder with a knife.
A pregnant woman is abducted by another woman who wants to remove her unborn baby from her body. A geologist is attacked by a grizzly bear. A woman is held hostage and wounded by a drunken ex-marine.
A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood.
A seven months pregnant woman has her throat cut and is left to die; a man survives the terrifying crash of a Boeing 737; and an armed man starts executing people inside a warehouse.
A girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.
A canyoneering trip becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a flash flood occurs, and a boy is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile before being chained up in a buried box and left to die.
A mother and her two young children are abducted and taken into the Florida Everglades by a crazed attacker; a man is mauled by a bear and fights for his life in the driveway of his holiday cabin.
A store manager and his staff are held up and shot by two killers; a teen has both his arms torn off in an accident on the family farm; a 17-yr-old girl is kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer.
On their first date, a young woman and her friend are shot execution style; two strangers' lives collide in a deadly train collision; and a girl escapes from the men who abducted and assaulted her.
A young woman is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal. Two brothers are struck by lightning. A propane truck driver is attacked while making a delivery.
A mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked.
Abducted in the trunk of her car, a woman suffers unimaginable horror. Trapped in the ruins of a tornado ravaged building a young woman prepares to die. And a girl is kidnapped by a man.
A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a woman; a savage attack by a grizzly bear leaves a man partially scalped and miles from help; and a blindfolded girl fights for her life after being abducted.
A gun-wielding man carjacks and sexually assaults two young women before one of them flees. A tornado sweeps through a man's home. And a 9-year-old girl is assaulted, kidnapped and held captive.
A woman is brutally attacked in her home; a man spends sixteen days trapped in his car after crashing into a ravine; and two college freshmen are abducted by a gunman in their car.
Eduardo and Jayne face a living nightmare when Eduardo is kidnapped. Over seven and a half desperate months, Eduardo must fight for life as Jayne fights to save him.
Two women fight for their lives when a knife-wielding attacker ambushes them on a mountain trail and two men on vacation survive 14 hours adrift at sea after their ship sinks in 15 to 20 foot waves.
A teenage girl is seduced by a man and brainwashed into spending ten years as his slave; a hiker is nearly killed by a mountain lion and a woman is stalked and attacked.
A home invasion leaves a man fighting for his life. A fishing trip turns into an eight-day nightmare after a boat capsizes, and a woman locked in the trunk of her car faces a terrifying death.
A young woman is abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted. A farmer rips his own hand off to escape from a combine harvester. And a girl is left for dead at her home after having her throat slit.
A woman is attacked by her psychotic boyfriend with a meat cleaver. A man and his elderly father are stranded in the bleak Alaskan wilderness. And a young woman is attacked in her home.
A mother is abducted in broad daylight and assaulted by a man who threatens to shoot her baby. A plane crash leaves a man swimming for his life. And a young woman must play dead in order to survive.
High on the drug PCP, a man goes on a rampage, stabbing his 11-year-old daughter and 2 neighbors; a man is beaten unconscious by his building contractor.
Two crimes of obsessive passion: A teenage girl is stalked and shot in the face by her jealous ex-boyfriend; a woman's controlling husband resorts to violent rape.
A woman working alone in a store is attacked by a customer who drags her to the stock room and stabs her 31 times; a doctor is abducted by a meth addict demanding cash; pirates board a couple's yacht.
An 8-year-old girl is abducted on her way home from school; a woman is viciously attacked with a knife and must scramble up a 100-foot hill to escape; a woman and her husband are shot while hiking.
A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.
A fourth-grader and two teachers are taken hostage in a classroom with 151 others; a couple honeymooning in Jamaica is attacked by an escaped mental patient with a wooden machete.
A woman sees her father shot dead right in front of her; a crazed gunman slaughters seven friends of a pastor; an ex-boyfriend viciously attacks a young mother and her new partner.
A woman answers a plea for help from an ex-boyfriend and finds herself repeatedly raped before being strangled; a young mother is stabbed over 25 times after breaking up with a Hollywood actor.
A woman helps a motorist on an isolated road & is attacked with a screwdriver; a woman is raped by a masked man; a girl is attacked by a customer who saws through her wind pipe with a serrated knife.
An intruder smothers a woman & hits her over the head repeatedly before stripping her naked & taking photos; a young woman walking home by herself is brutally knifed in the street by a serial killer.
Shannon's jealous ex-partner terrorizes her & their 2-year-old son; Ken has to abandon his fishing buddy after their boat sinks in the Gulf of Mexico; Angela is sexually attacked at a public payphone.
A woman is dragged to the woods behind her home & sexually assaulted; a pilot spends 10 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean after his plane crashed; woman survives being shot 6 times by playing dead.
A fake internet date brings a man face-to-face with a would-be serial killer; a black bear invades a couple's home; a man wakes up to his neighbor about to pound a sharpened crucifix into his chest.
An aspiring young model is sexually assaulted; a man trekking in Ecuador is kidnapped for five weeks; a family's movie night turns tragic when four armed people attempt to rob them.
A heavily-armed teenager goes on a killing spree in a Salt Lake City shopping mall; passengers and crew are forced to abandon ship in a ferocious storm in the Indian Ocean.
A college freshman is sexually assaulted on her rooftop; a chemical plant worker is trapped by raging flames after a massive explosion; a woman is beaten and sexually assaulted in her own apartment.
A woman is brutally raped in her car by a co-worker who has asked for a ride home; a tornado lifts an entire house and smashes it 400 yards away-with the family inside it.
When a woman leaves her husband, he throws gasoline on her and set her alight; a native New Yorker is lost in a blizzard in Idaho; a home invasion leads to a leap of courage.
A journalist is kidnapped in the mountains of Pakistan by a Taliban faction and held prisoner for 45 days, constantly afraid that each day is to be the day of his execution.
A disgruntled contractor executes his city officials; a catamaran capsizes in the ferocious North Atlantic; a 17-year-old girl is abducted at knifepoint & repeatedly raped over 6 hours.
A stockbroker is shot 5 times by a former client; two sisters are stranded for 4 hours in an icy Alaskan lake; a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.
Two sisters witness their family shot dead before being abducted; an injured snowmobiler races to save his friends from an avalanche; a woman is held hostage by a crazed stalker in her workplace.
A gunman enters a Florida school board meeting and begins shooting hostages at point blank range; a 23-year-old newlywed is abducted and gang raped by partygoers at a remote farmhouse.
A routine drug surveillance mission over the Colombian jungle turns into a nightmare when Keith and Marc's plane crash-lands and they are captured by FARC guerillas and held hostage for five grueling years.
A woman is shot and run over with a car in Webster, Texas. A snowboarder survives an avalanche in Washington state. A Dallas lawyer is shot in the neck by a former client.
2 minor league baseball players are held hostage in a Bonifay, Florida motel. An Alaskan fishing boat catches fire. A convenience store worker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is abducted, taken to an apartment and raped.
A college student is abducted in Newark, Delaware and sexually assaulted in a cellar. A man swims to shore after his boat sinks in Strawberry Reservoir, Utah. A 12-year-old from Baraboo, Wisconsin is kidnapped and tortured by his neighbor, who twists his ankles until they snap.
2 Canadian forest workers are attacked by a bear. In Pensacola, Florida, an 8-year-old and her little sister are abducted by their mother's pedophile ex-boyfriend. He drives them into the woods where, after repeatedly raping the older girl, slits both girls throats leaving them to die.
Hurricane Sandy hits the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, causing devastation and bringing New York City to its knees. One man is swept out to sea in pitch dark as his beachfront cottage is torn apart by waves.
A 14 year old and her friend are abducted and taken to a house in the orange groves outside Vero Beach, Florida whre they are repeatedly sexually assaulted. 2 men are horrifically burned in a plane crash.
A 13-year-old boy from San Bernardino County, California is abducted and raped. A nanny is attacked by a crocodile in Africa. A Pacifica, California woman is carjacked and stabbed 4 times.
Four young Americans, kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan, face a desperate situation: kill or be killed. And a young couple's dream holiday at a Thai beach resort turns into a terror-filled fight for survival as a tsunami strikes.
A mother in Eustis, Florida is abducted, raped and shot 4 times. A man picking blueberries in Clayton, Georgia is bitten by a timber rattle snake. A gunman open-fires at a swimming hole in Niagara, Wisconsin.
A Pensacola, Florida woman is kidnapped, stabbed and raped, but fakes amnesia to escape her attacker. A Henryville, Indiana man clings to his mobile home when a tornado threatens to rip it from the ground. A man is brutally shot by his brother-in-law at his family Thanksgiving dinner in Jupiter, Florida.
A woman and her boyfriend are shot by her ex-boyfriend before he sets their Los Angeles, California home on fire. A man is trapped after he wrecks his car. A single mom from Grape Creek, Texas is attacked and stabbed in the throat with a knife.
A deadly bombing and shooting spree in Norway is recalled.
A woman is imprisoned on a remote rural property by a man who sexually assaults her and murders her boyfriend. A young mother is abducted at gunpoint, taken to the desert and subjected to hours of assault, beatings and mental torture.
A mother of three children is sexually assaulted, stabbed and left to die in her burning home while her children are murdered. A man is carjacked at gunpoint, taken to a remote field, shot and left for dead when his ATM card fails to work.
A young woman is abducted by four armed men in Gladstone, Missouri and held captive and sexually assaulted for 15 hours. Two teenage sisters are attacked and raped in their Port Arthur, Texas home, after their uncle is shot by a masked gunman.
A Bethlehem, New York woman is attacked in bed with a fireman's axe by an unknown man after he murders her husband; A cook is left to die in a burning room after she is shot twelve times at close range by an unknown assailant in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A Gilmer, Texas, woman is abducted from the prison where she works by a convicted murderer, and held captive at gunpoint for 26 hours on the run with him, sparking the largest search in Texas history; a heavily pregnant woman is stabbed 27 times at a gas station in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, by a man who accuses her of beating up his sister.
A man is held hostage on a shuttle bus with several others by a man with a gun for over 8 hours in Atlantic City, New Jersey; a Bullhead City, Arizona, woman is sexually assaulted and shot after a botched home invasion leaves her friends and her husband dead.
A 15-year-old boy from Bothell, Washington, is shot through the jaw and plays dead for three hours during a horrific school shooting; and an elderly woman, whose daughter deals drugs, winds up stabbed four times in her yard in Barnardsville, North Carolina, in a case of apparent mistaken identity.
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--each one literally flatlines, yet has inexplicable but very real experiences while they are clinically dead. None of them had a preconceived notion of the afterlife--what happened to each of them during the period they flatlined is described with such compelling honesty that even the staunchest cynics will be left pondering these extraordinary experiences.
The stories of 12 survivors from the Sept. 11 attacks are recalled.
