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People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer
People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer

People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer

—Looks at disturbing yet empowering accounts of how people have escaped the clutches of a serial killer.
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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • In 1965, Rodney Alcala attacked a teenage girl - only to brutalize and rape her again three years later; she felt guilty when she discovered he had assaulted another girl soon after - but they were merely two of this man's countless victims.

  • A new romance between two college students derails when a sadist attacks them during a nighttime walk by the railroad tracks; only one of them lives, and she turns out to be the sole survivor of a serial murderer known as the Railroad Killer.

  • A single mother comes home to find a serial killer holding her disabled sister hostage; he tries to kidnap her young son, but she begs him to take her instead; she is at his mercy for days, and to survive, she must get him to fall in love with her.

  • A man who calls himself The Bishop abducts a woman and holds her captive; he imprisons six women in his basement, raping and torturing them; as captives begin to die, one woman knows her only chance of survival is to escape.

  • In the suburbs of Chicago, a handsome man with searing blue eyes turns out to be a bloodthirsty monster hiding in plain sight and attacking young women at will; it takes decades for the survivors to discover he is a serial killer.

  • In 1981, two men rape and shoot a young mother and force her fiancé to watch; after nearly dying, the woman learns her attackers are a pair of serial killers, who are also brothers; it will take two decades before justice prevails over the men.

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3 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Surviving the Devil in Chicago
    Surviving the Beauty Queen Killer
    Surviving the Thrill Killer
  • Surviving the Devil in Chicago

    John Wayne Gacy is infamous for his Chicago house of horrors in the 1970s, but several courageous boys who come face-to-face with the serial killer and somehow survive step forward, ready to share their chilling story.
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  • Surviving the Beauty Queen Killer

    In 1984, a serial killer targets young women across America until he abducts a teenager for a nine-day road trip of torture.
    Upcoming
  • Surviving the Thrill Killer

    An abusive lover hunts the Dallas suburbs for his ex; he unleashes his revenge on residents.
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