I Survived a Serial Killer

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.

In Nov. 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis thought he was on his way to a gig as a farm caretaker, a job he had secured on Craigslist; however, it was a murderous trap laid by a psychopathic serial killer named Richard Beasley.

Paul Dennis Reid Jr., a country-star wannabe, spends nights robbing fast food joints and killing innocent workers; Jose Ramirez Gonzalez recounts the night he faced off with Reid in a stock room and managed to survive.

In April of 2016, 16-year-old Madison Nygard walks home from a party in rural Muskegon County, Mich., and takes a ride with a passing stranger.

Seventeen-year-old Lisa McVey Noland is abducted while biking home from her job working the night shift at a local Tampa donut shop.

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.

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.

Josephina Rivera's life comes to a halt when the 25-year-old is kidnapped by 43-year-old Gary Heidnik; over the next four months, Josephina lives shackled in a basement while her captor abducts four more women to hold hostage in his house of horrors.

In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Mich.