Not Today: Amazing Stories of Survival

We deal with a lot of real-life horror stories, and because it’s
real life, they’re often chaotic and cruel. Justice might
ultimately be served, but more often than not, the victims are
already cold in the ground. If someone is dead-set on killing you,
there’s a very good chance they’ll succeed. In the most satisfying
fictional horror stories, of course, there’s a survivor, someone
who faces the monster or killer and lives to tell the tale, someone
who finds deep wells of courage and resilience inside themself and
defeats the horrors the world throws at them. And these stories are
not only limited to fiction.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's Surviving Evil, S3E7, “The Bathtub
Killer”
A&E's Cold Case Files, S4E24, “Déjà Vu/Secret in the
Well”
People:
https://people.com/bathtub-killer-dateline-nbc-murders-texas-8659842

Court
papers: https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591471c6add7b04934373412

https://multco.us/news/susan-walters-who-fended-hitman-provides-guidance-multnomah-county-crime-victims-portal

Willamette Week:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/

Investigation Discovery's Nothing Personal: Murder for Hire, "This
Man Brainwashed His Friend into Killing His Pregnant Wife"
Oregon Live:
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2014/06/portlander_who_hired_hitman_to.html

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

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