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[Music] the one thing that's still really bothers me and brings me back I can't see on TV anybody getting
their throat cut when I see that on television it just almost paralyzes [Music] me
it was a bright sunny evening in a suburb of Chicago I was working at a shopping mall I was 17 years old and I
just graduated from high school I was excited to go to a graduation party so I had asked my boss
if I could get off of work early and uh where we had to park was a lot that was the employee lot across the street and I
had a CD in my hand is I'm singing out loud and as I'm walking I almost felt like there was somebody behind me and I
stopped and I turned around and about 10 or 15 ft there was somebody that was following
me and I glanced around and there was nobody else in the parking lot and a lot of my gut instinct told me to run to get
away but I I didn't listen and I walked towards my car and I put my key into the
lock and all of a sudden this Shadow came up to my left and I was grabbed from behind and there was a knife press
at my throat I offered him the money that was in my purse and he said it's not your
money that I want and those words just made my stomach drop I was so scared and and his car was parked just a couple of
steps away from mine and with the knife still held at my throat he threw me into
his car and he had taken my wrists and used plastic zip ties and bow my hands behind
my back and he had taken these Band-Aids and put them to conceal my eyes and after he put the Band-Aids over my eyes
he put sunglasses on my face everything happened so methodically and I knew in my gut that
this was not his first [Music] crime he started to Drive slowly out of the mall parking lot and he didn't know
this but I was able to wriggle my hands free and I kept them behind my back and I surveyed the situation he didn't know
that I could see but I could see down to either side to the left and to the right
I saw that my seat belt was on the knife was put down at that point and he's got
both hands on the steering wheel and I thought to myself if I could just get out of the car even if I rolled out if I
broke a leg or broke my arm at least I'd be free and so I can remember just taking a huge deep breath and trying to
undo the seat Bel and get out of the car door but he was too fast and he grabbed me by my shirt with
both hands and he said you try that again [ __ ] and your face won't be so pretty
anymore that's when I realized that this could potentially be the last day of my
life that this guy might kill me

"48 Hours" Live to Tell: Kidnapped at knifepoint, a young woman outsmarts her attacker. Maureen Maher reports Saturday, June 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Brief Summary

A survivor recounts a terrifying abduction experience in a Chicago mall parking lot.

Key points

A Life-Threatening Encounter. A young woman faces a terrifying robbery that escalates quickly.

Episode quotes

It's not your money that I want.

A chilling moment during a robbery.

1:53WatchOct 22, 2014

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