The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Molina I'm and this is [Music] moris I wasn't ready for that I liked
the pause I went to grab my coffee and I was like oh so P up her her it's early felt right I think we
were listening to uh the Affirmation song with your kids today yeah we were and there was like weird ass voices in
that so I think I just became one it's true you know yeah today's going to be an amazing day there's no one better to
be than myself it's true my feelings matter yeah I get better every single day listen if your kids are having a bad
day the Affirmation song is great it is it it gets them pumped up for the day does and I dance silly to it and I think
that's the the funnest part sometimes you know it's hard to go to school sometimes cuz when especially when your
parents are so [ __ ] awesome I know and your auntie you know like me and John so like you don't want to leave
them they just want to hang so they just didn't want to leave but we did the Affirmation song got him laughing and
got him ready for the day and I did sick breeds today on them it's true well on one of them yeah I was pretty excited
about that is true it is true we have a cute little fan bam it gives it gives full full Housewives here in the morning
I'm just like Uncle Joey over here it's true it's like a combin maybe a combination of Uncle Jesse and Uncle
Joey yeah you know my Gemini nature I like that I don't know just ranting over here we did yoga this morning we really
grounded ourselves we really did it was so nice I know we're getting back I think like spring is coming so I feel
like we can get back into the swing of like I really fell out of my workout routine in the winter well it was so
nice driving today and not having it be pitch black it was getting lighter it was like 5 :0 probably when I left the
house and it was already light out yeah which was sick and then on my way home today on my way see I said to myself
this is why you got to wake up early CU you just don't know what's going on around you you don't know what you're
going to run into you just don't know this morning I'm coming back for my yoga class and I passed a farm and there was
cows that like escaped this farm and they were on the front lawn of the neighborhood I love this so much and
there's just a cop like standing on this guy's front lack and him like what's a cop going to do about a cow he just he
beened he's been trained in the matter is that he's been trained in Bine matters is that did they tell you what
to do if a Bine escapes I don't know possibly that's crazy that's crazy it was so funny I was laughing so hard I
was like cry laughing by myself I love it I think it's very small town uh Vibes it really was I was like am I am I just
in the midwest all am I where am I it was cute though cows are crossing the road just like three big ass cows just
in somebody's front lawn hell yeah I'd be pissed if that was my friend lawn yeah I I feel like they'd [ __ ] up your
lawn real bad I would kind of love it though I would love it but then afterwards I feel like I'd be like yeah
but honestly their manure is some of the best soil that's true but not want to leave that on my yard cuz that' be big
sank stinky it's very true you know look at you looking to the bright side you're
all grounded and [ __ ] I am I'm very grounded I love that I had a good coffee that's good I had a great coffee there's
cool things happening yes but um I think you'll know about them by now yeah I think I'm going to stop teasing these
things because um I'm so confused about what episodes come out when it'd be super dope if we could just like put
them out when we wanted to just like don't know where or when these come out and I apologize for that um we won't be
confused forever uh but it's right now I just don't know if what episode is coming out so if if it are if the bonus
episode already happened was wasn't that [ __ ] cool and if it hasn't happened exciting so there's that
God Christ almighty Christ on a cracker Christ on a biscuit Jesus was a biscuit was a bis yet that's who said that on
drag race um I have no idea oh my God everyone's screaming at who's a drag race fan
L Mikey's not here today I know or Mikey would be screaming at there you go you know when it's like right in the
Forefront of your face and you're like oh God yep all right well we we yoga we cowed we Jesus was a biscuit we did all
all the important things yeah we have for made yeah and now we're going to talk about a wild Survivor tale that I
think is probably one of our most requested yes cases it is this is a doozy this is a doozy of a
case and a doozy of a human I mean in the best way I don't think there's a single person more resilient Bionic
Woman yeah truly unbelievable tale yeah so this is wild let's get into it we're going to be talking about Alice and
Botha today Alice and Botha she was born September 22nd 1967 in Port Elizabeth South Africa to Brian and Claire colier
or Kier according to Allison her house growing up was a place of unconditional love which she got from both of her
parents she said often as we were growing up I love this my mother would take us aside and tell us how special we
were she would always add though that this did not mean that we were above or better than others but we had our own
inner value oh my God I love that I'm going to do that [ __ ] when I have kids it's like take your child decide just to
be like I love that like you're so special yeah but like you're you're not above anybody or not like more special
than somebody else but you are like I love that that's great sadly despite the love and support and the happy household
that they had 10 years after Allison was born Brian and Claire uh did end up divorcing it was about 1977 when the
divorce was finalized and Allison and her brother Neil continued living with their mom but luckily they still saw
their dad on a pretty regular schedule oh good the divorce obviously created a pretty like less than ideal situation to
raise two kids but it's on like Brian and Claire really made the best of it they made sure that Allison and Neil
always had what they needed and were always thriving good for them yeah very mature Allison led a pretty normal life
in Port Elizabeth where she went to Collegiate High School uh during her senior year in 1985 she was named head
girl which is an honor that kind of came as a shock for her she did not expect this at all damn she said I was always
considered bright but I knew I did not apply myself to the fullest in my last few years at school I wasn't good at any
sport and I didn't really shine in any one area so I guess I thought I wouldn't be good enough to be a head girl damn
but whether she realized it or not the teachers and the head mistress at the col at Collegiate High School thought
very highly of her yeah they described her as a mature young woman of the utmost integrity and sound moral
values like the the term head girl just it makes me think of like Harry Potter yes and uh it's that it just sounds so
prestigious that I can't fully comprehend it it does like I want to be head girl I think imagine being head per
anything yeah at in school like wow that's like really really impressive yeah that [ __ ] did not happen for me I
made you head [ __ ] in charge at my wedding you did that's true yeah so I got to do that instead of Made of Honor
I said head [ __ ] in charge hell yeah well when Allison graduated from high school she felt that the honor she'
earned in her final year gave everybody this impression that she was a high achiever and would continue her
education and P pursue a very impressive career but she said the truth was I had
no idea what I wanted to do with my life which I feel like a lot of people feel that way when high school is over like
it's really not like that's not unheard of at all no you're 18 years old like most of the time you have you're still a
baby and there's so many options at your fingertips I feel like people are like expect you to have like exactly what you
want to do figured out and for a lot of people that's just not the case yeah for
sure when she was younger Allison had always dreamed of becoming a writer or maybe a poet but now that she was in a
position to pursue whatever goal she wanted she just couldn't figure out which direction to go in well cuz it it
really can feel like the whole world is your oyster yeah like you know you mean like when you're that young and you're
just like start you like I can choose anything which is awesome how do I narrow it down too many options it's
awesome but exactly it's overwhelming it's a great problem to have yeah well as always Claire supported her daughter
suggesting that she just take a secretarial course while she considered some of her options and she said if
nothing else you'll learn some new skills that will apply with whatever you do for sure and it turned out that that
course was a really good decision for Allison's future career because when she finished it up she took a job as an
insurance broker a job she enjoyed and was really good at although she hadn't pursued a high stress career as like a
doctor or lawyer as several of her teachers and classmates thought that she might by the time she reached her mid
20s she was building a respectable career for herself and she was really happy good for her so she was like
living her best life she just she was just going for it yeah well on the afternoon of December 18th 199 4 Allison
met up with her friend Kim and Kim's son Devon and Jared for just an evening on the beach in Port Elizabeth just like a
nice little friend hangout H they hung out at the beach for a little while and then they went back to Kim's apartment
that night and they were joined by their mutual friends Phil and Richard who just
stopped by unannounced and Allison said it had been one of those wonderfully spontaneous evenings a which I love I
love that they chatted for a while they enjoyed the nice weather and then they decided to go to Allison's apartment
where they ordered a pizza and played a board game just like cute little night friends being dudes sounds like a fun
night to me yeah when the night finally came to an end a little after midnight Phil and Richard left and Allison had
promised Kim that she would drive her home that night so she was driving Kim back to her apartment and then she got
back to her own house a little after or a little before excuse me 1: in the morning mhm she circled the block a few
times looking for a place to park and the place where she usually parked wasn't open which was like very close to
the apartment she finally spotted an open space just just a few dozen feet from her front door now the neighborhood
that she lived in wasn't like a rough area but the spot was further from her apartment than she preferred yeah and it
was in a dark part of the street there was like a tree covering the lights I hate that you have to worry about this
yeah you shouldn't have to worry about that at all so she hesitated for a few seconds and was like maybe I should find
something better but she was like whatever like I I she really wanted to go in and take a shower yeah you just
want to go to your house yeah so she pulled in the spot put her car into park she said later I adjust turned off the
engine and flicked off the headlights it was so routine I did it all in one swift
movement before opening the driver side door she reached over to the passenger seat to gather up a pile of clean
laundry and she suddenly felt a gust of warm air rush into the car as somebody opened the door holy [ __ ] she looked up
just in time to see what she described as a scrawny tallish young man with light blonde hair just push his head
into her car no she also noticed a long thin knife in his hand I hate this he immediately put the blade up to her
throat and said move over or I'll kill you and she said his voice was quiet and controlled she had never seen him before
but he seemed to know exactly what he was doing so she just without thinking slid over to the passenger seat and he
got in behind the wheel that's horrifying which I feel like she did the best thing you could in that situation
you have to try to be as calm as possible what are you supposed to do he's got a knife to your throat like I
don't know what I would do I don't either so as he drove he kept the knife close on the seat next to him close to
the door he fumbled with the dashboard trying to find the control for the lights and then asked her how to turn
them on and told her don't worry I don't want to hurt you I just want to use your
car for about an hour I feel like then and I'm I'm not saying I would do this I'm saying like when he says something
like that you just want to be like then take the car yeah like why do I have to be car why do I have to be here you just
have it well you can take it for more than an hour she basically said that I was going to say I'm sure she was just
like you can take this yeah eventually she said that but at when he said it she was so confused and also completely
terrified this is a horrifying situation I can't even fathom your brain working in that situation no way so she just
didn't say anything she was just sitting there like stunned and she contemplated
opening the passenger door door and jumping out but she said she felt strangely immobilized and just couldn't
bring herself to do or say anything of course now they had him been driving long when he broke the silence and said
you live in number one don't you so he knew exactly where she lived what the [ __ ] and she said it was less of a
question than a statement like he was clearly letting her know that he'd been watching her and like oh I know you live
here knew exactly where she horrifying he asked what her name was and thinking on her feet she told him her name was
Susan she didn't give him her real name even that I don't know that I would think to do that I don't think I would
think to do that I really don't you're like cuz I'm I'm nervous just listening to this I can't imagine being in it and
to think on your toes like that already I'm like damn just smart survival like skills you know so he said he said his
name was Clinton which was not true but hoping to appeal to his Humanity she started asking questions about him
figuring that if he could see her as an ordinary person and they could just strike up a conversation he would let
her go without hurting her another smart tactic very smart that takes a lot of like wherewithal control and like
keeping yourself calm to do because otherwise you're just going to freak out I mean my voice would be shaking I'd be
I'd just be crying think I'd be able to yeah I would definitely be that's just out of fear and I wouldn't know what
questions to even ask that's the thing well unfortunately that plan didn't quite pan out because in a harsh
tone he answered her and said I'd rather not tell you anything about me just wouldn't say anything I hate
that so when that didn't work she did what you were just saying and said why don't you just take my car I'll go I'm
not going to say anything to anybody just take the car yeah but he told her no and said he just wanted company
I hate this so much terrifying he explained to her that he had a friend who stole his TV and he said he was
driving to go find him and get some money that he owed him which is just that story is strange yeah so she grew
increasingly fearful as they just drove further and further away from her apartment and further from the city
proper until they ended up in a part of the city that she hadn't been to in several years and was almost entirely
unfamiliar to her they approached a large group of people on the sidewalk talk and quote unquote Clinton slowed
down and started scanning the crowd clearly getting more and more agitated and muttering under his breath like he
was looking for somebody and obviously he hadn't found whoever he was looking for so he jerked the car down a side
street and did a loop around and then slowed down to scan this crowd a second time and then it appeared he found
whoever he was looking for so he slowed the car to a stop and a short man dressed in all black approached the
driver's side neither of them said anything to each other but Clinton slid the driver's seat forward and the second
man climbed into the back seat oh I be so scared like oh my God I can't imagine cuz now there's two men there's two men
in this car with like in your car I hate this and it's like 1 it's after 1:00 a.m. so Clinton told the other man meet
my friend Susan and just started driving back to the main road [ __ ] so he gestured to the man now riding along
with them in the back seat and told Allison this is tons and the man the two men talked Clinton drove but Allison was
too nervous to even follow what they were saying she just caught a few words here and there yeah and instead she was
trying to keep her attention focused on the landscape outside of the car and was
also hoping at the same time that she might catch the attention of another driver yeah but nobody seemed to be
paying any attention to what was happening outside their own vehicles and even if you saw this yeah think
anything's weird cuz it's just three people in a car driving and a lot of people don't want to intervene with that
stuff oh yeah that comes up which is really scary it is scary So eventually it occurred to Allison that they had
been driving for quite some time and they seem to be headed along the beach towards Summer strand a suburb of Port
Elizabeth about five or so miles outside of City Limits so they were kind of just
like in the middle of nowhere yeah as they got further from the city they stopped talking the two men just stopped
talking completely and the car was filled with an unbearable silence in her head Allison convinced her that they
were just taking the long way to visit this friend as Clinton had indicated earlier but the further and further they
got from Port Elizabeth the less likely it was all seeming so finally when they'
put the lights of Port Elizabeth behind them Clinton broke the silence and told Allison tians doesn't speak good
English okay now the sound of his voice jolted Allison out of a panicked State and brought her back into reality the
statement seemed to come out of nowhere and wasn't followed by anything else which she thought was very strange yeah
but now with her attention focused on what was happening in the car it occurred to her that Clinton was
starting to slow down as they were reaching a wooded area oh God yeah so as that happened he made a u-turn and
pulled the car onto a small path that led down to the beach driving the car right up to the sand until they reached
a dark isolated spot among the trees about 300 ft away from the road the fear she must have felt as this car is just
slowing down you're in the middle of nowhere apprehensible to strangers who are just being weird like obviously
they've abducted you at knife Point first of all and they're just being weird and creepy and quiet and just as a
woman being alone with two men you don't know is this regardless of whether they're being threatening or not I'm
sorry just automatically is very very scary yeah for them to be this weird and threatening and to be driving you into
an isolated area of a wooded area would be I mean like my nervous system is in Orbit right now just thinking about it
even just being like not even like completely alone with two strangers that are men being like with friends and then
two strangers that you don't know that are men is scary like I've had that experience you don't know what they're
about yeah you don't know what's going to happen exactly I just I do want to I mean some
I think a lot of people know this story but if you don't I do just want to forewarn you that there's going to be
talk about a very intense sexual assault and rape yeah it is extremely graphic yeah very
graphic I did my best to make it a little less graphic but it's kind of impossible to take it fully away yeah so
and we got to tell the story for what it is so Clinton brought the car to a stop
under a cluster of trees and tian's got out leaving Allison completely alone now
in the car with her abductor and Clinton sexually assaulted Allison at this point
piece of [ __ ] and this was all while T was just like sitting on the hood of the
car my God just like got out of the the car knew that this was going to happen [ __ ] monsters and then when Clinton
was finished sexually assaulting Allison he called tian's into the car and Tion started to do the same thing also
sexually assaulted her but moments later he shouted no I can't do this and he got
out of the car and sat back down on the hood and just smoked a cigarette instead
of like trying to stop this at all what the [ __ ] he couldn't bring himself to continue assaulting her but he wasn't
going to be he wasn't going to be a good person and try to stop it no no so when
he finished his cigarette he hopped down from the hood and looked back at the car
and looking at Clinton he yelled fron oops Yeah not not his real name Clinton fron is his real name very
bright it was the first time that Allison had heard the name of her attacker so she just started repeating
it over and over again in her head like silently determined not to forget his name but almost as if he knew what she
was doing fron looked over at her and said if we take you into town now you're going to go to the police it was almost
like he could sense it she tried to assure him that she wasn't going to say anything to anybody but neither of them
would be convinced and one of them then said to the other what do you think um Nick would want us to do with her what
the [ __ ] um Nick Allison recognized as another name for Satan what the [ __ ] o is like a South
African um word it basically it's it's akin to Uncle for us it's like a sign of respect so umnik they were referring to
Satan Satan's also known as old Nick which I didn't realize that is weird but I was looking into it the other night or
like I don't mean weird I mean like that's different yeah it's different he so he looks at the other guy say do
think Uncle Satan would want us to do with her yeah he doesn't exist I don't think he's going to give you yeah
exactly I don't think he's going to weigh in here well when she's sitting there and she said she thought to
herself like what does Satan have to do with this what the [ __ ] are you talking
about but she didn't know what to do so tion's answered I think he wants us to kill her they're just having this ation
yes and they're just acting like like this is all normal like they're not acting freaked out or anything like that
like they're acting just like this is another Tu conversation yeah so fron then instructed Allison to get out of
the car and remove all of her clothing which she did because at this point she's just I would I would do the same
thing I was going to say I just don't know what else she would and remember he has a knife and the two of them have
just bured her so when she'd taken off all her clothes he gestured at the rings on her hand and told her to even take
those off and tition quickly grabbed them like snatched them out of her hands the next
thing she knew she was knocked to the ground and fron was choking her and they made her take off those rings so she
couldn't be identified mhm later she said I was I was surprised by how strong he had become this man knew what he was
doing and he was determined to do it and we will find out he knew what he was doing because this was not the first
time they had attacked somebody Allison managed to get a few words out while he was choking her just
begging him not to kill her but all Fran said was sorry while he continued violently choking her until she lost
Consciousness so he's standing like straddling over her choking her into unconsciousness and
apologizing but still doing it but like that adds such a layer of just I would like of Terror to this whole thing
apologizing while you're doing this yeah and just Contin stopping it's horrifying
so she regained Consciousness just a short time later and realized she was still on the ground and she's looking
around and she sees that she's surrounded by trash and broken bottles one of the men was crouched over her and
she couldn't see what he was doing all she saw was his arm swinging wildly back and forth in front of her face oh God
but then it occurred to her and she thought my God he's slashing my throat holy [ __ ] she couldn't see really what
was happening obviously cuz it's like she can't look down and see it and she didn't feel any pain in this moment but
she quote could hear the flesh split oh my God yep what this woman has and this isn't
this is just the tip of the iceberg oh this is just just that going through that I don't know what you do after that
but like oh my God it would later be determined that they had slit her throat 16
times and she was almost like she was nearly decapitated the fact that this woman is
aive five and what beasts truly and just [ __ ] wait but that's just Unthinkable this entire
crime is Unthinkable and it only gets worse humans man sometimes it's like what happened and N these two just
decided they wanted to do this one day they just decided that they wanted to do this together that's wildly [ __ ] up
came up with the idea and for two people to get together to do this kind of [ __ ]
always really it's scary enough throws me off it's scary enough when one person is able to do this kind of thing when
they can get a team together that all cuz it's like I and we've said this before in other things like the Hillside
stranglers and all the other kind of T teams that team up and do this like you know Ian and Myra hinley
um where does that conversation start that's that's the thing that you have to sit there and wonder start and where
does it start and what has already happened see the other person runs what has already happen to make you feel
confident that they're going to be cool with you bringing that's the thing because you have to feel real confident
to say to somebody do you think you'd want to just like randomly kill someone for Sport with me
yeah like you have to be very confident to do that I would think and it's like cuz otherwise like what are you going to
say like no I was just kidding like that then the person's going to be like you're that's crazy
by like I just I can't I never get over these things I don't know where you find
one person who's capable of this not that I'm looking and I then where do you find two yeah and how do they find each
other like what [ __ ] evil has to happen in the world for these people to be guided to each other seriously like
what ancient tomb was opened up that released the kind of evil that allows this to happen it's so true so she could
hear her flesh being split open and I don't know if I said this already but it was determined later that they had slid
her throat 16 times 16 times 16 times and that's not it suddenly the attack stopped and her attackers moved away and
she could hear the two men muttering and pacing around near her and then she turned on her stomach stomach in an
effort to protect herself and she said I tried to hold my breath but I realized I
had no control over my breathing I moved my hand up to cover my neck my whole hand disappeared into it but it seemed
to have worked the sound the sound was silenced oh my God I I can't like this is so horrifying
it's insane this poor woman people are depraved this poor woman so she lay on the ground now playing dead she's
completely she has the this woman has her throat has been slit 16 times to the point of near being decapitated and she
has the wherewithal to play dead that's the thing it's like this woman throughout this entire thing the the
sharp [ __ ] mind on Allison is un [ __ ] match and just the will to survive like
she's I can't say enough like I just I'm I'm a astounded I'm astounded I'm my flabs have been gasted there's not a
word to describe how incredible how incredible she is my Timbers have been shivered just I'm shook by all of the
above like she is to have that kind of brand I I can't even every statement you think of like I
was just going to say she's a force to be reckoned with not that's not enough that's not enough so she just lays there
on the ground pretending to be dead she can hear the two of them talking over her and they're talking in afro cons at
this point and they're rumaging around through her car and one of them asks the other they're like do you think she's
dead and the other one responded no one can survive that wrong except Allison wrong [ __ ] [ __ ] now a few
seconds later she heard the engine start and then rev a few times of course yeah
you got of course you got to as the car just revers swinging around kids yeah swinging around the car reversed and
drove back out onto the main road she was finally completely alone but she was obviously in very bad shape such bad
shape she didn't even know that she was in at this point and she was almost sure
she was going to die here so wanting to do anything she could to help the authorities catch her Killers she
started writing in the sand my God as she's laying there nearly decapitated and there's other stuff that I'm going
to get into that happened that she hasn't even realized yet but she's laying there writing in the sand she
wrote frons then underneath she wrote teens cuz I don't know if she knew how to spell tons or I mean she's she's in a
state right now yeah and then just before losing Consciousness She Wrote I love Mom oh my God and traced it in a
square so that it would be like very obvious oh oh my God the strength that that must
have taken her body is actively shutting down and you're trying and she's writing
down valuable information for investigators so that they can't do this again to someone else exactly like
exactly so later she said she would remember this moment with remarkable Clarity she said it was as if I'd cut
moing feeling like her spirit had left her body just floating she said as I hovered there I recognized the person
down below I knew it was me and I felt such a strong connection to that bleeding mangled girl lying on her
stomach wow and in that moment she said it occurred to her that she'd only just started her life cuz she was 27 years
old holy [ __ ] she hadn't achieved really any of the things that she hoped she would do so as thoughts just rised
through her head she suddenly caught a glimmer of lights out of the corner of her eye during the attack everything
obviously seemed so far away but it turned out that they actually weren't very far from the main road at all she
remembered the headlights were enough of an inspiration to try for me to try to reach a place where someone might at
least find me even if I was dead wow so despite her absolutely profound injuries
she managed to push herself up onto her knees how as soon as she did something felt very wrong she reached down to her
stomach and felt something she described as something tepid wet and slimy looking down she could see that
her intestines were exposed and hanging out of her stomach holy [ __ ] her intestines were literally falling out of
her stomach she said it was horrifying there was just so much of me on the outside I tried to scoop it all up with
my hands but everything just slithered away again because you're liter how do you survive this
how do you survive this oh I'm just like I'm holding my own stomach just sitting
here like I and how do you do that to somebody stab them to the point that their intestines are pouring out by the
way so in addition to her her throat being slashed 16 times they stabbed her in the abdomen over 50
times to the point that her intestines were now spilling out of her how were they ever she's alive how were they ever
let out oh yeah cuz spoiler sorry spoiler L but I think you should know right off the bat that they got let out
like they got let out how were they let out I I'll get to it I think they served
17 years maybe a little more and got out because there was uh it's similar to what happened here with the Constitution
where um life sentences became unconstitutional it was it was I think it was literally the same year 2004
we'll get to it but yeah yeah holy [ __ ] yeah so she still crazy she must have just been in complete shock and there
must have been like so much adrenaline coursing through her veins because of this like that's what your body does so
she still wasn't experiencing any pain but the sight of her intestines and the considerable wound in her stomach
unnerved her and for the first time the gravity of the situation struck her yeah
so she starts groping around with one hand just trying to find something cuz she she had taken off clothes so she
knew maybe they were right there they had left her shirt sock I know so she found that lying in the sand and used it
to tie around her abdomen just to keep her insides in place literally tourniquets herself [ __ ]
to keep her intestines in place my God and then she just started crawling toward the road all the while debris and
bits of broken glass are cutting her knees and hands open as she's crawling and her intestines are still spilling
out of her and she's having to like oh and she's basically decapitated for she yeah exactly in in case you forgot she's
also nearly decapitated and that's not hyperbolic no like medically she's literally medically like her half of her
thyroid was sitting outside of her her neck I I swear to you the next time I have a
[ __ ] complaint oh some dumbass complaint punch me in the [ __ ] face I probably won't do that because my God
but I'll remind you of this story my God the the perspective that this will give
you is beyond it's it's beyond I get to the point like I got to the point reading this I was telling Drew about it
when I was like putting it together I was like telling him about it and I just got to the point where I was like I
don't even have words left that's thing like you really don't I don't even have words left to describe this story
describe this woman like yeah it's Tru Unthinkable I can't believe what she survived and what she was able to walk
away like not walk away from but you know what I mean yeah so badly injured and only having one free hand at this
point because one of them is uh keeping her neck together oh and realistically only she doesn't even have a free hand
cuz she's keeping her intestines together and trying to keep her head together so her progress was slow and
exhausting because again her body is shutting down but when she reached the clearing where the attack had first
started she collapsed on a pile of rocks and felt like she couldn't go any further because I you can't imagine what
this had to have taken and she's rapidly losing blood at the same time so then it
occurred to her though she wasn't even thinking of herself in this moment she said it occurred to her that if anybody
found her there like so far away from the scene there would be a large trail of blood behind her and they would know
that she struggled and suffered and she didn't want that for her friends and family Allison are you a real are you a
person she's a like a saint like what are you she is a goddess I'm so impressed with with her mind to think
like I'm just like what like that mind of hers and that like I don't know I don't know what what she is but like
that that mind and soul is something that I I don't think you come across often no to have the capacity to think
about the reaction of your friends and family and like just that you wouldn't want them to be that heartbroken and
know you what you went through wow insane like in a good way yeah so the in at this point was taking too long and
she knew that if she was going to get to the road she had to move faster so it took some time but eventually she did
manage to get to her feet but as soon as she was upright everything went black of
course now this moment was deeply confusing because she hadn't lost Consciousness she was still completely
conscious but for some re some reason everything was completely wrong she said my head I realized had flopped backwards
and almost rested between my shoulder blads oh my God she said I hadn't I expected to feel something but was
completely taken aback when my hands seemed to almost disappear inside my body as if I had swallowed myself so
what most likely happened there Elena and I was talking to Elena a little bit about the details of this something had
to have happened where the nerves that like help give you sight were so messed up in that moment that when she flopped
backwards they weren't like maybe registering backwards like pinch the occipital or like you know any kind of
nerve that makes it so you can see and the lights lit literally just went out because there was a kink in the line
insane like that is and when she says her head is resting between her shoulder blad oh my god when
you said I'm literally like I keep grabbing my neck CU I'm just like oh God like I can't that's like like if you put
your head back and look at the sky hers was almost in between your shoulder blades you couldn't physically do that
because you're not decapitated I ask my kids to look up at the ceiling when I wash their hair in the bath and they act
like I asking them I've seen that to do just acrobatics the Lords work and this what yeah oh so that's when she real cuz
that's so that's why she had one free hand at that point because she didn't realize how bad it was while she's
crawling so when she was crawling she was crawling with one hand the other hand was keeping her intestines together
now at this point she tries to stand and that's what happen so now she has no free hands now she's got to hold her
head she's literally holding her head and her abdomen so yeah my God holding her head forward with one hand and
pressing her intestines into her abdomen with the other both if you could see know a picture of us right now I am
clasping my neck with one hand and I have the other hand on top of my head stabilizing my own head holding holding
her stomach and the top of her head and we are both just nodding at each other being like wow this is what she had to
do but with everything spilling out of her and this is just listening to this I am holding all of my body together yeah
so now she's got that's the other thing now she like she's lost all this Blood she's nearly decapitated her intestines
are spilling out and now she's standing and has to have the balance to walk putting one foot in front of the other
keep the lights on I could barely do that and I I'm fully here yeah so she very slowly swung One Foot In Front of
the other just slowly moving in the direction of the main road she said at various points she felt like she was
just going to lose Consciousness again and after what felt like an hour she considered giving up but when she raised
her eyes forward she realized she made it to the road Allison but [ __ ] yeah Allison now she realized she'd reached
her destination which was incredible remarkable in like Beyond but now she needed to get somebody's attention every
fiber of her being just wanted to lay down right there where she was on the pavement but she was on the side of the
road at this point and she knew that by lying on the side of the road she might not be seen missed yeah exactly so
instead she took even more steps and made it to the middle of the road and just lay horizontally down across the
road ensuring that a driver coming in either direction would have to stop or intentionally drive around her wow but
literally thought that was like I'm just going to first of all laying in the middle of the road horrifying scary she
didn't even think of that at that point All Natural Instincts she didn't even think of that she just said they'll have
to swerve around me or they'll they'll see me and they'll stop stop cuz she's also thinking like people are humans
yeah they're not just going to run me over luckily nobody runs her over but people aren't humans but I'm surprised
after what she has been through that she can still trust in humans enough to be like honestly they won't just run me
over honestly you know so at this point she's just relieved to finally rest this
has taken everything and more out of her so she laid down for an in indeterminate
amount of time until finally she heard the hum of an engine from off in the distance and the hum grew closer and
closer until it finally stopped and she could see the headlights from the car bearing down on her and it was just
sitting idle in the road but the driver wasn't getting out she said I frantically waved as fast as I could I
wanted whoever it was to see that I was alive and needed help but the driver didn't make any moves to get out of the
vehicle and for a moment a terrible thought flashed through her mind what if this is them what if this is them
returning to make sure I'm dead luckily it was not but what felt like 15 or maybe even 20 minutes later the engine
revved slight and the car just drove around her and continued down the road whoever that was how do you live
with yourself whoever that was I hope you stub your toe every morning I hope you've never had a good coffee since I
hope you have every [ __ ] tastic thing happened to you every [ __ ] day I hope it's always raining on your side of the
street I hope that you don't like rain I'm without words I I wish you the worst rarely am I speechless person who just
sat there for however long they did because obviously she had no concept of time at this took a look at her I wish
you the very worst which is exactly what you deserve all you had to do is call the
police or just get out and comfort the woman in the Middle Road like hello police that's what like call the police
you have and wait all you have to do is uh be a [ __ ] fellow human like holy [ __ ] and you did you just like go have
dinner with your family after that who knows like what' you do all the rest of your day who knows did you tell someone
did you go somewhere and just be like oh yeah I saw this crazy thing you hope that that person called the police but
it doesn't sound like they did Jesus so her heart is just broken as she's watching her what she feels is her only
hope drive away but yet the more she thought about it she had the wherewithal to have compassion everybody the more
she started to consider why a person might not get out under these circumstances she thought perhaps it was
a woman on her own who was scared to get out of her car maybe the driver sensed danger and thought it was an ambush and
thought I was some sort of decoy she still was able to have compassion for this person and come up with like G like
J not that it's by by no means okay that that person but valid reason to come up
with valid reasons too to like excuse them of their actions is this girl just I mean I I just don't
have words anymore I've lost vocabulary words for what she is this right here is
an etal Optimist TR and just like she's like oh you know what I'll give you the excuses yeah that I hope you needed yeah
so as she just lay there in the middle of the road nearly decapitated intestines filling out she just
considered all the reasons why the driver had left and then she started hearing the sounds of another
approaching car and then she heard voices when she opened her eyes there was a woman standing over her who just
started screaming when she saw Allison's injuries which you honestly can't even blame this woman I think that was just
like an instinctual response I don't blame this woman in the least because I know that was probably awful for Alison
but which like I feel awful about but like I I mean you can't conjure this image in your mind and to see a human a
fellow woman like that lying in the road I can't that would destroy me no it's like horrifying she said later it was
the kind of scream you hear in a cheap in some cheap horror movie and then I realized how awful I must have looked so
the women's screams eventually stopped and Allison started to hear other voices and then she saw the face of a young man
who was a literal [ __ ] hero knel beside her this man forever he looked her directly in the eyes and was
talking but she couldn't really understand what he was saying cuz she's going in and out of Consciousness at
this point and she opened her mouth and tried to speak but obviously no sound came out and the young man responded
telling her just to relax as best as she could and reassured her that help was on
the way I love this man it was too 2:45 a.m. by the time she was discovered in the street meaning this entire course of
events from her abduction to her Discovery had taken no more than 90 minutes oh my God all of that happened
abduction to this point 90 minutes that is an hour and a half everybody I cannot I can't conceive of
that they were able to do that to her in minutes that's how much her life changed
frenzied that attack oh absolutely absolutely and even more badass of her mhm you got all the way out there in
that little of time yes and it probably which to her felt like hours oh I think it felt like days she was zo out there
yeah yeah in this in this [ __ ] economy like in this in this situation she's just zooting out to the road yep
holy [ __ ] yep now Tiana know that wow incredible 90 minutes wow so tion different than
tion this this is a different person elard had been out with friends at a bar that night and was driving just driving
home around 2:30 a.m. when he came upon Allison lying there in the street he was
a Veterinary student so he was familiar with anatomy and immediately started checking her Vital Signs and he also
recognized the severity of her wounds and did everything he could to minimize any further risk he gently tucked an
exposed piece of thyroid back into her throat and then using his own shirt he applied pressure to her neck to slow the
bleeding by then other cars had stopped and there was a great deal of activity in the road other drivers were directing
traffic around them somebody brought a flashlight to tion oh thank goodness people yeah people people peed in a good
way now so there was only one people who peopled in the bad way outside of the attackers obvious and even Allison was
able to give them even Allison gave them the excuse so somebody brought him a flashlight and he was able to get a good
look at her wounds seeing for the first time that her intestines were exposed he
said later I was utterly amazed that this person was still alive considering this second major injury wow so while
they waited for an ambulance tion continued talking to Alison both to keep her calm and conscious until the
ambulance arrived and meanwhile one of the other drivers massaged her legs to keep the the circulation going my god oh
I love this I love this part like this is I'm like okay this is where the humanity is at oh man she saw the she
saw the opposite ends of the spectrum yep that night yep so they could finally hear the siren of the ambulance wailing
in the distance but it still seemed so far away but finally the EMTs were beside them and they loaded Allison onto
the stretcher and into the ambulance and instinctually Tion followed them in and
climbed into the ambulance oh tion under the circumstances nobody bothered to ask
what his relation was he rode all the way to the Hospital holding her hand the entire way I hope tion became a vet yes
I hope he became something that cares for something clearly that is his nature that is your soul sir
yeah incredible beautiful it wasn't until they arrived to the hospital and a doctor appeared that anybody even paid
any attention to him and they just ushered him out of the way because she had to be brought to surgery he finally
let go of Allison's hand but not before he leaned in and assured her he was not going to leave her alone he would he
would be there when she woke up oh my God yes I know I love I love this years later Allison would credit her survival
in large part to him who she described as her Lifeline that night my God I know so by the time the surgeon arrived at
the hospital the other doctors had managed really only to get Allison's name and her mother's phone number
before she went she lost Consciousness again based on the extent of her trauma the surgeon Dr vodia an Angelov was
stunned that she had even managed to stay alive oh yeah after checking her vital signs he did his best not to
reveal his surprise to the patient who was just slipping in and out of Consciousness and according to Dr anelo
Allison looked like a quote creature straight out of a Dickens novel she looked like a corpse cuz you have to
think the amount of blood she lost she must be gray and just yeah dead literally like on the brink of death
yeah once they cleaned her off and moved her into surgery they could see the extent of the wounds Dr Angelov said her
neck had been split open almost from ear to ear I've seen many injuries as a doctor but the severe cruelty of the
wounds really shocked me wow her thyroid had been sliced nearly in half and had tition not thought to push it back into
her throat she would have died ton if he hadn't done that she would have died this is teamwork her larynx had been
separated from her trachea oh my most of the muscles intended in the front and sides of her neck had been sliced and
just retracted into the base of her skull holy [ __ ] and the wound to her abdomen was equally horrific like we
said her intestines had been exposed and you probably weren't even thinking now they're covered in sand dirt and other
debris I actually as soon as you said she was crawling in the sand my first thought was like oh my God her
intestines are covered and just holy [ __ ] but her intestines had also sustained several stab wounds her actual
intestines which is so [ __ ] so bad oh yeah you could go into um septic in a SE
in a incredible that she did I'm astounded she did yeah Additionally the stab wounds to her stomach had caused
her abdominal muscles to collapse around the area of that wound wow but after 3 and 1 half hours of cleaning and
stitching wounds they finally had stabilized Allison and she was taken to the Intensive Care
Unit while those while the surgeons worked to close Allison's wound other hospital staff had contacted her poor
mother Claire oh I can't imagine getting that phone call my God but Claire started a kind of phone tree to inform
everybody in Allison's life of what had happened and finally when she was out of
surgery the family was allowed to see her and CLA rushed to the hospital to be right by her side and when she entered
Allison's room she said she was shocked by what she saw CLA said she looked frightened she was filthy her face was
swollen her eyes were filled with blood and bulged out of her head and she had tubes and pipes everywhere oh my God
there was a cage over her lower body keeping blankets off of her and there was this massive bandage across her
throat imagine seeing her baby like that like somebody did that to your baby there wouldn't be a safe
[ __ ] corner of this Earth in the Galaxy no just you can't even you could go light yours away and I would
travel there and find you out the atmosphere without me following like that's I feel
immensely for her mother for having to see that so despite her injuries Allison was awake and did her best to Mom
because she's got to entertain her visitors because she's a good Hostess as well yeah that's Alison laying in the
hospital under all all those circumstances and is like hi Mom hey the fact she could even [ __ ] talk is like
her larynx was separated from her trachea yeah yeah and she's like hey Mom hey so she tried to explain she she
tried to sit there and explain what had happened to her mom but her voice was too horse to say much gee I wonder why
but she just insisted that the police needed to catch the men who had done this to her and it took more than a few
minutes before she realized that in addition to her mother there was another young man in the room it was tion tion
it was tion the man who stayed with her while they waited for the ambulance so she just thanked him profusely and did
her best to hug him oh my God outside the room the attending physician Dr Coleman detailed the extent of Al wounds
to her family explaining that her head like I said had almost been severed from her body she had also remember been
sexually assaulted oh yeah he said I fought in the Rhian Bush war and I've never seen anyone with injuries like
this survive those wounds were gross beyond belief my goodness he explained that her Outlook was not good because
even if she survived the first few days there was still an incredibly high risk of infection from all the debris found
along her intestines and the injury to her throat was equally serious it was very possible for the wound to develop a
thick scar tissue that could potentially choke her Airway holy [ __ ] so even though they were able to get everything
back in order think of that scar tissue could have formed and like the inside and literally like pushed back into her
Airway yeah my God yep you don't even think of that no although the Outlook was Grim Claire was confident that her
daughter would survive she said she was confident that God had not allowed her daughter to make it this far only to
take her a few days later wow within a few days visitors started to show up to Allison's room every few hours including
of course her father her brother and a ton of friends and family and when she was finally stable she was visited by
two police officers now that she was out of danger and she was able to speak more
clearly she described her attackers to the police and told them that their names were frons and tians fortunately
one of the officers Nadia swanpool thought that she actually might have had an interaction with these two men at a
shopping mall a few days earlier which was confirmed the following day when Allison identified them both in a photo
lineup holy [ __ ] what are the odds cuz these are they're just out here being [ __ ] menaces in every way you can
think a few days later another police officer uh Melvin humle showed up at Allison's bedside and he explained that
he was now the lead detective on the case and wanted to inform her that they had arrested fron dutoit and tion's
Krueger and they'd found her car wow they were already out on bail pending a trial for another rape charge
so humle assured Allison that neither man would be eligible for bail now so they attacked her when they were already
out on bail for raping another woman so they're just [ __ ] monsters monsters pure monsters monsters by that point
Allison had been in the hospital for almost 2 weeks a news about her attack had spread throughout the count the
country the Press was obviously eager to talk to her had been harassing Claire which I'm like really like come on yeah
day and night they're harassing her in most cases you would assume somebody in Allison's position would probably just
want to avoid talking about this ordeal at all and not want to be anywhere near strangers you totally understand that
you would yeah you'd give her every Grace in the world but she felt compelled to tell her story she was
still in such a fragile condition though that interviews had to wait but she was
willing to give them holy [ __ ] just to make sure that like every word got out the story was told yeah so she remained
in the hospital obviously for several more weeks and during that time her attackers were arrested and prosecuted
for her attempted murder which honestly they should have just been prosecuted for murder because that's what this
would have been that's I hate attemp we've gone through that before but like this is murder yeah this is murder yep
they walked away from somebody they after decapitating her and slashing her throat 16 times and stabbing her in the
abdomen upwards of 50 times exposing her intestines after raping her violently yep and choking her as well to the point
of unconsciousness if you tell me that is not murder that's stupid as [ __ ] no that's that is that is murder but the
but Allison's just stronger than they are she's just better than them and she should not be punished for being
stronger than they are exactly because it's like that's not that's not aemp that's not like oops I didn't do it
right no they did it right yeah Allison's just stronger than that she's just an Aly it's like they did it they
they overdid it in fact they overkilled her they did and for them to not consider that like they're needed to be
some kind of break from precedence yeah where they sat there and said this is murder because this case a break from
precedence doesn't mean that this is not murder y let's be real here it drives me
[ __ ] nuts it it has always pissed me attemped murder drives me nuts to be him with but when it's this flagrant it's a
whole it's like it I don't there needs to be a different precedent there just needs to be there absolutely does cuz
this makes me so angry yeah [ __ ] so she's in the hospital she's reading updates in the papers and she was
surprised by how quote disheveled and terrified they both looked in the photographs because when they were
around her they were acting completely normal but now they look like [ __ ] it's
like you're not scared you're scared you got caught the Press had dubbed the pair
the Nord Hoke Nord Hoke rippers which is like don't give them a nickname and of course
there was reports that they claimed to be satanists to Allison the claims of Satanism seemed like a ploy to lessen
the severity of what they had done like they weren't acting of their own free will when they very much were I am 100%
with her on that yeah 100% now if friends and tans had hoped to influence the court with their claims of Satan you
know Satan's influence only the Press seemed interested in their religious or spiritual beliefs the judge and the
prosecutor could give less of a couldn't give less of a [ __ ] they had no interest
in their beliefs and remained focused on the cruelty and the utter brutality of their crimes after multiple days the two
finally went before the court where they pleaded guilty to eight charges including kidnapping rape and attempted
murder during all of this she learn Allison learned various things about her attackers from the papers fron she
learned was the son of a police officer oh which uh naturally came as a surprise
to her wow the son of a police officer she also learned that they had attacked uh another woman on December 4th but
according to fron the urge to kill her had passed once he raped her wow so he would have killed that
woman it was just the urge passed when he was done assaulting her wow from their statements in court she learned
that they had just been out drinking earlier in the day and decided to prowl the streets looking for a woman to
attack tion said we wanted a nice car and a nice woman our goal was to find the woman take her car kidnap her rape
her and then kill her and he said this like he was just like rattling off items from a grocery list
well like what we plan to do then like yeah I was just going to go to the bar I was going to run to the grocery store
after I grab like apples bananas and oranges yeah but he's like we're going to kidnap a woman rape her and then kill
her what like what you just sat around and shot the [ __ ] about that and we like
this you know what we should do tonight instead of literally anything else what I can't I I yeah not in my
wildest like I my brain just will not even attempt to comprehend that no so both men seemed arrogant and cruel to
Allison and me but she was determined not to let them dominate her life going forward the judge did sentence them both
to life in prison without the possibility for perole and Allison was released from the hospital with a new
appreciation for life and a determination to tell her story of complete resilience and the years
following her attack she focused on recovery and on processing the trauma that she experienced she said the one
thing I do have control over is choice I have the freedom to choose how I will respond to it I have the choice to make
of it what I must and learn from it wow she also recognized the role that she played in her own Survival focusing on
her will to survive rather than the randomness of luck she was like nah I did that [ __ ] which I love Yeah cuz that
was not luck that was that was 100% she is a wrong anomaly of nature yes that I don't
know if there's another like how many Alison are there in the world one how many Almas are there in the world truly
so she told her reporter in 2006 believing that I could live the night of my attack and seeing the miraculous
result of that belief is a great achievement for me like that's an understatement you can do [ __ ]
anything mhm once she had physically healed she started giving interviews and speaking publicly about her experience
and the path to recovery she said said when I first started speaking publicly I noticed that most people were interested
in my amazing survival and physical recovery but as the years have gone by I have found more and more people have
been Have Become interested in my mental and spiritual Rejuvenation which I could
imagine in time she became a symbol of Hope and resilience to countless young women across South Africa who themselves
had experienced sexual violence but were denied Justice or were unable to tell their stories damn and it's those women
that Allison wanted to make a difference with and they were they became the central premise of her story she said
you must know that you are special and value yourself it's what got me through my attack wow mhm and that was and her
she said she grew up being told you're special pulled into the other room and said like you're special that stayed
with her that's stuck that was a foundation that her mother laid wow yeah I love that that came back around yep we
do that yeah that's amazing now this I love in 1997 her life changed dramatically for a second time in a good
way when she married teeny Botha they met years earlier and had lost touch actually but they reconnected at a party
one night where they ran into each other unexpectedly oh I love it so they got married in 1997 February 1997 and
despite being told that she would likely be un unable to have children due to her
abdominal injury she has since given birth to two children holy [ __ ] she said maybe I survived because I was meant to
bring these two boys into the world for them to grow up and to become special people people and what makes that even
more amazing and special is that during the attack one of the men said to the other one while they were stabbing her
almost 50 times in her intestines and abdomen they said they were purposely trying to mutilate her reproductive
organs and Destroy them this is a two-pronged response one how [ __ ] diabolically evil do you have to be to
be purposely mutilating someone's reproductive organs while in the course of killing them on another level like
just cuz that's the other thing they're trying they thought she was dead so they
were just doing that adding insult to injury like literally blatantly and then two for her to go on to have two
beautiful kids despite every odd despite that [ __ ] [ __ ] being like I like trying to mutilate her reproductive
system and then a doctor telling her like truthfully like with all the injuries that this may not happen for
you that is a miracle what two miracles what is this story like this story is like
unbelievable this story is straight up inspiration yeah yeah if you to do the most menial things at this point like
I'm like this story is inspiration to wake up and do my workout routine to do anything wake up like it's literally
like holy [ __ ] wild now despite her miraculous Survival Story and seemingly indomitable Spirit Alis Allison spent
years of emotional turmoil fighting to keep her attackers in prison which is [ __ ] that she even had to do that
[ __ ] yeah that's disgraceful because even though they were both sentenced to life in prison I touched on this in the
beginning they had no possibility of parole as early as 2012 there was talk of one of or one or both of them being
released and people were saying they had earned their release how in 2012 a new legislation was enacted in South Africa
that allowed for any prisoner who received a life sentence prior to 2004 to apply for parole after serving at
least 13 years of their sentence by that time frons and tons had been in prison for 17 years so they were eligible for
this the potential release of these [ __ ] wads or really any potential Killers came as a shock to Allison of course she
told a reporter in 2012 2012 can you imagine if just 100 lifers are released into society who are not rehabilitated
yeah like what what do you what do is supposed to be all about Rehabilitation if you have already sentenced somebody
to life in prison without the possibility they can't be rehabilitated you've said exactly you've said exactly
that and allowed back into society because you are literally saying they should never be allowed back into
society but now we're just like reneging but now we're being like well that wording makes me sad so like let's let's
change the wording like like nope that doesn't change what you did that doesn't change that you sentenced them to be in
prison for life cuz you didn't believe they could come out what the [ __ ] is that but now all of a sudden we're being
like yeah yeah totally cuz it's fine we decided that's unconstitution when I said life I meant a handful of years
when I said life I meant like less than a than a whole adolescent yeah the [ __ ]
like they can't even drive yet yeah so after hearing the news that they had both applied for parole now Allison
immediately spoke out against their release and used her platform to urge the government to keep them both in
prison good for her her activism successfully kept them both in prison for another decade after the
correctional services Act passed in 2012 but in the summer of 2023 so recently she received yet another shock when
without any notice to her both men were released on parole the fact that one they released them at all and two that
they did not notify her is [ __ ] shameful like she what if she wanted to make plans to leave the country that's
shameful because I would want to leave the [ __ ] country if those men had done what they did to her and were now
just out just bopping around you think they give a [ __ ] about being on parole no they literally took her intestines
out of her body and nearly decapitated her and intentionally tried to destroy her reproductive organs and you don't
tell her that they're back out on the streets quote unquote on parole that's the least you could do what does are you
[ __ ] kidding me in a message on social media she addressed the news saying the day I hoped and prayed for
would never come when I was asked how you feel if they ever get parole my immediate answer was always I'm hoping
I'll never find out but today I did wow now I'm sure them being released on parole caused this next thing I'm about
to tell you more tragedy struck when in September of 2024 Allison suffered a massive brain aneurysm and was rushed to
a hospital in Cape Town the surgeons were able to stop the bleeding in her brain and they were able to relieve the
pressure that was caused by a buildup of fluid but she was expected to face yet another long road to recovery oh my God
no stranger to adversity she met the challenge head on of course she did cuz she's Alm Botha and she's been exceeding
her surgeon's expectations Alm Botha but her mother CLA released a state in October saying I'm beside myself that my
child who was afflicted by a second death blow has exceeded all expectations and has lived talked and remembered and
it and I agree with you that the stress of having them out absolutely I guarantee you had something to do with
that absolutely whoever signed that stress must have been immense immense to the kind of stress I can't even quantify
with words we'll never know thoughts or creative writing I can do it in any space no who whoever signed the papers
that let them out of prison to be asham WR I don't know how you lay your head on
a pillow at night but yeah despite their positive outlook and determination the medical emergency put a huge financial
burden on this small family Allison doesn't have any medical insurance and has accured a significant amount of debt
since undergoing the surgery course that's how the medical system works and by now and as of now the uh Botha family
is relying on the generous support of public donations made to a trust account set up with her
uh name in nedbank in South Africa so there is a fundraiser that you guys can donate to and we're going to donate to
as well um it's I'm going to share the link but it's backabuddy doco zaa campaign slel Das Allison Das Botha Dash
in- her DH time- of- need and I will post that link in the show notes we'll post it on social media you go to that
and might look like you can only donate in like um Zar South African currency but if you scroll next to the amount
there's an option for US Dollars yes so definitely consider donating we're definitely donating she is halfway to
where the to the amount that they were trying to raise and as of today March 4th the um it's it's backabuddy which is
basically kind of like a GoFundMe it seems um and it's got 13 days left 133 days the fundraiser so I mean by the
time this comes out we'll post on social media before this episode comes out yes so that if
you want to if you are able to and if you want to take part in that yes that you can so just in case the timing
doesn't work out I don't want to yeah I don't want to miss our window to be able
to help here exactly so we'll post it definitely consider donating because this woman is yeah Beyond she has
survived so much the fact that these two men were let these I don't know I even want to call them men monsters pigs
[ __ ] swines were let out of prison is insane I'm astounded by she deserves the
world for for what she had to face and now she must just and that's the thing like she probably had this brain
aneurism because she's sitting there every day looking over her shoulder I bet yeah oh I can't yeah who wouldn't
how did how did they get let out how did they get let out how did this happen again she's not the only she's the one
that they attacked in such a brutal manner but she's not even the only woman that they've ever attacked they attacked
a pregnant woman a pregnant woman my God yeah they are horrific they are filthy truly it's insane it's it's Unthinkable
that they got let out so we will post those links for sure and cuz I mean like hearing this story and what she's been
through it's unable I mean damn and she just has such deter to live yeah and she
has empathy yeah and she had empathy in some of her darkest moments and so I think this is time for us all to give
that back to it for sure for sure yeah so with all that being said please consider donating please share the link
if you're not able to obviously not everybody will be able to and of course we hope you keep listening and we hope
you keep it weird but not so weird that um you lack the humanity of those two [ __ ] trolls who are just
walking the streets now yeah [ __ ] that take care of each other [Music] [Music]
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On December 18, 1994, twenty-seven-year-old Alison Botha was abducted from the parking lot of her apartment in Port Elizabeth by two men she didn’t know and had never seen. After forcing her into her car, her abductors drove her to a remote field, where she was sexually assaulted, stabbed dozens of times, nearly decapitated, and left for dead.

Miraculously, Alison didn’t die in that field, but instead managed to get to a nearby road, where she found help and was transported to the nearest hospital where she received life-saving treatment. Because she remembered everything about her attackers, Alison was able to describe the men and they were quickly arrested and confessed to the assault.

Since enduring her horrific attack, Alison Botha has become a symbol of endurance and for decades her story of survival has inspired and empowered young women across South Africa and around the world.

Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!

References Marianne, Thamm. 2018. I Have Life: Alison's Journey. Cape Town, South Africa: Penguin Random House South Africa.

Reddy, Tash. 2006. "Alison has life - and she truly cherishes it." Pretoria News, December 2.

—. 2006. "Miracle survivor Alison inspires." Weekend Argus (South Africa), December 3.

Sanpath, Arthi. 2010. "Will to survive triumphs incredible story of courage inspires all." Daily News (South Africa), August 23.

Thamm, Marianne. 2024. "Alison Botha health update — Reunited with family and fighting for recovery." Daily Maverick (South Africa), October 27.

The Mercury. 2023. "Rapist pair get paroled after serving 28 years." The Mercury (South Africa), July 6.

The Star. 2012. "Rape victim's parole shock." The Star (South Africa), January 19.

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Brief Summary

Allison Botha survived a brutal attack in South Africa, showcasing incredible resilience and strength during her recovery and advocacy for victims.

Key points

The Cow Encounter. Molina recounts a hilarious moment involving escaped cows and a confused cop.
Introducing Alice Botha. Molina introduces the story of Alice Botha, a remarkable and resilient individual.
Allison's Attack. Allison faces a horrific assault by two men, leading to unimaginable injuries.
The Unthinkable Crime. The brutal nature of the attack leaves listeners horrified and questioning humanity.
Survival Against All Odds. Despite severe injuries, Allison fights for her life and tries to communicate.
The Driver's Indifference. A driver passes by Allison without offering help, sparking outrage.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is a doozy of a case and a doozy of a human!

Molina introduces the story of Alice Botha.

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