Escaped

- Season 1

(2009)

Josefina Rivera has been held captive in a killer's cellar for months. Gradually more women are added and the torture increases. After two captives die, Josefina knows she must escape or face certain death.

Mildred Muhammad endures her husband lies, infidelities and even the kidnapping their children. She fights back, divorces him, and gets her children back. She restarts her life outside Washington, DC only to learn he's the DC Sniper who plans to kill her

In the early morning hours of July 29, 1995, 13-year-old Thad Phillips is kidnapped by seventeen-year old Joe Clark, a local boy who has snuck into the Phillips' house. Over the next two days, he will viciously and methodically torture the young boy.

19-year-old Katya is growing desperate. She's been held by human traffickers for a year and forced into prostitution at a strip club. After eight months of torture, she begins to plot her escape.

Nearly one thousand people are living and working in Jim Jones People's Temple. Yet, to 18 yr old Brenda Parks, Jonestown in more hellish prison than heaven on earth. Brenda and her family secretly begin hatching a plan to escape.

In October 1983, Tami Ashcraft, 24, and her boyfriend accept a job to sail a yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. But they encouter a dangerous category four storm, and the radio is dead. But, after a month lost at sea Tami finally makes it to land.

Eric Le Marque, a 34-year-old former Olympician for hockey had been snow boarding in the mountains, but now he's lost. He will learn the limits of what the human body can endure --and that Mother Nature takes no prisoners.

Cynthia Vigil is being held and tortured by Ray and his female accomplice. She knows she must escape or face certain death.

Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid had been fishing in the Sea of Cortez when they noticed the light was fading and the winds were picking up. What came next landed them on a barren, inhospitable island, stranded, for two weeks.

Karen Kummerer is in the bathroom of a BBQ restaurant. 2 days earlier, her former boyfriend kidnapped her at knifepoint, forced her into his car and began to drive. She leaves notes hoping that someone will alert authorities, it's her only way to escape.