Surviving Evil

- Season 1

(2013)

Charisma Carpenter is the survivor of a real-life incident that she endured more than 20 years ago. The actress and her two friends were swimming at San Diego's Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991 when they were violently attacked by an armed serial rapist. Carpenter fought for her survival after being held at gunpoint, but her two friends were both shot and seriously wounded by the attacker. In the first episode of the series Charisma tells her incredible story of survival in raw emotional detail about what happened that night.

On November 3, 1984, Florida teen Lisa McVey was getting ready to head home from work; as she leaves work, a serial killer terrorizing the Tampa Florida area abducted her at gunpoint. Police mounted one of the state's biggest-ever manhunts, it is McVey's survival instincts makes the difference. McVey blocked out any pain while enduring brutal defilement; she took note of her surroundings and secretly plants evidence in her attacker's apartment while feigning friendship.

The Story of Elizabeth Shoaf (Lugoff, SC) In the fall of 2006, Elizabeth Shoaf is a 14-year-old whose life becomes a nightmare when Vinson Filyaw straps a bomb to her body and forces her into an underground bunker in the South Carolina woods. Shoaf is chained by the neck. Search teams were pacing directly over the bunker, Shoaf draws on a survival instinct, placating Filyaw until he becomes complacent.

The Story of Sheila Dates (Jonesboro, GA) Sheila Dates and her grown-up daughter, Regina, are living in Georgia when they are taken hostage by a couple. Sheila is driven at gunpoint to get money while Regina is held, bound, and gagged at home; after handing over the money, Sheila is strangled with a phone cord.

The Story of Rubens and Marcela Borges (Winter Garden & Apopka, FL) Rubens and Marcela Borges are parents in central Florida a gang invades their home, demanding money; the couple and their son are kidnapped. For the next three days, the Borges are held at gunpoint, their house is ransacked, and the money they have is liquidated. Rubens is subjected to a game of Russian roulette and the gang that is holding the family repeatedly puts a gun to their son's head.

This is a two story episode. The Stories of Verna White (Cherokee County, GA) and Dale Wells (Columbia, SC) Divorcee Verna White is living with her three children when she runs into an old friend Gerald Lee. Lee's interest in Verna becomes obsessive, and he begins to stalk her. One night Lee smashes through her door. He rapes and viciously beats her, then pulls the trigger of his rifle but it jams. Lee next turns his attention to White's daughter. Verna sustains massive injuries during her struggle with Lee in the kitchen. Dale Wells falls for co-worker Denise Moss. ...

The Story of Debbie Puglisi (Newark, DE) During the day on April 20, 1998, a crack-addicted predator entered Debbie Puglisi's Delaware home, shoots her husband, then abducts her. Debbie was held captive in her kidnapper's home, Puglisi was horribly abused. While bound and gagged, Puglisa overheard news reports of her husband's death and learned she is a prime suspect. Puglisi shared her kidnapper's home until one day while her kidnapper was at work she was able to free herself of restraints and call 911.

See what happens with Rhonda Knight's story as she tries to help someone out, doing a good deed which totally backfires and goes bad - Leaving her to survive attempted murder, being held hostage and rape.

This is a two part episode entitled The Stories of Teri Jendusa Nicolai (Racine, WI) and Norina Bentzel (Red Lion, PA) Wisconsin native Teri Jendusa, after leaving an abusive marriage, finally years latter fell in love with another man. On January 31, 2004, they find they are expecting their first child. Jendusa arrives at ex-husband David Larsen's house to pick up her two daughters. Within moments of arriving, Jendusa is brutally attacked, stuffed into a garbage bin, and thrown into the back of a pick-up truck. Bloodied and in the freezing cold, she struggles to stay...

This is a two part episode called The Stories of Jessica Carbone (West Palm Beach, FL) and Tabitha Sells and Christy Carroll (Greensboro, NC) Jessica Carbone, 27, is in West Palm Beach, Florida when a deranged, machete-wielding maintenance man viciously attacks and kidnaps her. After an escape attempt provokes Carbone's attacker, Carbone maintains enough composure to plant leave evidence. Carbone continues to reason with her captor, convincing him to leave her alive. Cousins Tabitha Sells and Christy Carroll worked together at an auto shop in Greensboro, North ...