10 Horrific Tales Of People Who Survived Their Killer’s Attack

6 /10 Corazon Amurao

Approaching midnight on July 13, 1966, Richard Speck forced his way into a Chicago home where nine female student nurses lived together. He raped, beat, and stabbed eight of them.

One of the students named Corazon Amurao hid under the bed and played dead for six hours.

After killing eight students in the carnage, Speck was so intoxicated he couldn’t keep count. Amurao provided a sketch of the attacker to the police and added details like the “Born to Raise Hell” tattoo. Speck died in prison in 1991.

5 /10 Kate Moir

Australian serial killer couple David and Catherine Birnie abducted Kate Moir in 1986. The victim was 17 years old when the couple took her to their home, where she had to endure torture and rape.

When David went to work, and Catherine was out to buy some drugs, Moir made a brave attempt to escape through a window.

She told her ordeal to the police. David and Catherine were eventually arrested and sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment.

The former was found dead in 2005, and Catherine is still serving her time in the Bandyup Women’s Prison in Australia.

4 /10 Tracy Edwards

Two Milwaukee police officers had no idea what they were getting into when they saw a man running to them with his wrist handcuffed.

The man was Tracy Edward, who had just gone through a bizarre encounter with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Edwards led the officers to where Dahmer tried to kill him. A more thorough search of the Milwaukee police Criminal Investigation Bureau’s apartment revealed seven human skulls and more human remains.

Dahmer was arrested and sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment. Another inmate killed him in 1994.

3 /10 Carol DaRonch

Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, once approached DaRonch in a parking lot to falsely inform them that her car was almost stolen.

Bundy dressed up as a police officer and asked her to file a report with him. She did follow Bundy to his Volkswagen; then, suddenly, she found herself handcuffed.

Somehow DaRonch fought back and escaped. She then went to the police and told her story.

DaRonch even provided details about Bundy’s abduction technique. In 1975, Bundy was arrested from his Volkswagen. He was executed in Florida in 1989.

2 /10 Tali Shapiro

In 1969, a second-grader, Tali Shapiro, who was never fond of taking the bus to school, had an encounter with Rodney Alcala.

She liked walking to school, and that was why she rejected it when the stranger in the car offered her a ride.

Despite her reluctance, Shapiro eventually accepted the offer. One Good Samaritan who happened to saw Shapiro climbing into the vehicle knew something was wrong.

He followed the car to a nearby apartment, then called the police. She was found severely injured on the floor. Alcala escaped, but he was eventually arrested and sentenced to death in 2010.

1 /10 Bryan Hartnell

No one knows who the Zodiac Killer is or if he is still alive at all. There have been many theories, but there is no definite evidence of the serial killer’s identity. The killer claimed to have killed 37 people.

There are survivors, too; one of them is Bryan Hartnell. While having a picnic with his girlfriend Cecilia Shepard at Lake Berryessa, a person dressed in a hoodie approached them.

This person was also holding a gun. Instead of shooting them both, the hooded killer stabbed the couple repeatedly with a knife. Hartnell survived, but Shepard died from the wounds.