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* RapeAsDrama: The majority of female crime victims describe being raped at some point in their ordeal.
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* RapeAsDrama: The majority of female crime victims describe being raped at some point in their ordeal.ordeal and this has happened to several men as well--David, Martin.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: When a woman's husband broke into her home and threatened her, she managed to convince him to let her call a friend to cancel their plans to shopping. Although her friend was initially confused because they DIDN'T have any such plans, she quickly realized that something was wrong and called 911.
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* BittersweetEnding: If a story features two or more people enduring a horrible ordeal, very often only one of them has survived while the others haven't. This is often foreshadowed by the fact that only one person is telling the story.
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* BittersweetEnding: If a story features two or more people enduring a horrible ordeal, very often only one of them has survived while the others haven't. This is often foreshadowed by the fact that only one person is telling the story. The survivors themselves are often left permanently disfigured or disabled from their experience.
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: One pregnant woman had her legs crushed in a processing machine (but miraculously gave birth to a healthy baby months later), while another was attacked by a deranged woman who wanted to steal her baby.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portia lived.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portia lived.
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: One pregnant woman had her legs crushed in a processing machine (but miraculously gave birth to a healthy baby months later), while another was attacked by a deranged woman who wanted to steal her baby.
baby. Yet another was viciously stabbed by an assailant after pulling into a rest stop to get a soda.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portialived.lived).
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portia
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Occasionally, stories of those who'd survived infamous events such as the Virginia Tech shooting, the Haiti earthquake, etc., were featured.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Occasionally, stories of those who'd survived infamous events such as the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting Virginia Tech shooting, shooting]], [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake the Haiti earthquake, earthquake]], etc., were featured.
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* WhereAreTheyNow: The segments always end with footnotes on the person's recovery and whether or not their attacker(s) were convicted.
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* WhereAreTheyNow: The segments always end with footnotes on the person's recovery and whether or not their attacker(s) were convicted.convicted.
* WouldHurtAChild: A significant amount of stories are told by adults about ordeals they endured as children.
* WouldHurtAChild: A significant amount of stories are told by adults about ordeals they endured as children.
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* BadSamaritan: One episode featured a woman who was shot while driving, but managed to stop her car and alert a passing motorist. He promised to take her to the hospital, but she was soon horrified to realize that ''he'' was her assailant.
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* BadSamaritan: One episode featured a woman who Sharon was shot while driving, but managed to stop her car and alert a passing motorist. He promised to take her to the hospital, but she was soon horrified to realize that ''he'' was her assailant.
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* IHaveAFamily: When describing how he and his friend Michael were abducted by a carjacker, Scott tearfully recalls him trying to invoke this trope before being fatally shot by the assailant.
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* BittersweetEnding: If a story features two or more people enduring a horrible ordeal, very often only one of them has survived while the others haven't. This is often foreshadowed by the fact that only one person is telling the story.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Occasionally, stories of those who'd survived infamous events such as the Virginia Tech shooting, the Haiti earthquake, etc., were featured.
* SurvivalMantra: Employed by a lot of people. Debbie, for example, recited the 23rd Psalm during her rape to distract herself.
* SurvivalMantra: Employed by a lot of people. Debbie, for example, recited the 23rd Psalm during her rape to distract herself.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: The 9/11 episode was 90 minutes and had no commercial breaks.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: A few episodes focused on one event--[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks 9/11]], [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy Hurricane Sandy]], and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks the Norway terrorist attack]].
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* BodyHorror: Viewers often get pretty graphic descriptions of what happened to someone in the course of their ordeal. In particular, Thad, who's kidnapper broke ''all'' of the bones in his legs.
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* LittleMissBadass: And "Mr." Several stories told by adults are of horrific ordeals that they endured as children,
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* BadSamaritan: One episode featured a woman who was shot while driving, but managed to stop her car and alert a passing motorist. He promised to take her to the hospital, but she was soon horrified to realize that ''he'' was her assailant.
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* DomesticAbuse: A significant amount of female victims describe being attacked by their husbands or boyfriends or exes.
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: One pregnant woman had her legs crushed in a processing machine (but miraculously gave birth to a healthy baby months later), while another was attacked by a deranged woman who wanted to steal her baby.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portia lived.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Jonathan, whose arm became trapped behind his boiler when he tried to clean it, realized that not only was he going to die if he didn't cut his arm off, so was his pet beagle Portia, who was wandering around upstairs and starving. Fortunately, the police and an ambulance were converging on his house by this point (alerted by his coworkers worried about why he hadn't been at work. Although his arm ultimately needed to be amputated, both he and Portia lived.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania, from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process, he sustains permanent brain damage.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania, from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process, he sustains permanent brain damage. Several other people became crime/accident victims by trying to help someone.
* RapeAsDrama: The majority of female crime victims describe being raped at some point in their ordeal.
* WhereAreTheyNow: The segments always end with footnotes on the person's recovery and whether or not their attacker(s) were convicted.
* RapeAsDrama: The majority of female crime victims describe being raped at some point in their ordeal.
* WhereAreTheyNow: The segments always end with footnotes on the person's recovery and whether or not their attacker(s) were convicted.
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I Survived is a docuseries that aired from 2008-2015. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series about people sharing stories about times they nearly died. They follow a pretty standard formula of 3 stories per episode: 2 of criminal occurrences and 1 involving nature.
!The Show Contains Examples Of:
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sex slave, when she's rescued, the kidnapper is pathetically apologizing nonstop during the trial.
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried to impaled him with a crucifix, believing he was possessed by a demon. 12 years later, he runs into the man after he got released from the mental hospital he was sent to. The attacker apologizes and is ashamed of how he acted since he had untreated mental health issues. In one of the most touching moments in the entire show, he forgives him and is grateful the man got the help he needed.
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000 bucks which he was planning to use to get custody of his kids, never mind the fact he murdered another family to do so and set a horrendous example for his own children.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process sustains permanent brain damage.
!The Show Contains Examples Of:
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sex slave, when she's rescued, the kidnapper is pathetically apologizing nonstop during the trial.
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried to impaled him with a crucifix, believing he was possessed by a demon. 12 years later, he runs into the man after he got released from the mental hospital he was sent to. The attacker apologizes and is ashamed of how he acted since he had untreated mental health issues. In one of the most touching moments in the entire show, he forgives him and is grateful the man got the help he needed.
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000 bucks which he was planning to use to get custody of his kids, never mind the fact he murdered another family to do so and set a horrendous example for his own children.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process sustains permanent brain damage.
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I Survived is a docuseries that aired from 2008-2015.2008 to 2015. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series about people sharing stories about times they nearly died. They follow a pretty standard formula of 3 stories per episode: 2 1 of criminal occurrences occurrences, 1 that is a tragic accident, usually with machinery, and 1 involving nature.
nature.
!TheShow Contains Examples Of:
show contains examples of:
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sexslave, when slave. When she's rescued, the kidnapper is pathetically apologizing nonstop during the trial.
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried toimpaled impale him with a crucifix, believing he was possessed by a demon. 12 years later, he runs into the man after he got gets released from the mental hospital he was sent to. The attacker apologizes and is ashamed of how he acted since he had untreated mental health issues. In one of the most touching moments in the entire show, he forgives him and is grateful the man got the help he needed.
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, and nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000bucks bucks, which he was planning to use to get custody of his kids, never mind the fact he murdered another family to do so and set a horrendous example for his own children.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown,Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process process, he sustains permanent brain damage.
!The
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sex
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried to
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, and nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown,
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I Survived is a docuseries that aired from 2008-2015. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series about people sharing stories about times they nearly died. They follow a pretty standard formula of 3 stories per episode: 2 of criminal occurrences and 1 involving nature.
!The Show Contains Examples Of:
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sex slave, when she's rescued, the kidnapper is pathetically apologizing nonstop during the trial.
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried to impaled him with a crucifix, believing he was possessed by a demon. 12 years later, he runs into the man after he got released from the mental hospital he was sent to. The attacker apologizes and is ashamed of how he acted since he had untreated mental health issues. In one of the most touching moments in the entire show, he forgives him and is grateful the man got the help he needed.
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000 bucks which he was planning to use to get custody of his kids, never mind the fact he murdered another family to do so and set a horrendous example for his own children.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process sustains permanent brain damage.
!The Show Contains Examples Of:
* DirtyCoward: One episode has a girl who was kidnapped for 10 years as a sex slave, when she's rescued, the kidnapper is pathetically apologizing nonstop during the trial.
* IHatePastMe: One victim relays a story of a man who kidnapped him and tried to impaled him with a crucifix, believing he was possessed by a demon. 12 years later, he runs into the man after he got released from the mental hospital he was sent to. The attacker apologizes and is ashamed of how he acted since he had untreated mental health issues. In one of the most touching moments in the entire show, he forgives him and is grateful the man got the help he needed.
* {{Matricide}}: Erin Caffey murdered her mother, her two siblings, nearly her father, and burned the house down to the foundation to run away with her boyfriend.
* MoralMyopia: In the Erin Caffey case, a hired hand was given 2000 bucks which he was planning to use to get custody of his kids, never mind the fact he murdered another family to do so and set a horrendous example for his own children.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: One story is about a man who bravely saved Allentown, Pennsylvania from a barreling train ready to blow up toxic explosive chemicals. He stops the train, but in the process sustains permanent brain damage.
