Surviving Evil

In summer 1991, a vicious sexual predator is terrorizing the beaches of San Diego. Unaware of the threat, 21-year-old Charisma and friends, enjoy a fun, late night dip. The swim quickly turns deadly, but an act of heroism brings a shocking revelation. #RealPeopleRealStories

Suicidal Florida teen Lisa McVey is ready to end her life. But as Lisa leaves work, a serial killer terrorizing Florida abducts her at gunpoint. While police mount one of Florida's largest manhunts to date, the 17-year-ol's survival instincts revive.

A 14-year-old girl is held for 10 horrific days in an underground bunker by a depraved sexual predator, but fights through unspeakable abuse to singlehandedly engineer her survival.

Two kind, successful women fall prey to cold-blooded assailants obsessed with a life of luxury. Sheila Dates and her daughter are taken hostage by a covetous couple, and Elizabeth is the victim of her jealous husband's psychopathic rage.

When Marcela and Reubens Borges cannot give a ruthless band of thugs the amount of money they want, they are kidnapped at gunpoint along with their young son. They are forced to take matters into their own hands to escape from the homicidal captors.

In separate incidents, a woman and man are brutally attacked by the people they've called friends, but their children gave them reason to survive. Verna White is stalked by an obsessive friend, while Dale Wells is the victim of a lover set on revenge.

In broad daylight, a predator sneaks into a suburban Delaware home, abducts Debbie Puglisi, and shoots her husband. Thus begins a 101-hour ordeal of unimaginable, humiliating torture with her only hope of salvation her own will to survive.

After good will is met with savage attacks at the hands of deranged sociopaths, two Good Samaritans Rhonda and Amy separately rely on strength and ingenuity to fight their would-be killers and miraculously survive to recount their tales.

Two women fight for their lives in separate, equally horrific encounters. Teri Jendusa's ex-husband stuffs her into a garbage bin, ready to dispose of her. School principal Norina Bentzel protects her students from a homicidal, machete-wielding attacker.

Three women are brutally victimized by familiar faces, secretly harboring deadly obsessions. But their sheer resolve inspires them to survive by any means necessary and live to see justice served.

Get a sneak peek of Investigation Discovery's new series SURVIVING EVIL featuring true stories of courage and survival. Told in their own words, victims reveal how they fought their attackers and survived against amazing odds. Starting August 28, at 10pm.