Series from 2009
Escaped tells true stories about people who've been held captive, imprisoned, trapped and caged, and how they escaped to freedom.
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’s 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.