Latest Sarahswindell Podcast Episodes

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Episode 31: The Mauerova Family

Fight or Flight - November 23, 2021 14:04 - 39 minutes
This might be the most disturbing story of child abuse that we have ever come across. Thankfully, a baby monitor from a neighbor accidentally captured the sinister acts that were being done to two innocent little boys next door. How they survived the horrors they endured is unbelievable, but e...

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Episode 30: Holly Dunn, Sole Survivor of the Railroad Killer

Fight or Flight - November 08, 2021 13:17 - 53 minutes
On the night of August 29th, 1997, the lives of University of Kentucky college students, Holly Dunn, and her boyfriend, Chris Maier were changed forever.  Holly Dunn would be the sole survivor of the infamous serial killer, Angel Maturino Resendiz. His brutal rampage would take the lives of at...

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Episode 29: Season 2 Halloween Special Edition!

Fight or Flight - October 19, 2021 21:27 - 40 minutes
We are BACK! We cannot be more excited to kick off Season 2 with our Halloween special edition. Halloween fun facts, spooky Halloween crimes, and of course a survivor story. On Halloween Night in 2004, three beautiful 27-year-old roommates who lived in the beautiful little wine town of Napa Ca...

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Episode 28: Part 2 of The Turpin 13

Fight or Flight - February 04, 2021 20:14 - 1 hour
Thank you for your patience on Part 2! Texas faced a winter blast that caused some recording/editing issues due to power outages. I promise this one is worth the wait!

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Episode 27: The Turpin 13

Fight or Flight - January 30, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes
David and Louise Turpin had thirteen beautiful children. Did they deserve to have them? Oh HELL no!  The abuse, neglect, and filth they were forced to live in are shocking and heartbreaking, to say the least. But because of the bravery of seventeen-year-old, Jordan Turpin, the horror those chi...

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Episode 26, Mini-sode: Brigida Uto and The Prussian Blue Mystery

Fight or Flight - January 28, 2021 23:20 - 17 minutes
Brigida Uto suddenly started feeling sick...very sick. Little did she know that she was being poisoned to death. But thanks to the quick thinking of a dedicated doctor, the mysterious "illness" was solved and was literally brought back from the brink of death. Sadly, she also discovered WHO wa...

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Episode 25: Shawn Grate and Jane Doe

Fight or Flight - January 04, 2021 23:04 - 38 minutes
We are BACK!!!!! We sure missed y’all during our break and ready to give you a doozy!  Check out Episode 25 and hear about our badass BRAVE survivor, Jane Doe. Her 911 call is chilling!  

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Episode 24: The Tiede Family Christmas Nightmare

Fight or Flight - December 23, 2020 19:22 - 35 minutes
It was December 22, 1990, just a few days before Christmas in the tranquil town of Oakley, Utah. The Tiede cabin in the woods was going to be the backdrop for a cozy Christmas with family. It’s at least what the Tiede family had planned before a senseless act of pure evil came crashing in on them.

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Episode 23: The Cipriano Family

Fight or Flight - December 01, 2020 16:17 - 41 minutes
On April 16th, 2012, the Cipriano family was changed forever by the brutal murder of a loving husband and father. But Bob Cipriano wasn't the only victim in the home that night. Two other family members were also attacked and somehow miraculously survived the vicious blows from a baseball bat....

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Episode 22: The Abduction of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby

Fight or Flight - November 30, 2020 03:52 - 52 minutes
In 2002, Shawn Hornbeck was only 11-year-old when he was abducted while riding his bike on a dirt road. Mike Devlin held Shawn captive while he endured over four years of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. Four years and 3 months later, Devlin abducted 13-year-old Ben Ownby and suffered much ...

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Episode 21: Part 2, The Survivors of the Cleveland Kidnapper

Fight or Flight - November 16, 2020 14:29 - 55 minutes
In Part 2 we will cover the two other young girls, Amanda Berry Berry and Gina De Jesus, who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro, one year after Michelle Knight.  For 10 additional years, these three brave young ladies survived unspeakable horrors inside the home on Loraine Avenue. That is until th...

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Episode 20: Pat 1, The Survivors of the Cleveland Kidnapper, Ariel Castro

Fight or Flight - November 14, 2020 15:19 - 1 hour
This story has never left our minds from the moment we all heard the news that three girls had been found after eleven long years.  Part one will focus on Michelle Knight, the first girl that was abducted by Ariel Castro. Her life before her abduction is just as painful as it was during her ti...

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Episode 19: Gabby McKenzie

Fight or Flight - November 07, 2020 13:56 - 28 minutes
In 2011, Gabby's estranged boyfriend viciously attacked and stabbed her numerous times leaving her for dead. But not before he stabbed and killed her boyfriend 47 times, along with her father 17 times.  Thankfully, Gabby survived her monstrous ex-boyfriend's rage along with their one-year-old ...

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Episode 18: Spooky Halloween Haunted Houses!

Fight or Flight - October 30, 2020 13:45 - 24 minutes
For Halloween, we wanted to give you all a treat with a couple of spooky stories of haunted houses.  How can anyone from the late '70s ever forget The Amityville Horror House? I know I didn't! The opening theme song still haunts me. The Girl Scouts aren't all cookies and cuteness. We also ha...

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Episode 17: Part 2, The Survivors of The Toy Box Killer

Fight or Flight - October 13, 2020 16:34 - 52 minutes
In part 2, you will hear more about the three heroic survivors of The Toy Box Killer and his accomplices, their escapes, and what happened when these monsters were caught. For more information on this case, please check out the book Crisis in the Desert by John Glatt, which is also available o...

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Episode 16: The Survivors of David Parker Ray, The Toy Box Killer

Fight or Flight - October 09, 2020 21:48 - 40 minutes
This one gave me nightmares for days. David Parker Ray was the monster who raped, tortured, and killed innocent women for years before one of our survivors ended the madness.  This is the horrific story of the Toy Box Killer and the three, brave women that got away.

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Episode 15: Teri Jendusa-Nicolai

Fight or Flight - October 01, 2020 13:09 - 52 minutes
On January 31, 2004, Teri went to her ex-husband's home to pick up their two daughters, ages 4 and 6.  Moments later, David would savagely attack her with a baseball bat, duct tape her face, ankles, and hands, and put her barely alive into a container.  Teri was taken to a storage unit barel...

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Episode 14: Thad Phillips and The Bonebreaker Killer

Fight or Flight - September 19, 2020 14:28 - 32 minutes
On July 29th, 1994, 13-year-old Thad Phillips was abducted from his own home in the middle of the night by 17-year-old Joe Clark in Baraboo, Wisconsin.  For almost 2 days, Thad was brutally tortured by Joe in a horrifying manner...by breaking his bones. Sadly, Thad was not his first victim and...

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Episode 13: Remembering 9/11

Fight or Flight - September 10, 2020 00:07 - 19 minutes
The day everyone remembers exactly what they were doing when America went under attack. We wanted to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and the brave men and women of the first responders who selflessly gave their own lives to help others.  We share heartbreaking 911 calls that will m...

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Episode 12: The Abduction of Sherri Papini

Fight or Flight - September 05, 2020 21:09 - 41 minutes
On November 2, 2016, Sherri Papini left her house for a run. When her husband, Keith, returned home from work and found her missing, the search for Sherri began. Three weeks later she was found, but this story is far from over. 

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Episode 11: The Sexual Assault of Chanel Miller

Fight or Flight - August 28, 2020 16:29 - 39 minutes
On the evening of January 17, 2015, Chanel Miller joined her younger sister to a Kappa Alpha fraternity party at Stanford University.  What happened later that night changed her life forever when she was sexually assaulted behind a dumpster while she was unconscious.  The story of "Emily Doe...

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Episode 10: Danielle and Dan

Fight or Flight - August 18, 2020 13:56 - 30 minutes
On January 8, 2000, in York City, Pennsylvania, two young college students made plans for a romantic second date to go for a walk along a nearby river.  Just as their budding romance was beginning, this second date quickly turned into an ugly living nightmare that Danielle and Dan would never ...

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Episode 9: Part 2, The Knotek Sisters

Fight or Flight - August 03, 2020 16:34 - 47 minutes
The conclusion of the story about the Knotek sisters and how they survived their own mother and father's torment and abuse.  Just when you thought what they went through was bad, you will hear that it was only the beginning.  

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Episode 8: Part 1, The Knotek Sisters

Fight or Flight - July 28, 2020 21:15 - 45 minutes
Shelly Knotek seriously should win The Worst Mother in the World award. Sadly, her three daughters endured years of mental and physical abuse by the hands of their own parents. Most of all, their mother, Shelly.  In 2004, Shelly was finally arrested and sentenced to more than two decades behin...

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Episode 7: The Aurora Hammer Slayer

Fight or Flight - July 18, 2020 18:44 - 35 minutes
Starting in January of 1984, innocent people in the city of Aurora, Colorado were brutally attacked by a man whose weapon of choice was a hammer. Of the eight victims, incredibly, four survived. Lives and families were torn apart forever and for decades this case would go cold. That is until 2...

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Episode 6: Jennifer Asbenson

Fight or Flight - July 11, 2020 16:49 - 39 minutes
Jennifer Asbenson was just 19 years old when she was abducted, tortured, and almost killed in a remote part of the desert by one of America's most prolific serial killers, Andrew Urdialas. But that event wasn't the only horrible thing that happened to her...not even close.  Jennifer is one b...

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Episode 5: The Porco Family

Fight or Flight - July 03, 2020 21:50 - 36 minutes
On November 15, 2004, Peter and Joan Porco were brutally attacked with an ax as they slept in their bed. One survived, one did not. This case will have you wondering if the right person was convicted and how anyone could live through such a heinous act of violence, while still having compassion ...

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Episode 4: Dr. Edith Eger

Fight or Flight - June 25, 2020 17:31 - 1 hour
Dr. Edith Eger is the true meaning of a survivor in every sense of the word. Despite the incredibly overwhelming odds, she survived Auschwitz, the infamous Death March, and Stairs of Death. One year after her nightmare began, she was finally found barely alive surrounded by death. This is her am...

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Episode 2, Part 2 - Dr. William Petit

Fight or Flight - June 21, 2020 13:55 - 28 minutes
The final horrific moments revealed about what happened to this beautiful family and Dr. Petit's will to survive.  If you would like to read more about this incredible story, I highly recommend the book, The Rising by Ryan D'Agostino https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Murder-Heartbreak-Resilience-...

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Episode 3, Part 2 - Dr. William Petit

Fight or Flight - June 21, 2020 13:55 - 28 minutes
The final horrific moments revealed about what happened to this beautiful family and Dr. Petit's will to survive.  If you would like to read more about this incredible story, I highly recommend the book, The Rising by Ryan D'Agostino https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Murder-Heartbreak-Resilience-...

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