Unnamed Survivor
Appearances
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The Code Breakers
suddenly they realized that this suspect had a second victim the difference this time the victim survived and lived to tell he started telling me that he was training to become a policeman and stuff he was like i'll just take you home i don't know why but i believed him don't miss good american family we have
20/20
The Code Breakers
I was 19. There was a new country western bar that opened up. I really didn't want to go that night, but I'd promised the other girls that I would go. I decided I wanted to leave. I was done. I wanted to get home. The parking lot was mud, and my car was stuck in the mud. I just thought, I'll just walk to the gas station and call my mom.
20/20
The Code Breakers
He said his brother's name and then he said where he went to high school. And then he said, do you go to Forest Park? And I was like, yeah. And then he started telling me that he was training to become a policeman and stuff. And so then he was like, I'll just take you home. And I don't know why, but, you know, I just, I believed him.
20/20
The Code Breakers
He started off being very nice. The thing I know, we're at this field. And then his whole demeanor changed.
20/20
The Code Breakers
I just felt awful and shameful. I was just like, I can't tell him. I'll never tell anybody what happened. I don't know. I was kind of like, I don't know if anybody would believe me. You know, is it my fault? Was it my fault?
20/20
The Code Breakers
I think today they take it more serious than they did back then. I wanted him to be punished. I think I was just pushing everything down and just trying to focus on with life.
20/20
The Code Breakers
It was a Friday, and I was at work. My phone rang, and it said Beaumont Police. This emotion came over me, and I was like, What, is someone messing with me?
20/20
The Code Breakers
He said, he's a suspect in a murder. And that's when he started telling me about the DNA. And he said, it is a cold case murder. And I was like, you don't even have to ask. I will go. I will testify. We hung up. I just broke down. I mean, you just go back to being that girl again where that fear and all of it just kind of consumes you again.
20/20
The Code Breakers
Yes. I just kind of blocked out everything else and just focused on the questions.
20/20
The Code Breakers
When I was getting out of the car, he said, stop crying. I'm sorry. I hope I didn't hurt you. You have to say these things out loud. And then knowing that he's sitting right over there and just Just being in the same room, and that was hard.
20/20
The Code Breakers
It was just relief. I was thankful that I did it. Thankful that it did help. It did help putting him away.