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Has GOT to be the worst...

posted 15 years ago by mjmjbeck
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The Episode dated 2/16/2008 Sarah; Sherman & Dee; Ellen......SPOILERS BELOW

Ellen's story has got to be the worst I have ever heard. A guy in a ninja suit had been hidden in her house for two days and spying on them....when her kids were gone and her husband playing golf her assaults her.

What got me...towards the end when he attacks her with a knife and a hammer...and he tries to stab her in the top of her skull and the knife wont go in, so he takes the hammer and starts to hammer the knife in her head. It took over 600 stitches to close up all her wounds. 18 year old Troy Wigley was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life in prison. COME ON...this is Texas...he should have been convicted of attempted murder or convicted him on a capital crime and he should have gotten the death sentence. This guy was just pure evil.

I don't know how she survived all that...
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[–] sisilovesu 15 years ago

You said everything that I was thinking.

"Why don't you lay back and enjoy being inferior?"

[–] applehead54 15 years ago

although that part was very hard to hear i cringed when she said he put his foot on her shoulder or something to try to get the knife out.

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[–] to_goodu 15 years ago

I think the worst I have heard was Wayne and Mary, who lived next to traintracks when a chlorine spill happened. They kept calling and calling the police for help, who first told them to stay put, then run, then go BACK to their house. Lied to them and told them that Wayne's family near-by had already been rescued (they died before the cops even came to the house), it took the cops/ firemen 6 hours i think to just make it to the house. On top of the the 911 operator told them to get into the shower to decontaminate themselves, which turned the chlorine gas into hydrochloric acid and burned their skin off. The most shocking thing he ever said was that all the stainless steal in the kitchen MELTED. Horrible...

[–] applehead54 15 years ago

yeah every time i look at my fridge i think about that story. i wouldn't know what to do if the metal around my house started to melt and i saw green smoke! it's amazing they are around to tell the story cuz they were already old. unfortunately i think that 911 operator didn't really know how to handle such a situation and pretty much winged it. i mean how many time is there a chlorine spill? it reminded me of sept 911, no one knew what to do. hopefully they can be trained and will be more equipped to help god forbid something like this happens again! the sad part was that they wouldn't allow his son in to help, i think they were gonna arrest him if he went in to try to rescue them. to know someone has that much passion to help you and they can't even try!!!

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[–] Mochi-Phantom 15 years ago

That episode was like the first episode I saw and I just had to watch more. It seriously creeped me out and made me super paranoid.

[–] Mochi-Phantom 15 years ago

Another scary story was the one about that woman (forgot her name) that was driving with her 17 yr old cousin on a deserted freeway and some guy in a truck drove up right next to them and shot her. That was really scary... she got shot with a shotgun and her arm was pretty much blown off. And then her cousin was shot in the face with the shotgun right next to her. Omg, that was crazy...

[–] Zzzz_Zzzz_Zzzz 14 years ago

This was the first one I ever saw too ... freaked me out. The pregnant lady's story was scary as well.

[–] CocktailQueen 14 years ago

Yeah, the one about the overdue pregnant lady who was attacked in another woman's home, then found out she wanted to kill her and take her baby... that was messed up. This show is, without question, the scariest thing I have ever witnessed. You don't need dramatizations and reinactments, they would just fictionalise and cartoonise these real life encounters. Looking into the victims face and hearing them tell their story is horrific enough, in fact I think it's far more effective. There is nothing scarier than reality, and letting your imagination picture what these brave people are saying is by far more horrific than anything they could visually show on TV.

[–] femmefatale3000 13 years ago

I was curious in hearing more about some of the stories, and a Google search brought up some interesting results.
One of the stories involved a woman in rural Texas who was shot through her driver side window in the arm with a shotgun by some crazy guy. He killed her cousin and kidnapped her, but she somehow convinced him to call 911. He got life, but the woman's story doesn't end there. The shotgun injury forced her to leave her job as an EMT, and she collected disability. Then the ambulance company she worked for went out of business, leaving her with nothing. She apparently makes too much to qualify for welfare, and doesn't have the money to have surgery too remove the rest of the buckshot. (Yay for insurance companies!)

The other one I came across was concerning Tracey McSwigin (Now Tracey Attis), the woman who saved her brother from a house fire but lost her mom, dad, and two sisters. Her brother from what I could gather developed a cocaine addiction (not unusual for someone who is exposed to such trauma, they want to numb the pain), which I suspect caused his fatal heart-attack at 31. This hit Tracey very hard and she had a mini breakdown. She checked into a psychiatric hospital with assurance from her boss that her job was safe, but she was fired two days later. She is now suing her former employer saying she was illegally fired because of a mental disability.

[–] Megamel_99 13 years ago

That is awful! Doesn't it seem like some people are just magnets for tragedy?

[–] femmefatale3000 10 years ago

People are not tragedy magnets, Tragedy begets more tragedy.
The fire was started by a carelessly extinguished cigarette. Both of Tracey's parents were smokers.

[–] ecrisisny 13 years ago

The worst for me was the young hitchhiker who got both her arms cut off and had to climb out of a ditch using her stumps. Also the man who lost his entire family in a fire set up by his teen daughter and her boyfriend.

Edit: a few more: the missionary who is taken hostage for like six months and the young girl who was molested and finally moved only to find out the pedophile moved across the street.

[–] harhodes 7 years ago

The hitchhiker episode was a lady named Mary. That story that still haunts me to this day.

I also agree with you on the one with the daughter who sets her own family's house on fire.. This show has shown me how truly cruel and mental people can be in this world..

[–] Jalen_Was_Here 13 years ago

Okay, new worst video:

Jon. The guy that gets his arm stuck in a boiler, then he resorts to cutting it off. While I was watching it, I was cringing and forcing myself not to fast forward through it. That whole scenario was just awful and... God! His description of slicing through his bundle of nerves just made me nauseas and... well, yeah. It's horrendous.
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