Charisma Carpenter is the survivor of a real-life incident that she endured more than 20 years ago. The actress and her two friends were swimming at San Diego's Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991 when they were violently attacked by an armed serial rapist. Carpenter fought for her survival after being held at gunpoint, but her two friends were both shot and seriously wounded by the attacker. In the first episode of the series Charisma tells her incredible story of survival in raw emotional detail about what happened that night.
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-old'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.
A woman and man are brutally attacked by their friends.
A predator kidnaps a woman and shoots her husband in broad daylight.
After good deeds are done, Rhoda and Amy are attacked but live to tell of how they fought off the deranged attackers.
Two women fight for their lives; ex-husband ready to dispose of his wife; homicidal attacker in school.
Three women are victimized by familiar faces; they survive by any means necessary.
This first episode of this highly successful returning series tells the horrific kidnapping ordeal of the Tiede sisters after having experienced their family murdered before them.
In Kokomo, Indiana, 21-year-old Anita Wooldridge is abducted and locked in a metal cabinet hundreds of miles from home. Repeatedly raped, she struggles to stay alive. Meanwhile, the FBI joins the search to find her before it's too late.
Family members arrive at their vacation home in Utah to discover that two violent criminals have ransacked the cabin where they intended to celebrate Christmas.
A deadly sociopath on a killing spree, Peter John Peters has already left two bodies in his wake. And now he's parked outside a Niagara Falls area bank where he abducts 28-year-old Sandie Bellows at knifepoint.
A man goes on a cocaine-fueled rampage in a Texas border town, targeting a neighbor who is determined to save her children even if it means sacrificing her own life.
A Texas schoolteacher is abducted in the middle of the night by a gun-toting stranger with a sinister plan. Meanwhile, an Ottawa woman's casual dating experience proves anything but when her former lover shows up with a gun and a deadly promise.
Amy Collinsworth is happily married, but when she begins asserting her independence her partner Billy goes ballistic. Amy eventually threatens to leave, and that's when her deranged and sadistic husband unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
A pretty college student working as a bartender in suburban Illinois, Katy Sharp is saving up for her upcoming move to Nashville when she is kidnapped and held hostage by a drug-dealing psychopath who enjoys torturing his victims.
A recent Tennessee high school grad finds herself in the grasp of an aggressive and drug-crazed local thug. Meanwhile, a lonely Alabama divorcee falls for a Latin lover who proves to be a sadistic villain with murder on his mind.
A group of violent and sadistic thugs overpower and abduct 19-year-old Kim Case from her driveway. And although they torture and rape her throughout the night, she ultimately proves to be a more formidable adversary than they ever imagined.
A young woman is plunged into the dark side of Detroit when a night on the town leaves her stranded on the freeway and in the clutches of an armed gang of thugs on a violent crime spree.
A San Diego high school student's new dream job turns into a nightmare when she is instead confined to a motel room and forced to work seven days a week for a string of violent clients.
Trapped in an abusive relationship with a psychotic drug-addicted monster, a Texas woman digs deep to turn the tables on her captor and saves herself and her three daughters from certain death.
After two college students are abducted at knifepoint, they fight for survival in the desert, and only one will make it out alive.
In Miami, a woman is carjacked from the parking lot of her church, and she must comply with her kidnapper's demands to protect her children who are strapped in the backseat of her minivan.
Domestic violence survivor Heather Imming is determined to build a new life for her and her daughter, but her husband is waiting in the shadows for an opportunity to strike a lethal blow.
Known for raping his victims and butchering them in their bathtubs, a serial killer is terrorizing the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, and 22-year-old Adriane Fields cannot shake the feeling that she will be next.
A stay-at-home mother's life is shattered when she becomes the target of a neighbor who has rape and murder on his mind.
After enduring unspeakable acts of violence and torture, an abducted woman plays dead in order to survive.
A 2005 case from Texas: while driving on a highway, a woman and her cousin are shot by another driver. She suffers a nearly severed arm; and her cousin, just 18 years old, is killed.
