Transcript
Narrator (0:00)
This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
Anita (0:07)
That's when he told me he didn't take me to rob me. He had sexual needs and I was there to fulfill them.
Narrator (0:14)
Real people.
Jim (0:15)
The wounds were like somebody taking a branding iron and branded me. It wasn't blood. It was melted flesh and body parts.
Narrator (0:26)
Who faced death.
Sabray (0:28)
I couldn't breathe. I'm losing it. And I just. Everything just tunneled out and lights out.
Narrator (0:35)
And live to tell how.
Anita (0:37)
And then he would offer me dinner, watch a movie and he would rape me again before he would put me in the box for the night.
Narrator (0:45)
This is I survived. It's June 1998 in Kokomo, Indiana. Anita is a 21 year old who lives with her parents. She has just finished college and is working the afternoon shift at the post office.
Anita (1:06)
My mom came in on the morning of June 25th and woke me up, told me I need to be up and doing stuff and, you know, just graduated college and wanted to sleep in. And at that time she left for work and I went back to sleep for a few hours.
Narrator (1:21)
By 10am both of Anita's parents had gone to work.
Anita (1:24)
And the next thing I know, the telephone's ringing and the door, there's a knock on the door and I answered the phone, ran over, answered the door and Victor Steele was at the door.
Narrator (1:36)
Anita had previously worked at a gym where Victor Steele was a member.
Anita (1:41)
He was a loner, just kind of kept to himself. He treated all the women kind of like he was interested in them and just wanted someone to hang out with or wanted a girlfriend, that kind of feeling. The gym closed in May of 97 and I started a job at another place. So I hadn't seen Victor Steele in over a year. I just woke up. It didn't have time to hit me on. Why is he here? He asked for a glass of water. I know he rode his bike. It was really hot out that day. It just. It never really dawned on me that, hey, why is he at my house asking for a glass of water? I had stepped on a tack on the way to the door and I bent over to clean up the blood from my toe and I felt this shock in my back, an electrical current. And I started screaming and fighting. I didn't know what was going on. My mind just went like in panic mode. I was, what was that? What's going on? I didn't know what it was. He hit me again and I could just feel the electrical currents and I'm still fighting. And at that time, he reached around the front of me. And when he reached around, that's when I could see it was a stun gun. And when it hit me, then I lost all control of my legs and fell to the ground. When I fell to the ground, he put his knee in my back and started tying me up. And my mind's like, what is going on? And he starts talking. He says, I'm gonna rob you. I need money. I need to know where your bank account is, what your PIN numbers are. He tied me up with zip ties. He put my hands behind my back and put those on my hands and my feet and told me he was very serious about this and pulled a handgun out, even unloaded it, like, to show me there was bullets in it, and put it back in. And he's shaking the whole time, and I'm just like, put it away. I believe you. I believe you're serious. Because, you know, he's shaking, and I'm thinking at any time, this could go off and he could kill me by accident. He put the gun away, and he said, you know, I'm gonna go get the money in your purse and stuff. And I'm thinking, it's all gonna be over in the next few minutes. He's gonna be gone. And he tells me he has to take me with him.
