![]() I said, "If I get out of this alive, he is not gonna get away with it.". And I remember saying to him "You need to loosen these, I can't feel my fingers" and there was no emotion - he said nothing.I remember getting this image of my mom getting a phone call that I had been murdered.and I remember at that point I started to cry and the tears had loosened the Band-Aids and I was able to see even a little bit more.And I made a vow to myself in that car. It struck me as very odd that his car was parked so close to mine and there was nobody else in the parking lot.Īfter I tried to escape, he took my hands behind my back in a very forceful way and tied them really tight behind my back with these zip ties. ANGELA ROSE'S STORYĪngela Rose: To this day it still haunts me to think that he had stalked me. Would you do that? I don't know if I could do that. This young woman had the guts to try to jump out of a moving car to try to save herself. Maureen Maher | "48 Hours" Correspondent: How does someone survive something like this? In 25 years of being a reporter, that's probably one of the most consistent questions. That's when I realized this could potentially be the last day of my life that this guy might kill me." but he was too fast and he grabbed me by my shirt with both hands and he said, "You try that s- again b- and your face won't be so pretty anymore." And I thought to myself, "If I could just get out of the car, even if I rolled out, if I broke my leg or broke my arm, at least I'd be free." And so I can remember just taking a huge deep breath and trying to undo the seatbelt and get out of the car door. I saw that my seatbelt was on, the knife was put down at that point, and he's got both hands on the steering wheel. he didn't know that I could see, but I could see down to either side, to the left and to the right. And I kept them behind my back and I surveyed the situation. He started to drive slowly out of the mall parking lot, and he didn't know this, but I was able to wriggle my hands free. And after he put the Band-Aids over my eyes he put sunglasses on my face.Everything happened so methodically, and I knew in my gut that this was not his first crime. And he had taken these Band-Aids and put them to conceal my eyes. And with the knife still held at my throat, he threw me into his car.Īnd he had taken my wrists and used plastic zip ties, and bound my hands behind my back. I was so scared and, his car was parked just a couple of steps away from mine. I offered him the money that was in my purse, and he said "It's not your money that I want." And those words made my stomach drop. I was excited to go to a graduation party so I had asked my boss if I could get off of work early and where we had to park a lot that was the employee lot across the street, and I had a CD in my hand as I'm singing out loud and as I'm walking, I almost felt like there was somebody behind me, and I stopped and I turned around and about 10 or 15 feet - there was somebody that was following me.Īnd I glanced around and there was nobody else in the parking lot.And a lot of my gut instincts told me to run, to get away, but I didn't listen and I walked towards my car and I put the key into the lock and all of a sudden this shadow came up to my left and I was grabbed from behind and there was a knife pressed at my throat. It was a bright sunny evening in a suburb of Chicago, I was working at a shopping mall, I was 17 years old, and I had just graduated from high school. When I see that on television it just almost paralyzes me. and live to tellĪngela Rose | Survivor: The one thing that still really bothers me and brings me back, I can't see on TV anybody getting their throat cut. "48 Hours" Live to Tell: I Remember Everything 44:20
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