Cold Case Files - I SURVIVED: I Was Bleeding Like Water Running Out Of My Chest

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Debbie is taken from her home and sexually assaulted by a man who tells her he and his friend will kill her entire family if she resists. Ray and his friend spend ten hours floating in the Pacific Ocean after engine failure causes their plane to crash on the way to Hawaii. Jasmine is shot six times by her ex who also shoots three of her friends.Apartments.com - To find whatever you’re searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place.Progressive - Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.Stamps - Go to Stamps.com and use code isurvived to get sixty days risk-free!Tempo - Check out TempoMeals.com/SURVIVED for 60% off your first box!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. He said, if you scream and if you turn around, I'm going to kill you. Real people. And we had no lights at that stage, nor had we any electric backup instruments. So I was in this terrible situation of having no instruments to fly the airplane with. Who faced death. He looked like a monster.

Like rage had just taken over him. And lived to tell how. I thought for sure that these men were going to go and kill my husband. This is I Survived. It's March 1989 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Debbie lives in a quiet neighborhood with her husband and two children. Her husband, Rob, a police officer, is working the night shift. That morning I got up and I was going to have an extremely busy day.

I had the children deposited at school and I came back home. and before Rob ever even got home from work, I had the entire upstairs clean. He came home after being up for over 36 hours. He, of course, was exhausted. Rob went upstairs to sleep. I had to make a dessert for dinner with friends that evening. And so as I was plugging in the mixer,

my eyes caught sight of, through the window, of a man in my neighbor's backyard. I thought I'm going to call the police and let them know. As I was doing it, I remembered the phone call that I had gotten from my neighbor the day before. And she had called me and said, Debbie, I just want you to know that I'm going out of town for the weekend, but there will be a landscaper to come by and look at this tree that has died because they need to replace it. He was dressed sort of like a landscaper.

He had on kind of a rubber type of boot that came up to his knee, and he was still actually standing beside the tree that was in question. So I dismissed that as far as being anything that I needed to worry about, thinking it was just a landscaper. Debbie took the trash out to the backyard. And as I came back in, my eyes caught the sight of the dessert. And I said, oh my gosh, I've got to get that into the refrigerator. I had just turned my mixer on, and so I couldn't hear anything.

and all of a sudden I feel an arm around my neck. And I reached up automatically, and I patted the arm. And I said, what are you doing up? Because I thought it was my husband. My eyes went down to the floor, and I caught sight of his boots. And I realized that the man that I had seen in my neighbor's yard was now in my kitchen.

I see this bat come up to my eyes. And he said, if you scream and if you turn around, I'm going to kill you. He set the baseball bat down and picked up my purse and put it on my shoulder. He stuck something in my back. And he said, I have a gun, and I'm going to kill you if you don't cooperate with me.

And then he started walking me out of the house towards the back door. He opened the door that leads into the garage, and he walked me down the steps. And he's constantly telling me, don't turn around. Don't scream. Just do what I tell you to do, and you're going to be all right.

If I'm going to scream, now is the time to do that. But if I scream, my husband, after being awake for so many hours, is going to come down, and he's going to be unaware. unaware of what's going on. And I thought he's going to get killed. He's going to get shot. And I thought, then my children will have nobody. And I thought I can't do this.

I've got to. I've just got to do this and just hope for the best. He takes me down the steps that you have to go down into the garage. His grip loosened up. And so I ran. I ran back up the steps in the garage. And as I was running, just the very tip of my tennis shoe had hit the second step.

And so I fell. And he grabbed hold of me. And he kept telling me that he meant it, that if I tried anything again, that he was going to kill me. I remember thinking that this is it. It's all going to be over now. I'd heard my husband say that statistically, if they take you from the home, that you don't come back alive. He kept saying to me constantly, you remember, I know where you live, and if you tell anybody what's happening, then I'm going to kill you.

We go back out through the back door. I remember having this unbelievable, strong urge to say to him that I was listening to Christian Reef. radio. I'm thinking, this is stupid. Don't tell him that. But I just blurted out. I was listening to Christian radio. And I've got two children. Don't hurt me. And he said, well, I'm going to let you go as soon as we get around this fence, as soon as we get around the corner. The man walked Debbie into the woods behind her house. I thought to myself, I have to be okay. I've made a decision. And I, that decision was to relinquish myself to this man. I may not be alive at the end of this, but that's okay,

because I knew my family would be safe. And I was terrified. When we walked, he walked me further into the woods, and I remind him what he had told me. I said, you told me that you were going to let me go. And he said, well, as soon as the guys get here, then I'm going to let you go. He says, I'm not going to hurt you, but I don't know what they're

going to want to do to you. And I'm thinking, oh my God. One is bad enough. What is going to happen now? So he said, I want you to take off your t-shirt. I'm going to blindfold you with your t-shirt. And I remember just crying and begging him, please don't make me take off my t-shirt.

He said, just take off your t-shirt. So I had to take off my t-shirt. And he blindfolded me. And he kept saying, I don't know where the guys are. And then he walked me further into the woods. And I remember trying to listen for sounds of other feet walking on the leaves. And I couldn't hear anything. And then all of a sudden he says, John, you wait over there.

Then he told me to lay down on the ground. And he started to address me. And he began to rape me. And he kept saying to me, lady, this wasn't supposed to happen like this. I just began to pray. The only prayer that came to mind was the Lord's Prayer. The more I prayed, the angrier he got. Something in me just kept saying, keep saying it.

And so I did. And over and over again, and he'd interrupt me, and I couldn't think of the rest, so I'd go right back to the beginning again. Our father, who art in heaven, shut up, lady, and I'd just start all over again. And then all of a sudden, he just stopped. and he helped me get up, and he helped me to get my jeans back on.

He kept saying, I don't mean to be touching you like this lady. There was almost a compassion for him that was so totally confusing to me because I thought, this man has just raped me, and now I'm feeling sorry for him. Something is wrong here. As I'm thinking that I should run, I'm thinking, direction. I've never, I had never been in those woods before, sighted much less with a blindfold on. He still had a hold of me, and I could hear him going through my purse. He pulled my

wallet out, and he said, I know you've got to have more money than this lady. And I said, I don't. This is all the money I have. And he said, lady, I know living in a house like that, you've got to have more money. I thought that perhaps if I could get him to take me home, that my husband would hear our voices in the hallway and that his training as a police officer would just kick into gear knowing that there was a strange voice. And I said, I have $50 in my drawer upstairs.

It was the first time through the whole thing that I really thought that I might have a chance to live. And all of a sudden, he just said, who's upstairs, lady? Is your husband asleep upstairs? And I said, no, no, no, there's nobody home. There's nobody home. He just grabbed me, and he said, he's home asleep, isn't he? And I finally just started crying, and I said, yes.

And as soon as I got it out of my mouth, I thought, oh my God, now I may have cost my husband his life as well. I thought for sure that these men were going to go away. would kill my husband. And I just, I was so upset with myself that I could have given him up that way. But all of a sudden, the mood changed again. And he told me to take the blindfold off.

And he kept saying to me the whole time, Lady, I'm telling you, don't you tell anybody about this? He said, because if you do, I'm going to come back and I'm going to kill you and I'm going to kill your family. You remember, I know where you're going to tell you. live. He said, last week, there, you know, me and the guys, there was another lady, and she told, and they went back and they killed her. And I just told him, I said, I won't, I promise I won't, I won't tell anybody. He said, you better not turn around because I'm going to shoot you. He said,

and you just act like you've been for a stroll in the woods. When you get home, just tell your husband that you fell down or something. He said, if you go straight through there, he said, but you'll see your neighbor's homes. So I began to walk away from him. I'm thinking, okay, there's no way he's letting me go. And I truly expected to feel a bullet in my back. And all of a sudden I hear him holler, lady, and I stopped, and I said, what? And he said, you keep listening to that Christian radio.

So I start walking again, and all of a sudden, I hear again. And lady, and I stopped, and I said, what? And he said, lock your doors. And I just started running. And I ran like my life depended on it. When I got to the house, I put my hand on the doorknob. And I thought, oh my God, what if the men are in the house? Is my husband dead?

I got to my back door. And as I reached for the handle, of the door. I hesitated because I thought, oh my God, he's only let me go because the guys are in my house. But I've got to go in. Then I could at least call 911. So I went in, and of course nobody was there.

I ran upstairs, and I woke my husband up with the only words I could get out of my mouth. And I just screamed, he got me, Rob. He got me. When my husband began to call him, the police. I kept screaming, no, no, no, you can't. You can't tell anybody because he's going to come back and he's going to kill us. He was just kind of holding on to me and telling me it was going to be all right. He says, I have to call the police. A backlog in DNA processing meant that Debbie's

attacker was not identified. It was over six years before a match was found. My husband shows up at the door. And he hands me the composite that was drawn after I was raped. And he said, here, you can throw this away. We don't need it anymore. And I looked at him and I said, what? And he said, we got him. We know who he is. Not only did they know who he was, but that he was already in prison. And actually, he had been incarcerated six months after he was. raped me. Norman Jimerson was in prison for abducting two women after Debbie's attack. He was sentenced to two life terms plus 25 years for the attack on Debbie. I believe I survived because he made a connection between my prayers that I had prayed, the Christian radio station that I

had told him about, and his Christian grandmother, who had actually raised him. And he, and he And I think that it's why he let me walk out, is that he remembered that grandmother, and that he dearly loved, and he knew what this would do to her. Once they had identified my attacker, I realized this flood of peace that had come over me. And I wanted to find a way to offer that same sense of justice, that same sense of peace to other rape victims.

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Ray has been a professional pilot for over 30 years. One of the things that some pilots can do, and I'm one of, and I became a ferry pilot, and we deliver airplanes worldwide to anywhere from anywhere. Ray is delivering a single-engine plane from the USA to Australia. The longest oceanic crossing in the world is between the west coast of America and Hawaii. There is nothing in between. Ray's friend, Shane, was the co-pilot for the crossing. It was to be his first and only very flight and he was doing it for the adventure.

We departed out of Santa Barbara early one morning about 5.30 local time and proceeded till we got about halfway and I was having a little nap. And when I woke up, Shane said to me, I've been watching that oil pressure gauge and it's gone from the hard right-hand side there to about the six. center and I said, oh boy, I'm getting out the Coast Guard. And he said, really? When the oil pressure drops in an aircraft or any engine, in the long term is going to mean the engine is going to seize, fail. Maybe it was only the gauge, but maybe not. Ray contacted the U.S. Coast Guard in Hawaii. Just as they started to call me on the radio and talked to me about where we are, I did notice that the

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And in any case, I knew that if you turn around and go back and you ditch you're in, getting into very cold water, you're far better off to, you're going to ditch this aircraft to be in warm water close to Hawaii. We both put on our life jackets and discussed that we should make sure that everything at the rear of the airplane is as secure as it can.

cancer doesn't come forward and hit us on the head. Shane and I discussed the situation on whether we should make the ditching by while it was still daylight or whether we should proceed on. The pressure on you to continue on is great. You don't really want to go down into the water. And so we made a bad decision that we continue on. Two hours from Hawaii, the engine exploded, damaging the battery. The radio, I couldn't really talk on the.

The radio was gone, everything had gone. We were there in a box, in a black hole. That's really all it was. And we had no lights at that stage, nor had we any electric backup instruments. So I was in this terrible situation of having no instruments to fly the airplane with. Ray had to glide the plane down at night through a layer of cloud.

It is impossible for any human being to maintain direction or to keep the airplane upright if they do not. have instruments in front of them. I knew, of course, as a long time instructor, that if you lose sight of the instruments or don't pay attention to the instruments, the airplane is going to come out in a big spiral dive. It's a very dangerous maneuver and it's killed a lot of people. I didn't know whether the airplane was turning left or right. There was no instruments that I could actually fly the airplane on. So I took my hands off the control column. I could control the rate of descent because

we had an instrument in the airplane that's not reliant upon engine power. Fortunately for me, the airplane came out at the bottom of the cloud, about 2,000 feet above sea level. A U.S. Coast Guard plane that was following them dropped a line of flares. Shane called out that he could see

the lights that had been dropped in the ocean by the Coast Guard over on his left-hand side and I turned over that way. Got leveled with the water and there was nothing much that we could do but just hang on and I held the airplane level till it just flopped onto the water. Amazingly, the airplane didn't turn upside down.

I got out on the right-hand wing, opened the door, I still had dry feet. And Shane handed me the life raft. And I deployed the life raft, and unfortunately the life raft did not work. I said we should get off the rear of the wing of the aircraft because it will sink nose forward. The engine being the heaviest part of the airplane. it will go down like the Titanic. Wearing life jackets, Ray and Shane jumped into the ocean.

The airplane slowly goes down until it's gone, disappeared, and that is an eerie feeling. My trousers became a problem. I had $3,500 US dollars in my pocket and $1,200 Australian. They kept slipping down a little bit, and I kept tightening the belt, and that was uncomfortable. well, so I decided that I would just undo the belt and let them go. Money is not everything, and my life was more valued to that,

so I had to prevent myself from drowning. The big problem out there in this sort of situation is to prevent yourself from drowning. The Coast Guard was circling over the top of us, and I did not realize that they could not see us. After a short time, they went back to her way. So I wasn't really too upset about it. I knew that we could float around in the water there for some time.

I knew that help was there. They'd been there with us. They were going to continue to support us. I was very aware of that. Shane probably wasn't as much aware when he said he hoped they would come back. I said, I'm sure they'll come back. They'll be back there. We had a survival beacon.

And this beacon puts out a frequency which overflying airplanes can detect and they can find the position of you in the ocean. And unfortunately, I didn't know at the time, but this beacon did not work. It was brand new. Ray and Shane were battling against nine-foot-high waves. It was pitch-black dark.

We had no idea where the wave was coming from or whether we'd turned around or which direction we were going to hit by a wave next time. And so after a period of time, probably two to three hours, I'd taken a lot of water in to my stomach. And I said to Shane, this salt water in my stomach's really making me feel bad. And he said, you will have to make yourself sick. He said, you know the old trick, put your fingers down your throat.

It's the most awful thing I've ever done. After the fourth time when I've omitted, I was feeling very weak. I was just concerned that I wouldn't be able to go forever like this. We were busily waving these little tiny lights that are attached on a string to the life jacket. to the life jacket. And we were waving these about because we felt that they would see them and perhaps drop us a life raft.

Using night vision equipment, the U.S. Coast Guard spotted Ray and Shane. The thing that we didn't realize is that they weren't going to deploy life rafts at night because at nighttime you wouldn't see it. So they did not drop life rafts to us. But what they did was put four big lights around us, probably three or four hundred yards apart, and we were in the middle of that.

During the night with the Coast Guard airplane above us, Shane said to me, there's a wreck of a ship on a reef over there. My eyes were badly affected by saltwater all night. I was getting to the stage where I could barely see. I wondered whether it was getting to Shane, whether he's losing mind. I said, Shane, I can assure you that there is no reef. He said, I'm sure it's a ship on a reef. I'm going to go over and see about it.

I crested a fairly large wave, and even with my eyes, I said as poor as was, I could see very plainly that there was a ship standing by there. A Croatian ship had responded to a call from the US Coast Guard. Shane swam over, and I swam over very slowly because I was very weak. When I got there, despite shouting and things, nobody seemed to give me any attention.

and I was flabbergasted this. I was trying to swim to the rear of the ship to grab a hold of anything to hang on. Shane tried to get on to a walkway that they'd let down and he couldn't get on it. And so what they had done is through him Life Boys and he had got in, hung onto one of those and they put a lot of ropes on it

and they hauled him up over the side of the ship. All of a sudden I could hear feet running and when they got down, they yelled out to me, grab a hold of this, and they threw me out a life boy, and they pulled me into the ship. It was a very modern ship that had like a little hospital on board, which was great. Ray was treated for dehydration after being in the ocean for over 10 hours. Ray and Shane were then safely transported to Hawaii. I survived, because of my experience, as a flight instructor, that would enable me to get the airplane down.

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It's June 2002 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jasmine shares an apartment with her high school friend, Miranda. Miranda's two children are spending the weekend with their father, Ron. Her relationship with Ron was kind of on and off. They had like a custody agreement where every other weekend would be either her weekend with the children or his weekend with the children. Ron wanted Miranda to go to a family function with him and the children. And this was his weekend with the children. And she wanted to kind of relax and kind of take a break.

really didn't want to go. Miranda and I got to Ron's house, and Miranda told Ron that she wanted to help him get the children dressed for the open house, but she didn't want to go. He was upset. They argued. He put us out, and he kept the children. And then at that point, we got in the car,

and me and Miranda left. Ron was calling Miranda. was calling Miranda's phone. He was telling her he's going to get at her. And she would ask me what that meant. And I didn't know. I'm like, well, maybe he just doesn't want to talk to you anymore or it didn't make sense to me, so I didn't know what to tell her.

It seemed like it was something that after maybe a few hours, he would be OK. He seemed heated at the moment, but it didn't seem like it was something that was going to last. At that point, You know, I kind of calm Miranda down and told her it would be okay. Just let them calm down. Jasmine took Miranda home and invited their friends, Fred and Kevin, over for dinner.

And we were all hanging out, laughing. Fred was very jokey type of a person, very silly. Make everybody laugh. Ron was calling Miranda throughout the night while we were there, but she wasn't answering. Around 9 o'clock, we hear a knock at the door. Miranda looks out the peephole and sees that it's Ron and she tells all of us to be quiet

if we're quiet he'll go away and then I get harder and harder and I look at her and I'm like Miranda I don't think he's going away Ron starts talking through the door he's like basically telling us Miranda I know you're in there you need to open up the door at that point I get scared

I asked Miranda, you know, can I call the police? And she tells me, no, Jasmine, if you call the police, he's going to try to take my children. Miranda didn't want to do anything to aggravate him to where she would lose her children. Her children were her life. So maybe about 15 minutes, he leaves. He walks down the stairs.

Maybe five minutes later, we hear him talking through the door again. So he's back. And I hear a gun cock. I told them he has a gun. And they're like, no. I'm like, yes, he has a gun. I knew Ron since I was 16 years old. I just didn't see him as a murderer or a killer.

Maybe two minutes later, he kicks the door. The dead boat chain everything. The door just flies open, one kick. my heart stopped because I really didn't know what was about to happen and he was standing there and he was breathing hard and he looked

like a monster. Like rage had just taken over him. Maybe the gun was just to intimidate us. But when he raised it, I knew at that point he was going to pull the trigger. He took about two steps

towards Fred and Fred at that point looks at Kevin like what's going on. And Ron puts the gun up to Fred's head and pulls the trigger. I seen Fred's eyes kind of roll in the back of his head and he fell off the couch and I knew he was dead. Once he pulls the trigger and shoots Fred in the head,

I kind of like froze. After he shot Fred, he turned the gun. on Kevin, and he shot Kevin twice, and Kevin slumped over. But Kevin had this smile on his face. So the whole time I was thinking Kevin was alive. Miranda, she was standing next to Ron, and she was pleading, kind of almost tugging on him,

trying to get him to stop. After he shot Kevin, he turned the gun on me. I just seemed like my whole life, flash in front of me because I felt like at that point, I'm about to die. And he was unloading. He shot at me 11 times. I was struck a total of six times.

I remember looking down and seeing these big, open areas, and I was bleeding like water running out of my chest. And I just kept thinking to myself, I've been shot. Like, all of that that I'm I've been through, it's really over now because this is the end. I'm dying. The whole time he was unloading on me, Miranda was crying and pleading. She couldn't get him to stop. She took off running into the bedroom. He went after her. And they were in the bedroom, Miranda and Ron, for maybe a minute or two, and it was quiet. Two minutes later, I heard.

I knew she was dead. Something came over me and was like, Jasmine, if you don't play dead, he's gonna kill you. And I kind of hung my head and held my breath. He stepped on Fred on his way out. He did not run. He did not run down the stairs. He walked out.

He sat outside in his car, and I knew if I moved, he would see me, and he would come back up. and he would come back upstairs and kill me. I'm dying slowly, like this blood was just pouring, like a water fountain, just out of my chest. And I just remember it being real warm. And I was soaked.

Blood was everywhere. I still didn't know if I was going to live or die. So I waited for his car to start and drive off. I was terrified, scared. I was bleeding, like water coming out of my chest. Once he did drive off, I kind of put my hands, like, over my chest where I was shot and kind of pressed down so that I could get up to get the phone. I sat down and I called the police, but my mind was just gone.

I was terrified. I was scared. The 911 caller kept asking me, where was I? and all I could remember was our apartment number. And I was so scared I couldn't keep talking. And, you know, even though they tried to kind of have a conversation with me, I dropped the phone. And I lay there and I prayed because I felt like I was dying slowly. I kept trying to breathe and try to calm myself down.

And I kept singing. Every church song I could think of. I just kept singing over and over again because I thought, if I kept myself calm and keep myself awake, maybe I'll be okay. The emergency services were able to trace Jasmine's call. There was a sheriff that came in, and he checked the people that were unconscious first, and he told me, your friends are dead. You need to tell me who did this to you.

And I was so scared I couldn't say his name. And when I lay there and I looked up at the pictures of the children, And the sheriff asked me again, who did this to you? And I still couldn't say his name. I just looked up and I said, the kid's father. And the sheriff was like, okay. Jasmine was rushed to the hospital. I was shot in my face, and the bullet was a hollow point.

So it left a big hole, and the bullet slid to my neck. I was shot right above my heart. It was a hollow point that didn't explode. If that bullet would have exploded, it would have blew my heart away and I would have died. Ron Covington Jr. turned himself in six days after the shooting. He was convicted of murder and attempted murder and received three life sentences plus 55 years. I wasn't mad at him. I forgave him.

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