Cold Case Files - I SURVIVED: I Was Looking Right At The Devil's Face

Episode Date: August 2, 2025

Kara is 15-years-old when she is abducted and raped by a serial killer. Dan is a photographer documenting aid work in Haiti when an earthquake collapses the hotel he is in. Tamecka is attacked by her neighbor with scissors after allowing him to use her phone.Mint - To get the new customer offer and your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month, go to Mintmobile.com/survivedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I Survived listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson, and if you're enjoying this show, I just want to remind you that episodes of I Survived, as well as the A&E Classic Podcasts, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, and American Justice, are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation Channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. And now on to the show. This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. He put me in the container again and gag me and tied me and put the lid on. Real people. If I had to give the devil a face, I would say I was looking right at the devil's face. Who faced death? In the exhaustion and in the despair, I thought, I'm going to die here. This is it.

And live to tell how. He would force me to do things that were shocking to a 15-year-old at the time. This is I Survived. It's June 2002 in West Columbia, South Carolina. 15-year-old Kara is staying at a friend's house for a few days. She is alone outside in the yard when she notices a car driving by. I noticed the car because it was a car that I liked, and I saw it driving on the way out of the neighborhood.

Not too much later, the same car drove back by, like coming back into the the neighborhood and pulled into the driveway. The guy got out and he was clean cut, middle-aged, white guy, and he was carrying some magazines in his hands. And he came over to me and he said, I'm selling these magazines today. And he asked me if my parents were home. I told him that it wasn't my house, it's my friend's house. And he said, okay, well, what about her or her parents home?

So she's actually inside, I said, but her mom's working right now. He said, well, maybe I could just give you these magazines. And he came towards me with the magazines. And he had the magazines in his left hand. And he reached out to give them to me. He stepped into my personal space and came around with his right hand with a small pistol to the side of my neck. He told me if I screamed, he would shoot me.

And I was just, it was disbelief. It was kind of, this isn't happening. I couldn't really believe. And then the second thing that went through my mind is I'm in a neighborhood. There's tons of houses that can see me right now. And of course, you know, it's the middle of the day, so people were probably working. But all these houses, nobody sees this. He walked me around to the driver's side of his car and opened the door and put the seat forward.

And he told me to get in the car. And I looked in the back seat and there's a big plastic container in the back seat. and it took up the whole back seat, basically. And I said, where do you want me to go? And he said, get in the container. So I got in the container in the back seat and kind of had to curl up, and then he put the seat forward, got in the car,

and closed the door, and just drove out of the neighborhood. I couldn't see out the windows or anything because I was in the container, but I was just paying attention to the turns he was making so I could figure out where I was going. I felt the car get on the interstate. And once it got on the interstate, I knew it was really no point. I wasn't going to be able to figure out where we were going from there.

A few minutes later, the gunman pulls over and stops. It was the kind of car that has a hatchback, and so I could see a little bit out of the top of the hatchback. I could see some trees. And so I guess he pulled off the side of the road somewhere. And at that point, he tied my hands and my feet and gagged me and put the lid on. It was like a supernatural calm came over me. was able to keep a level head.

He wanted my fear, and he wanted me to cry, and he wanted me to yell and scream, and I wasn't gonna give him that satisfaction. The gunman drives back onto the interstate highway. 20 minutes later, the car stops again. And when he stopped, he got out of the car and put the seat forward and picked up the whole container with me in it, the lid on, picked it up,

and carried it. And I could hear people like this, sounds of people, cars, people talking. I could hear that outside of the container. And it was the absolute worst feeling knowing that I'm in this container this close to people and they have no idea that I'm here. He carried the container a short way, not too far.

And then I could feel it be set down on concrete. And then he drug it a little ways. And I could tell he drug it over a threshold and shut the door and I knew where it was going from there. I realized that I was in his house and I knew what was coming next. He opened the container and he untied my hands and my feet and my mouth and explained to me

that he had a gun and that I was not to scream or do anything foolish. And at that point, he walked me into his bedroom. I noticed whenever he walked me from the front door to the bedroom. There were lots of little animals. I think there were hamsters and there were fish and birds and I believe a guinea pig. There was lots of little animals in the apartment. It's like an entertainment center filled with like little cages. The gunman orders Kara to undress and take a shower. He then sexually assaults her. There was all sorts of S&M equipment and

adult paraphernalia kind of around and in drawers that he used while was there. He would ask me to do things. And obviously, I felt like I had no choice because there was a gun with an arms link from him at any given time. He mentioned at one point that I was calm. It's like, you don't seem upset. And I said I was scared, but

I just knew that I had to stay calm. He told me throughout, you know, multiple times he told me, I'm going to let you go when this is over. I'm going to let you go. Kara's abductor is an unidentified serial killer. He has already kidnapped and murdered three young girls. He told me that he was going to ask me some questions about myself. And so he got out some paper and began asking me questions.

Like, are you a virgin? How old am I? Where do I live? What school do I go to? Do I have a boyfriend? and then he wrote down all the answers on his piece of paper. I guess I thought maybe he was writing it down for his own record. He would make me do things that I didn't want to do.

And he would threaten me with punishment or pain. And he always had that gun somewhere nearby. So he would always force me to do things that I didn't want to do that were shocking to to a 15-year-old at the time. I knew that I had to continue to gather as much information as I could. Whenever I was in the bathroom, I noticed things that a woman would have if a woman lived there.

It's like a lady's hairbrush, hairspray, ladies' razors, things that a woman would leave behind if she was living somewhere. I also realized, you know, there were long red hairs in the brush, so I knew it was a red-headed lady. I discovered he had a wife whenever he told me he had to call her. And then I was going to have to go back into the container and that I was not to make any sort of noise or he would kill me. And so he took me in the bedroom and the container was on the bed and he put me in the container again and gagged me and tied me and put the lid on.

I was in there for at least 30 minutes and I began frantically sobbing at one point because I couldn't breathe. He came in there and was very angry and asked me, what is the problem? Why are you sobbing? I told you you can't make noise and I told him it's because I couldn't breathe. So at that point, he took the guy out of my mouth and he left the top off.

And he said, you know, I'm going to do this, but you can't scream. And so he went back and continued his phone conversation and I didn't make a noise and I just stayed there. After the phone call, the gunman makes Kara take a valium. It made me very sleepy, and the marijuana that he made me smoke did the same thing. He had smoked marijuana, and he'd taken a volume, so I knew that I was feeling relaxed, so I figured he was, too.

In the bedroom, the gunman puts handcuffs on Kara. He attaches a rope to the cuffs with a sea clamp and ties the rope to the bed. He had some restraints on my ankles. It's just like a leather buckle restraint. That was his way of ensuring that I couldn't go anywhere, and then he fell asleep, and so did I. At dawn the next morning, Kara suddenly wakes up. I just kind of laid there for a second, and I knew it was like a light bulb being turned on. I knew this is it, and this is the only chance you're going to get.

I slowly began to explore how I was restrained. He was in the same bed as me, so I knew any fast, or, you know, drastic movements, and he would be awake and it was going to be bad. Kara's handcuffs are secured with a sea clamp, which is tied to the bed with a rope. The first thing I did was work on the sea clamp where my hands were restrained, and it was difficult for me to twist it at that angle, so I actually ended up having to use my teeth to untwist the sea clamp to loosen it up. And once I loosened it, then I was able to undo it with my hands and slide it slowly out.

Kara manages to pull one hand out of the handcuffs and then undo the leg restraint. And then I just slowly kind of slid out of the bed just as smoothly as I could. And I went into the living room and I found my shoes and all of my clothes and I got everything on and got dressed and I flung open the door And I just ran.

And I saw a white car driving across the parking lot. And I had handcuffs stangling from one hand. And I had, you know, a leg restraint on one of my legs. And I jumped down in front of the car and there were two men in it. They were bewildered. They looked at me like, what is going on? And I said, I was just kidnapped. I was raped.

I said, take me to the police station. A police officer calls Kara's mother to tell her Kara has been found. And I could hear her. over the phone and he said we have your daughter here and I could hear her voice and she was like Kara you have Kara she was hysterical she was like I'll be there as soon as I can Kara's taken back to the apartment block by the police officers she is unable to identify the apartment while we were riding around we saw like a maintenance guy and a golf cart driving around the apartment complex and we told the guy about all the things that I knew that's the middle-aged guy

that there was a woman, a younger woman living there with long red hair, there's animals, and just the things that I'd gathered. And he was like, I think I know what apartment you're talking about. And he spouted off a number. And so just from that, they already had an idea of who it was. Kara's abductor had fled, but was caught three days later at a roadblock. Before he could be arrested, he shot himself in the head and died. At first, when I heard that he killed himself, the first thought was, gosh, I just got cheated.

I wanted to sit across from him in a courtroom, and I wanted him to look at me and realize that I was the biggest mistake he ever made. But then, probably within a day or two, I started to think about it, and I realized that that was the best thing. because going to court and dredging up all the, all the gory, you know, details, just that my parents didn't need to hear that. After his death, evidence was found in the man's apartment that linked him to the murders of three young girls. There was a reward for anyone who could find information leading to the capture or the identification of who killed these girls. And it was a $150,000 reward. and they gave it to me, which is how I put myself through college, it's how I paid my bills when I was in college,

and I happened to find a job that I absolutely love. Kara is now a sheriff's deputy in Richland County, South Carolina. Being kidnapped is a horrible thing, but it's something that happened to me. It's what made me who I am, and it led me to where I am today. I survived because I was able to keep a calm demeanor. I was able to find a way out,

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It's January 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Dan has been commissioned by an aid agency to photograph their work in Haiti. We chose Haiti because we knew it was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. And so we knew that would be a great place to really understand the impact of poverty on mothers and children and to see the impact of the work. Dan and a colleague finished filming and returned to their hotel in Porta Prince. So we were walking through the lobby toward the stairs and then all of a sudden I heard the

sound before anything else, just explosive sounds all around, and I could even feel the sounds in my chest of just the loudest sounds I'd ever heard. And I started to feel the ground move underneath me, and I started to see the walls ripple, and things started to fall around me. Having grown up in Southern California, I knew that it was an earthquake right away. Then within three seconds, the hotel had collapsed around me, and I was plunged into darkness. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck 16 miles west of Porta Prince. At first, because everything was so completely dark, I actually wondered if I was alive. But I felt pain in the back of my head and on my leg.

And so that told me that I was alive. And then I wondered if I was blind because no matter what I did, I couldn't see anything. In the midst of the crashing, in the midst of the breaking sounds, I did hear some other voices. and I was hoping one of them was my colleague, but I never heard his voice. I yelled out for help. I yelled out to God for help, and it was just all so chaotic.

Going from being able to see into this blue sky, gorgeous blue sky, to just absolute darkness. There was chaos, and I'm yelling out, and just crying out for my colleague, yelling out to God, God save us. Dan's head and leg have been badly injured by falling debris. Then I wondered if I was blind because no matter what I did, I couldn't see anything.

I feel a wall or the ceiling actually to the back of my head. While I'm doing that, my hand bumps into my camera and I realize that I still have my camera around my neck. And so I touch one of the buttons on the camera and I see the light on the camera. So I realize I'm not blind. So I start to shine the camera around me using the focus flash.

And then I took a picture and then looked on the back of the camera and realized, okay, this is a new way that I can see. There's just broken concrete and glass and wood everywhere around me. My first concern was I knew that there would be aftershocks. I've got six stories of cement floors that could push this down and could crush this. And so I realized I need to get out of here. Dan remembers he has his cell phone with him.

I pulled that out and of course right away I tried to get a signal and I tried to send a text message but there was no signal on the phone. There was a support beam next to me that had kind of hemmed me in and so I leaned my camera underneath the beam and took a picture into the space beyond and I looked at the back of the camera and I saw what I thought was a shower stall and I realized that it was the elevator.

car and that miraculously the elevator was on the lobby floor and was stuck open. So as I looked at the picture of the elevator car, I felt that could be a safe place. I put my camera around my back and I just crawled across the rubble. Within seconds of reaching the elevator, there was a major aftershock. And I heard rubble fall in the space that I had been. It lasted for a couple seconds, and I just held on to the side of the elevator and listened to things crash around me. Dan's leg is bleeding heavily, and he fears it is broken.

I flashed the camera on my leg, and I pulled up my pant leg, and I just saw a cut wide open, a slit wide open. I knew I was also bleeding from my head, so I thought, I've survived a major earthquake, but now I could die from bleeding to death or die from my injuries. It's pure darkness. darker than anything I've ever experienced in my life. Using the flash on his camera for a light,

Dan manages to drag himself into an elevator. He is bleeding heavily from injuries to his leg and head. Dan's phone has no signal, but it has a first aid application. I looked up excessive bleeding, and it just said wrap my leg. So I took my shirt off and I wrapped it around my leg, and then I found a piece of wire in the elevator. and I ripped that off, and I tied it around my leg

to hold it on and to continue the pressure on my leg. And then I was bleeding from my head as well. I pulled off my right sock and put it on the back of my head, and then I pushed the back of my head against the wall of the elevator. And so that was my way of stopping the bleeding there, and I just hoped that that would be enough. I start to feel a sense of kind of a clammyness,

and my thoughts turn a little bit blurry, and I start to shake a little bit. And so I think this seems like it's shock. So again, I pull out my phone and I look up shock, and sure enough, I'm going into shock, and shock is very serious. Severe shock and bleeding are causing Dan's blood pressure to drop dramatically. Without normal blood flow, his organs will soon begin to shut down. The main thing the app tells me to do is to put my legs above my heart

and then really just to relax. I started thinking about my family and assessing that it was likely that I was not going to make it out of here. Dan has a journal and pens with him. Using the camera flash, he writes messages to his wife and two sons. As I thought of my wife and the challenges she would face,

I just cried for her. And as I wrote messages, I just tried to express all the, love I could. I also realized that my thoughts were going to be a challenge to me because I found my thoughts turning very quickly to despair. And I knew that if I allowed despair to win, that there was a great chance that I would make a mistake or that I would stop fighting and that would be the end. So except when I flashed my camera, everything is still pitch black. Dan is severely injured, but has taken refuge in a hotel elevator.

Once I was in the elevator, I felt like that was my safe place, and I never wanted to go out of it. So I was still calling out for my colleague and calling out for help in case anyone was out there. I would bang, and I would yell, and I started to hear other voices. At first I thought, oh, maybe that's a rescue or someone coming, but found out quickly that they were trapped as well. There are six Americans trapped under the rubble in the lobby. A little after I made contact with the other Americans, I heard noises of someone moving. It sounded up and to the left of me.

And so I wondered what that was. I called out. Eventually, a man answered, there was a man who was trapped in the elevator car right next to me, but his car was stuck closed, and he was an employee of the hotel. Once we realized that we were all stuck in this situation together, We really just try to encourage each other.

It is 24 hours since the earthquake happened. With no food or water, Dan is becoming dehydrated. My mouth was completely coated in dust from the collapse of everything around me. I mean, the thirst combined with the darkness, just was torturous. I knew it was possible to die of dehydration within three days. And I remembered seeing on a survival show, someone suggesting how to drink your urine, and then that can prolong the impact of dehydration.

And I actually had to urinate. I was starting to feel my body get ready for that. So I pulled off my t-shirt, and I caught it in my t-shirt, and then I squeezed it into my mouth and almost joked. It was very distasteful, but immediately I felt relief of just the dryness in my mouth and the dryness in my throat. So I'm not going to let squeamishness

about something like this get in the way of survival. There was no sense of day or night. It just was all complete darkness for me. But sometime in the early morning hours, we heard the sound of helicopters. A French rescue team arrives at the hotel and begins digging for survivors.

So the French rescue team starts to work their way towards the Americans who are trapped nearby. And within a few hours, they're able to get the first of them out and start moving each of them out in turn. They call to me and say, hey, you're next. We know you're there. And so I'm very relieved and grateful. But then everything goes quiet. And I no longer hear the sounds of rescue coming from that area. from that area. Dan and the man next to him

wait for eight hours with no sign of rescue. We both start yelling and we start banging together, trying to figure out, okay, what's going on is anyone out there? And we get the attention this time of an American. He yells out to someone outside, hey, I've got two new contacts here, and I'm wondering, what's going on?

I'm not new. I yell to him. We're not new. We're on the list. I'm starting to lose the battle for my mind. that I'd carried on this whole time, trying to hold on to hope, trying to hold on to sanity. I started to hear rescuers say things that they would never say.

I heard one person say, we don't have enough resources to rescue that one. We can't put our resources just on rescuing two people. You know, let's move on. And in the exhaustion and in the despair, I believe those voices. And it was in the midst of that despair

that eventually I, I finally gave up. I crawled out of the elevator car into the rubble. And with the rubble cutting into my back, I just looked into the darkness above me. And it was actually right in that moment that I saw a light coming down the elevator shaft. And I heard a voice, and it was a rescuer saying,

I'm here for you. I'm coming for you. We're going to get you out of there. And I knew at that moment, I'm actually, I'm going to get out of here, and I'm going to be able to go home to my family. Dan has flown to the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where doctors treat his injuries. My major injuries were the cut on my leg, which they were amazed to find that after nearly 70 hours of debris being stuck in there, my dirty shirt being stuck right in my injury, that I had no infection in my leg.

I had fractures in my foot, I had cuts all over my upper body and deep bruises, but all told, considering the situation I'd been in, I was really in pretty good shape. Over 220,000 people died in the Haitian earthquake with over a million made homeless. Over 60 people died in the collapse of the Montana Hotel. I survived because God gave me the presence of mind to use the resources I had. to get out of a hard situation. And I survived because I was going to do anything I could to get back to my wife and my two young boys.

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It was probably about 2.30 a.m. on New Year's Day, protocol normally would be she and I would spend the night with one another for safety purposes, especially when I had to travel to my home alone. But the next day, I wanted to cook for New Year's, so I told I'd take her home, and I proceeded to my apartment. A neighbor known as T is standing outside the apartment block. Tee was the boyfriend of a girl that I went to high school with. And I knew her rather well, but I didn't know him as well.

But because of their relationship, we were neighborly, his car parked next to mine. And so I had a sense of comfort come over with me because I'm seeing someone I know and didn't feel a need to rush into my apartment. So I took my time, got out of the car. I spoke to him and I said, hello, T. What did you do tonight? He spoke back and said, hello, told me that he didn't do much of anything. And it was vague conversation, but by the time I reached my stairwell, he had walked up behind me and I didn't realize it.

And I let him know that he had, you know, kind of scared me a little bit. And he told me at that time that he had been locked out and he wanted to use my telephone. And at that time, I told him okay, and we proceeded up the stairwell to my apartment. In the apartment, Tamika gives tea the phone and sits on the sofa. I remember him being somewhat agitated when he went to use the phone. And I believed I just kind of assumed it was because he was locked out, which is what he told me. And so the first two attempts again was like he was down on the wrong number. And then the third time, he just held the phone to his ear and I could just hear it ringing.

And so he gave up on the call and handed it over to me. Teeth then sits down next to Tamika. Well, when he sat down next to me, I thought maybe he thought he was welcome to stay until he could get in the house. And so I was a little nervous with what his assumption was. Before I got a chance to ask him what else I could help him with, he took his fist and he struck me in my face. My reaction was shock, and so I'm looking at him like, T, what's going on? Why are you doing this? T punches Tamika in the side of her head again. If I had to give the devil a face, I would say I was looking right at the devil's face.

T was about maybe five feet, ten, a small frame guy, much taller than me, but not a big. big guy. Suddenly, T sits next to Tamika and punches her in the side of her head. And so I'm looking at him like, T, what's going on? Why are you doing this? And I can remember saying, what do you need? What do you want? Do you want my keys? Do you want my car? I'm thinking, offer him something so he can leave. I turned to fin him off with both hands and realized that I still had the phone on my hand. And at that time, I hit the talk button, just started aiming in the direction of 911, hoping that I was hitting the numbers, but lost control of it doing the struggle. So as I turned around to fin them off with both hands, I noticed a sharp edge coming towards my

face, and so I grabbed them by his wrist, and at that time, this sharp edge punctures me right in my face, and then my whole face is open from here to here, and blood is everywhere. T is stabbing Tamika with a pair of scissors. I don't realize what I'm being stabbed with, but I notice that he continuously tries to use the object and we're struggling and my face is just mangled so it's cold and I know that there's blood and there's flesh and I'm just fighting him and trying to fin him off. I tried to stand up and he had the back of my blouse and just kind of throwing me around like a rag doll and just it seemed as if he was just demonic. When he first punctured me, I realized that everything went

blurry. I couldn't see anything. This dark vision, you know, was over me and we're fighting and we're struggling. I was screaming and I was praying. He just kept telling me to shut up and died. There's just pain in the side of my head where he's starting to hit me in the side of my ear. I'm not sure if he's still using an object, but I just know that he's hitting me in the side of my head. I'm regurgitating blood and things are just going everywhere and I'm trying to run. And so came to mine, play dead, which is something that I've always, you know, kind of kept consciously in mind if I were ever in a situation where blood was involved. So at that time, I was like, I just need to get him to think that I'm out of, I'm out of here,

and he can leave. And I noticed that there was a pool of blood right in the middle of the floor. So I just threw myself down in it and decided to try to slow my breathing pace down. And I had more energy than a raging bull, but I didn't want him to think that I could move or do anything. I really wanted him to think I was fully incapacitated. I noticed that he walked around the room and rather than him, leave. He got down on the floor with me and he took my pants and he moved them from my waist to my knees and I noticed that he leaned back and took his pants apart and started to

disrobe as well and prep himself as if he was going to try and rape me. And I said if he does this to me, I'm not going to make it. So at that point I screamed out, Jesus, please help me. And he leaned over and hit me in the side of my head again with that object and I just knew at that point it was over. The scissors break in half and T stabs one blade into Tamika's ear. Didn't feel any pain, just knew that it was something really bad, and I just was very cold, very uncomfortable. And I said, oh, God, this is it.

So at that point, I'm thinking, I'm not going to make it. And I started thinking about my son at the time, who was four years old, and he was at my mom's that night. He didn't come home with me, and I didn't pick him up, so I was glad he wasn't there. but that was my hope in living. And I kept praying, God, you know, if you can just leave me here for my baby, I'll be fine. And all I could think of was him at the time. So I continued to just pray and was hoping that he would stop.

And as I was praying, I could hear sirens. And I said, oh, God, please let someone be coming to help me. But I laid there, and my breathing was panting, but I was just holding my breath as much as I could. Unknown to Tamika, her attempt to call 911 during the struggle has succeeded. The operator has traced Tamika's address. police officers run up the stairs and bang on the door. He jumped up and went to the door, and there was kind of a struggle between him trying to keep the door closed

and the police officer trying to enter. And I'm like, somebody's got to know I'm in here. So I'm screaming and I'm screaming, and the door finally gives. A police officer runs in and T jumps out a second-story window. And I just got up and ran to my neighbor's door that was across the hall. And when she opened, she just kind of looked at me like this and was like, oh, my God, what happened to you? And then she had a friend spending the night with her that night.

And when she came to the door, she just started screaming. She has a pair of scissors in her head. Tamika doesn't realize a scissor blade has been pushed through her ear. When the scissors went in, they went into my left ear canal, and they exited behind my right earlobe. And the point was here, whereas the actual handle was here. Tamika's rushed to the hospital. Doctors successfully operate to remove the scissor blade. Based upon what I was told,

there may have been a total of maybe 15 stab wounds from my face area to my ear canal and in my chest area. When T jumped out the window, he was arrested by a police officer. Emmanuel Moffat, known as T, was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 30 years.

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