76. Sounds Like Crazy Calm Under Deadly Duress - The Courage of Jennifer Holliday

Published: April 9, 2019, 4:30 a.m.

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Imagine living what would be every woman's worst nightmare:\\xa0 You're driving down the road with your favorite cousin in the passenger seat, not a care in the world, when suddenly a truck pulls up beside you and the guy inside fires a shotgun directly at you.\\xa0 And shoots.\\xa0 Blowing your elbow into shattered bone and blood.\\xa0 When you pull over, that same driver tries to pull your cousin out of your car, and when she won't move, blows her head off with that same shotgun.\\xa0 Imagine now that the driver hauls you away, rapes and tortures you, and then you end up in his trailer in the middle of the woods where no one can find him.\\xa0 Jennifer Holliday doesn't have to imagine any of that.\\xa0 Because it actually happened to her.\\xa0 And she survived.\\xa0 Through a combination of sheer guts, keen; raw intelligence and incredible calm under pressure, Holliday has lived to tell of her incredible ordeal - and Melissa shares it with you this episode in chilling, compelling detail.

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