I SURVIVED: I'm locked up like a dog. I can't escape

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters, and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/SURVIVED to get 10% off your first month Progressive: Visit www.Progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance

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0:00.0	This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:04.7	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.6	The waves were constantly coming, constantly covering us up, and we're spitting and swalling water.
0:16.1	Real people.
0:17.7	Now, I'm thinking to myself, if he does even give me a two-second head start, where am I going to go?
0:24.2	Who faced death? We have to fight this water all night. Where is everybody? Why are we alone?
0:32.2	And live to tell how. I was not thinking death ever. I was thinking life and live. We're going to make it.
0:42.6	This is I survived.
0:48.4	It's April 2008. Reverend Albert lives with his wife, Carolyn, and his daughter's Cherie and Liatris in Port Arthur, Texas.
0:57.8	We were going fishing out in Lake Sabine for every Saturday. It was like a family time together.
1:06.7	We would go out and just enjoy the day and enjoy each other, fishing and just, you know, having fun.
1:16.9	It was myself and my wife, Carolyn, my oldest daughter, Cherie, and her husband, Cedric.
1:27.2	And it was my baby daughter, Leatrice, and her husband, Cedric, and it was my baby daughter,
1:29.2	Leatrice, and her husband, Christopher.
1:33.1	On the weekends, we always called Daddy
1:34.8	look and see if he's going to take us fishing in a boat.
1:36.9	If not, then we, you know, go to the bank.
1:40.6	Anyway, that day, it was a normal day.
1:44.8	Everybody had the fishing rods in the water, and we played around a little bit and laughed.
1:51.8	We were out, I guess, about two and a half, three hours.
1:58.3	I guess about seven, the waves started getting big. It wasn't
2:04.6	the weather. It was the waves. And a big wave came into the boat. And I asked Chris to check
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