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Hey, weirdos, I'm Elena.
I'm Ash. This is Morbid.
Yes! I wasn't ready for that.
I liked the pause that it gave me.
I went to grab my coffee and I was like oh.
What's it called? Her -mash.
Her -mash. Her -mash.
It's early. Felt right.
Felt right. I think we were listening to the affirmation song with your kids today.
And there was like weird ass voices in that.
So I think I became one.
It's true, you know?
Today's gonna be an amazing day.
There's no one better to be than myself.
It's true. My feelings matter.
Yeah. I get better every single day.
Listen, if your kids are having a bad day, the affirmation song is great.
It is. It gets them pumped up for the day.
It does. And I dance silly to it and I think that's the...
It's true. The funnest part.
Sometimes, you know, it's hard to go to school sometimes Because, especially when your parents are so fucking awesome, I know and your auntie, you know, like me and John, so you don't want to leave them.
They just want to hang.
So they just didn't want to leave but we did the affirmation song, got them laughing, and got them ready for the day.
And I did sick braids today on them.
It's true. In one of them.
Yeah, that's true. I'm pretty excited about that.
Tis true. Tis true, we have a cute little fam bam, it gives full house vibes here in the morning.
Just like Uncle Joey over here.
It's true. It's like a combination, Maybe a combination of Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey.
You know, my Gemini nature.
I like that. I don't know.
Just ranting over here.
We did yoga this morning.
We really grounded ourselves.
We really did. It's so nice.
I know we're getting back.
I think like spring is coming so I feel like we can get back into the swing of like I really fell out of my workout routine in the winter.
Well it was so nice driving today and not having it be pitch black.
It was getting lighter.
It was like 5 .30 probably when I left the house.
And it was already light out.
Yeah, which was sick and then on my way home Mm -hmm see I said to myself this is why you gotta wake up early because you just don't know what's going on You just do you don't know what you're gonna run into?
You just don't know this morning I'm coming back from my yoga class and I passed a farm and there was Cows that like escaped this farm and they were on the front lawn of the neighborhood I love this so much and there's just a cop standing on this guy's front lawn and I'm like what's a cop gonna do about the cow?
He's just hanging out with him.
He's been trained in the matter.
Is that something? He's been trained in bovine matters.
Is that... Did they tell you what to do with a bovine escape?
I have no idea. Maybe.
That's crazy, that's crazy.
It was so funny, I was laughing so hard. I was like cry laughing by myself.
I love it. I think it's very small -town vibes.
It really was. I was like, am I just in the Midwest?
Where am I? Where am I?
It was cute, though.
Cows are crossing the road.
Just like three big -ass cows, just in somebody's front lawn.
Hell, yeah. I'd be pissed if that was my front lawn.
Yeah, I feel like they'd fuck up your lawn real bad.
I would kind of love it, though, I'd be like, hey, cast. Then afterwards, I feel like I'd be like, oh.
Yeah, but honestly, their manure is some of the best soil That's true, but contribute stone want to leave that on my no Cuz that's a big stank stinky.
It's very true. You know look at you.
Look over the right side You're all grounded and shit.
I am I'm very grounded.
I love that I had a good coffee.
That's good I had a great.
There's cool things happening.
Yes, but um, I think you'll know about them by now Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop teasing these things because um I'm so confused about what episodes come out when.
It'd be super dope if you could put them out when we wanted to.
I just don't know where or when these come out, and I apologize for that.
We won't be confused forever, but right now I just don't know what episode is coming out.
So if the bonus episode already happened, wasn't that fucking cool?
And if it hasn't happened, exciting, so there's that.
God. Christ Almighty.
Christ on a cracker.
Christ on a biscuit.
Jesus was a biscuit.
Was a biscuit. Who said that on Drag Race?
I have no idea. Oh my God, everyone's screaming it.
Who's a Drag Race fan?
La la la la la. La la la la.
Like he's not here today.
I know. Or Mikey would be screaming at us.
Latrice. There you go.
You know and it's like right in the forefront of your face and you're like oh God.
Yup. Alright, well we, we yogurt.
we cowed, we Jesus was a biscuited...
We did it all. All the important things.
Yeah, we affirmated.
Yeah. And now we're going to talk about a wild survivor tale that I think is probably one of our most requested.
Yes. It is. This is a doozy.
This is a doozy of a case.
And a doozy of a human.
I mean... In the best way.
I don't think there's a single person more resilient.
Bionic woman. Yeah, truly unbelievable tail.
Yeah, so this is wild.
Let's get into it We're going to be talking about Alison Bova today Alison Bova.
She was born September 22nd 1967 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa to Brian and Claire Coleyer or Coleye According to Alison her house growing up was a place of unconditional love which she got from both of her parents She said, often as we were growing up, I love this.
My mother would take us aside and tell us how special we were.
She would always add though, that this did not mean that we were above or better than others, but we had our own inner value.
Oh my God, I love that.
I'm gonna do that shit when I have kids.
Just like take your child aside, just to be like, I love that.
Like, you're so special.
Yeah. But like, you're, you're not above anybody.
You're not like more special than somebody else.
Yeah, but you are so special.
I'm like I love that.
That's great. Sadly, despite the love and support and the happy household that they had.
10 years after Alison was born, Brian and Claire did end up divorcing.
It was in 1977 when the divorce was finalized.
And Alison and her brother, Neil continued living with their mom.
But luckily they still saw their dad on a pretty regular schedule.
The divorce obviously created a pretty less than ideal situation to raise two kids.
But it sounds like Brian and Claire really made the best of it.
They made sure that Alison and Neil always had what they needed and were always thriving.
good for them yeah very mature Allison led a pretty normal life in Port Elizabeth where she went to collegiate high school during her senior year in 1985 she was named head girl which is an honor that kind of came as a shock for her she really expected this at all am she said I was always considered bright but I knew I did not apply myself to the fullest in my last few years at school I wasn't good at any sport and I didn't really shine in any one area so I guess I thought I wouldn't be good enough to be head girl.
Damn. But whether she realized that or not, the teachers and the headmistress at Collegiate High School thought very highly of her.
Yeah. They described her as a mature, young woman of the utmost integrity and sound moral values.
Like the term head girl just makes me think of like Harry Potter.
Yes. And it just sounds so prestigious that I can't fully comprehend it.
Like, I want to be head girl.
I think I'm just… Imagine being a head per anything.
Yeah. Yeah. In school, like, wow!
That's really, really, really impressive.
Yeah, that shit did not happen for me.
I made you head bitch in charge at my wedding.
You did, that's true!
Yeah. So I got to do that.
Instead of made of honor.
I said head bitch in charge.
Hell yeah. Well when Alison graduated from high school, she felt that the honor she'd earned in her final year gave everybody this impression that she was a high achiever, and would continue her education and pursue a very impressive career.
But she said, the truth was I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
Which I feel like a lot of people feel that way when high school is over.
Like, that's not unheard of at all.
No, you're 18 years old, like most of the time.
You have, you're still a baby.
There's so many options at your fingertips.
I feel like people expect you to have exactly what you wanna do figured out and for a lot of people, that's just not the case.
Yeah, for sure. when she was younger Allison had always dream of becoming a writer maybe a poet but now that she was in a position to pursue whatever goal she wanted she just couldn't figure out which direction to go in.
Well cuz it it really can feel like the whole world is your oyster yeah like you know I mean like when you're that young and you're just like start you like I can choose anything.
Which is awesome. How do I narrow it down?
That's the thing. It's too many options.
It's awesome but exactly it's overwhelming.
It's a great problem to have. Yeah well as always Claire supported her daughter suggesting that she just take a secretarial course while she considered some of her options.
And she said, if nothing else, you'll learn some new skills that will apply with whatever you do for sure.
And it turned out that that course was a really good decision for Alison's future career, because when she finished it up, she took a job as an insurance broker, a job she enjoyed and was really good at.
Although she hadn't pursued a high stress career as like a doctor or lawyer, as several of her teachers and classmates thought that she might, by the time she reached her mid 20s, she was building a respectable career for herself and she was really happy.
good for her. So she was like living her best life.
She's just going for it.
yeah. well on the afternoon of december 18th 1994 alison met up with her friend kim and kim's son devyn and jared for just an evening on the beach in port elizabeth just like a nice little friend hang out.
Huh. They hung out at the beach for a little while and then they went back to kim's apartment that night and they were joined by their mutual friends phil and richard who just stopped by unannounced and alison said it had been one of those wonderfully spontaneous evenings Which I love I love that they chatted for a while They enjoyed the nice weather and then they decided to go to Allison's apartment where they ordered a pizza and played a board game Just like cute little night friends me and dude.
Sounds like a fun night to me Yeah When the night finally came to an end a little after midnight Phil and Richard left and Allison had promised Kim that she would drive Her home that night so she was driving Kim back to her apartment and then she got back to her own house a little after a little before excuse Me one in the morning mmm She circled the block a few times looking for a place to park and the place where she usually parked wasn't open, which was like very close to the apartment.
She finally spotted an open space just a few dozen feet from her front door.
Now the neighborhood that she lived in wasn't like a rough area, but the spot was further from her apartment than she preferred.
Yeah. And it was in a dark part of the street.
There was like a tree covering the lights.
I hate that you have to worry about this.
You shouldn't have to worry about that at all.
so she hesitated for a few seconds and was like maybe I should find something better but she was like whatever like I should she really wanted to go in and take a shower yeah you just want to go to your house yeah so she pulled in the spot put her car into park she said later I had just turned off the engine and flicked off the headlights it was so routine I did it all in one Swift movement before opening the driver side door she reached over to the passenger seat to gather up a pile of clean laundry and she suddenly felt a gust of warm air rush into the car as somebody opened the door.
Holy shit. She looked up just in time to see what she described as a scrawny tallest young man with white blonde hair, just push his head into her car.
No. She also noticed a long thin knife in his hand.
I hate this. He immediately put the blade up to her throat and said move over or I'll kill you.
And she said his voice was quiet and controlled, she'd never seen him before but he seemed to know exactly what he was doing.
So she just without thinking slid over to the passenger seat and he got in behind the wheel.
That's horrifying. Which, I feel like she did the best thing you could in that situation, you have to try to be as calm as possible.
What are you supposed to do?
He's got a knife to your throat.
I don't know what I would do.
I don't either. So, as he drove, he kept the knife close on the seat next to him, close to the door.
He fumbled with the dashboard trying to find the control for the lights and then asked her how to turn them on and told her, don't worry, I don't wanna hurt you, I just wanna use your car for about an hour.
I'm not saying I would do this, I'm saying, when he says something like that, you just want to be like, then take the car.
Yeah, why do I have to be in the car?
Why do I have to be here?
You can just take it.
You can just have it.
You can take it for more than an hour.
She basically said that.
I was going to say, I'm sure she was just like, you can take this.
Yeah, eventually she said that, but when he said it, she was so confused and also completely terrified.
This is a horrifying situation.
I can't even fathom your brain working in that situation.
No way. So she just didn't say anything she was just sitting there like stunned And she contemplated opening the passenger door and jumping out But she said she felt strangely immobilized and just couldn't bring herself to do or say anything.
Of course Now they had him been driving along when he broke the silence and said you live in number one, don't you?
So he knew exactly what the fuck and she said it was less of a question than a statement Like he was clearly letting her know that he'd been watching her and you know, I know you live here knew exactly to where she lived.
That's horrifying. He asked what her name was and thinking on her feet, she told him her name was Susan.
She didn't give him her real name.
Even that. I don't know that I would think to do that.
I don't think I would think to do that.
No, really. I really don't.
Because you're just like.
Because I'm nervous just listening to this.
I can't imagine being in it.
And to think on your toes like that already, I'm like damn.
Just smart survival skills you know?
So he said his name was Clinton which was not true, But hoping to appeal to his humanity she started asking questions about him Figuring that if he could see her as an ordinary person and they could just strike up a conversation He would let her go without hurting her another smart tactic.
Very smart. That takes a lot of like Wherewithal control and like keeping yourself calm to do because otherwise you're just gonna freak out I mean my voice would be shaking.
I'd just be crying and I don't think I'd be able to be I would definitely be like that's Just out of fear and I wouldn't know what questions to even ask.
That's the thing. I like well Unfortunately that plan didn't quite pan out because in a harsh tone He answered her and said I'd rather not tell you anything about me Just wouldn't say anything.
Hey, so when that didn't work She did what you were just saying and said why don't you just take my car?
I'll go I'm not gonna say anything to anybody.
Just take the car. Yeah, but he told her no and said he just wanted company.
I just so much terrifying.
He explained to her that he had a friend who stole his TV and he said he was driving to go find him and get some money that he owed him, which is just that story is strange.
Yeah so she grew increasingly fearful as they just drove further and further away from her apartment and further from the city proper until they ended up in a part of the city that she hadn't been to in several years and was almost entirely unfamiliar to her.
They approached a large group of people on the sidewalk and quote -unquote Clinton slowed down and started scanning the crowd clearly getting more and more agitated and muttering under his breath like he was looking for somebody.
And obviously he hadn't found whoever he was looking for.
So he jerked the car down a side street and did a loop around and then slowed down to scan this crowd a second time, and then it appeared he found whoever he was looking for.
So he slowed the car to a stop and a short man dressed in all black approached the driver's side.
Neither of them said anything to each other, but Clinton slid the driver's seat forward and the second man climbed into the backseat.
Oh, I would be so scared.
Like, oh my god, I can't imagine.
Because now there's two men, now there's two men in this car, with like your car, I hate this.
And it's like one day.
It's after 1am. So Clinton told the other man, meet my friend Susan, and just started driving back to the main road.
Fuck. So he gestured to the man now riding along with them in the and told Allison, this is Taehyun's, and the two men talked as Clinton drove, but Allison was too nervous to even follow what they were saying.
She just caught a few words here and there.
And instead she was trying to keep her attention focused on the landscape outside of the car and was also hoping at the same time that she might catch the attention of another driver, but nobody seemed to be paying any attention to what was happening outside their own vehicles.
And even if you saw this, you might not think anything's weird, because it's just three people in a car driving and a lot of people don't want to intervene with that stuff.
Oh yeah, that comes up which is really scary.
It is scary. So eventually it occurred to Allison that they had been driving for quite some time and they seem to be headed along the beach towards summer strand, a suburb of Port Elizabeth about five or so miles outside of city limits.
So they were kind of just like in the middle of nowhere.
As they got further from the city, they stopped talking.
the two men just stopped talking completely and the car was filled with an unbearable silence.
In her head, Allison convinced herself that they were just taking the long way to visit this friend, as Clinton had indicated earlier.
But the further and further they got from Port Elizabeth, the less likely it was all seeming.
So finally when they put the lights of Port Elizabeth behind them, Clinton broke the silence and told Allison, Tians doesn't speak good English.
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Now the sound of his voice jolted Allison out of a panicked state and brought her back into reality.
The statement seemed to come out of nowhere and wasn't followed by anything else which she thought was very strange.
Yeah. But now with her attention focused on what was happening in the car it occurred to her that Clinton was starting to slow down as they were reaching a wooded area.
Oh god. Yeah. So as that happened he made a u -turn and pulled the car onto a small path that led down to the beach, driving the car right up to the sand until they reached a dark, isolated spot among the trees about 300 feet away from the road.
The fear she must have felt as this car is just slowing down.
You're in the middle of nowhere.
Incomprehensible. Two strangers who are just being a weird...
Like, obviously they've abducted you at knife point.
First of all. And they're just being weird and creepy and quiet.
And just as a woman being alone with two men, and you don't know is this, regardless of whether they're being threatening or not, I'm sorry, it just automatically is very, very scary for them to be this weird and threatening and to be driving you into an isolated area of a wooded area would be, I mean, like my nervous system is in orbit right now, just thinking about it.
Even just being like not even like completely alone with two strangers that are men, being like with friends and then two strangers that you don't know that are men is scary.
Like I've had that experience because you don't know what they're about.
Yeah, you know what's gonna happen.
Exactly. I Just I do want to I mean some I think a lot of people know this story But if you don't I do just want to for warn you that there is going to be talk about a very intense Sexual assault and rape.
Yeah, it is extremely graphic.
Yeah, very graphic I did my best to make it a little less graphic, but it's kind of impossible to take it fully away Yeah, so and we gotta tell the story for what it is.
So Clinton brought the car to a stop under a cluster of trees and Tians got out, leaving Allison completely alone now in the car with her abductor.
And Clinton sexually assaulted Allison at this point.
Piece of shit. And this was all while Tians was just like sitting on the head of the car.
My god. Just like got out of the car.
Knew that this was gonna happen.
Mocking monsters. And then when Clinton was finished sexually assaulting Allison, and he called Tians into the car.
And Tians started to do the same thing, also sexually assaulted her.
But moments later he shouted, no, I can't do this.
And he got out of the car and sat back down on the hood and just smoked a cigarette instead of like trying to stop this at all.
What the fuck? He couldn't bring himself to continue assaulting her.
But he wasn't gonna be a good person and try to stop it.
No, no, so when he finished a cigarette he hopped down from the hood and looked back at the car and looking at Clinton, he yelled, Frans, oops, yeah, not his real name, Clinton.
Frans is his real name.
Very bright. It was the first time that Alison had heard the name of her attacker, so she just started repeating it over and over again in her head, like silently, determined not to forget his name, but almost as if he knew what she was doing, Frans looked over at her and said, if we take you into town now, you're gonna go to the police.
It was almost like he could sense it.
She tried to assure him that she wasn't gonna say anything to anybody, but neither of them would be convinced.
And one of them then said to the other, what do you think Umnic would want us to do with her?
What the fuck? Umnic, Allison recognized as another name for Satan.
What the fuck? Um is like a South African word it basically it's, it's akin to uncle for us.
It's like a sign of respect.
So Umnic they were referring to Satan.
Satan's also known as Olds Nick, which I didn't realise.
That is weird. But I was looking into it the other night or like I don't mean weird. I mean that's different.
Yeah, it's different He so he looks at the other guys because Uncle Satan would want us to do with her Yeah, and he doesn't exist. She's gonna give ya exactly I don't think he's gonna weigh in here well when she's sitting there and she said she thought to herself like what a Satan What the fuck what are you talking about?
But she didn't know what to do so T ons answered.
I think he wants us to kill her they're just having this conversation yes and they're just acting like like this is all normal like they're not acting freaked out or anything like that like they're acting just like this is another Tuesday you know yeah so Frans then instructed Allison to get out of the car and remove all of her clothing which she did because at this point she's just I would what I would do the same thing I was gonna say I just don't know what else you remember he has a knife and the two of them have just yeah so when she'd taken off all her clothes he gestured at the rings on her
hand and told her to even take those off, and Tiana's quickly grabbed them, like snatched them out of her hands.
The next thing she knew, she was knocked to the ground and Franz was choking her.
And they made her take off those rings so she couldn't be identified.
Later she said, I was just, I was surprised by how strong he had become.
This man knew what he was doing and he was determined to do it.
And we will find out he knew what he was doing because this was not the first time they had attacked somebody.
Alison managed to get a few words out while he was choking her, just begging him not to kill her.
But all Frans said was sorry, while he continued violently choking her until she lost consciousness.
So he's standing, it's like straddling over her, choking her into unconsciousness and apologizing.
But still doing it.
But that adds such a layer of just, like of terror to this whole thing, apologizing while you're doing this.
Yeah, and just continually to do it.
It's horrifying. So she regained consciousness just a short time later and realized that she was still on the ground.
She's looking around and she sees that she's surrounded by trash and broken bottles.
One of the men was crouched over her and she couldn't see what he was doing.
All she saw was his arm swinging wildly back and forth in front of her face.
But then it occurred to her and she thought, my God, he's slashing my throat.
Holy shit. She couldn't see really what was happening obviously because it's like she can't look down and see it and she didn't feel any pain in This moment, but she quote could hear the flesh split.
Oh my god Yep What this woman has been, and this isn't this is just the tip of the iceberg Oh, this is just just that going through that.
I don't know what you do after that but like oh My god, it would later be determined that they had slit her throat 16 times Huh?
And she was almost like she was nearly decapitated The fact that this woman is alive And what beasts it's truly like just fucking wait But that's just unthinkable This entire crime is unthinkable and it only gets worse humans, man Sometimes it's like, what happened and they just, these two just decided they wanted to do this one day.
They just decided that they wanted to do this together.
That's wildly fucked up came up with the idea.
And for two people to get together to do this kind of shit always really, it's scary enough.
Throws me off. It's scary enough when one person is able to do this kind of thing.
When they can get a team together, then all cuz it's like, We've said this before and other things like the Hillside Stranglers and all the other kind of teams that team up and do this, like Ian and Myra Hindley, where does that conversation start?
That's the thing that you have to sit there and wonder.
And where does it start?
In what has already happened.
You see if the other person runs?
What has already happened to make you feel confident that they're gonna be cool with you bringing up that?
That's the thing, cause you have to feel real confident to say to somebody, do you think you'd wanna just, like randomly kill someone for sport with me?
Yeah. Like you have to be very confident to do that.
I would think. And it's like, cause otherwise, what are you gonna say?
You're going to be like, no, I was just kidding.
Then the person is going to be like, that's crazy.
I just, I can't, I can never get over these things.
I don't know where you find one person who's capable of this, not that I'm looking and then where do you find two?
And how do they find each other?
Like what fucking evil has to happen in the world for these people to be guided to each other?
Seriously, like what ancient tomb was opened up that released the kinda evil that allows this to happen?
It's so true. So, she could hear her flesh being split open and I don't know if I said this already, but it was determined later that they had slit her throat 16 times.
Yeah, 16 times. 16 times.
16 times and that's not it.
Suddenly, the attack stopped and her attackers moved away and she could hear the two men muttering and pacing around near her and then she turned on her stomach in an effort to protect herself.
And she said, I tried to hold my breath, but I realized I had no control over my breathing.
I moved my hand up to cover my neck.
My whole hand disappeared into it.
Oh. But it seemed to have worked.
Oh my god. The sound was silenced.
Oh my god. I can't.
Like this is so horrifying.
It's insane. These poor women.
These people are depraved.
This poor women. So she lay on the ground now playing dead.
She's completely, she has the, this woman...
Her throat has been slit 16 times to the point of being decapitated.
and she has the wherewithal to play dead.
That's the thing. It's like this woman, throughout this entire thing, the sharp fucking mind on Allison is un fucking matched.
And just the will to survive.
Like, she's - I can't say enough.
Like, I just - I'm - I'm ab - astounded.
I'm astounded. I'm - my flabbers have been gasted.
There's not a word to describe how incredible.
There's not how incredible she is.
my Timbers have been shivered.
Just, I'm shook by her.
All of the above. Like she is, to have that kind of brand.
I can't even. Every state I can't even think of, like I was just gonna say she's a force to be reckoned with.
That's not enough. That's not even it.
That's not enough. That's not enough.
So she just lays there on the ground, pretending to be dead.
She can hear the two of them talking over her and they're talking in Afrikaans at this point and they're rummaging around through her car.
And one of them asked the other, they're like, do you think she's dead?
And the other one responded, that no one can survive that.
Except Alison. Bitches, motherfuckers.
Now, a few seconds later, she heard the engine start and then rev a few times, of course.
Of course. You gotta, as the car just reversed.
Swing it around, kids, swing it around.
The car reversed and drove back out onto the main road.
She was finally completely alone, but she was obviously in very bad shape, such bad shape she didn't even know that she was in at this point.
And she was almost sure she was going to die here.
So wanting to do anything she could to help the authorities catch her killers She started writing in the sand as she's laying there nearly Decapitated and there's other stuff that I'm gonna get into that happened that she hasn't even realized yet But she's laying there writing in the sand.
She wrote fronds then underneath She wrote teens because I don't know if she knew how to spell te ons or yeah I mean she's she's in a state right now Yeah.
And then just before losing consciousness, she wrote I love Mom.
Oh my god. And traced it in a square so that it would be like very obvious.
Oh. Oh my god. The strength that that must have taken, her body is actively shutting down.
And you're trying and she's writing down valuable information for investigators, so that they can't do this again to someone else.
Exactly. Like, exactly.
So later, she said she would remember this moment with remarkable clarity.
She said it was as if I had cut moorings, feeling like her spirit had left her body just floating.
She said as I hovered there, I recognized the person down below.
I knew it was me and I felt such a strong connection to that bleeding mangled girl lying on her stomach. And in that moment she said it occurred to her that she'd only just started her life cause she was 27 years old.
Holy shit. She hadn't achieved really any of the things that she hoped she would do.
So as thoughts just raced through her head, she suddenly caught a glimmer of lights out of the corner of her eye.
During the attack everything obviously seemed so far away but it turned out that they actually weren't very far from the main road at all.
She remembered the headlights were enough of an inspiration for me to try to reach a place where someone might at least find me even if I was dead.
Wow. So despite her absolutely profound injuries, she managed to push herself up onto her knees.
How? As soon as she did something felt very wrong.
She reached down to her stomach and felt something she described as something tepid, wet, and slimy.
Looking down she could see that her intestines were exposed and hanging out of her stomach. Holy shit.
Her intestines were literally falling out of her stomach. she said it was horrifying there was just so much of me on the outside I tried to scoop it all up with my hands but everything just slithered away again because you're litter how do you survive this how do you survive this oh I'm just like I'm holding my own stomach just sitting here like I and how do you do that to somebody stab them to the point that their intestines are pouring out By the way, so in addition to her, her throat being slashed 16 times, they stabbed her in the abdomen over 50 times to the point that her intestines were now
spilling out of her.
How were they? And she's alive.
How were they ever let out?
Oh yeah, because spoiler.
Spoiler like I think you should know right off the bat that they don't let out like they got let out.
How are they let out?
I'll get to it. And I think they served 17 years, maybe a little more and got out because there was it's similar to what happened here with the Constitution where life sentences became unconstitutional.
I think it was literally the same year 2004.
We'll get to it. But yeah, holy.
Shit. Wow. So, she's still crazy.
She must have just been in complete shock and there must have been like so much adrenaline coursing through her veins because of this.
Yeah. That's what your body does.
so she still wasn't experiencing any pain.
But the sight of her intestines and the considerable wound in her stomach unnerved her, and for the first time, the gravity of the situation struck her.
So she starts groping around with one hand just trying to find something because she had taken off clothes so she knew maybe they were right there, they had left her shirt.
Wow, that's lucky. I know.
So she found that lying in the sand and used it to tie around her abdomen just to keep her insides in place.
Literally turnicates herself, to keep her intestines in place.
And then she just started crawling toward the road.
All the while debris and bits of broken glass are cutting her knees and hands open as she's crawling.
And her intestines are still spilling out of her and she's having to like push them in place.
And don't forget. In case you forgot, she's also nearly decapitated and that's not hyperbolic.
no like medically she's literally like - like half of her thyroid was sitting outside of her her neck.
i swear to you the next time i have a fucking complaint - oh - some dumb ass complaint punch me in the fucking face.
i probably won't do that but but i'll remind you of this story.
my god the the perspective that this will give you is beyond it's beyond I get to the point like I got to the point reading this I was telling drew about it when I was like putting it together I was like telling him about it and I just got to the point where I was like I don't even have words left that's a thing like you really don't even have words left to describe this story described this woman like yeah it's really unthinkable I can't believe what she survived, I can't.
And what she was able to walk away, like not walk away from, but you know what I mean?
Yeah. So badly injured and only having one free hand at this point because one of them is keeping her neck together.
Oh yeah. And realistically only, she doesn't even have a free hand because she's keeping her intestines together and trying to keep her head together.
So our progress was slow and exhausting because again her body is shutting down.
But when she reached the clearing where the attack had first started, she collapsed on a pile of rocks and felt like she couldn't go any further, because you can't imagine what this had to have taken.
No, none of us can.
She's rapidly losing blood at the same time.
So then it occurred to her though, she wasn't even thinking of herself in this moment.
She said it occurred to her that if anybody found her there, like so far away from the scene, there would be a large trail of blood behind her and they would know that she struggled and suffered and she didn't want that for her friends and family.
Allyson, are you a real, are you a person?
She's a saint. Like what are you?
She is a goddess. I'm so impressed with her mind to think.
Like I'm just like, like that mind of hers and that like, I don't know.
She just ... I don't know what she is, but like that mind and soul is something that I don't think you come across often.
No, to have the capacity to think about the reaction of your friends and family and like just that you wouldn't want them be that heartbroken and know you would suffer.
Wow. Insane. Like in a good way.
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So the crawling at this point was taking too long and she knew that if she was going to get to the road she had to move faster.
So it took some time but eventually she did manage to get to her feet but as soon as she was upright everything went black.
Of course. Now this moment was deeply confusing because she hadn't lost consciousness.
She was still completely conscious but for some reason everything was completely wrong.
She said, my head I realized had flopped backwards and almost rested between my shoulder blades.
Oh my god! She said I expected to feel something but was completely taken aback when my hands seemed to almost disappear inside my body as if I had swallowed myself.
So what most likely happened there, Elena, and I was talking to Elena a little bit about the details of this, something had to have happened where the nerves that like help give you sight were so messed up in that moment that when she flopped backwards they weren't like maybe stretching backwards like pinched the occipital or like you know any kind of nerve that makes it so you can see and the lights literally just went out because it was a kink in the line insane.
Like that is ha and when she says her head is resting between her shoulder blades when you said i'm literally like i keep grabbing my neck same because I'm Like, if you put your head back and look at the sky, hers was almost in between her shoulder blades, you couldn't physically do that because you're not decapitated.
I asked my kids to look up at the ceiling when I wash their hair in the bath and they act like I am asking them to do just acrobatics.
The warts work. And this, what?
Yeah. So that's when she, that's why she had one free hand at that point because she didn't realize how bad it was while she's crawling.
So when she was crawling, she was crawling with one hand the other hand was keeping her intestines together.
Now at this point she tries to stand and that's what happened so now she has no free hand because now she's gotta hold her head she's literally holding her head and her abdomen.
So yeah, holding on, holding her head forward with one hand and pressing her intestines under her abdomen with the other, if you could see I know, a picture of us right now I am clasping my neck with one hand and I have the other hand on top of my head stabilizing my own head I'm holding my stomach and the top of her head yes and we are both just nodding at each other being like like this is what she had to do but this is everything's spilling out of her and this is just listening to this I am holding all of my body yes yes yeah so now she's got that's the other thing now she like she's lost all
this blood she's nearly got to decapitated her intestines are spilling out and now she's standing huh and has to have the balance to walk putting one foot in front of the other keep the lights on I could barely do that and I am fully here yeah so she very slowly swung one foot in front of the other just slowly moving in the direction of the main road she said at various point she felt like she was just gonna lose consciousness again and after what felt like an hour she considered giving up but when she raised her eyes forward she realized she made it to the road Alison but fuck yeah Alison now
she realized she'd reached her destination which was incredible remarkable.
But what now? Remarkable in, like, beyond.
But now she needed to get somebody's attention.
Every fiber of her being just wanted to lay down right there where she was on the pavement, but she was on the side of the road at this point.
And she knew that by lying on the side of the road she might not be seen.
She'd be missed, yeah.
Exactly. So instead, she took even more steps and made it to the middle of the road and just lay horizontally down across the road, ensuring that a driver coming in either direction would have to stop or intentionally drive around her.
But literally thought that, was like, I'm just gonna, first of all, laying in the middle of the road, horrifying, scary.
She didn't even think of that at that point.
All natural instincts.
She didn't even think of that.
She just said they'll have to swerve around me, or they'll see me and they'll stop.
Cause she's also thinking like people are humans.
Yeah. They're not just gonna run me over.
Luckily, nobody runs her over, but people aren't humans.
But I'm surprised after what she has been through that she can still trust in humans enough to be like.
Honestly, it won't just run me over, honestly, you know.
So, at this point she's just relieved to finally rest. This has taken everything and more out of her.
So she laid down for an indeterminate amount of time until finally, she heard the hum of an engine from off in the distance and the hum grew closer and closer until it finally stopped and she could see the headlights from the car bearing down on her and it was just sitting idle in the road but the driver wasn't getting out.
She said I frantically waved as fast as I could I wanted whoever it was to see that I was alive and needed help but the driver didn't make any moves to get out of the vehicle and for a moment a terrible thought flashed through her mind, what if this is them, what if this is them returning to make sure I'm dead?
Luckily it was not but what felt like 15 or maybe even 20 minutes later the engine reeled slightly and the car just drove around her and continued down the road.
Whoever that was, how do you live with yourself?
Whoever that was, I hope you stub your toe every morning.
I hope you've never had a good coffee since.
I hope you have every shit -tastic thing happened to you every fuckin' day.
I hope it's always raining on your side of the street.
I hope that you don't like rain.
I'm without words. I wish you the worst. Rarely am I speechless.
Person, who just sat there for however long they did.
Because obviously she had no concept of time at this point.
And obviously took a look at her.
I wish you the very worst, which is exactly what you deserve.
All you have to do is call the police.
Or just get out and comfort the woman in the middle of the road.
Like, hello? Call the police.
All you have to do is– do is uh be a ****ing fellow human.
Like holy ****. Did you just like go have dinner with your family after that?
Who knows? Like what do you do all the rest of your day?
Who knows? Did you tell someone?
Did you go somewhere and just be like, oh yeah I saw this crazy thing?
You hope that that person called the police but it doesn't sound like they did.
Jesus. So her heart is just broken.
As she's watching her what she feels is like her only hope drive away.
But yet the more she thought about it, she had the wherewithal to have compassion, everybody.
The more she started to consider why a person might not get out under these circumstances, she thought perhaps it was a woman on her own who was scared to get out of her car.
Maybe the driver sensed danger and thought it was an ambush and thought I was some sort of decoy.
She still was able to have compassion for this person and come up with like like, not that by no means OK that that person but valid, but to come up with valid reasons too, to like excuse them of their actions.
Is. This girl just looks for the best. I mean I just don't have words anymore, I've lost vocabulary words for what she is.
This right here is an eternal optimist. Truly...
and just like she's like, Oh you know what, I'll give you the excuses.
Yeah. That I hope you need it.
Yeah. So as she just lay there in the middle of the road, nearly decapitated, intestines filling out, she just considered all the reasons why the driver had left, and then she started hearing the sounds of another approaching car and then she heard voices.
When she opened her eyes there was a woman standing over her who just started screaming when she saw Alison's injuries which you honestly can't even blame this woman.
I think that was just like an instinctual response.
I don't blame this woman in the least because I know that was probably awful for Alison, which like I feel awful about but like, I mean, You can't conjure this image in your mind.
And to see a human, a fellow woman like that lying in the road, I can't, that would destroy me.
No, it's like horrifying.
She said later, it was the kind of scream you hear in some cheap horror movie and then I realized how awful I must have looked.
So the woman's screams eventually stopped and Alison started to hear other voices.
And then she saw the face of a young man who was a literal motherfucking hero, Miel beside her this man forever.
He looked her directly in the eyes and was talking, but she couldn't really understand what he was saying because she's going in and out of consciousness at this point and she opened her mouth and tried to speak but obviously no sound came out and the young man responded telling her just to relax as best as she could and reassured her that help was on the way.
I love this man. It was 2 45 a .m. by the time she was discovered in the street meaning this entire course of events from her abduction to her discovery had taken no more than 90 minutes.
Oh my God. All of that happened, abduction to this point.
90 minutes. 90 minutes.
That is an hour and a half, everybody.
I cannot, I can't conceive of that.
They were able to do that to her.
In 90 minutes that's how much her life changed.
That must have been frenzy -ed, that attack.
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
And even more bad ass of her.
You got all the way out there in that little time.
Which to her felt like hours.
Oh I think it felt like days probably.
But she was zooned out there.
In this fucking economy.
Like in this situation, she's just zooting out to the road.
Holy shit. No, Tion.
I didn't know that.
90 minutes. Wow. So tian different than tian Tian different this is a different person Ealard had been out with friends at a bar that night and was driving Just driving home around 2 30 a .m. When he came upon Alison lying there in the street he was a veterinary student so he was familiar with anatomy and Immediately started checking her vital signs And he also recognized the severity of her wounds and did everything he could to minimize any further risk He gently tucked an exposed piece of thyroid back into her throat, and then using his own shirt, he applied pressure to her neck to slow the bleeding.
By then, other cars had stopped, and there was a great deal of activity in the road.
Other drivers were directing traffic around them.
Somebody brought a flashlight to Tion.
Oh, thank goodness, people.
Yeah, people got it together.
People did it a good way now.
So there was only one people who peepled in the bad way.
Yeah. Outside of the attackers.
And even Alison was able to give them an excuse.
of the excuse so somebody brought him a flashlight and he was able to get a good look at her wounds seeing for the first time that her intestines were exposed yeah he said later i was utterly amazed that this person was still alive considering this second major injury wow so while they waited for an ambulance tion continued talking to allison both to keep her calm and conscious until the ambulance arrived and meanwhile one of the other drivers massaged her legs to keep the the circulation going yeah oh i love this i love I was just part of it.
This is where the humanity is at. Oh man, she saw the opposite ends of the spectrum that night.
So they could finally hear this iron of the ambulance wailing in the distance but it still seemed so far away.
But finally the EMTs were beside them and they loaded Allison onto the stretcher and into the ambulance and instinctually, Tian followed them in and climbed into the ambulance.
Oh Tian. Under the circumstances nobody bothered to ask what his relation was.
Come in, Tion. So he rode all the way to the hospital, holding her hand the entire way.
I hope Tion became a vet.
Yes. I hope he became something that cares for something.
Because, like, he… Because, like, that is his nature.
That is your soul, sir.
Yeah. Oh my God. It wasn't incredible.
I love him. Beautiful.
It wasn't until they arrived to the hospital and a doctor appeared that anybody even paid any attention to him and they just ushered him out of the way because she had to be brought to surgery.
He finally let go of Alison's hand, but not before he leaned in and assured her he was not going to leave her alone.
He would be there when she woke up.
Oh my God. Yes. I know.
I love this. Years later, Alison would credit her survival in large part to him, who she described as her life line that night.
Oh my God. I know. So by the time the surgeon arrived at the hospital, the other doctors had managed really only to get Alison's name and her mother's phone number before she went she lost consciousness again based on the extent of her trauma the surgeon Dr. Valodia Angelov was stunned that she had even managed to stay alive.
Oh yeah. After checking her vital signs he did his best not to reveal his surprise to the patient who was just slipping in and out of consciousness.
Yeah. And according to Dr. Angelov, Allison looked like a quote creature straight out of a Dickens novel.
Oh, sure. She looked like a corpse because you have to think the amount of blood she lost. She must be gray and just, yeah dead—litigating.
Like on the brink of death.
Once they cleaned her off and moved her into surgery, they could see the extent of the wounds.
Dr. Angelaove said her neck had been split open almost from ear to ear.
I've seen many injuries as a doctor, but the severe cruelty of the wounds really shocked me.
Her thyroid had been sliced nearly in half and had Tian not thought to push it back into her throat, would have died.
If he hadn't done that, she would have died.
This is teamwork. Her larynx had been separated from her trachea.
Most of the muscles and tendons in the front and sides of her neck had been sliced and just retracted into the base of her skull.
Holy shit. And the wound to her abdomen was equally horrific.
Like we said, her intestines had been exposed and you probably weren't even thinking, now they're covered in sand dirt and other debris.
I I actually, as soon as you said she was crawling in the sand, my first thought was like, oh my god.
Her intestines are covered in just. Holy shit, shit.
But, her intestines had also sustained several stab wounds.
Her actual intestines.
Which is so fucking, so bad.
Oh yeah, you could go into.
Septic and a hot second.
It's incredible that she didn't.
I'm astounded, she didn't.
Additionally, the stab wounds to her stomach had caused her abdominal muscles to collapse around the area of that wound.
Wow, but after three and a half hours of cleaning and stitching wounds, they finally had stabilized Alison and she was taken to the intensive care unit.
While the surgeons worked to close Alison's wound, other hospital staff had contacted her poor mother, Claire.
I can't imagine getting that phone call.
My god, but Claire started a kind of phone tree to inform everybody in Alison's life of what had happened.
And finally, when she was out of surgery, the family was allowed to see her and Claire rush to the hospital to be right by her side and when she entered Alison's room she said she was shocked by what she saw Claire said she looked frightened she was filthy her face was swollen her eyes were filled with blood and bulged out of her head and she had tubes and pipes everywhere oh my god there was a cage over her lower body keeping blankets off of her and there was this massive bandage across her throat imagine seeing your baby now like somebody did that to your baby There wouldn't be a safe mother
-fucking corner of this earth in the galaxy.
No, just, you can't even.
You could go light years away and I would travel there and find you.
How's the atmosphere without me following.
Yup, that's, I feel immensely for her mother for having to see that.
So despite her injuries, Alison was awake and did her best to talk to her mom.
Just because she's gotta entertain her visitors.
Yeah, because she's a good hostess as well.
Yeah, that's Alison laying in the hospital under all those circumstances and is like Hi, mom.
Hey the fact she could even fucking talk is like her larynx was separated from her trachea Yeah, yeah.
She's like, hey mom.
Hey So she tried to explain She tried to sit there and explain what had happened to her mom, but her voice was too hoarse to say much Gee I wonder why But she just insisted that the police needed to catch the men who had done this to her and it took more than a few Minutes before she realized that in addition to her mother.
There was another young man in the room.
It was Tion Tion was Tion.
Ah the man who stayed with her while they waited for the ambulance So she just thanked him profusely and did her best to hug him.
Oh my god outside the room the attending physician.
Dr Coleman detailed the extent of Allison's wounds to her family Explaining that her head, like I said, had almost been severed from her body.
She had also, remember, been sexually assaulted.
He said, I fought in the Rhodesian bush war and I've never seen anyone with injuries like this survive.
Those wounds were gross beyond belief.
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He explained that her outlook was not good because even if she survived the first few days, there was still an incredibly high risk of infection from all the debris found all along her intestines.
In the injury to her throat was equally serious.
It was very possible for the wound to develop a thick scar tissue that could potentially choke her airway.
So even though they were able to get everything back in order.
Yeah, think of that.
Scar tissue could have formed.
I'm like the inside and literally like pushed back into her airway.
My God. Yup. You don't even think of that.
No, although the outlook was grim, Claire was confident that her daughter would survive.
She said, she was confident that God had not allowed her daughter to make it this far only to take her a few days later.
Wow. Within a few days, visitors started to show up to Alison's room every few hours, including of course, her father, her brother and a ton of friends and family.
And when she was finally stable she was visited by two police officers.
Now that she was out of danger and she was able to speak more clearly she described her attackers to the police and told them that their names were Franz and Tions.
Fortunately one of the officers, Nadia Swanpole, thought that she actually might have had an interaction with these two men at a shopping mall a few days earlier.
Which was confirmed the following day when Allison identified them both in a photo lineup.
Holy shit! What are the odds?
Because these... They're just out here being fucking menaces in every way you can think.
A few days later another police officer, Melvin Humple showed up at Allison's bedside and he explained that he was now the lead detective on the case and wanted to inform her that they had arrested Franz de Toit and Taehan's Kruger and they'd found her car.
They were already out on bail pending a trial for another rape charge.
So Humple assured Allison that neither man would be eligible for bail now.
So they attacked her when they were already out on bail for raping another woman.
So they're just fucking monsters.
Pure monsters. By that point, Allison had been in the hospital for almost two weeks, and news about her attack had spread throughout the country.
The press was obviously eager to talk to her and had been harassing Claire, which I'm like, really?
Like, come on. Yeah.
Day and night they're harassing her.
In most cases you'd assume somebody in Allison's position would probably just want to avoid talking about this ordeal at all and Not want to be anywhere near strangers.
Yeah, you would totally understand that you would Yeah, you'd give her every grace in the world, but she felt compelled to tell her story She was still in such a fragile condition though that interviews had to wait But she was willing to give them holy shit and just to make sure that like every word got a story was told Yeah So she remained in the hospital, obviously for several more weeks and during that time, her attackers were arrested and prosecuted for her attempted murder, which honestly they should have just been prosecuted for murder, because that's what this would have been.
I hate attempted murder.
We've gone through that before.
But like, this is murder.
Yeah. This is murder.
They walked away from somebody they thought was dead.
After decapitating her, and slashing her throat 16 times, and stabbing her in the abdomen, upwards of 50 times, exposing her intestines after raping her violently.
In choking her as well.
To the point of unconsciousness.
If you tell me that is not murder that's stupid as fuck.
That is. That is murder but Allison's just stronger than they are.
She's just better than them.
And she should not be punished for being stronger than they are.
Exactly. Because it's like, that's not, that's not attempt, that's not like oops, I didn't do it right.
No they did it right.
Yeah, Alison's just stronger.
She's just an anomaly.
It's like they did it.
Yeah, they overdid it In fact they over killed her they did And for them to not consider that like there needed to be some kind of break from precedence Yeah where they sat there and said this is murder because this case It's because she survived it doesn't mean that this is not murder.
Yep. Let's be real here It drives me fucking nuts It has always pissed me all the way off.
Attempted murder drives me nuts to be em with, but when it's this flagrant, it's a whole other level.
There needs to be a different precedent.
There just needs to be.
There absolutely does.
Because this makes me so angry!
Yeah, fuck. Of course.
In the hospital, she's reading updates in the papers, and she was surprised by how quote disheveled and terrified they both looked in the photographs, because when they were around her, they were acting completely normal.
But now they look like shit.
It's like you're not scared.
You're not got caught.
The press
