Random Of The Most Intense Sole Survivor Stories (8 items)

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  (#5) The Kingsmill Massacre Survivor

  Northern Ireland in the 1970s was the scene of a series of tit-for-tat murders between Protestants and Catholics that saw multiple groups of people being dragged from their homes, pubs, and vehicles to be shot at point-blank range. The most gruesome of these crimes was the Kingsmill Massacre. On January 5, 1976, IRA gunmen stopped a van carrying 11 Protestant workmen, lined them up outside and shot each of them execution style with automatic rifles. It was later believed the men unloaded more than 100 rounds on the victims. The only survivor of the massacre, Alan Black, was taken to a nearby hospital where he was brought back from the brink of death despite his 18 bullet wounds. 
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  (#3) Ines Etienne Romeu Survived The House Of Death

  In the 1970s, Ines Etienne Romeu lived through the Brazilian military's House of Death, a torture prison in Petropolis, near Rio de Janeiro. According to retired lieutenant colonel Paulo Malhães, the casa de morte was referred to as a "house of convenience" to pressure prisoners into becoming informants. The main method used to "convince" prisoners was torture, but in a few cases, prisoners were offered money to drop a dime on their friends and family.

  Malhães noted Romeu's release from the prison was an accident, and that she had tricked her captors into believing she had accepted their programming. Of course, this came after the military attempted to make her throw herself under a car to prove that she was loyal to their cause. According to the BBC, more than 400 people "disappeared" in Brazil between 1964 and 1985.
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  (#1) A Loose Crocodile On An Airplane Caused A Crash That Killed All But One Passenger

  In June 2014, a small plane crashed on a routine trip across the Congo. The pilot and 19 passengers all died, leaving only one survivor to tell his unbelievable story. Apparently, a fellow passenger had smuggled a live crocodile onto the flight in his luggage, and when the crocodile escaped, the loose reptile caused a panic. Crew and passengers stampeded to the front of the airplane, dangerously shifting the plane's weight and throwing it off balance, leading to the fatal crash. 
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  (#4) Enietra Washington Was The Only Woman to Meet The Grim Sleeper And Live

  Enietra Washington, the only survivor of Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., AKA the Grim Sleeper, lived through the slayer's brutal attack when he shot her in her chest as she rode in the passenger seat of his Pinto. Almost three decades after the affront, Washington took the stand in Franklin's trial and explained how after shooting her he forced himself on her while taking photos of her.

  When she tried to escape him, he got tired of fighting with her and pushed Washington out of his car. On the stand, Washington claimed she lost her driver's license in Franklin's car, and a year later, a man she believes was her attacker approached her in front of her home to see if she recognized him. 
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  (#2) Only One Woman Lived Through A Salon Shooting

  In 2011, Hattie Stretz was waiting to get her nails done at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, CA, when the building became the site to a devastating shooting. According to ABC News, Scott Dekraai decided to slay his ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, because of their aggressive child custody battle, and attacked the salon she was at. After Dekraai slayed Fournier, he continued firing and gunned down more than seven people.

  Five years after the attack, Stretz gave her first interview. She said, "The only noise that I can remember from that day is the pop, pop, pop, pop." Even though Stretz survived, that doesn't mean she didn't take a hit. "I had this searing pain in my heart, and I looked down at my arm and it was just hanging in shreds." When she was shot, a bullet entered her arm and then went through her left breast. 
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  (#8) 2-Year-Old Survives Brutal Knife Attack

  Twenty-six-year-old Rebecca Cutler and her three children were the victims of a horrific assault at a Ramada Inn in Staten Island, NY, carried out by none other than Cutler's boyfriend, Michael “Da Kid” Sykes. At around 10 am in early February 2016, Sykes accused Cutler of maintaining a relationship with one of her children's fathers and butchered Cutler and her two daughters, Ziana Cutler, one, and Maliyah Sykes, four months, as well as stabbing 2-year-old Miracle. After finishing his rampage, Sykes called his mother and confessed to the crime before ditching the knife and went on the lam before finally being caught by New York area police. Miracle pulled through and, one year later, she paid a visit to the officers at the 121st Precinct that helped save her life. 

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