Ep:38 - The Laura Cowan Story (SURVIVED 4 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY)

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After moving to California for a chance at a better life, Cleveland-native Laura Cowan's dreams quickly become a nightmare. When her husband is arrested on gun charges, Laura seeks solace from a family friend, who turns out to be a violent polygamist.

For four years, Laura and her 3 children endured unimaginable abuse...locked away and held captive in a cold dark garage with no heat, food, and water or plumbing. Laura was repeatedly raped, beaten and starved, alongside her children. Stripped of everything but the will to survive, not only for herself but for her children; Laura would then decide to do the unthinkable.

Fearing that she would never make it out of that garage alive, she began to meticulously keep detailed accounts (via pieces of scrap paper she found throughout the garage) of the horrific daily abuse that she and her c ...