13 Real-Life ‘I Survived’ Stories That Will Horrify And Fascinate You
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Jennifer Morey
In Houston, Texas during 1995, Jennifer Morey was a young lawyer living alone in an apartment complex she’d chosen because it seemed like a safe place to live. After spending the night of April 15th at an alehouse with some friends, Jennifer returned home, locked her deadbolt, washed her face, brushed her teeth, and went to bed.
Jennifer awoke to the feeling of someone on top of her, tugging at her underwear, with a knife pressed against her throat. She began screaming for her assailant not to hurt her and fighting back with all of her might. Jennifer’s screams were so loud she woke up 15 of her neighbors in other units. Not one of them called 911.
Her attacker slashed the right side of her face during their fight and continually used her name saying, “Jennifer shut the hell up!” Despite realizing the man knew her, she didn’t recognize his voice. Eventually their fight culminated with the man on top of Jennifer with his knife at her neck, and he slit her throat before tossing her into the bathroom, presumably to leave her for dead.
Jennifer mustered up the strength that she had to keep the bathroom door closed with the lower half of her body until she was sure the man was out of her apartment. She then struggled out of the bathroom to find that her power had been cut and her phone line had been cut. But thankfully she found her cell phone, hid back in the bathroom, and called 911.
911 dispatcher Richard Everett took the call from Jennifer, assuring her that help was on the way and stayed on the line trying to keep her calm. While on the line with Richard, Jennifer heard a pounding at her front door. The man at the front door was Bryan Gibson, claiming to be from security of Jennifer’s apartment complex. But Richard, going off a gut instinct, told Jennifer to not open the door.
When police arrived on the scene they were greeted by Gibson, who claimed he’d been jumped by a man who ran from Jennifer’s apartment into the woods. It didn’t take investigators long to piece together that Gibson had fabricated the story about being jumped, and was actually the man who attacked Jennifer. He was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 20 years, and Jennifer also won a civil case against the security company who had hired Gibson despite his criminal record.
Jennifer is now a successful attorney as well as a motivational speaker. When she married her now husband, Richard Everett attended her wedding.