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I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

Update: 2026-04-06
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In September of 2008, Vanessa Gay met Anthony Sowell on a sidewalk in Cleveland Ohio. He invited her to share drinks and drugs at his home. She was unaware that she was walking into a house where 11 of his victims had been hidden and buried. Vanessa recounts her escape from death, as Detective Lemmy Griffin and Prosecutor Rick Bombik walk us through this murderer's capture and sentencing.


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I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

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