14 year old Elizabeth Shoaf stepped off the school bus on September 6th 2006 to begin the short walk home in Lugoff, South Carolina.

Suddenly she is confronted by a predator masquerading as an officer who had been hunting for a young victim just like her

As she is handcuffed & led further and further away from safety deep into the woods she had no idea of the nightmare this man had in store for her.

She was held captive, trapped in a small underground bunker that had been dug out by her kidnapper who was already a wanted man named Vinson Filyaw.

For 10 days she was forced to endure daily sexual assaults as she was trapped below the woods with him, chained up, surrounded by weapons & with explosives hanging around her neck.

However Filyaw had underestimated this young girl's strong will to survive, & she managed to channel her terror into a steely determination to do whatever she had to in order to get out of this alive .

Elizabeth's staggering courage & ability to think on her feet even in the most dire situations allowed Elizabeth to turn the tables on her attacker...

Slowly she lured him into a false sense of security by humanising herself to him, making him believe she liked him even , a trick that made him drop his guard & eventually gave her an opportunity to try & save her own life...

Todays case is not about another predatory child sex offender, it is about how he was defeated by a brave teenage girl whose overwhelming will to live & dream to be reunited with her family allowed her to keep going even in the darkest of moments .

It is about one girls strength in refusing to give up on life or give in to a dangerous criminal. In doing so she ultimately became not only a real life heroine, but a true inspiration to many other survivors of crime...

This is episode 190: Terror Underground- The Kidnapping Of Elizabeth Shoaf

*Crime Talk Time Stamp 6 minutes 20 seconds

Sources: ' The Girl In The Bunker'film, Wikipedia, blurred by lines.com / Fox News, Sky News/ alcatrazeast.com/ wwwscleva.com/

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