The BEST episodes of Surviving Evil
Every episode of Surviving Evil ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Surviving Evil!
SURVIVING EVIL features dramatically compelling and emotional stories of victims who fought back against their attackers and, against amazing odds, survived. Joining Investigation Discovery as host of the series is Charisma Carpenter, best known for her role as Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. Carpenter is the survivor of a real-life incident that she endured more than 20 years ago. The actress and two friends were swimming at San Diego's Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991 when they were violently attacked by an armed, rogue police officer. Carpenter fought for her survival after being held at gunpoint, but her two friends were both shot by the attacker and seriously wounded. The police officer was sentenced to 56 years in prison for the attacks in addition to a series of rapes and robberies.
#1 - Hostage Hell House
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/2014
A pretty college student working as a bartender in suburban Illinois, Katy Sharp is saving up for her upcoming move to Nashville when she is kidnapped and held hostage by a drug-dealing psychopath who enjoys torturing his victims.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#2 - Bound by Love
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/2014
Amy Collinsworth is happily married, but when she begins asserting her independence her partner Billy goes ballistic. Amy eventually threatens to leave, and that's when her deranged and sadistic husband unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#5 - Bulletproof
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2014
A Texas schoolteacher is abducted in the middle of the night by a gun-toting stranger with a sinister plan. Meanwhile, an Ottawa woman's casual dating experience proves anything but when her former lover shows up with a gun and a deadly promise.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#7 - Nobody's Victim
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/4/2013
Suicidal Florida teen Lisa McVey is ready to end her life. But as Lisa leaves work, a serial killer terrorizing Florida abducts her at gunpoint. While police mount one of Florida's largest manhunts to date, the 17-year-old's survival instincts revive.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#10 - Bound in a Box
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/2014
In Kokomo, Indiana, 21-year-old Anita Wooldridge is abducted and locked in a metal cabinet hundreds of miles from home. Repeatedly raped, she struggles to stay alive. Meanwhile, the FBI joins the search to find her before it's too late.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#12 - Money, Madness and Murder
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/2013
Two kind, successful women fall prey to cold-blooded assailants obsessed with a life of luxury. Sheila Dates and her daughter are taken hostage by a covetous couple, and Elizabeth is the victim of her jealous husband's psychopathic rage.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#13 - Home Invasion
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/2013
When Marcela and Reubens Borges cannot give a ruthless band of thugs the amount of money they want, they are kidnapped at gunpoint along with their young son. They are forced to take matters into their own hands to escape from the homicidal captors.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#17 - From Dire to Deadly
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/2014
A recent Tennessee high school grad finds herself in the grasp of an aggressive and drug-crazed local thug. Meanwhile, a lonely Alabama divorcee falls for a Latin lover who proves to be a sadistic villain with murder on his mind.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#20 - Terror Beach
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/2013
Charisma Carpenter is the survivor of a real-life incident that she endured more than 20 years ago. The actress and her two friends were swimming at San Diego's Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991 when they were violently attacked by an armed serial rapist. Carpenter fought for her survival after being held at gunpoint, but her two friends were both shot and seriously wounded by the attacker. In the first episode of the series Charisma tells her incredible story of survival in raw emotional detail about what happened that night.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#21 - Handcuffed
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/2014
A group of violent and sadistic thugs overpower and abduct 19-year-old Kim Case from her driveway. And although they torture and rape her throughout the night, she ultimately proves to be a more formidable adversary than they ever imagined.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#23 - The Bathtub Killer
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/2015
Known for raping his victims and butchering them in their bathtubs, a serial killer is terrorizing the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, and 22-year-old Adriane Fields cannot shake the feeling that she will be next.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
