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.

Last Updated: 3/19/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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Bound by Love
star
9.00
4 votes

#1 - 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.

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Hostage Hell House
star
8.67
3 votes

#2 - 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.

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Coke Crazed Killer
star
8.50
6 votes

#3 - Coke Crazed Killer

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/2014

A man goes on a cocaine-fueled rampage in a Texas border town, targeting a neighbor who is determined to save her children even if it means sacrificing her own life.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
star
8.17
6 votes

#4 - The Nightmare Before Christmas

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/2014

Family members arrive at their vacation home in Utah to discover that two violent criminals have ransacked the cabin where they intended to celebrate Christmas.

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Bulletproof
star
8.14
7 votes

#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.

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Good Deeds Gone Bad
star
8.09
11 votes

#6 - Good Deeds Gone Bad

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2013

After good deeds are done, Rhoda and Amy are attacked but live to tell of how they fought off the deranged attackers.

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Bound in a Box
star
7.92
13 votes

#7 - 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.

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Nobody's Victim
star
7.89
18 votes

#8 - 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.

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The Devil You Know
star
7.88
8 votes

#9 - The Devil You Know

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/30/2013

Three women are victimized by familiar faces; they survive by any means necessary.

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Mind Games
star
7.88
8 votes

#10 - Mind Games

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/2016

A 2005 case from Texas: while driving on a highway, a woman and her cousin are shot by another driver. She suffers a nearly severed arm; and her cousin, just 18 years old, is killed.

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Home Invasion
star
7.78
9 votes

#11 - 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.

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Betrayal of Trust
star
7.75
12 votes

#12 - Betrayal of Trust

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2014

This first episode of this highly successful returning series tells the horrific kidnapping ordeal of the Tiede sisters after having experienced their family murdered before them.

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Living in Fear
star
7.75
8 votes

#13 - Living in Fear

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2015

Domestic violence survivor Heather Imming is determined to build a new life for her and her daughter, but her husband is waiting in the shadows for an opportunity to strike a lethal blow.

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Money, Madness and Murder
star
7.70
10 votes

#14 - 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.

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Bound and Determined
star
7.67
12 votes

#15 - Bound and Determined

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2013

A predator kidnaps a woman and shoots her husband in broad daylight.

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Terror Beach
star
7.54
35 votes

#16 - 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.

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Killer Smile
star
7.50
8 votes

#17 - Killer Smile

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/2014

A deadly sociopath on a killing spree, Peter John Peters has already left two bodies in his wake. And now he's parked outside a Niagara Falls area bank where he abducts 28-year-old Sandie Bellows at knifepoint.

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Wolves at the Door
star
7.45
11 votes

#18 - Wolves at the Door

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/2013

A woman and man are brutally attacked by their friends.

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Underground Terror
star
7.42
19 votes

#19 - Underground Terror

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/11/2013

A 14-year-old girl is held for 10 horrific days in an underground bunker by a depraved sexual predator, but fights through unspeakable abuse to singlehandedly engineer her survival.

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From Dire to Deadly
star
7.40
5 votes

#20 - 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.

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Total Control
star
7.20
10 votes

#21 - Total Control

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2015

A San Diego high school student's new dream job turns into a nightmare when she is instead confined to a motel room and forced to work seven days a week for a string of violent clients.

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Handcuffed
star
7.13
8 votes

#22 - 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.

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The Bathtub Killer
star
7.09
11 votes

#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.

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Three Days in Hell
star
7.00
6 votes

#24 - Three Days in Hell

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/23/2013

Two women fight for their lives; ex-husband ready to dispose of his wife; homicidal attacker in school.

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The Queen's Daughter
star
7.00
8 votes

#25 - The Queen's Daughter

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2015

A young woman is plunged into the dark side of Detroit when a night on the town leaves her stranded on the freeway and in the clutches of an armed gang of thugs on a violent crime spree.

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