Katie Beers: The Girl In The Bunker | #448
4/30/20261 hr 13 min
Trapped in a soundproof underground bunker, sleeping in a coffin-shaped box, abused and forced to watch news footage of her December 1992 disappearance on a loop, 10-year-old Katie Beers wondered if she’d ever see the world outside her makeshift prison ever again…
But one thing her captor didn’t know? Katie was a survivor.
This is the story of a little girl who fought against the odds – and managed to escape a lifetime of abuse.
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First 90 secondsSruti· Host0:00
[pensive music] In December 1992, a story hit the headlines that the US public could scarcely believe. A nine-year-old girl celebrating her birthday at a neon-lit kids fun park vanished into thin air. Panic swept through the state at the prospect of a child snatcher on the loose on Long Island, but soon it would become clear just how truly deep and dark this story really was, because that little girl, Katie Beers, would be found alive, somehow having survived being chained up in a secret underground dungeon and locked in a coffin, enduring daily rapes at the hands of her abductor, a man she knew. I'm Sruti.
Hannah Maguire· Host0:57
I'm Hannah.
Sruti· Host0:57
And this is Red Handed. And this is the incredible story of Katie Beers, the girl in the wall, one of genuinely the most shocking survival stories that we've come across.
Hannah Maguire· Host1:10
It's nice when they survive sometimes, isn't it?
Sruti· Host1:13
I know, I was like- A little present for ourselves [laughs] ... should we put that in the intro? I was like, "Fuck yes," because how this girl survives is genuinely unbelievable.
Hannah Maguire· Host1:24
Well, let's find out.
Sruti· Host1:25
Let's do it. On the 28th of December 1992,