We deal with a lot of real-life horror stories, and because it’s real life, they’re often chaotic and cruel. Justice might ultimately be served, but more often than not, the victims are already cold in the ground. If someone is dead-set on killing you, there’s a very good chance they’ll succeed. In the most satisfying fictional horror stories, of course, there’s a survivor, someone who faces the monster or killer and lives to tell the tale, someone who finds deep wells of courage and resilience inside themself and defeats the horrors the world throws at them. And these stories are not only limited to fiction.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's Surviving Evil, S3E7, “The Bathtub Killer”
A&E's Cold Case Files, S4E24, “Déjà Vu/Secret in the Well”
People: https://people.com/bathtub-killer-dateline-nbc-murders-texas-8659842
Court papers: https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591471c6add7b04934373412
https://multco.us/news/susan-walters-who-fended-hitman-provides-guidance-multnomah-county-crime-victims-portal
Willamette Week: https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/
Investigation Discovery's Nothing Personal: Murder for Hire, "This Man Brainwashed His Friend into Killing His Pregnant Wife"
Oregon Live: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2014/06/portlander_who_hired_hitman_to.html
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

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