In April 1990, Slagle and her then-husband got into an argument, and she fled their house with her infant son. The two ended up in a shopping center, where Slagle sat in the parking lot to cool off. Soon, she felt eyes on her and noticed a man. He approached her, and the two chatted for a bit before he took them for a drive. As they drove toward a remote and deserted destination, Slagle began to panic.
“I didn’t really know what his intentions were, but I knew they weren’t good,” she said on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009, reinstated by Chico Enterprise-Record.
For the next few hours, Slagle struggled to protect her and her son from harm done by Jesperson. Slagle spoke with Jesperson’s daughter, Melissa Moore, for True Crime Daily, and said Jesperson attempted to break her neck on several occasions. At one point, Slagle’s son “rolled onto the brake pedal, and Jesperson tried to crush his skull.”
Eventually, Jesperson just stopped. He started the car and began driving back in silence. As they got closer to town, Jesperson turned to Slagle and told her to never get in a car with a stranger because you never know if it’s the last thing you’ll ever do.
As for the reason she survived, Slagle told Oprah, “I don’t know if it was the baby screaming or whether it had to do with God, but I could not believe it.”
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Source: Maharo News
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