when he snatched my hair back. you know in the movies when people strangle you you die? well, i'm here to tell you that's a lie. you don't die most of the time. you come back and you breathe again and you're in that same hell that you left. and he did that over and over and over. and then something happened. that time when i woke up i laid there limp and i didn't move. i knew just to make like i was dead. and he began dragging me down the back steps. >> he took kristen to his car, opened the trunk, and disappeared back inside. that's when she seized her moment to get away. kristen escaped. but when she tried to press charges, she realized that in the eyes of the law she was just as much a criminal as the man