Around 2:00 AM on December, 18, 1994, 27-year-old Alison Botha was abducted at knifepoint by two men,
Around 2:00 AM on December, 18, 1994, 27-year-old Alison Botha was abducted at knifepoint by two men, who took her to a remote area in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and raped her. They then stabbed her chest, abdomen, and pubic area over 36 times before viciously slashing her throat at least 16 times and leaving her for dead. In the 2015 documentary Alison, she explains that she left her body for a short time at this point.[10] She felt that she had the choice to die but instead chose to return to her body because she wanted to try to live her life better. When Alison returned to consciousness, she realized her intestines were beside her on the ground. She had to manually hold her organs in place while she tried to crawl to the road, but she realized walking would be easier, so she decided to try to stand. Everything went black, and she found that her neck had been so badly slashed that her head had flopped back between her shoulder blades. She had to hold it up with her other han...
