I SURVIVED: I Thought He Was Killing My Son

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1:03and I went to get out of bed and there was a guy standing over me with a wave in a baseball bat, looming a baseball bat over my head. Who faced death? I'm not incinerated by the gasoline and these runaway cars. I'm going to die in even worse death of chlorine exposure. And lived to tell how. Now I've tried to escape twice. So he knows he can't trust me. He knows I'm going to fight him tooth and nail what's he going to do with me. This is I Survive. It's July 2004 in Madera, California. Daron and Chastity Baker's house is in a semi-rural area. It was a weekend and we had went to my sister's house. We basically just had a barbecue and enjoyed ourselves and then went home that evening. My husband went to bed first. He went to bed probably around 11, 30 or 12. We slept with the TV on in our room because we had our kids when

2:04we always had the TV on. So I just remember waking up and I happened to turn over and notice a man dark. I couldn't make out his face because you know all I delight I had was just the TV and it was kind of away from the bed. I thought my dreaming or am I not dreaming? And you know when I looked over like you know I seen this man standing there I seen something shining like a glare like metal and I just seen was able to yell out to my husband. Watch out look out. She said look out and I said I was like thinking what I turned around and I went to get out of bed and there's a guy standing over me with a wave and a baseball bat, a little baseball bat over my head. I mean I didn't have time to do anything. I had time to move and barely you know sit up and I would get hit me. I didn't have time to do anything and that's what I was thinking of man I'm gonna try to fight with this guy. I had no chance. I didn't have a chance. Darin's skull was fractured and he had a large gash on his head.

3:11The attacker made Jastie cover her head with the sheet and continued to beat Darin. I think he kicked my teeth out or punched my teeth out my front teeth. Nose was broke. He had my husband on the ground and I could hear him kicking my husband and I can hear him my husband yelling, hurting and I could hear him you know he's telling my husband Raymond calling my his husband Raymond and my husband's telling him I'm not Raymond. The attacker was a member of the Nazi low rider gang. You're just yelling at me saying you're you're part of the Mexican mafia and I'm gonna where's the gun at and you're calling me Raymond and I'm like I'm white and I'm not in the Mexican mafia and my name's not Raymond and he kept just yelling at us and saying you know you're gonna get it and where's the gun and I was just on the ground laying there just I was thinking oh my what could I do we could move.

4:13I was laying on the bed face down with the sheet over my head. He started asking where the gun was. He was asking for a Smith Wesson. He was said on a Smith Wesson asking us where's the Smith Wesson? Where's the gun? Where's the gun? And we're telling him we don't have again. The attacker ransacked the bedroom searching for a gun. He was very angry and just thinking you know he's gonna kill us and laying in the bed thinking I'm you know he's gonna come and hit me next and I'm gonna be dead. He tells me is there anybody else in the house? Then it seemed as soon as he said is there anybody else in the house? My son walks I can hear my son say mom and so the first thing I tell my son is don't look Dustin cover your eyes because this whole time that we're in the room and this is happening to us he's telling you know me don't look at me don't look at me. Dustin is there 11 year old son. The guy told him go over on the bed with your mom so he went over on the bed

5:17with with my wife and she covered his head up and I was thinking to myself all he's gonna he's gonna kill us I mean if he was here to rob us he could have just robbed us and take this stuff and left but he was there looking for something I'm just just thinking the whole time this guy's probably gonna kill us. At that point when my son got into the bed with me I totally like snapped out of fear for myself you know and my husband and I'm thinking I start thinking oh my gosh you know I need to keep my son calm so that he doesn't hurt us and he doesn't hurt my son and my son you know was petrified it seemed when my son walked into the room the intruder his whole demeanor kind of changed he went from being very aggressive and angry to a little bit more calm I just remember my son did most of the talking in the bed telling him giving him ideas to tie us up you know like just put us in the closet lock the door tie us up with shoes there's shoe laces

6:21I seemed like the more that my son talked to him the you know his tone of voice just changed it was like more from initially was angry to you know like a moderate tone to just like a regular talking the attacker told the family to move to a bathroom near the front door but my husband could not get out because he was you know obviously injured and so he tells me you better get your husband you know be better help him Darren had a fractured skull concussion a broken nose and had lost several teeth I was in the amount of consciousness I'm sure I was if you know for a while I would hear stuff and then I'd black out a little bit I remember my wife trying to get me up and I told her I can't I can't do it I can't walk and she kept yelling I mean you gotta get up you gotta get and she pulled me up and I remember going walking to the bathroom real slow and just it hurt so bad I could I couldn't even stand Harley and she I we made it to the bathroom and soon as they open

7:27the door to the bathroom I fell down on the ground right there the whole time I was thinking I was just thinking this guy's nuts he's I thought he was gonna kill us it is four hours since the initial attack I felt real weak and sick and just blood running down the side of my face and I plus my teeth were gone my nose was broken and I had blood just tripping all down my face and I knew I had a big wound on my head because I could feel the cold air hitting it up there my husband was out in and out of consciousness at this point and it seemed like we would almost have to shake him to breathe because he was so shallow and I felt worse because my son was in there with us with us and having my son see the blood I couldn't hide it there was nowhere to hide it because we were so crammed together the attacker continued to rob and ransack their home he ends up coming to the bathroom door and asking me about my computers he just asked

8:38me to come out and I'm thinking oh my gosh you know this guy's gonna rate me or something I told her I think I don't want her to go but I knew she I knew she was gonna go he made that clear that he wanted her to go and I was thinking oh man he's gonna he's gonna rape her and there's nothing I can do about I'm sitting here tied up head bleeding I mean I'm a mess I can't move my heads killing me I'm just I'm just laying there I can't do nothing it's helpless the most helpless I can't do nothing and I just remember looking at the ground at the floor come walk out of the bathroom and he's behind me and he's just telling me oh don't look at me don't look at me either he's gonna hit me in the back of the head with something and kill me it's gonna rape me or you know I don't really know what this guy is gonna do to me Chastity was forced to disconnect her two computers so they could be removed the attacker then phoned an accomplice to help him rob the house I remember walking towards the bathroom and then I'm thinking okay you know he

9:38didn't do anything to me I'm okay the intruders began removing everything of value from the house he would come to the bathroom and just you know different times and check on my husband to make sure he was breathing and every each and every time he would open the door we'd have to look down or you know make sure we weren't looking at him he would lift up my the towel on my head and look at my cut and say you know push my back and say oh he he's still breathing he's okay and just throw the towel back on my head and walk out he would come in and I think every hour check on me it had been over seven hours since Darren's skull was fractured he comes cracked a door and he tells my son that he wants him to come out of the bathroom at first I think I told him no you know and he said no you know he needs to come out of the bathroom and I'm thinking okay do I try to fight with him I remember saying I hope he's not gonna kill my son he better I hope not he's not gonna kill my son not my son although reluctant Dustin remained calm

10:44and went with the attacker my son gets up and he goes outside the door with them and they close the door and I remember listening putting my head up against the door to listen to see what I could hear listen see if I hear anything and I just hear them walking away just you know the voice is just walking fading away and I knew they had to have gone towards the bedrooms. Chastity listened as the attacker told Dustin he was going to give him a truth serum and he told my son I'm gonna give this to your dad but if I give it to your dad it's gonna kill him I'm gonna kill him I'm gonna give him a lot I'm gonna kill him or you can take it for your dad and you know it's just truth serum you know so it's either give it to your dad and kill your dad or I'm gonna give it to you so my son went ahead and told him yes 11 year old Dustin was injected in the arm with methamphetamine and

11:45that's the point that I heard my son screaming and crying to me it was like I thought he was killing my son it was as cry and a scream together that had never heard who knows what's happening to him and I'm sitting there knocked out or laying on the ground tied up leading and can't help him I mean what can I do if I can't do nothing it was just terrible that was a worse feeling in my life I hear my son and I hear this guy telling my son okay that was fun huh everything that was fun right everything's okay right you know kind of guiding my son the conversation you know how he wanted the conversation and going I hear my son you know composure I don't hear him crying no more calm saying yeah that was okay that was fun yeah that was fun the intruder forced Dustin to load his family's property into a waiting vehicle he then put Dustin back in the bathroom he seemed

12:48to calm he seemed normal just like nothing you know just normal and you know I asked him see okay because you know heard him screaming crying and he started motioning something about his arm and his shot but you know we were whispering so I couldn't didn't realize really what he was saying but I didn't see any bruises you know I didn't see nothing on his face no cuts and he starts telling me mom there's a red dot on the side of the wall he has a laser gun and I'm thinking or you know one of those guns with the scope and I'm thinking oh my gosh and I telling Dustin I don't see anything I don't see anything and he's at him and he's like no there's a red dot he has a gun he has a gun my son kept saying he's got a gun I think he's got a gun one of those on the scope on it a red dot my wife kept telling them we don't see no I can see my son now acting really weird and strange you know chewing his mouth moving like

13:51his chewing gum nervous the attacker held the family captive for all of that day his accomplice continued to drive carloads of the family's property to another location the thieves stole food clothing electronic equipment and sports memorabilia throughout that time I'm in the bathroom I can hear the car leaving and then some time we go by and then the car would come back you know several times I don't really remember much of that truthfully because I at that point I was like I was getting pretty sick I was like I would probably sleep for a while and wake up and I I told my wife I was getting real weak and I said I'm I had to sit up actually and I was throwing up right there while they're sitting right there I mean probably from the blood loss or whatever and I would just concentrate on how we were going to get out of there they remained in the bathroom into a second night and you got had the air conditioner on probably 60 degrees and it was

14:53real late at night and he I was trembling and shaking and I kept telling my wife I'm not going to last much longer we need to get out of here we need to ask we need to ask this guy if we just to leave so we can get out the house had gone quiet but the family was not sure if their attacker had left they had been in the bathroom for over 24 hours I go to the door put my mouth against the door and I'm excuse me excuse me and I tell him sir sir can I please have a blanket and I nobody answers and I ask him again can I please have a blanket where cold can we please have a blanket because I wanted to be able to tell if somebody was there so I decide I'm going to pull the door open and try to get away and the door was locked but she had prided open was yanking on and it busted open and when she when she busted it open she like was peeking her head out and she would look you know one way and the other way and there was nothing she would say mister mister sir is

15:58anybody here nothing and she turned around she says I'm going to run to the back to the sliding glass door and I'm going to run out so I remember in the dark pitch dark going down the hall turning right into the Dan and I ran to the back sliding door I don't know how I unlocked it because we I unlocked the door open the sliding door and just ran as fast as I could chest city ran to her neighbor's house and called 911 and I hear a knock my hand pound on the door so I actually get up for the first time my son helps me up we walk maybe two three feet to the front door and I see like three three sheriffs and all I do is fall down to the ground and I'm laying there I'm thinking thank god somebody's here and they come in the the house and they're like what's going on here and we're trying to tell them and it's that by then it's over we're safe. Patrick Booth was captured two

17:02weeks after the home invasion at the trial Booth conducted his own defense questioning the family in the witness box he got to ask us stupid questions we weren't allowed to ask him nothing it was just it was it was the worst thing that was the hardest part was the testimony I just wanted to jump off the stand and go ring his neck 11-year-old Dustin faced his attacker twice in court and was awarded witness of the year in California he was a hero he basically saved our lives if it wasn't for him he would have killed us he told my son that too because if your mom and dad if you weren't here I would have killed your mom and dad but I'm not going to do it in front of a kid. Patrick Booth was sentenced to 48 years plus two consecutive life sentences. I survived for my family I survived for my kids and my husband and I survived because of my son's strength.

18:14It's December 2005 in downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania and Ryan is working in the rail yard he is directing the movement of rail cars carrying hazardous material to the top of the hill we're taking cars from the inbound yard rail yard to my left and we are breaking them apart into smaller groups to make up outbound trains. The tankers when they got to the top of the hill were to roll down the other side Ryan was in a shack right next to the track at the top of the hill. The locomotives were just passing me and they were they were pulling as hard as they could the cars that they were pulling were all extra heavy cars the bulk of what was in front of me was gasoline tankers they hold an awful lot of gasoline I mean we're talking about thousands and thousands of gallons of gasoline each the locomotives pulled the six cars up into the first set

19:15of break retarders where they were to be held. The break retarders were rubber panels at the top of the hill they were designed to clamp the rail cars preventing them from rolling back down the hill and these cars in front of me as they're stretched out over the hill in the retarders are not supposed to be moving and after the locomotive cut away I could hear a very high pitched squealing noise which was the sound of the steel locomotive wheels moving grinding against the steel parts of the break retarders they were failing they're not going to hold the cars and the cars began to roll back down the way that they are not supposed to go back down the incline completely run away all by themselves I guess the first thought would be where are they going to go I just remember

20:21seeing the track that they're lined for seeing a small gray tanker and seeing the hazmat placard on the back of that tanker it's the skull and crossbones chlorine pure chlorine the train was only 1500 feet away from the collision with the chlorine tanker they're going to build up a lot of speed and they're going to plow into the chlorine car I've got hundreds of thousands of gallons rolling free toward chlorine and a whole lot more gasoline and I'm in a city I'm in downtown allentown I'm surrounded by homes communities if they're not consumed by whatever massive explosion from the gasoline you know they're going to have to contend with chlorine gas and ammonia and it's purest form I've only got a few seconds you know

21:24if I'm going to do anything I've got to do it now the only way that is even conceivable to stop these cars at this point is to somehow get on to these cars as they're rolling by me jump on and apply a handbrake and as all this is going through my head the voice comes over the radio behind me on the wall and I hear you better get up there and get a break on there you better get up there and put a break on Brian had only seconds to get aboard the runaway carriages he decided to leap onto one of the tanker's ladders to apply a handbrake there's even more problems than that because it's the beginning of December cars are covered in ice so I'm going to have to take a running leap I'll do an icy ladder I've only got a few seconds you know if I'm going to do anything

22:25I've got to do it now because these cars are going to roll by me very quickly I started looking as they're rolling where's my next shot going to be where's the next ladder soonest ladder the first place I can get on and you know they're they're starting to pick up some speed now and they're moving when I'm going to try to do something I have to try to do something way too many people are going to die and they're going to die a horrible death and I can't have that I can't last figured I would hit the ladder and because of the ice just right in between the cars and I could cut in half or whatever but at this point so what I'm going to die anyway so I didn't pick the next spot made the jump and I actually got on to the ladder I made it and I scrambled up to the top of the the brake platform

23:31and shot right over to the handbrake as fast as I could and applied it fully turned the wheel clockwise and normally when you apply a handbrake fully what happens is the wheels of the railcar completely lock up and you'll see sparks coming up from the steel on steel contact and they come to a halt pretty quick um so I applied the handbrake fully and nothing happened and I I was a little lost for that nanosecond in time the handbrake is engaged by turning a wheel connected to a heavy steel chain when that handbrake is applied fully that steel chain is like a steel rod it does not move it's taught and I looked down at the chain and it's dangling it's just swaying

24:39in the breeze Ryan is aboard a runaway train moments from collision with a tanker of pure chlorine in a desperate attempt to prevent a massive explosion he is trying to apply a handbrake the handbrake is engaged by a heavy steel chain my next thought was what else can I do but when I turned around to look at the next car then I could jump to the end of that car did not have a handbrake the next car in line that I was going to jump to the handbrake was on the other end of the car and there's no way to get to that there's just nothing else I can do you can feel the force that these things are moving with and when they collide with another stationary object I think I'd rather get off so I got to the far end of the brake platform got up as much speed as I could

25:41and the way out on my way off this brake platform before I jump I'm going to kick the chain maybe there's a stick who knows in the chain that'll that'll come free I'm going to run I'm going to jump before I jump I'm going to kick the chain got my momentum up started running off the brake platform tank car as I passed the chain I kicked it the side of my boot but as my feet left the platform making the jump away from the car that was when I heard that zzip the brake engaged the linkage came taught it was a very high pitched noise you could hear that it's almost like time almost stops and it's funny because when people do say that your life flashes before your eyes yes it really will

26:41and the speed at which it happens is incredible I could remember you know one of the billions of things that goes through your head you know I can remember my daughter has swanabiffed I should she can't walk she's basically paralyzed from the waist down her and I were dancing you know there was little song playing and I had uh I picked her up and we were just you know just twirling around and I'll never get to do it again I don't know what happened it really a jump and that's the end of the tape for me Ryan dove headfirst down a 12 foot stone embankment and there was a small there's a drainage creek there again that's where I ended up somewhere down at the bottom of the little hill there the runaway train collided with one of the stationary chemical tankers

27:42but the handbrake had engaged and slowed the train none of the tankers ruptured I can only imagine it would have been a massive explosion if I hadn't jumped on the car no I definitely would not have made it the surrounding community I mean even just from the initial blast alone would have been just wiped out gone beyond that beyond the immediate community within you know a few miles they would have to attend with the hazardous material the gases chlorine um the the casualties would have been terrible men, women, children gone entire city gone just gone when Ryan was found he had shattered bones in both his legs and sustained severe brain damage

28:46this caused loss of motor skills epilepsy partial blindness and deafness in one year my goal in trying to stop those cars was to keep people alive but I would have never thought that I would have been even physically capable doing some of the things but once you take away that basic human thought feeling or instinct of the fear of death once you take that away it's incredible what people can do it's 2006 in St. Petersburg Florida, Julie a real estate agent receives a call to view a property so I was a realtor and I got a call from a prospect to come and view a property that was one of my listings so I told the gentleman that I could be there in about 20 minutes so I got my car and

29:52started driving and on the way there I was thinking about how I was going to show the property when I arrived he was not there and within a few minutes he arrived he was driving a four-door family car well-groomed well-dressed nice looking young man he introduced himself as Chris Man Chris Man was actually a convicted criminal named James Partcher he was looking for a house that he could get into rather quickly so his preference was a vacant home but it wasn't quite the right house for him and he wanted to look at some other properties and he wanted to go immediately from that property to other properties and I convinced him that no I had to go back to my office which is our protocol so that's what we did we went back to my office we picked five properties to go and view they viewed homes together for over four hours and the last house he seemed very interested in as a matter of fact he had me call the listing agent and ask if there were

30:53wood floors under the carpet the kind of questions that a serious buyer would ask we were going to measure a wall for a piece of furniture that he said specifically he wanted to have in that home so he was in the kitchen looking at the laminated countertops kind of complaining about those and said let's measure that wall and I was in that bedroom so I was getting my measuring tape out of my pocket when I heard those two hard fast footfalls that you expect when someone is getting the momentum for something he hit me on the back of the head with a gun and I went flying probably about 12 feet I went to the opposite end of the room and I came right out of my shoes and my nose hit the carpet and I didn't know what quite was going on but I knew I was in trouble and my first thought was oh god please help me I know that I don't know what to do

31:57he was instantly on top of me with his knee in my back and he was pulling my arms around behind my back and I wasn't fast enough for him Julie didn't realize that the attacker had broken her right arm and he pulled my hands behind my back and tied them with cable ties zip ties on the outside I was very calm and quiet on the inside my thoughts were racing and they were horrible things like this is the last time that I'm going to be here I can't believe I'm never going to see my mother again and my attacker was also very calm he just said things like be quiet or I'll kill you don't say anything don't try to escape he was just talking like in his normal voice

32:59I actually asked him is this a rape a robbery or a murder and he said to me this is a robbery but I knew that he was lying because if this was just a robbery all he had to do was take the gun out and any point and point it at me and I knew that we still had a long way to go through whatever it was he had planned for me the attacker took Julie's car keys and went outside to steal possessions from her vehicle my head was telling me that maybe I should submit but my instinct kicked in and I knew that I could not do nothing so I pulled my hands out of the zip ties and I don't know whether it broke them or if my hand just pulled through them or what but I was free and I hopped up and I ran to the door and I locked it and I went to the window and I pulled the blind up and the windows

34:01opened side to side instead of up and down and they were actually the same windows in my own home and yet I couldn't figure out the window lock combination to unlock them and as I was frantically standing there trying to figure it out and thinking to myself this is silly why can't I do this he had entered the room again hit me on the head again and I went down and he pulled me up by my hair so I was on my knees with him holding me by my hair with a knife up against my throat and he wanted my jewelry and he said take all your jewelry off and if you can't get it off I'll cut it off so I was removing my rings and he said I want your ATM numbers and they better be right and I will know because you're coming with me so I gave him my ATM numbers I didn't care I would have given him anything he was dragging me from the master bedroom to one of the smaller bedrooms by my hair and I was

35:06sort of on my knees and it hurt really bad and I knew that it hurt really bad but I didn't care he dragged a jewelry into a smaller bedroom where he threw her onto the floor and he had his knee on my back and he was fumbling for something and I didn't know what it was I just knew he was having a hard time with whatever it was he was trying to do and he had to put the gun on the knife down so he put the knife down on my left side and he put the gun down on my right side so I reached over and I grabbed the gun I wasn't sure that I could kill him but I was sure that I could shoot him I had it in my hand and I went to straighten my hand up and I was just amazed that my hand didn't work I couldn't straighten my hand up it just wouldn't function I had no idea why it didn't even hurt it just didn't work and in my amazement and confusion he was able to knock it out

36:12and I couldn't keep a hold of it either I had no strength in my hand so it was very easy for him to knock the gun all the way across the room as her attacker went to retrieve the gun Julie spotted something lying on the floor and I thought boy I don't know what that is but it's his and it may be the only piece of evidence that they're going to have when they find my dead body so I need to get that I reached over and grabbed it and I didn't look at it and the closet door was open right behind me and I put it in the closet never knowing what it was I just put it in that closet and I thought well they'll find that and in true CSI fashion they'll figure out who this man is from whatever that is and I just felt like I had accomplished something by doing that Julie had hidden his role of duct tape in the closet he turned around he had the gun and the knife again and was pointing them at me trying to decide what to do and I thought well now I've tried

37:16to escape twice so he knows he can't trust me he knows I'm gonna fight him tooth and nail what's he gonna do with me with no duct tape the attacker had no way of restraining Julie they thought well if he doesn't know what he's gonna do with me maybe I better come up with some suggestions so I knew that closet was behind me and the door was open so I started pleading with him please just put me in that closet and leave me I will stay there I will count till two minutes is up out loud and you can hear me and you can get away and I started scooting on my behind into that closet myself and he just had this look like like he didn't know what to do either like he was trying to come up with a better option on his own and nothing was coming to him so he was just letting this one happen once I got myself into the closet I sort of thought better and thought

38:20well that might have been a silly move on my part because if he was a little apprehensive about shooting me maybe it will be easier for him once that door is closed he can shoot me right through that closet door so I was very fearful once I was in the closet that he would shoot me right through the closet door Julie told the gunman that she would give him two minutes to get away and I was counting really loud just one two three and then it was time I had counted for two minutes and I thought I got to open this door and see what's out there and I kind of fiddled around with the lock and I figured it out and I opened it and I looked towards the door and he wasn't there so I hopped up and ran over and locked it and I went to the window and amazingly first try I was able to unlock the window and slide it open push the screen out and just bailed just fell out the window as fast as I could Julie ran to the house next door and got the residence to call 911 an

39:25ambulance arrived soon after and nothing hurt on me until I saw the ambulance and then as soon as I realized they were there then everything hurt Julie's right arm was broken her knees severely damaged and her head badly bruised James Parture was arrested 10 weeks later with Julie's belongings in his possession police also found a manifesto outlining Parture's plan to kill other female realtors I survived because my natural will to live was stronger than his conviction to rob me or murder me or whatever his plan was for me that day I still miss my wedding ring every day other than that I there's nothing that he took from me thank you for listening to i survived hello and welcome to Pluto foal if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see

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