South Carolina kidnapping survivor Kara Robinson reveals tips for escaping abduction

A serial killer kidnapped 15-year-old Kara Robinson in 2002, compelled her into his car and restrained her inside his Columbia, South Carolina, residence.

The kidnapping turned the most important mistake of Richard Evonitz’s legal profession when Robinson escaped and ultimately despatched police down his path. The 39-year-old killed himself following a police chase in Florida that very same 12 months.

“My physique simply routinely kicked into survival. He put a gun to the aspect of my neck, and that principally regarded like all of my … inner dialogue stopped, and it simply turned survival. So, my survival mechanism was … a little bit bit freeze, a little bit however combat, however principally the appease response, which is to sort of co-regulate this individual’s nervous system.”

In different phrases, Robinson adopted Evonitz’s orders in an effort to outlive. 

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“I basically realized that I needed to stay calm sufficient to assemble data, and that may permit him to belief me, change into complacent and ultimately permit me to have the ability to escape,” Robinson recalled.

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Evonitz, initially from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, murdered Sofia Silva, Kristen Lisk and Kati Lisk between 1996 and 1997 in Spotsylvania County previous to Robinson’s seize and escape. 

He lived in states throughout the nation over the course of about six years, together with South Carolina, the place he kidnapped Robinson as she was serving to a pal are likely to flowers in her entrance yard. Evonitz pulled as much as the entrance of Robinson’s pal’s home and compelled her into his automotive at gunpoint.

Kara Robinson is talking out in a true-crime documentary. (Oxygen)

Evonitz locked Robinson in his residence and repeatedly sexually assaulted her, in keeping with the FBI. 

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The 15-year-old went “together with the issues he” wished her to do to outlive, which meant “volunteering to do issues” like sweep his kitchen or have conversations with him, Robinson recalled.

As time elapsed, Robinson additionally memorized particulars about her captor’s house.

Deceased serial killer Richard Evonitz was accused of killing three teenage ladies between 1996 and 1997 and abducting one other in 2002. (FBI)

“There have been little animals I remembered — what sort of animals, what number of,” Robinson stated. “I knew the format. I may describe being inside the house, clearly. Each time I used to be sleeping [in] his kitchen, I received near his fridge and located his dentist’s and his physician’s data on magnets on the fridge. So I memorized that. I memorized the serial quantity that was on the within of the container [in Evonitz’s vehicle].”

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She additionally recalled seeing the lengthy, pink hair of a girl in a hairbrush inside his house and female hygiene merchandise, in addition to two toothbrushes, indicating that there was presumably one different individual residing within the house on the time.

Robinson was capable of escape Evonitz’s Columbia, South Carolina, house in 2002. (Kara Robinson Chamberlain)

Through the evening, whereas Evonitz was sleeping, she was capable of escape the restraints he was preserving her in and fled his house. She contacted regulation enforcement and informed them all the things she had memorized about Evonitz and his house, which in the end helped them monitor down the serial killer.

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Evontiz had “an explosive mood, was fascinated with weapons and each used and offered marijuana,” in keeping with the FBI. 

He “would conduct surveillance on his victims previous to abduction (all of whom gave the impression to be or had been below the age of 18)” and “had a preoccupation with drowning; victims being compelled to scrub and/or shave pubic hair; binding of sufferer fingers and/or ft; use of intercourse toys and/or pornography (each grownup and youngster); use of plastic tub or metallic container to get rid of sufferer; sufferer wrapped in blankets and sure with rope; and/or sufferer being discovered close to a physique of water,” the FBI stated in a press launch revealed after his demise.

Robinson joined regulation enforcement after growing a detailed relationship with the sheriff who dealt with her case and is now an advocate for different victims of crime. As a married mom of two sons, Robinson continues to assist victims of crime and hosts her personal podcast, “Survivor’s Information to True Crime.”

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In a single episode, she discusses the appease response that helped her survive 20 years in the past with professional visitors who clarify the survival technique that got here naturally to Robinson.

Her survival story has been featured in a Lifetime film launched Feb. 11, “The Woman Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story” and a documentary, “Escaping Captivity: The Kara Robinson Story.”

Robinson stated the “finest piece of recommendation” she can provide different victims or potential victims of crime is to reply in a method that makes you “really feel assured” and “robust.”

“Discuss to your self in a optimistic method, like, ‘I’m robust, I [can] get via one thing like that. I’m fortunate. I’m grateful. Good issues occur to me.’ As a result of that turns into what you might be,” she defined.

Robinson has an inventory of different choices on her web site to assist victims of crime.