She then awoke to find herself surrounded by trash before realizing, with horror, that a man was slitting her throat with his arm in front of her.
In her book, Alison told of the terrifying moment she ‘could hear the flesh slit’. Alison was almost decapitated, and it was later discovered that the men had cut her throat sixteen times.
Then, with a sudden halt to the attack, Alison was able to roll onto her front.
“I tried to hold my breath, but I realized I had no control over my breathing. I moved my hand up to cover my neck, and my entire hand disappeared into it.
It seemed to have worked, because the sound was silenced,” she recalled.
She pretended to be dead when she heard one attacker inquire as to if she was dead, to which the other attacker responded, “No one can survive that.”
