Rosalie Williams-Turner, who was kidnapped by Jerry "Animal" McFadden in 1986 after he killed three teenagers near Hawkins, Texas, will be featured Monday in a second ID Channel program.
"Southern Gothic: They Call Me Animal" is set to air 9 p.m. Monday.
Williams-Turner's kidnapping was originally featured on ID Channel's "House of Horrors" in 2015.
"They really wanted to interview me and the story doesn't change. The only difference this time is they did interview the family members of the victims. They are going to speak to their loved ones," she said.
On May 4, 1986, Suzanne Harrison, 18, and her best friend, Gena Turner, 20, went to Lake Hawkins in nearby Wood County to meet Bryan Boone, 19. It was several days before their bodies were found. McFadden, a convicted rapist, was the suspect. He was ultimately convicted for the deaths.
"I'm looking forward to hearing what their families have to say. I'm very interested in the lives the kids lived," said Williams-Turner.
Though the families lives' and Williams-Turner will always be bound through their encounters with McFadden, she never met the families who lost their loved ones.
A faith-filled woman, Williams-Turner takes exception with the nickname of her kidnapper.
"In spite of the way Jerry McFadden was, he was still a human being. He was not an animal. He was one of God's children. He has a mother. He has a daughter. No one wants to be compared to an animal," she said.
Williams-Turner retired from the Texarkana office of the Texas Department of Public Safety about eight years ago and now works part time at Edgewood Manor Nursing Home.
She is happy to share her story about how her faith deepened through the kidnapping.
"I became at ease and relaxed and I became comforted by the Lord. I started praying and the more I prayed, the more at ease I felt about the situation I was going through, that it was going to be all right," she said. "That was nothing but the Lord, that is why I don't mind being a living witness."
On July 9, 1986, Williams-Turner was working as a dispatcher and jailer at the Upshur County jail in Gilmer. McFadden was being held in isolation at the time and awaiting trail for the murders of three young people at Lake Hawkins that had occurred in May. McFadden had served time before.
Williams-Turner was conducting her dispatch duties when then-Sheriff Deputy Ken Mayfield let McFadden out to make a phone call, a request they could not deny.
When Mayfield opened the door, he was hit over the head and knocked out, according to reports.
Williams-Turner said she knew something bad was about to happen.
McFadden took the other dispatcher and Mayfield in the isolation cell and locked it.
He took Williams-Turner in her own car down a series of roads.
"It was an unknown where McFadden and I were. After the breakout of the jail, he took me in my car. We were on Highway 11 in Big Sandy. There's nothing but woods and trees. He got spooked when we saw the helicopter (looking for him)," she told the Gazette on Friday.
"He didn't even know how to drive my vehicle. It was a 280 ZX, a standard. He ran off the road and hit a tree with my car. He pulled me out of the car and we started walking in the woods. It happened about 6:30 p.m. and we walked all through the night," she said.
"I don't like insects, bugs, things crawling on me," she said. "I didn't even have time to think about that. I didn't have time to notice that. I was in such shock that this incident happened. The Lord calmed me down and I started reflecting about my life. I had a child, I was married at the time. The part of being afraid left me. I started concentrating about another life with the Lord."
She said she wasn't religious at that time, but going through the ordeal gave her a chance to better develop her relationship with the Lord.
Ultimately, she was able to escape from her captor and run to a nearby house for help.
An extensive manhunt ensued for McFadden. He was found, tried and executed by lethal injection in 1999.
Williams-Turner entered a career in law enforcement because of her sister, who served as a sheriff's deputy.
"She was always ready to help," she said. "I wanted to be like her. She was such an inspiration to me."
In addition to her job in Texarkana, Williams-Turner and husband, the Rev. Gary Turner, have a ministry at a church in Wrightsville, Arkansas, Church of the Living God, south of Little Rock.
"He's my inspiration," she said of her husband.
Through life's ups and downs, Williams-Turner is certain of one thing.
"We have so much to be thankful for; focus on the goodness, not on the bad," she said. "You may not realize it, but there is some good in the bad even. There is a reason."