Survivor Samantha Stites speaks out about being kidnapped by her stalker in the new Hulu docuseries “Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror.”

In October 2022, then-30-year-old Stites was kidnapped by her longtime stalker Christopher Thomas. He then chained her to the wall of a windowless soundproof bunker that he constructed inside a storage unit.

“I did not picture myself surviving through that day,” Stites says of the kidnapping in “Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror,” which premiered on Hulu on Tuesday, August 19. She described the bunker as a “torture chamber.”

Stites met Thomas in 2011 when she was a student at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She described him as “socially awkward.” Although Thomas barely knew Stites, he began showing up to her women’s frisbee team pra

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