Speaker 1: Chris's father and uncle suspected a man named David McAllister.
Speaker 2: His alcoholism had gotten in the way in the work
Speaker 2: he was performing, and so my father was the one
Speaker 2: who had terminated him.
Speaker 1: They informed the police and officers went to David McAllister's
Speaker 1: home to investigate.
Speaker 2: There was no fingerprint evidence, no blood samples, hair samples,
Speaker 2: no evidence he'd had a full week effectively to clean
Speaker 2: his vehicle.
Speaker 1: This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones.
Speaker 3: And I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters who love a
Speaker 3: captivating true story, but we're also seeking more light in
Speaker 3: our lives.
Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
Speaker 1: uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
Speaker 1: on this journey. Welcome back to the Miracle Files.
Speaker 3: We know we made you way a whole to hear
Speaker 3: the second part of Chris Carrier's story, so we won't
Speaker 3: make you wait any longer. But here's a quick recap
Speaker 3: of last week's episode.
Speaker 2: And I remember saying, look, if you'll just let me go,
Speaker 2: I won't tell anybody.
Speaker 1: The man ordered Chris to the back of the RV
Speaker 1: and told him to sit on the floor and stay still.
Speaker 2: And he gave me a stern warning and saying, look,
Speaker 2: you can't try to get anybody's attention. If you do
Speaker 2: anything like that, I'm just going to come back there
Speaker 2: and shoot you.
Speaker 1: Chris looked down at his dark green polo shirt, now
Speaker 1: speckled with blood. Gravel crunched under the tires as they
Speaker 1: moved farther away from civilization, and we walked.
Speaker 2: Out to the edge where a few trees were, and
Speaker 2: he said, why don't you just sit down right here?
Speaker 2: That gentleman pulled a small pistol from his pocket right
Speaker 2: up to the temple of my head and pulled the trigger.
Speaker 1: Young Chris lay unconscious in the thick, swampy wilderness. Than
Speaker 1: Chris stirred.
Speaker 2: In my mind. It was still Friday, December twentieth, and
Speaker 2: so I sat down on the edge of that dusty
Speaker 2: country road, figuring out wait for dead. And of course
Speaker 2: my father had no clue where I had been for
Speaker 2: the last six days.
Speaker 1: We have so much to talk about after Chris's story
Speaker 1: is finished, but for now Part two. In Coral Gables, Florida,
Speaker 1: his family had become frantic with worry when ten year
Speaker 1: old Chris hadn't come home from school. What followed were horrible, haunting,
Speaker 1: sleepless nights without any news of his whereabouts. Since Chris
Speaker 1: had gone missing on December twentieth, the police, the FBI,
Speaker 1: friends and family gathered daily at Chris's parents' home to
Speaker 1: continue with the search. The FBI had set up a
Speaker 1: phone station to monitor every incoming call, hoping for even
Speaker 1: the smallest lead, But with each passing day, the crowd
Speaker 1: seemed to lose more hope. Christmas came and went an
Speaker 1: excruciating day for Chris's parents. By December twenty sixth, the
Speaker 1: police had to speak with them. Honestly, the odds of
Speaker 1: finding Chris alive were getting slimmer and slimmer. Out in
Speaker 1: the Florida Everglades, a little boy sat alone at the
Speaker 1: edge of a lonely dirt road. Ten year old Chris
Speaker 1: hugged his knees, watching the empty road stretch before him.
Speaker 1: He had been told to wait there for his father,
Speaker 1: so he waited. At first, he was sure his dad
Speaker 1: would appear at any moment. Every distant sound made him
Speaker 1: look up, hoping to see headlights in the disk distance.
Speaker 1: But minute after minute passed and still no cars. As
Speaker 1: daylight faded back in Coral Gables, Chris's father said a
Speaker 1: prayer in desperation. He surrendered everything to the Lord. He'd
Speaker 1: contacted everyone he knew to contact, He'd looked everywhere he
Speaker 1: knew to look. He'd done all he knew to do.
Speaker 1: All this father could do now was plead with the Lord.
Speaker 1: Miles away, a white pickup truck came barreling down a
Speaker 1: dusty road. The driver was heading home from a hunting
Speaker 1: trip after a long day in the woods. As the
Speaker 1: last bit of sunlight disappeared across the floorida countryside, something
Speaker 1: caught the driver's eye. Up ahead, near the side of
Speaker 1: the road, a small shape came into view, barely visible
Speaker 1: in the dim light. The man pressed his brakes, squinting
Speaker 1: through his windshield. Was that a person? Was that a child?
Speaker 2: The driver saw me sitting there, and he slowed down,
Speaker 2: rolled the window down, and he leaned over and he said, hey, son,
Speaker 2: what are you doing out here? And I said, I'm
Speaker 2: just waiting on my father, waiting on my daddy.
Speaker 1: The driver of the pickup truck must have been absolutely shocked.
Speaker 2: And he could see what I couldn't. He could see
Speaker 2: the two black eyes and the bloody mess that I
Speaker 2: apparently looked like. And so he reached over, opened up
Speaker 2: the side door, and passed the door and said, hop in.
Speaker 2: He took me back to where he was staying with
Speaker 2: his kids. He was out camping up hunting in the area,
Speaker 2: gave me something to eat, and took me straight away
Speaker 2: to the local Florida sheriff department. There near Naples, Florida.
Speaker 1: In Coral Gables, the sunlight was also setting over a
Speaker 1: family and a father whose only hope was a mere
Speaker 1: from God. As dinner was wrapping up, all of the
Speaker 1: men and officers walked outside to get some fresh air.
Speaker 2: My aunt was in the kitchen washing the dishes while
Speaker 2: my mom in her wheelchair, was with friends in the
Speaker 2: dining room. And the phone rang and it was the
Speaker 2: Sheriff's department over on the west side of Florida, and
Speaker 2: so they said, can we talk to the officer, And
Speaker 2: of course my aunt is just listening in and she
Speaker 2: went out and said, hey, Hugh, you need to come
Speaker 2: in and take this call. While my dad was praying
Speaker 2: surrendering it all to God. Unbeknownst to him, I had
Speaker 2: been found and was being taken to the Sheriff's department
Speaker 2: and within minutes would be able to talk to him
Speaker 2: on the phone.
Speaker 1: Chris's father gripped the phone in his hands desperately, hoping
Speaker 1: for some kind of good news. But when he lifted
Speaker 1: the phone to his ear, he heard more than excitement
Speaker 1: from the sheriff. He heard something even better. He heard
Speaker 1: the voice of his son.
Speaker 2: And so my dad got on the phone with me
Speaker 2: there at the Sheriff's department. And of course they had
Speaker 2: fielded a handful of ransom calls and fake things, and
Speaker 2: so my dad knew I have to ask real questions
Speaker 2: that only Chris would know, And so he asked me.
Speaker 2: He said, what's the name of our dog? And I
Speaker 2: said Killer. You could sense his part feet rising. And
Speaker 2: he said, what's the number on your sailboat that you
Speaker 2: learned to sail in? And I answered and I said
Speaker 2: c R one seven. And my dad just let out
Speaker 2: at Hooton Hower and knew that I was alive. And
Speaker 2: so that was just a wonderful moment in which his
Speaker 2: prayer was answered. The miracle that he had hoped for
Speaker 2: had been answered.
Speaker 1: And this is where our story could end. Except it didn't.
Speaker 1: You might think Chris's captor would face charges for kidnapping
Speaker 1: and attempted murder, but that's not how this story goes.
Speaker 1: Chris's father and uncle suspected a man named David McAllister.
Speaker 1: From early on. He was a caregiver for Chris's great uncle,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, Chris's dad fired David McAllister when it wasn't
Speaker 1: working out.
Speaker 2: He was supposedly a recovering alcoholic, but his alcoholism had
Speaker 2: gotten in the way in the work he was performing
Speaker 2: and the safety of our uncle. And so my father
Speaker 2: was the one who had terminated him and said, look,
Speaker 2: we just can't have that kind of behavior around his
Speaker 2: elderly relative. And so my uncle and my dad had
Speaker 2: figured out, hey, this could be David McAllister because we
Speaker 2: fired him. He had the motive. He has an RV.
Speaker 1: They informed the police and officers went to David McAllister's
Speaker 1: home to investigate eight and.
Speaker 2: So he came to the door and basically said, I
Speaker 2: figured you'd have been here sooner. But it wasn't confessing
Speaker 2: and he would even say I didn't do it. He
Speaker 2: took the polygraphs. He came down to the station for questioning.
Speaker 1: The police had their man but back in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: forensic evidence only consisted of fingerprints, blood type matching, and
Speaker 1: witness testimony he'd.
Speaker 2: Had a full week, effectively to clean his vehicle.
Speaker 1: The investigators couldn't find any forensic evidence to convict David Mcowster,
Speaker 1: so they relied heavily on Chris's testimony, which didn't go
Speaker 1: according to plan.
Speaker 2: I missed him in the lineup. I couldn't be certain,
Speaker 2: and of course I think I was more intimidated over
Speaker 2: the simple fact that if I point the finger at
Speaker 2: this man and I'm not sure, and I'm wrong, then
Speaker 2: I've got somebody out there who clearly wanted to kill me.
Speaker 2: And now I've got somebody who I'm changing his life,
Speaker 2: and I may have two enemies. And the fact that
Speaker 2: he was wearing sunglasses through my experience and not in
Speaker 2: the lineup, I could not be certain.
Speaker 1: With no way to tie David McAllister to the crime,
Speaker 1: Chris had no choice but to move forward, trying not
Speaker 1: to let fear rule him. Knowing his captor was still
Speaker 1: out there, Chris lived with a heightened awareness that the
Speaker 1: world he had trusted without question required more caution than
Speaker 1: he had once believed. Life resumed, school friendships routines, but
Speaker 1: fear still surfaced at night. Still, he was drawn forward
Speaker 1: rather than held back, sustained by faith.
Speaker 2: And those friends in that church, the Sunday school teachers,
Speaker 2: the pastors, the youth ministers, the parents just were so
Speaker 2: grace filled and loving around me that I remember just
Speaker 2: my affection for Christ grew to the point that, at
Speaker 2: age thirteen, at a campus life meeting, I remember just
Speaker 2: getting down on my knees and I remember praying and
Speaker 2: asking Christ to be a part of my life, to
Speaker 2: be the one who could save me from all of
Speaker 2: this anxiety and all of this fear. And he did,
Speaker 2: and he did, And so I went through high school
Speaker 2: and began to grow and regain some confidence in public
Speaker 2: of not wondering where is this guy and what's he
Speaker 2: looked like? And does he still want me dead? And
Speaker 2: why did he want me dead?
Speaker 1: Chris soon realized his story was not his own. A
Speaker 1: close friend in that church youth group challenged Chris to
Speaker 1: tell his story, and he began sharing it with others,
Speaker 1: helping them to increase their faith as well. For more
Speaker 1: than two decades, the man responsible for the crime against
Speaker 1: Christ was never convicted.
Speaker 2: And so through the years, people would ask as I
Speaker 2: would share, whether it was in a small group or
Speaker 2: a church or school, people would ask me, what would
Speaker 2: you do if you came face to face with that man?
Speaker 2: Today it came around a corner and there he was
Speaker 2: stopped in the tracks. You're an adult, he's an older adult.
Speaker 2: What would you do? What would you say?
Speaker 1: Chris had convinced himself that David McAllister was long gone.
Speaker 1: He'd probably moved somewhere far away and was unlikely to
Speaker 1: ever return. The possibility of running into David McAllister again
Speaker 1: felt nonexistent, so it was easy to say he would
Speaker 1: forgive him. Then, in nineteen ninety six, Chris received a
Speaker 1: call from the Chief of Detectives at the Coral Gables
Speaker 1: Police Department. He told Chris that David McAllister had been
Speaker 1: living in a nursing home in North Miami. He was
Speaker 1: now seventy seven years old, blind and nearing the end
Speaker 1: of his life. The chief explained that after many conversations
Speaker 1: with investigators, David McAllister had finally confessed to the kidnapping.
Speaker 1: The chief paused, then asked Chris a question, would he
Speaker 1: like to meet David McAllister, Chris felt his chest tightening.
Speaker 2: Now Here was the question that I thought would never happen,
Speaker 2: the opportunity that I thought could never be a possibility.
Speaker 2: And I couldn't recall how many times I was on
Speaker 2: the hook for saying, well loud, forgive him. It's almost
Speaker 2: a moment in which you step back and in prayer
Speaker 2: you look up to the heavens and say, Lord, did
Speaker 2: you set me up for this?
Speaker 1: After weighing the decision carefully, Chris agreed to see the
Speaker 1: man the subject of his nightmares in person.
Speaker 4: I went with my very first youth pastor from when
Speaker 4: I was just an eleven twelve year old, and Danny
Speaker 4: went with me to this North Miami nursing home.
Speaker 2: And of course, from the car to that room was
Speaker 2: just nerve wracking. You know, what's he going to look like?
Speaker 2: Is he still bigger than me? Is this going to
Speaker 2: be intimidating? Will it bring back a flood of emotions
Speaker 2: and fears and memories? And I walked into that room
Speaker 2: and all I could see was a seventy seven year
Speaker 2: old man who looked decades older. He weighed about sixty pounds,
Speaker 2: He was blind from glaucoma, He was all alone in
Speaker 2: a three bedroom. All of his possessions were in a
Speaker 2: handful of drawers. He had, according to their records, two children,
Speaker 2: but nobody listed as next of ken. Nobody came to
Speaker 2: see if nobody wanted to see him. He was just
Speaker 2: a very hard hearted, broken man.
Speaker 1: What followed was pure discomfort for Chris, an awkward conversation
Speaker 1: that Chris didn't even know how to begin.
Speaker 2: I just remember saying, you know, mister McCallister, I heard
Speaker 2: that you confessed, and he shot me down. He said, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't confess anything. You heard fairy tales.
Speaker 1: Chris was taken aback. He thought he'd come to hear
Speaker 1: a confession. What he found instead was a belligerent old man,
Speaker 1: still full of anger and venom. But Chris's friend Danny
Speaker 1: was not going to let David off that easy.
Speaker 2: Well. Danny began to ask him very pointed, very specific,
Speaker 2: straightforward questions. Do you know the Carrier family? Yep? Do
Speaker 2: you know mister Carryer's son? Chris? Yeah. Did you ever
Speaker 2: go anywhere just the two of you? Yep? Where'd you go?
Speaker 2: He said? We went hunting? Different spin on it, I guess,
Speaker 2: Danny asked him he said, when you were done, where
Speaker 2: did you take him? Did you take him home? Or
Speaker 2: did you leave him? And that old man began to
Speaker 2: cry as he threw those tears, said I left him.
Speaker 2: And Danny leaned in a little closer and he said,
Speaker 2: did you ever wish you could tell that boy you
Speaker 2: were sorry? And the tears just flowed. He began to
Speaker 2: cry and weep, and Danny told him, He said, well,
Speaker 2: that young boy is now the young man who was
Speaker 2: on the other side of the bed that was just
Speaker 2: speaking with you. Isn't there something you want to tell him?
Speaker 2: And you'd have thought he could see me, because he
Speaker 2: found a way to roll over in the bed and
Speaker 2: he grabbed my hand and through the tears, apologized to me.
Speaker 2: And it was just a surreal moment.
Speaker 1: Words Chris never thought he'd hear filled his heart and soul.
Speaker 2: And I told him, I said, mister, McAllister, I want
Speaker 2: you to know that that I forgive you, and that
Speaker 2: from this moment forward, the only thing between yourself and
Speaker 2: myself is a newfound friendship. And I read a scripture
Speaker 2: from James that said mercy triumphs over judgment, and so
Speaker 2: I want you to know I forgive you and honestly,
Speaker 2: as we left that day, I told him, I said,
Speaker 2: I don't have a job at the moment. I've just resigned.
Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to move to Texas. So my schedule
Speaker 2: is open if it's okay with you. I'm going to
Speaker 2: come back tomorrow so that we can continue to talk,
Speaker 2: because I want to get to know the last twenty
Speaker 2: two years of your life and tell you about mine.
Speaker 2: And so as we left, I remember saying to him,
Speaker 2: get some rest now, because I'll come back. I can
Speaker 2: see you tomorrow, and he said, oh, I will now.
Speaker 1: In the days that followed, Chris returned, He and David talked,
Speaker 1: They spent time together. Chris brought his wife, Leslie, and
Speaker 1: two daughters to meet David. At seventy seven years old.
Speaker 1: After a troubled and lonely life, David McAllister had made
Speaker 1: a friend, a true friend, in the most unlikely of people,
Speaker 1: and now Chris wanted to introduce David to someone else.
Speaker 1: So one day Chris woke up and told his wife
Speaker 1: there was something he needed to do. One day, Chris
Speaker 1: woke up and told his wife there was something he
Speaker 1: needed to do.
Speaker 2: And I said, I just have to make sure I
Speaker 2: tell him about the hope that I've experienced think and
Speaker 2: so I went there that Sunday morning. He allowed me
Speaker 2: to share the Gospel with him, and then I asked him,
Speaker 2: I said, would you like to pray and receive Christ
Speaker 2: so that our friendship can be an eternal one? And
Speaker 2: he said I would, but I've never done this before.
Speaker 2: She's going to have to help me, and of course
Speaker 2: I'm shaken in my boots. I've never done it this way.
Speaker 2: I said, don't worry, God'll be with us, and we
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer.
Speaker 1: Just three weeks after Chris had first walked into the
Speaker 1: hospital room, David McAllister passed away. When Chris got the call,
Speaker 1: he felt deep sadness, but mingled with that sorrow was
Speaker 1: an overwhelming sense of gratitude. If Chris had waited, he
Speaker 1: never would have met David, never would have had the
Speaker 1: chance to forgive him in person or tell him about Jesus.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't until weeks later that Chris began to
Speaker 1: understand just how much those visits had meant to David.
Speaker 2: About a month later, we got a call to go
Speaker 2: up and do the Oprah Winfrey Show, And so I'm
Speaker 2: on the stage with Oprah, and she pulls up a
Speaker 2: clip from CNN. One of the reporters, Susan CANDIOTTI had
Speaker 2: gone into that nursing home, and of course I hadn't
Speaker 2: seen this clip, had no clue, But this, just to
Speaker 2: me tells you the nature of what God can do.
Speaker 2: The clip was Susan candy I leaning in and asking him.
Speaker 2: She said, mister, McAllister, what do you make of this
Speaker 2: carrier guy to come in and to forgive? And his
Speaker 2: response to her was He's the best friend I've ever had.
Speaker 1: Chris's story David's story is a complicated one. It stretches
Speaker 1: across years, connecting two men together from the most horrific
Speaker 1: of circumstances that resulted in the most beautiful of miracles.
Speaker 1: A child taken in the middle of an ordinary afternoon,
Speaker 1: left to die in a place where survival should have
Speaker 1: never been possible, found alive after six days. Decades later,
Speaker 1: the perpetrator and survivor sitting together in one room, not
Speaker 1: to revisit what had happened, but to respond to it
Speaker 1: in a way that changed the ending. Once Chris had
Speaker 1: been a child who'd said the simplest of prayers with
Speaker 1: all the faith he could muster. Father, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: words that seemed to stop at the ceiling of an
Speaker 1: old RV, but words that instead extended beyond time and space.
Speaker 1: And yes, God had known, he'd known David, and he'd
Speaker 1: known Chris, and he'd known the power of both faith
Speaker 1: and forgiveness.
Speaker 3: This story, it just it really gets me choked up
Speaker 3: every time I hear it, and that little boy's prayer,
Speaker 3: the prayers of the community, Chris's parents, prayers like you
Speaker 3: just feel the power of all of it. And in fact,
Speaker 3: we have a prayer chain letter that was sent out
Speaker 3: citywide by his church that we've got to read to
Speaker 3: you because if this doesn't give you chills, I don't
Speaker 3: know what will.
Speaker 1: Okay, So first they tell everyone what happened. Chris Carrier
Speaker 1: h ten, a Westminster Christian school student who, after departing
Speaker 1: from the school bus, disappeared. And the prayer request is Lord,
Speaker 1: keep him safe and return him home, that you may
Speaker 1: get the glory as we pray in unity and one accord.
Speaker 1: Then again, two days after Chris went missing, another prayer
Speaker 1: request was sent out, thank you Lord for putting your
Speaker 1: angels around him to keep him safe until he is found.
Speaker 1: And you know, there was only two prayer requests sent out,
Speaker 1: first on the twentieth, then on the twenty second. But
Speaker 1: there's a remark at the bottom that explains why. It says,
Speaker 1: after the first day of prayer, two separate groups felt
Speaker 1: assured that angels had been sent to protect and keep
Speaker 1: him until he was found, and that we were to
Speaker 1: praise God and not ask anymore. Also, we were to
Speaker 1: pray for the soul of the man who abducted him.
Speaker 1: So interesting, there were multiple groups of people that felt
Speaker 1: like there were angels looking over Chris, and that's what
Speaker 1: Chris said.
Speaker 3: And there had to have been.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is such an emotional journey, Like I am
Speaker 1: so inspired by this story and the fact that Chris
Speaker 1: was able to forgive this man. Oh yeah, but I
Speaker 1: got to be honest, like I found myself struggling with that.
Speaker 1: I found myself struggling to forgive this man because I
Speaker 1: disgusted with him and angry at him. Yet I didn't
Speaker 1: even know him.
Speaker 3: I know when when Chris said he was going to
Speaker 3: go and visit this man and try to talk to him,
Speaker 3: and I just thought, don't do it.
Speaker 1: It's just going to.
Speaker 3: Bring up more pain. You know, and then when he
Speaker 3: said he was going to forgive him and he so
Speaker 3: kind to him, there's part of me that was still
Speaker 3: angry about it, Like, how can you be so kind
Speaker 3: to this man who tried to kill you?
Speaker 1: I know? And if you feel that, just hearing his story,
Speaker 1: imagine like it gives you a little glimpse of how
Speaker 1: hard it was for him to forgive. It's not like
Speaker 1: he said this came naturally for him. Yeah, he gave
Speaker 1: all the credit to God. He said God helped him
Speaker 1: get through that moment. Yeah, which would be so hard.
Speaker 1: Here's a man who committed this horrific crime, he never
Speaker 1: served jail time. Kind of seems like he got away
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, But here's what Chris said about that.
Speaker 2: While some would say how horrible and unfair that he
Speaker 2: never spent a day in jail, I would tend to
Speaker 2: argue and think his jail was not one of concrete
Speaker 2: walls and metal bars.
Speaker 3: That is really profound, and I think Chris is right, Like,
Speaker 3: I had someone committed a crime, a violent crime against
Speaker 3: my husband and me in twenty thirteen, and I've had
Speaker 3: to work through forgiveness.
Speaker 1: It is not easy. And Chris is just so inspiring
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, I'm so grateful that God helped him
Speaker 1: through that. Yes, and not only did he forgive him,
Speaker 1: but for David, he preferred to him as his best friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that meant so much to David too. It's so inspiring.
Speaker 1: And I think a question that probably everyone has is
Speaker 1: why does David do this? Like what was his exutive?
Speaker 1: So here's what we do know. Like, as we mentioned
Speaker 1: in the story, he was upset with Chris's father because
Speaker 1: he felt like when he got fired it wasn't justified
Speaker 1: and he wanted revenge. So he shows up at Chris's
Speaker 1: father's house not really sure what he's going to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's what Chris said about that.
Speaker 2: He walked around the neighborhood apparently for a while, because
Speaker 2: the police found I believe the number was fourteen cigarette
Speaker 2: butts on the two corners of the sidewalk where our
Speaker 2: school bus corner was. I think he had a plan
Speaker 2: to do something that he didn't know what it was.
Speaker 2: Our neighbor across the street, who was owned for the break,
Speaker 2: was washing his car and said that he saw this
Speaker 2: man earlier walking up and down on our side of
Speaker 2: the street and at one point walk up the walkway
Speaker 2: towards our front door, then change his mind and walk
Speaker 2: back down and keep going down the street. So you
Speaker 2: figured my mom was in a wheelchair. He could have
Speaker 2: easily walked in and shot her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is chilling to think about what would have
Speaker 3: happened if David McAllister had gone into that home where
Speaker 3: Chris's mom was sitting in her wheelchair. And I know
Speaker 3: Chris is so grateful that that didn't happen. And this
Speaker 3: man was just out for revenge, he truly was, and
Speaker 3: he had truly let the adversary take him.
Speaker 1: Over, I know. And poor Chris just happened to be
Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the wrong down.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But one question that I had was not only like
Speaker 1: how did he survive not being eaten by alligators? But
Speaker 1: how did he survive being shot in the head. And
Speaker 1: so here's what acid.
Speaker 2: So the bullet it's me right here at Temple. The
Speaker 2: bullet passed behind the eyes and exited clean here, knocked
Speaker 2: me out on impact. It severed the optic nerve and
Speaker 2: did some damage to one of the muscles I think
Speaker 2: on the top of the eye. I can't imagine how
Speaker 2: you explain the small bullet going through a small boy's skull.
Speaker 2: And you know, my wife may say it did more
Speaker 2: bring damage, but I don't know that it did. It
Speaker 2: was interesting. I know, when I was probably thirteen, my
Speaker 2: dad came in, sat on the bed and said, I
Speaker 2: think you would do well to have plastic surgery, you know,
Speaker 2: do some cosmetic surgery to look norm And I remember,
Speaker 2: after the better part of three years, looking at my
Speaker 2: dad saying, why would we waste the money doing that?
Speaker 2: My friends are my friends. They've seen beyond the scars,
Speaker 2: they've seen beyond the fears. I've learned to adapt and
Speaker 2: live with it, and I'm fine with it.
Speaker 3: Chris is one of my heroes now, I mean same.
Speaker 3: I just love his story, even though it's such a
Speaker 3: hard story. He depended on God the entire time. He
Speaker 3: still does, and he still gives God all the glory.
Speaker 3: It's just amazing to me.
Speaker 1: All the glory to God. And one other thing I
Speaker 1: want to point out is just the timing of everything,
Speaker 1: Like if the detectives hadn't found David when they did,
Speaker 1: if Chris hadn't shown up when he did, I mean,
Speaker 1: David died three weeks after three weeks Chris yep, and
Speaker 1: to me, there's no coincidence in that timing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, you can definitely see God's hand throughout this whole experience,
Speaker 3: and forgiveness is hard, y'all. We know it is. We
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