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She said she ran to her son's bedroom and encountered an intruder with a ski mask on and no sign of Joel. The boy's mother, Julie Rea, said screams woke her up. 13, 1997, just four months after his release from prison, 10-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick was murdered in his bedroom in Lawrenceville, Illinois, in the middle of the night. that after he had his encounter with me, he never wanted to be stuck in that situation again where he could be at jeopardy of being hurt, so he turned to smaller people or children after that.' 'I felt like it was my fault that he only got five years,' Witherspoon said.

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At the time, law enforcement did not know that Sells was a serial killer who would strike again, and Witherspoon couldn't do more about his short sentence.

(Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)ДЄfter this attack, Sells took a plea deal on malicious wounding charges and served five years in prison. Witherspoon sustained significant injuries herself including a gape in her head and a cut in her hand that required surgery. Sells tried to get away but his injuries landed him in the ICU and in police custody. 'And that's the last thing I remember until I came to when the police and ambulance were out front.' Ifelt something come crashing down over my head,' she said. An injured Sells grabbed a piano stool and hit Witherspoon with force on her head. In this struggle, Witherspoon said she managed to get the knife away from Sells and stabbed him repeatedly. They lose consciousness.' So I picked the duck up, and I started repeatedly hitting him over the head with the duck. 'So I grabbed the duck and I'm thinking in my head, 'In the movies, if you get hit over the head with something, they pass out. 'He had pushed me up against where the toilet was, and I saw on the back of the toilet was a ceramic duck,' Witherspoon said. Witherspoon said Sells told her he was going to rape her, and that's when she decided she was going to fight back. Witherspoon said she was walking to her friend's apartment on May 13, 1992, in Charleston, West Virginia, when she noticed a younger man under the bridge with a sign asking for food and showing her a photo of his wife and children. I would not fight, but I found out that I was somebody different,' she said. 'I always felt if something like that ever happened to me, I would probably just faint. Witherspoon is speaking publicly about the attack for the first time in an interview with '20/20,' which will air on Friday, Nov. He had killed before by the time he targeted Witherspoon, and he didn't think this then-19-year-old woman would fight back with so much strength. Witherspoon is believed to be only one of two known survivors. Most of his victims didn't survive his attacks. The man who had attacked her was Tommy Lynn Sells, a notorious serial killer who has confessed to killing at least 50 people during his murderous spree spanning three decades. 'I just wanted to get away, and I didn't realize I had stabbed him,' Witherspoon told '20/20.' 'And it was very, very, very hard to know that I had the capability of hurting someone like that.'

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