Andrew Urdiales, a 54-year-old former U.S. Marine, killed himself in his California prison cell on Nov. 1 — just weeks after being sentenced to death on multiple murder charges. The psycho had been convicted by an Orange County jury of killing five women in California, and had previously beat the death penalty over three three murders in Illinois. The murders in California occurred while he was stationed there at different U.S. Marine Corps facilities throughout the state. In a tragic twist, one brave woman survived an attack, but brave nurse Jennifer Asbenson couldn’t convince authorities of all the sickening details of her ordeal in Sept. 1992. Instead, Urdiales would rack up more victims before finally being arrested in 1997. He confessed to eight murders, and also admitted to being a flesh-eating sicko who had terrorized Jennifer in a nightmarish attack. Jennifer bravely returned to the scene of the crime in 2017, recalling how she was “staring into the eyes of the devil” when she was only 19 years old…
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The young nurse was out "buying candy" for patients at the hospital where she worked near her home in Cathedral City. She was running late for work, and originally turned down Urdiales' offer of a ride — but changed her mind as he began to drive away.
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“I automatically thought, ‘He can’t be any kind of crazy person, because why would he pull away and not come attack me?’” she recalled. But, as she'd later testify in court, the psycho swiftly turned on the innocent teen as he drove her into Desert Hot Springs. “He just started screaming and he pulled at my hair and called me names,” she said.
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“I remember thinking that it was a joke,” said Jennifer, adding: “And then a gun came out.” That’s when Urdiales bound her hands and drove her to the desert, where her hell continued. “He punched me and he started cutting my shorts…and ripped my underwear off. I remember thinking I was staring into the eyes of the devil.”
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Urdiales’ rape attempt failed because of what Jennifer mocking referred to as “erectile dysfunction” — but the vicious criminal was only getting started! After ordering Jennifer to say she loved him, he gagged and strangled her — and then dragged her over rocks and prickly bushes. Then the crazed creep bit a chunk of flesh from her neck before tossing her in the trunk of his car as she spurted blood.
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Jennifer broke free of her bonds, unhooked the trunk latch and ran for her life. As Jennifer thought, “Don’t look back,” Urdiales chased her with a machete. She finally managed to flag down a car and was rescued from her two-hour ordeal.
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Urdiales originally made his confessions as part of a deal to beat a death sentence in Illinois. But now Jennifer has a new ending as she works on a book about her ordeal, with justice catching up to her cowardly tormentor in California.
The young nurse was out "buying candy" for patients at the hospital where she worked near her home in Cathedral City. She was running late for work, and originally turned down Urdiales' offer of a ride — but changed her mind as he began to drive away.
“I automatically thought, ‘He can’t be any kind of crazy person, because why would he pull away and not come attack me?’” she recalled. But, as she'd later testify in court, the psycho swiftly turned on the innocent teen as he drove her into Desert Hot Springs. “He just started screaming and he pulled at my hair and called me names,” she said.
“I remember thinking that it was a joke,” said Jennifer, adding: “And then a gun came out.” That’s when Urdiales bound her hands and drove her to the desert, where her hell continued. “He punched me and he started cutting my shorts…and ripped my underwear off. I remember thinking I was staring into the eyes of the devil.”
Urdiales’ rape attempt failed because of what Jennifer mocking referred to as “erectile dysfunction” — but the vicious criminal was only getting started! After ordering Jennifer to say she loved him, he gagged and strangled her — and then dragged her over rocks and prickly bushes. Then the crazed creep bit a chunk of flesh from her neck before tossing her in the trunk of his car as she spurted blood.
Jennifer broke free of her bonds, unhooked the trunk latch and ran for her life. As Jennifer thought, “Don’t look back,” Urdiales chased her with a machete. She finally managed to flag down a car and was rescued from her two-hour ordeal.
Urdiales originally made his confessions as part of a deal to beat a death sentence in Illinois. But now Jennifer has a new ending as she works on a book about her ordeal, with justice catching up to her cowardly tormentor in California.