On June 24, 2002 , Richard Evonitz posed as a magazine salesman and kidnapped Kara Robinson Chamberlain. The 15-year-old was watering plants outside a friend’s home in West Columbia, South Carolina, when Evonitz pulled into the driveway. He showed her some pamphlets and asked if any adults were home. He then pressed a gun to her neck and forced her into a large plastic storage container in his car. Evonitz drove Kara to his apartment, where he held her for 18 hours and repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

But then, the teen did something remarkable: She escaped her captor and helped police solve the murders of three girls that had haunted a Virginia community for years.

The Serial Killer Connection , the new three-part docuseries from Investigation Discovery (ID), follows Kara and Evonitz’s former wife, Bonnie Lou Gower, as they examine his life and search for evidence of other crimes.…