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May 7, 2018 · Lifetime's Girl in the Bunker movie remembers the real story of Elizabeth Shoaf's survival after being trapped in a hole in the ground. Here's the true story of what happened—and what Elizabeth Shoaf is doing now.
- Senior Editor, Features & Special Projects
Jul 20, 2022 · Starring Julia Lalonde and Henry Thomas, Lifetime’s ‘Girl in the Bunker’ is a 2018 movie that profiles the real-life kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf at the hands of Vinson Filyaw.
Sep 4, 2023 · On September 16, 2006, 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf was rescued after 10 days of captivity in Vinson Filyaw's South Carolina bunker when she texted her mom with his phone.
- Austin Harvey
Mar 26, 2020 · The amazing 2006 escape of a 14-year-old girl from Kershaw County, South Carolina, who had been kidnapped, raped and held in an underground bunker in the woods for 10 days.
May 5, 2021 · A South Carolina man whose 2006 kidnapping, detention and rape of then 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf in an underground bunker for 10 days led him to be sentenced to 421 years in prison has died...
- Jeff Truesdell
Girl in the Bunker is a 2018 TV film that aired on Lifetime that told about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Shoaf at the hands of Vinson Filyaw. The film stars Julia Lalonde, Henry Thomas, and Moira Kelly.
He was convicted of kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Shoaf, a 14-year-old girl from Lugoff, South Carolina, in 2006, holding her captive in an underground bunker.
