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Katie Beers recounts kidnapping ordeal, 20 years later

A 30-foot-high crane raises the bunker out of

Photo credit: AP | A 30-foot-high crane raises the bunker out of the earth from the property of John Esposito in Bay Shore on Jan. 18, 1993. The cement and wood bunker in which young Katie Beers was imprisoned measured 6 feet by 9 feet.

The Long Island girl whose tortured childhood culminated 20 years ago in her abduction and imprisonment for 17 days in an underground dungeon is now a married woman with two children of her own.

She has not only survived. She has prevailed. And she is finally breaking her silence.

Beers, 30, said that her horrific imprisonment in the end freed her from a childhood in which she endured...

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