Linda Lebrane was stabbed 17 times by her attackers

BOISE -- It was a brutal and random attack -- one that nearly claimed the life of an innocent woman.

Eight years later, the story of Linda Lebrane is being featured on national television.

The story of her attack is unbelievable, and the story of her survival is even more remarkable.

In the summer of 2000, Linda Lebrane was driving from her house in Washington state to her vacation home in Utah.

As she passed through Caldwell on Interstate 84 a car full of three men and a young woman forced Lebrane off the road.

Se was beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed, her throat was slit and her car was set on fire. 

"I’d been stabbed 17 times in my back and that was the first moment where I really thought if I don't pretend to be dead they're going to really kill me," said Lebrane.