Katie Beers, victim of notorious 1993 kidnapping, says it saved her from life of abuse

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  • FILE - In a Jan. 18, 1993 file photo, a 30-foot-high crane raises the bunker out of the earth from the property of John Esposito in Bay Shore, N.Y. The cement and wood bunker, which contains a trap door, is 6 feet by 9 feet. Esposito is charged with keeping 10-year-old Katie Beers imprisoned in the bunker for 16 days. On the 20th anniversary of her ordeal, Beers has co-written a book with a television reporter who covered her kidnapping. "Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story” (Title Town Publishing) has a happy ending. (AP Photo/Michael Alexander, File)View Photo

    FILE - In a Jan. 18, 1993 file photo, a 30-foot-high crane raises the bunker out …

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. - Being chained as a 10-year-old for more than two weeks in a coffin-size box in a suburban New York dungeon was, Katie Beers says 20 years later, "the best thing that happened to me" because it allowed her to escape a life of abuse.

On the 20th anniversary of her ordeal, Beers has co-written a book with a television reporter who covered her kidnapping. "Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story" (Title Town Publishing) has a happy ending.

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