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From Behind the Mask examines violence, survival, and offender behavior through Thriver interviews, expert conversations, real case analysis, and Mugger Reactions — the perspective of self-defense instructors trained to safely recreate real attacks. We explore what happened, how and why it happened, what people experienced under stress, and what can reasonably be learned from it — without reducing anyone's story to a simple answer. FBTM brings together lived experience, professional expertise, and decades of scenario-based self-defense training to look beyond the headlines most true-crime coverage stops at. Go beyond what happened. Understand how and why it happened.