A FATHER'S ANGUISH
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John Stratton's twenty-year-old daughter came home, face bruised and swollen, after having been raped. The rapist had knocked her unconscious, took her to his house and repeatedly assaulted her. While she was still only semiconscious, he drove her back to where he had grabbed her and dumped her on the ground. He simply drove away. She was two hours away at college but managed to get to her car and drive home. Her abuse devastated her father more than can possibly be imagined. The police were never notified. After months of physical and psychiatric therapy, she recovered but John did not. He was haunted by his anguish. Sleepless nights and tortured days drove him nearly insane. His daughter remembered something about the exterior of the house and so for weeks John crossed and recrossed the residential neighborhoods of this small city until he found the house.
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Springdale Detective Jim Eaton really wants to catch the serial rapist who’s on the loose in this small town. The perpetrator has already brutalized and raped three women from the local college, and the crimes are escalating.
The crimes become personal when John Stratton’s twenty-year-old daughter, Laura, comes home—her face bruised and swollen after having been raped. The rapist knocks her unconscious and takes her to his home where he repeatedly assaults her. While she is still only semiconscious, he drives her back to where he had grabbed her and dumps her on the ground. He simply drives away. Though she is two hours away, Laura manages to get her car and heads home.
The beating and rape devastate her father. The police are never notified. After months of physical and psychiatric therapy, Laura recovers but John does not. He is haunted by his anguish. Sleepless nights and tortured days nearly make him insane. Laura remembers something about the exterior of the rapist’s house, so for weeks John crosses and re-crosses the residential neighborhoods of this small city until he finds the house.
About the Author
R.W. Doyen graduated from the University of Maine and then from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. For twenty-four years, he practiced podiatry in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He relocated to North Carolina, founded a sea wall construction company, and began to write about this devastating episode in his life.