"Whispers In The Night by 911"

NARRATOR:
In the early hours of a hot August morning, three men pulled a woman
from her car after a minor traffic accident. The men threatened her
with a crowbar, made her strip, thenchased her until she jumped off a
bridge to her death in the Detroit River. None of the 40 or so
passers-by tried to help the 33-year-old woman. Some reports say
onlookers cheered as the men taunted her.
As women, we live in fear of incidents like this. Because of our
gender, we learn early that we musttake extra precautions to be safe.
Fear proscribes how and where we live, where we walk, where we
park,where we sleep, eat and travel. As women, we know there are some
things we cannot -- or, rather, should not -- do, some places we
should not go. (Pause) We feel at risk because we are. We
understandtoo well that there is no safe place. (TITLE) NO SAFE PLACE
NARRATOR: An alarming amount of violence is targeted at women. By some
estimates, three out of four women will be victims of sort of violence
in their lifetime. For too many of us, the most intimate of crimes --
rape and domestic violence -- are a bitter reality. According to
Senator Joseph Biden,who sponsored the Violence AgainstWomen Act, "the
single greatest danger to a woman's health is violence from men."
NARRATOR: Women may be afraid of strangers, but it's the most intimate
of strangers -- a husband, a lover, a friend -- who is most likely to
hurt us. According to a U.S. Justice Department study, two-thirds of
violent attacks against women are committed by someone the woman
knows. In the United States, the most dangerous place for a woman is
in her own home, where intimacy can invoke an anger that may explode
into domestic violence. (GRAPHIC) MISTY
NARRATOR: For years, Misty Marchant was abused by her husband, Kenny.
Their separation only seemed to make things worse. Misty's co-worker,
Paul Sottisanti.
PAUL: She had come to work and she walked up to my desk and askedme,
how do I look. And I looked at her and I says, like a million. She
says no, my face. And at the time I looked at her it looked like she
had smeared her mascara. But what it turned out to be was her whole
side of her face, had it shut in a door. And that was the day or the
day after she went and filed for divorce from Kenny.
NARRATOR: According to Paul, Misty knew she was going to die.
PAUL: She says well I just want to thank you for being my good friend
and all your good advice and I don't think I'm going to see you again.
And I says, well if you really think it's that serious, would you want
to borrow a gun. And I personally thought she would have said no
because she has a child and was afraid of guns, but her reaction wasso
positive she couldn't wait. I should have brought it to her that
night.
NARRATOR: Misty never got the gun. Two days later she was dead.
(Pause) Early on the morning of July3, 1994, an intoxicated and
heavilyarmed Kenny broke into Misty's house, and gunned down her and
herfriend Kirt Swann, a 32-year-old father of four. Misty's sister,
Tammy Perea.
TAMMY: ... Her death was so violent that you can hear on the 911 tape,
you can actually hear herbody completely bleed out, every drop of
blood in her body.
TAMMY: At that point Kenny shot Kirt several more times...then he left
the house...and went to his father's where he'd been living and killed
himself there.
NARRATOR: According to Tammy, the entire scene was played out in front
of the Marchant's five-year-old daughter.
TAMMY: ... You can hear her on the911 tape saying, "Mommy, where's
Mommy, I want Mommy."
PAUL: Misty had tried to reach out... She went to court.... The night
the dispatcher got the call, the first thing the officer said is,
'That's Misty's house.'" Everybody was aware of it, and nobody ever
did anything about it.
NARRATOR: As to why a man would be enraged enough to kill his wife,
family and friends can only speculate.
TAMMY: during custody hearings hisparents admitted on the stand in
court to 28 years of domestic violence and spouse abuse. He was raised
in an abusive family. He was taught that it was okay, that this ishow
it was.
NARRATOR: Kenny and Misty were both victims of the cycle of abuse. It
was a pattern both saw as normal, a pattern that eventually led to
their deaths.
NARRATOR: Approximately 1,500 women are killed each year by husbands
or boyfriends. About 2 million men a year beat their partners.
Domestic violence knows no social or economic boundaries. Dr. Susan
Hanks is director of the Family and Violence Institute in Alameda,
California. She believes there is no one profile of men who batter
women.
HANKS: Many men batter because they feel, because they are
tremendously dependent on the woman... because they are threatened by
her moves towards any kind of individual life of her ownor individual
thinking of her own. Some men batter because that's theonly way they
know how to be close.
NARRATOR: What pushes a violent man to kill? Often a woman leaving or
threatening to leave a relationship is the trigger.
HANKS: That's often the most dangerous time in a relationship because
that's when the man is most psychologically vulnerable, feeling most
rejected and most threatened and his only way that he knows how to
deal with those feelings is to act violently towards the woman who he
perceives is causing them.
(GRAPHIC) BRANDY
BRANDY: The abuse started psychologically before he started calling me
names like stupid. (to)the physical abuse started with a slap in the
face. And it slowly escalated into more physical violence, ya know
beatings, chokings....I'd try to be perfect (to)But it didn't matter.
He would get upset if I forgot to bring milk home from the store and
that would causehim to be physically violent with me.And then
afterwards, he would be really sorry and I believed him.
NARRATOR: After six years of marriage, Brandy decided she couldn't put
up with the abuse anymore. She asked for a divorce.
BRANDY: he said to me you're not going to get a divorce and I said
yes, I want one, ya know, I can't stay here anymore. And so he walked
away from me and he walkedinto his office and I followed him because
he didn't usually give up that easily...he had a gun in his hand and
he was loading it and he walked into our daughter's bedroom and I was
shocked when I walked in there and little Angela was standingin her
crib and she was just bouncing up and down and he had put a gun to one
of her ears and then the other hand was over the other ear and he
said, no tell me that you'll leave me and I'll blow her brains out and
then I'll blow your brains out and then I'll blow my brains out...,
And I fell at my husband's feet and I said please don't kill my baby.
And that's when Idecided that I needed to reach out and to talk to
someone to tell someone ya know what was happening in our lives
because up until that point, it was just a secret."
BRANDY: My son I know was really affected by it (to) he didn't
understand that I was actually saving his life by staying there
because my husband was telling me that if I left that he would find me
and he would kill me and he would kill the children too.
BRANDY: I walked around every day and I knew that might be the day
that I would die. I felt like I was a walking dead woman. (to) And so
I thought I have to leave and if I haveto die leaving, I would rather
have the courage to leave and at least get out instead of staying and
dying.
NARRATOR: After reaching out, Brandy finally was able to break out of
the cycle of violence. She now works with the Utah State
AttorneyGeneral's office on issues of domestic violence.
NARRATOR: Leaving a relationship, no matter how abusive, is never easy.
HANKS: Women who leave relationships often have to opt for living in
poverty. That's a very difficult choice to make. There are many
social, cultural factors that contribute to encouraging women tostay
and try and make the situation better. So there are many, many
reasons. In addition to that, women love the men who abuse them. Or
atleast love them initially. Men who batter are not 100 percent bad
and they are not 100 percent hateful. And they can be quite loving and
attentive and protective partners attimes.
NARRATOR: Hanks says there's another question we should be asking. Why
don't men leave these relationships that are supposedly
sounsatisfactory to them?
HANKS: what we hear is how terribly inadequate these women arefor the
men. We also hear though how tremendously dependent they are on the
woman. And their fear ofrejection, their fear of emotional withdrawal
and/or abandonment are major factors actually that cause them to be
violent. Men who batter their women are oftentimes psychologically
incapable of leaving them.
NARRATOR: We hear a lot about thecycle of abuse in some families.
About how life begins to revolve around anticipating episodes of
violence...actually coping with violence....or recovering from
violence. Ironically, a family can become tremendously close during
the recovery stage. The man who was terrifying and intimidating turns
into a very needy, dependent and remorseful man. And the womanwho was
battered recommits to him in a fantasized hope that it will never
happen again. (pause) It's notjust adults who are sucked into the
cycle of abuse, a cycle which can span generations.
HANKS: Children are always traumatized by witnessing violence in
families. We know that from family backgrounds of men who are abusive
that they often witness their mothers being abused and alsothey were
often victims of child physical abuse themselves. We alsoknow that of
women who are battered, if they have the misfortune of having come
from a family of witnessing their own mother being abused they will be
susceptible to developing what we call battered women's syndrome, in
which they believe that there is nothing they can do to get out of the
situation.
NARRATOR: Rape, like domestic violence, is a crime that has existedas
long as written history. Like domestic violence, rape is also a crime
that is far too common. Women report almost half a million rapes and
sexual assaults each year, but most rapes are never reported. While
battered women may be willing to share their stories, rape victims are
often reluctant to discuss their experiences, even years later.
(pause) Maggie is a 49-year-old woman who lives in a middle class
neighborhood in Salt Lake City. (GRAPHIC) MAGGIE
MAGGIE: I had let my little dog out to go to the bathroom and he was
barking furiously in the driveway, soI ran outside to see what was
going on and a man came up behind me and put a knife at my throat. And
he took me in the house. He didn't say anything. He had grabbed hold
of my arm, knife at my throat and just marched me into the house in
front of him and threw me on the bed. My dog followed us in, was
having a nervous breakdown and he threw my dog against the wall and
then put him in another bedroom andshut the door, and he raped me. He
told me if I screamed, that he would"Nicole" me. That was the term he
used.
MAGGIE: (back to) I know that I will never, ever be the same person
again. In fact, after it happened, I asked both my daughter and my
sister if I looked different. BecauseI felt like I was so changed, it
must be on my face. (to) all women are vulnerable like I am. And if
they don't realize it, they should. Because you never know what's
going to happen. You never ever know when it's going to happen. And
you always need to be checkingyour back. (to) For example, I have mace
on my keychain, but you don't run outside to see what your dog's
barking at with your mace in hand. And maybe you should. Maybe you
should go everywhere with it in yourhand.
NARRATOR: While her attacker remains at large, Maggie struggles to get
over what happened to her.
MAGGIE: I know that I will never really recover from this. The impact
will always be with me and I will never trust the same way and I know
I can't even be tested for HIV for six months. So I have to even keep
that in mind. I'll never be able to get away from this. The impact
will be on me and my family forever.
NARRATOR: Even in family-oriented Utah, a state perceived as a safe
place, more than 4,000 red flags representing one year's rape
victimswaved during a fall commemoration. Each year, the staff of the
Rape Recovery Center hears stories from women of all backgrounds,
races and ages. The 94-year-old woman who was raped. The
three-week-old baby who was sexually abused. Halfof the rape and abuse
victims the staff served in emergency rooms were under 14 years of
age. (pause) The majority of rapes still go unreported. The most
troubling statistic is that three fourths of rapes are committed by a
man the woman knows -- a fact society is not willing to accept.
Executive Director Abby Maestas.
MAESTAS: We want to feel safe so we want to believe that rapists havea
particular profile in terms of they're easy to identify -- they
weartrench coats, they live under the viaduct or hang out in vacant
buildings and have crazed looks in their eyes. And that's not true.
What we have found through the clients that are served at the Rape
Recovery Center, what we have found through studies, is that a rapist
can be anyone -- a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a neighbor,
abrother, a son.
NARRATOR: C.Y. Roby is executive director of Intermountain Specialized
Abuse Treatment Center.
ROBY: ... We have a tendency I think to look on it and then say, well
in order to keep safe, what I need to do then is stay out of the park
at night, stay out of the dark alleys at night and I won't end up
being raped. And yet, the vast majority of rapists are known to
thevictim. (GRAPHIC) DIANNA
DIANNA: I met him at college. ...he gave me a silly line like hey
don't I know you from somewhere. And he was handsome, he was charming,
hewas funny. He seemed like he had itall together.
NARRATOR: Dianna began to see another side of her boyfriend. He would
become angry and then he'd become violent.
DIANNA: I told him I didn't want to go out with him anymore. Then he
became obsessive. He started showing up every single day at my work
and following me everywhere I went. Registered for my classes. He got
a job where I was working. And this went on for 10 months.
DIANNA: (to) Nobody seemed to mind that he was following me. I guess
it was more of a joke, people didn't realize how dangerous he was.
DIANNA: in the middle of writing a letter to a friend (to) I turned
around and Bruce was there he had this look on his face and I
screamedcause the look on his face scared me so much (to) and I
noticed that he had a knife in his hand. And he cornered me, he put
his arms aroundme, put the knife up to my neck, it was an eight-inch
knife, it had serrated edges, it was a hunting knife. He put it up to
my neck and said if I screamed again, he was gonna kill me.
DIANNA: During the attack I was pretty detached. I felt like if I
didn'tstay calm that he would kill me. That I just was better off
going along with whatever he said and did and that way it would be
over with. If I would have fought, I think I would have been killed.
NARRATOR: Dianna's rapist escaped through a window when he heard her
roommate come home. Fearing for her life, she dropped outof college
and broke her routine. She pressed charges, but her rapistwas only
placed on probation. He was charged with forcible sexual abuse of
another woman just three months after raping Dianna. Not only did the
rape make Dianna feel more vulnerable, she was also hurt by the
reaction of others.
DIANNA: The reaction of my landlordwas that it was I who had caused
the problems. He hadn't had problems until I moved to there and that
he had to fix the door and he was kind of mad at me. The um reaction
of my neighbor was pretty non-chalant like maybe I deserved it.
ROBY: from the time a child is very, very small, we're teaching that
they're responsible for the things that happen in their life both
positive and negative. So when a rape situation occurs, usually what
Isee going through a victim's mind iswhat did I do that was wrong."
MAESTAS: Even children are questioned. The innocence of children are
questioned. Often times I have sat with a police officer or a client
and have heard that a four year old girl was responsible for seducing
her perpetrator who was an adult. Now what are we saying? What we're
saying is that we don't know how totake responsibility as a society.
Therefore, we will continue to blamethe victim.
NARRATOR: Rape is a devastating crime. Some women are badly injured.
Some become pregnant. Some contract HIV. But the emotional trauma can
be worse thanany physical injury. The lives of women who are raped are
forever changed. Victims say they will never be the same, that it's
like dying.
MAESTAS: ...and even if for 20 minutes...The whole act of not having
control is so devastating that that is what creates the crisis element
for victims of rape and sexual assault and we see this in every age
group. (GRAPHIC) PATTY
NARRATOR: Patty always felt safe. Then came the night she was attacked
and beaten by a stranger while working the late shift at a health
club.
PATTY: And I said, take the money. I'll open the register for you,
just take the money. And he hit me harder. And then he started
dragging me back into where we couldn't be seen...And then I thought
ooh. He didn't come for themoney.. (to) I said, why are you doing this
to me. And he said because I'm a creep lady."
NARRATOR: Determined not to be raped, she pretended to faint.
PATTY: he was standing at my feet and I could hear him start to take
his pants off. And I thought this is as vulnerable as he is ever gonna
beand if I'm gonna do something it's gotta be now. And I just jumped
up at him and I went right for his eyes with my fingernails.
NARRATOR: In the struggle that followed, her head hit the wall. As she
went down, she grabbed a bottle of window cleaner.
PATTY: I squirted that right in his face....And he just started
screaming. I give up, let me go, I give up.
NARRATOR: The police found Patty's attacker hiding in a nearby
dumpster. He is now serving 10 years to life in prison.
PATTY: While technically I'm still a victim, I was a victim of
aggravatedsexual assault, I don't feel like a victim. I feel like I
won."
NARRATOR: Who is most likely to be assaulted or raped? Maestas
stresses that rapists choose those who are vulnerable, which is why
children and even the elderly are at risk. (Pause) Dr. Michael
Ghiglieri isa biologist who has written extensively about male
violence. He cites a 10-year study looking at more than a million
cases of rape in the United States.
GHIGLIERI: It's a huge sample, unfortunately, a hugh sample of
victims. And it turns out that 88 percent of these women are between
the ages of 12 to 28.
NARRATOR: Dr. Ron Sanchez is a prison psychologist who works with sex
offenders. While many rapists can be calculating and planning, he says
some are very impulsive. For example, they might see a woman who is
alone and seize the opportunity.
SANCHEZ: As I've worked with rapists, I've asked them how do you go
about gaining access to houses and many of them said they would look
for an open window or unlockeddoor and just go in the house. And Iwas
amazed to find out how many houses that they encountered had doors
unlocked. So I think a simple thing of locking your doors and windows
is a deterrent.
NARRATOR: Why do men commit violent crimes against women? Experts are
still debating the answers.

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