“Ride Like the Wind”

October 10, 2023 7:35 AM

What happened to Palm on that day in 1981 doesn’t make sense in the way that stories about life-changing events often don’t. She hadn’t planned on stopping at Kmart—it was an on-the-whim errand and not even her usual Kmart. She has a hard time explaining how she overcame gunpoint terror to attempt an in-car exorcism on a serial killer. And she still struggles to reconcile the fact that she escaped a man who brutally raped and murdered many women before her—women who deserved to live just as much as she did. From True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him [Vanity Fair; ungated] [CW: serial killer, rapist]
posted by chavenet (2 comments total)

That was a surprisingly nuanced story.

Worth reading because it wasn't written from the trauma-porn pov I anticipate from true-crime, but from a much more emotionally informed attitude. That both these people went through something, and "this" _ might_ be why.
posted by From Bklyn at 9:59 AM on October 10, 2023 [2 favorites]

That was really fascinating. Thank you.
posted by Night_owl at 10:19 AM on October 10, 2023 [1 favorite]