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What Cries Out

We are a monthly Mother-Daughter True Crime Podcast. Each month we will focus on a case that cries out to us. What brings an individual to the precipice of darkness? Can we make sense of societies darkest edges? Sometimes we share generationally opposing views or push our own minds to that edge, but we do this to bring souls into remembrance all while bringing a social issue to light... This is What Cries Out.

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The Bennett Murders and a Sole Survivor

November 01, 2022 • Season 2 • Episode 21

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Imagine you experiencing something so horrendous, so unfathomable that your life becomes like shattered pieces...Just as ink blots paper, our brain blocks memories... a last attempt at self-preservation... as survival...Being the sole survivor can be a testament to that determination or even be seen as good fortune... We wish. The reality is those pieces are never brought together as they were... But with tenderness and a community coming together, it can be made into something new...Cracks glued and forever visible...However... What happens when this isn't the case? After all... Family is Everything.

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Show-Notes:

Vanessa's GoFundMe
Fundraiser by Vanessa Schulz : The Vanessa Bennett sole survivor (gofundme.com)

Surviving a Serial Killer—and What Comes Afterward - A&E True Crime (aetv.com)

1984 Colorado Hammer Murders – ColdCaseWriter.com

Survivor of 1984 Bennett Family hammer murders shares story (coloradoan.com)

Lone Survivor of Colorado Hammer Killer 1984 Attack Speaks Out (people.com)

Victims Fund (justice.gc.ca)

Help for Victims | Office for Victims of Crime (ojp.gov)

Patricia Smith's Family Tweet:
Kevin Vaughan on Twitter: "NOW: Statement from the family of Patricia Louise Smith, killed with a hammer and raped in 1984, after news and arrest warrant had been issued for suspect Alex Christopher Ewing. #9WantsToKnow #9NEWS https://t.co/XihHgWCS8n" / Twitter

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