A true story media

A warning before I begin.

This is a story that includes sexual violence.

It is not suitable for children to hear. If you have suffered

trauma, please listen with care. It was just such a brutal case, just so brutal. The impact of it,

you know, and it was just something you just couldn't comprehend somebody being that vicious, you know,

that evil.

That's Dolores.

She was a Summit County, Ohio Sheriff's Deputy back in 84.

She's seen a lot of bad stuff go down.

Yet what happened to Phyllis is fresh in her mind, even though it happened more than 30 years

ago.

I was 22 at the time.

Like I said, I had just snagged my first professional job.

I thought I knew what I was doing, but I really didn't.

What university prepares you to cover something so ungodly?

So I learned on the job that, yeah, there's evil in the world, and I'll be honest, it freaked me out.

It wasn't exactly naive, but I believed the good guys eventually won out, and that there were

angels in the world who would at the very least come to my aid if I ran into the devil.

But real life is not like that, not always,

especially in the 80s. Like many young professional women, my ambitions were often at odds with

the rules of a man's world. But more than that, it was a world that could also be incredibly

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