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I'm Saruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Redhanded. In the early hours of the morning, on the 30th of September,

1979 in Tuston, California, Kevin Green, a 21-year-old marine corporal called 911, screaming that his wife,

Diana Green, had been attacked in their home. The police arrived within minutes and the scene they found was truly horrific.

Diana Green was just 20 and 9 and a half months pregnant. That is incredibly pregnant. Yeah. Like she must have been so uncomfortable.

Oh, she wasn't happy as we go on to find out. She was like literally do any minute when this happened.

I can't even imagine. And when they came in, she was laying on the bed, moaning and gurgling blood from her mouth.

There was also an enormous wound on her forehead. Almost, and I saw a photo of it. It's almost like the shape of a star.

Imagine if you stabbed somebody with what's the name of the star-shaped screwdriver? Is that a Phillips hat?

A Phillips, yeah. Top knowledge. Star-shaped screwdriver. If you stabbed somebody with a giant one of those.

Don't you know what? You know what I mean? You knew you guessed it. I know what you mean. It's just funny that you called it star-shaped, sorry.

It's like that shape in her head. It's like her head had just been completely split open. And unsurprisingly, there was blood everywhere.

Everyone thought that poor Diana had been shot. But it was only when she arrived at the hospital that it became clear what had actually happened to her.

Diana hadn't been shot. She'd been brutally beaten. Most likely with a blunt object.

She was completely unconscious. Unsurprising given that she had suffered a serious traumatic brain injury and bleeding in the brain.

During an attack like this, the impact to the head causes, and I hate this phrase, the soft brain to crash back and forth inside of your hard skull.

And this leads to the bruising bleeding and a horrifying new phrase I learned, sheering of the brain.

Oh, yikes. That is pretty intense stuff. Isn't concussion when your brain is shaken? Is that what that is?

Concussion is like when your brain is shaken and this is like when...

Concussion times a million. Yeah, it's like bang bang bang bang bang. And the bleeding, the bruising, the sheering. It distorts the blood vessels and everything inside your brain.

And that's what puts you into a coma. And if you think, you know, we're going on about this a lot, it's really really important to understand how badly Diana was injured.

Like how bad her head injury was, I think. But that wasn't all. Because Diana had also been raped.

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