This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. Oh, no, no. a A no! A no! A! I'm going to Oh, Welcome to Human Monsters. In 1983, Laura Parsons became a victim of human monsters in Dallas,

Texas. She was abducted, raped, and shot by three men who left her for dead. She tells her story of the impact on her health, her relationships, and her ability to overcome trauma.

She is a courageous woman and her story deserves to be heard.

So the first thing I'm going to ask is that the ordeal you experienced occurred in a trip you took to the states and I was wondering what was the purpose of a trip? Was it a vacation or was it a business trip?

No, I was a vacation.

Oh, you were living there.

Okay, and where was this again?

Well, it happened in Oak Lawn at Alice, Texas, and I lived in University Park.

So University Park is a gated community.

Its mother's ship is Highland Park and it's an all white community and if you have

maids or your groundkeepers or whatever,

there, they are allowed to be there during daylight hours only

and once prior to dusk, they all have to leave.

Unfortunately, besides Highland Park and University Park is Oak Lawn, and that is multiracial. Anybody can come and go.

The restaurant that I was going to that evening with a group of friends

was basically something out of Yorkville. Very, very shishy. But where I was dumped was not.

Oh, okay, so that's...

Still an oak lawn, just that once they abducted me we traveled around I don't know where I couldn't

see out.

So the area where you were abducted that, that's a high crime area?

No, it's like the Ritz is there and the Faraman. I mean, it's extremely ritzy-titsy.

And they were hiding behind trees

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