Delivered From Evil: True Stories Of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers And Survived - Plot & Excerpts
She told how Lee had threatened to stab her in the eye—as Pace had been. She told how he had cut the phone cord to strangle her—the same cord fragment found near the body of Pam Kinamore. And how the bare-chested Lee had sweated on her during his frustrated rape attempt—sweat found on the collar of her dress that matched Lee’s DNA.Again, she relived the horror visited upon her.Again, she was called to point to her attacker, sitting just a few feet away, watching her.“Are you sure?” the prosecutor asked her.“Positive. Without a shadow of a doubt. I’ll never forget that face.”The desperate defense called her a liar. They said her testimony had changed over time. They said she was coached by prosecutors. They said she described a different man to the police artist. But Dianne held firm, and the jury was visibly angry at the hostile questioning.The prosecution rested after that and, to everyone’s surprise, so did the defense.During closing arguments, some jurors wept openly as the prosecutor showed the smiling portraits of the dead women and begged the jury to find Lee guilty; the defense again railed against the fallibility of DNA testing and listed a dozen inconsistencies and holes in the prosecution’s case.
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