Mary Vincent, two hooks — Transcript

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1. 0:00And I think of a young woman who has
2. 0:01become a mother has a child and has
3. 0:04never touched that child with with her
4. 0:06fingers or thumb or caressed it with her
5. 0:09hands. Instead, it's a prosthetic
6. 0:11device. That's what I think about when I
7. 0:13think about Mary Vincent.
8. 0:14District Attorney Don Stahl still cannot
9. 0:17fathom the tragedy of Mary Vincent. It
10. 0:20was the summer of 1978. Mary Vincent was
11. 0:23a fiercely independent but naive
12. 0:2515-year-old.
13. 0:26day, I wanted to go home. That's the
14. 0:28only thing that was in my mind is that I
15. 0:30wanted to go home.
16. 0:31That day?
17. 0:33Everything.
18. 0:35I remember everything, every detail.
19. 0:41Excuse me, I need some water.
20. 0:42Okay, I'll get you some water.
21. 0:44Today, the crime is difficult to
22. 0:46discuss. That is why Mary has never
23. 0:49spoken to anyone about the details
24. 0:51before, but she decided that she wanted
25. 0:53us to understand what she's been
26. 0:55through.
27. 0:56Mary Vincent did not.
28. 0:58Mary remembers a Corvette convertible
29. 1:01coming toward her.
30. 1:03And I screamed to stop, to help me.
31. 1:08And
32. 1:09I was thinking, gosh, I I must look a
33. 1:11mess.
34. 1:13They're going to get scared, and they
35. 1:14did get scared, and they drove off.
36. 1:20I told myself, maybe if I'm nicer and I
37. 1:23ask please to help, maybe the next
38. 1:25people will help me.
39. 1:26It was a miracle Mary survived, but she
40. 1:29would never recover from the gruesome
41. 1:31attack that robbed her of the chance to
42. 1:33ever again run her fingers through her
43. 1:35hair, caress a child's face, or hold a
44. 1:39lover's hand. All of this brings Mary
45. 1:42great pain.
46. 1:43You told me you thought about suicide.
47. 1:45Yes, I have.
48. 1:48He took away my life.
49. 1:50I mean, this isn't living. This is
50. 1:51existing.
51. 1:54Did he say Say to you while the crime
52. 1:56was occurring?
53. 1:58Remember it all?
54. 2:00Well, while he was attacking me, he was
55. 2:05telling me that
56. 2:08I'm going to be his good little girl.
57. 2:10He was talking as though
58. 2:14I was one of his kids.
59. 2:17Ironically, Singleton has a daughter
60. 2:20Mary's age. He
61. 2:22After her harrowing ordeal, Mary faced
62. 2:25her attacker in court. She was
63. 2:27determined to see him punished.
64. 2:29I can recall her eyes just
65. 2:31almost growing.
66. 2:33And then she pointed to him and she did
67. 2:36it with the prosthetic devices.
68. 2:39And she did it so directly. I think
69. 2:41everybody's heart stopped.
70. 2:43What was it like to see his face again?
71. 2:46I saw that.
72. 2:48Just pure hate, pure evil.
73. 2:50This makes Mary Vincent very uneasy.
74. 2:54How many times have you moved in the
75. 2:55last 15 years?
76. 2:58Too many to remember.
77. 3:00Cuz every time I move,
78. 3:03there's always something I have to leave
79. 3:05behind.
80. 3:07In 1988, Mary Vincent got married. Today
81. 3:10at 31, she is divorced, the mother of
82. 3:12two children whose faces she asked us
83. 3:15not to show. She's been on and off
84. 3:17welfare for years.
85. 3:20I have to work 10 times harder than the
86. 3:21average person with hands to do
87. 3:23anything, to fold clothes, do dishes.
88. 3:26Mary's injuries still require constant
89. 3:29attention. Her prosthetic arm should be
90. 3:31replaced every year, but the staggering
91. 3:33cost has made that impossible. Afraid
92. 3:36she'll be tracked down by Singleton,
93. 3:38Mary is always looking over her
94. 3:40shoulder. She relies on a friend, Bob
95. 3:43Clayton, for protection. He volunteers
96. 3:45his time as her bodyguard.
97. 3:48What kind of a person is Mary Vincent?
98. 3:50She's an angel.
99. 3:52Do you have a dream for the future?
100. 3:55I had a dream once.
101. 3:59I've had a lot taken from me and I think
102. 4:02I
103. 4:06I think I deserve just a chance to see
104. 4:09if I can
105. 4:11make a go of it.
106. 4:15What comforts you?
107. 4:18My children.
108. 4:20My children comfort me.
109. 4:22They see the stress looks on their mom's
110. 4:24faces and they come up give me a hug.
111. 4:29Mary Vincent has already survived such
112. 4:32sorrow and shown such grace. You have to
113. 4:35admire her strength and you hope that
114. 4:37one day she will find the peace she
115. 4:39deserves.