Alcoholocaust
Almost three decades later, following the demise of her strongest contender, her second exhumation petition was granted, and Truth was discovered: more eloquently than any courtroom could have rendered. All in a small, Southern town.
Is It Still Murder?
One week prior to Christmas, in a small, Southern town, a fine Christian lady was murdered in her home as she cooked lunch. It was such a shocking occurrance that the entire town of relatives, friends and neighbors went into Silence Mode and instructed the daughter to also, just go on with her life.
However, as she succumed to emotional regression, she entered college classes for therapy and sought out private investigators, since all officials refused to do their normal jobs in the murder of her mother. She desperately longed to know Who? Why? and Why the town’s reluctance to respond appropriately?
Upon the court-granted exhumation, vital witnesses were discovered, who held pertinent information which revealed the guilty party; however, the governor, local police and even state police only reluctantly conducted their levels of inquiry, by interviewing: The suspect himself, and accepting his account that a ‘now-deceased individual’ had actually killed her.
Those officials who made the efforts of covering-up a ‘blatant murder,’ had their own reasons for agreeing that, “This town – state just can’t handle a scandal like this. We gotta say, “She done it herself.”
Fortunately, these exact words were over-heard by the highly credible witnesses who surfaced two decades later, unaware that the victim’s daughter knew not of their presence.
During the decades of her efforts, she experienced emotional regression, and found therapeutic assistance via the book, Massive Psychic Trauma (H.Krystal) gleaned from Survivors of Jewish Holocaust. She travels to Israel regularly and works with other victims – including many military, of PTSD.
Trauma & Survivor Syndrome
Most people are aware of the Jewish Holocaust, the German concentration camps, and the slaughter of thirteen million people. At the conclusion of World War II, many of the survivors of the camps came to New York, where physicians and psychiatrists worked with them to transition back to normalcy. These patients all shared symptoms, new to the medical field at the time, broadly called “Survivor Syndrome” and explained in the book, Massive Psychic Trauma, edited by Dr. Henry Krystal, NY, 1968.Twenty years later, Survivor Syndrome began to be associated with the symptoms of domestic violence within the home. Trauma & Survivor Syndrome explains these specific symptoms, differentiates them from post-traumatic-stress-disorder symptoms, and gives a case study of a child-witness to domestic violence who later, under unique circumstances, presented with the symptoms of “Survivor Syndrome.”Survivor Syndrome material derived from Dr. Henry Krystal’s “Massive Psychic Trauma,” 1968.About the Author:Sherry Lewis Henry PhD, MSW is a retired clinical social worker. She was motivated to write Trauma & Survivor Syndrome by the desire and need to investigate her mother’s murder, despite the obvious cover-up. Seeking for Truth became a healing journey, which led her to Israel. There, among Holocaust survivors and their progeny, she found peers, validation, and existential restoration.Dr. Viktor Frankl’s words rang true, “The Survivor’s Mission is twofold; healing of man-made, deliberate trauma for others and oneself is an on-going, life-long quest.” “It Is Good To Be a Seeker, but sooner or later a Seeker must give that which he has found,unto the world, to whoever will receive it.” (Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull) Trauma & Survivor Syndrome is that Gift.Publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/SherryLewisHenry
Blatant Murder, Denied Justice & the Town’s Demise.
“BLATANT INJUSTICE” became the decision of the officials and townsfolk, in the aftermath of a very decent lady’s murder, just a few days before Christmas of 1964. Olive Lewis was preparing her husband’s lunch when she was shot in the head. As officials sat in her living room, viewing her dead body and her grand-babies’ Christmas outfits on her sewing machine, they made a decision to violate the laws of the land, and lead the townsfolk into a Silence Mode, in a deliberate Cover-up. But, why would Olive’s own brother, a prominent attorney, align with this deceptive ‘plan,’ to over-rule the Coroner, and call this lady’s obvious murder, a ‘suicide?’ A Preponderance of Evidence is required by law to rule Suicide. The Coroner and R.N. agreed, “This is, “Blatant Murder.” Then, No-Investigation-Occurred; no written report nor state-mandated autopsy was allowed. No case file of suicide or murder was made for this lady; it was later stated in a search of records, “It’s as though she never lived and never died.”
Olive’s twenty two year old daughter was married, with two young children; she was also, a new Christian, who knew her mother and Jesus Christ and loved them both, very much. She needed the, ‘truth, the whole truth and nothing less;’ she trusted Jesus’ words that, ‘those who ask, seek and knock will find,” and that, “truth will set you free.”
Her quest to discover what really happened to her mother and to the town that she had grown up in and loved, became a lengthy navigation through trauma. This journey led her into numerous states, countries and continents, comprising decades and, while amazingly successful convinced her that PTSD is indeed, “Treatable and Beatable, but it does require work.”
