Or there is the house of horrors operated by Ariel Castro in Cleveland. Stan’s psyche was broken so badly through brainwashing that, like Elizabeth Smart after her, she eventually submitted to her situation and ignored open opportunities for escape. Consider the case of Colleen Stan, certainly an inspiration for the fictional story in “Hounds of Love.” Kidnapped at age 20 by a married couple, Stan was held as a sex slave for seven years, spending as much as 23 hours a day in a box underneath a bed for three consecutive years. Truly, I cannot conceive of a real-life horror more chilling than abduction followed by hopeless captivity. Trevor stops the car and Vicki tearfully reunites with her mother. Maggie looks in the rearview mirror and sees Vicki in the street. However, Vicki calmly strides past the other woman as Evelyn does nothing in response. Holding the bloody knife, Evelyn confronts Vicki in the driveway. Vicki escapes out the bathroom window as Jason and her parents start pulling away. Evelyn repeatedly stabs John in his stomach until he collapses on the kitchen floor. When John barks an order at her, Evelyn has a sudden change of heart and stabs her husband in the back. Frustrated, John starts strangling Vicki with his bare hands. With the rescue attempt foiled, Vicki refuses to take more pills, daring Evelyn to kill her with the knife. Maggie eventually gives up and gets back in the car with Trevor and Jason. Evelyn puts a knife to Vicki’s throat as a threat to not scream in response to her mother’s shouting. As Vicki begins taking diazepam pills, Gary comes to the house looking for payment from John, who opens the door.Īt the same time, Maggie frantically screams for her daughter across the street, as Vicki had mistaken the address. John tells Evelyn to have Vicki write another letter before killing her. When Sergeant Henderson says he won’t investigate the address until several hours later, the trio elects to go there themselves. Maggie, Trevor, and Jason take Vicki’s coded message to the police.
#HOUNDS OF LOVE CODE#
Jason discovers that Vicki hid a code in her words identifying where she is being held.įrustrated when the dog defecates in the house again, John beats Evelyn’s dog to death. Maggie notices something curious about Vicki’s letter and contacts Jason. After her torturous rape, Vicki becomes more psychologically broken and catatonic. John calls Evelyn’s suicide bluff and gradually coerces her into joining him in assaulting Vicki. John balks, prompting Evelyn to put a knife to her own throat. When Evelyn asks her what happened, Vicki gets into Evelyn’s head by suggesting that John is just using Evelyn to assert power and does not really love her.ĭistressed that John is attracted to Vicki, Evelyn tells her husband to kill the girl immediately. Evelyn returns home and becomes suspicious about the situation, as John is not supposed to sexually engage with Vicki unless Evelyn also participates. While Evelyn is out of the house, John sexually assaults Vicki until she defecates on the bed sheets. Trevor takes Maggie home where they find Vicki’s strange handwritten letter. Sergeant Mathews dismisses Vicki as a probable runaway and refuses to investigate until after the weekend. Maggie Maloney goes with her estranged husband Trevor to the police station to report Vicki’s disappearance. A neighbor responds to the commotion, but Evelyn angrily dismisses him from the door. Vicki uses the distraction to attempt an escape, but is forced back by the dog that John gifted to Evelyn. Feeling rejected, Evelyn pushes herself sexually onto John. Evelyn forces Vicki to write a letter to her mother claiming that she ran away.Įvelyn’s paranoia and jealously swell when John locks himself in the bathroom with Vicki. Loan shark Gary shakes down John for money he owes when John buys cigarettes at a store in town. Over the course of her captivity, Vicki observes the fractured dynamic between domineering John and submissive Evelyn, who has been emotionally broken since her children were taken away. Cruising the street, John and Evelyn con Vicki into coming back to their house where she is drugged and taken captive. Struggling with her parents’ separation and grounded for having her boyfriend Jason Farris write her term paper, Vicki Maloney sneaks out of her mother Maggie’s house during the night. After torturing and sexually abusing the captive girl, John kills Gabby and buries her body in the woods. Perth, Western Australia – December 1987 – Under the pretense of offering a ride on her walk home from school, married couple John and Evelyn White abduct teenager Gabby Donovan.
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