“Really difficult,” said Marybeth Arnold, describing the aftermath of speaking out. “I think if we knew going into this, I think it would have been harder to make that decision. But, we went into this feeling like we had no other choice, because while people hadn’t protected us we now had a choice to protect other people.”
“Feeling really like, not lucky to be here, but we know that it was a really long process to get here,” agreed Amanda Hodson. Later, while communicating over AOL Instant Messenger, she said Cole began asking her to stand in front of the window of her home and remove certain pieces of clothing, while he watched from outside. She said, she tried to distance herself, but grew afraid.
She recalled the last time the two were alone together, she said, “He was asking me to do something I did not want to do, and I started getting upset,” she said.Cole, she said, grabbed her brother-in-law’s gun. “That’s when he said if I wasn’t going to be with him then he was going to kill himself,” she said.After speaking with her parents, Amanda said she was told to meet with the three pastors who formed the leadership at Heritage Baptist at the time.
Marybeth, she said, confirmed to her she’d also had an experience with Cole. “We started talking about whether we could live with ourselves if we didn’t say something,” said Hodson.
There doesn’t need to be a trial, just a long piece of rope and a branch.
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