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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How

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does a gorgeous New

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England college professor

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end up brutally beaten,

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stabbed in the face, her

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eyes nearly gouged

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out, horrific

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injuries, her bloody

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body left lying in

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the floor. How does that

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happen to a lady

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college professor? Crime

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Stories with Nancy Grace. You

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know, we often think of college professors

1:02

kind of balding with

1:04

spectacle glasses, carrying

1:07

books and papers and a let's

1:10

just say, a plaid

1:12

blazer with the elbow

1:14

pads in the world of

1:16

their own an

1:18

ivory tower, so

1:21

to speak of education,

1:24

right, never

1:26

colliding with the world of

1:29

crime. Well, what

1:32

happened to Laurette's savoy changes

1:35

all of that. Again, thanks

1:37

for being with us here at Foxnation. In series

1:39

see eleven, take a listen to this.

1:42

Moments after opening the door, they were

1:44

hit over the head with something hard and then

1:46

repeatedly attacked. People

1:48

are capable of lots of scary things,

1:51

so I mean, unfortunately that does happen,

1:53

but I mean it is kind of scary to

1:55

hear that that it happens too close to home. I

1:57

mean, they're you know, well educated, well

1:59

and usually it's Yeah,

2:02

I guess you don't always expect that, but

2:04

I think it could be anybody. You can say

2:07

that again, you don't expect a

2:09

high level university professor,

2:12

a female, especially to have

2:15

her eyes gouged out. No,

2:18

that's pretty uncommon with

2:20

me, an all star panel. You were just hearing Sydney

2:22

Snow at WWLP twenty two

2:25

with me California prosecutor, host

2:27

of Red author of Red Flags,

2:29

and hosts of Today We Doctor Wendy KCPQ

2:33

joining US. Doctor Bethany Marshall,

2:35

Psychoanalyst to the Stars, joining

2:37

us out of LA at doctor Bethany

2:39

Marshall dot com. Doctor Kendall

2:42

Crowns, the chief medical

2:44

Examiner in Tarrant County. That's

2:46

Fort Worth lecturer at University

2:49

of Texas and Texas A and m

2:51

Lisa Daddio, former police Lieutenant

2:54

New Haven and senior lecturer

2:57

at the Center for Advanced Policing

2:59

in Neha. And Dominic Poli

3:01

joining US news reporter with a Greenfield

3:04

Recorder and you can find them

3:06

on Facebook at the Recorder newspaper.

3:09

What a case. This beautiful

3:12

professor brutally

3:14

attacked dominic. First, let

3:17

me talk to you about where this went down.

3:19

In Leverett, Massachusetts. Tell

3:21

me about that first. What kind of town

3:24

is that? Where did this happen? Yeah, it happens

3:26

in Leverett, Massachusetts. Um,

3:28

it's a pretty quintessential

3:31

New England town just next

3:34

to Amorost where UMass Amorst

3:36

is. It's a very quiet,

3:39

peaceful town. It's

3:41

known for the peace Pagoda. It's this Buddhist

3:44

sanctuary that's

3:46

very popular with tourists

3:48

and mass students

3:51

as well as students from Amherst

3:53

College or Hampshire College. It's

3:55

a very quintessential New England town.

3:58

Okay, hold on, when you were saying peace

4:01

pagoda, you just can't

4:03

reel something light like that dominant

4:05

poli off to me and may not want to know

4:07

how a woman basically gets

4:10

her eyes gouged out near

4:12

the piece pagoda. What is

4:14

the piece pagoda? It's

4:18

it's a holy place um

4:21

for Buddhism. It's um. It's

4:23

a very quiet, tranquil

4:26

place. It's been there something I think the eighties.

4:29

I've been a few times in my life and

4:33

it's in the same town where this attack occurred. A

4:35

piece pagoda a Buddhist stupa

4:38

and it is to inspire

4:40

and promote peace, designed

4:42

to provide all around

4:45

it a focus,

4:47

to unite them, to unite

4:50

their souls in a peaceful way. I'm

4:52

looking at a picture of it right

4:54

now, and it's really hard for me to imagine

4:57

this university professor.

4:59

And I'm gonna explain why. I keep emphasizing

5:02

that she is a female, why she

5:05

is attacked so brutally, even

5:08

attacking her face and her

5:10

eyeballs joining

5:12

me. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor

5:14

and author of Red Flags on Amazon.

5:17

Wendy Typically

5:20

we see violent crime involving

5:24

men no offense

5:26

Dodger Kendall Crowns and Dominic Polly.

5:29

This is not about you. This is statistically

5:33

men are involved in violent

5:35

crimes. So when you see

5:37

a university professor attacked in

5:40

this manner, your mind naturally leaps

5:42

to it being a man. But not so That's

5:45

exactly right, And that was one of the very first

5:47

things that struck me about this case.

5:49

And it just goes to show you, you know, sometimes

5:52

we can't assume or stereotype

5:55

what victims would look like in a case

5:57

like this. And I guess another thing

5:59

is this stereotype that a professor is

6:01

going to be a man. I'm

6:04

thinking back to law school, Wendy Patrick,

6:06

where my only female

6:08

professors. Let's

6:10

see, in ethics

6:13

and in tax there

6:16

are very few female

6:18

professors. So when you hear this

6:20

New England professor has been

6:22

brutally attacked, just a

6:24

bloody mess, you

6:27

think of it being a man, but it's not. Yeah,

6:29

no, that's right. And you know it's a sign

6:32

of the times that we actually not

6:34

only have women fulfilling some of these traditionally

6:36

male positions, but then victimized

6:39

in this manner. You know, it was always

6:42

surprising to hear that a case like

6:44

this ends up having this type

6:46

of a victim. And you know another thing

6:48

about it, dominic polie. You know what, let

6:50

me go to our shrink, doctor Bethany Marshall, Psychoanan's

6:53

joining us out of la. When you think

6:55

of New England, a lot

6:57

of people may imagine, I don't know,

6:59

just Ga Fletcher, okay, who

7:02

was a teacher

7:05

and she was a mystery writer in

7:08

Maine, remember her. And you those

7:11

that aren't familiar with New England, you have this ideal

7:15

setting in your head about what New

7:17

England is much less a

7:20

university campus, doctor Bethany.

7:22

Yes, but Nancy, I've been academic settings

7:25

for many years, and yes, it might be a

7:27

very idyllic setting. You

7:30

have a female professor, you

7:32

have her students. But Nancy,

7:34

there's no worse war than a war of

7:36

ideas, and academic

7:39

settings can be quite vicious.

7:41

You have people vying to be department chair,

7:44

you have people writing

7:46

competing stories. You have them

7:49

publishing articles, scientific

7:51

articles and peer peer reviewed

7:54

journals, and then they're all their colleagues read

7:56

the articles, and the colleagues way in in

7:58

a vicious way, refute

8:00

the articles. So the seemingly

8:03

idyllic academic settings where

8:05

you're teaching young people to be

8:07

smart and think critically and lead a great

8:10

life, it can be a hotbed

8:12

of envy, resentment, professional

8:17

and intellectual resentment

8:20

against each other, competition

8:22

and rivalry.

8:39

Time stories with Nancy Grace. Do

8:44

I need to remind everybody

8:46

of Amy Bishop? Is

8:49

that name? Ringing a bell? A

8:51

university professor opens

8:54

fire, killing three

8:56

of her colleagues. I believe

8:59

when her distortation was rejected,

9:01

or she didn't get tenure, something

9:04

along the lines doctor Bethany's talking about

9:07

right now, she opened fire

9:10

and killed three colleagues.

9:12

Do you remember that doctor Bethany Marshall,

9:14

So maybe the Ivory Tower is

9:17

what we think it is. The

9:20

Ivory Tower can be quite homicidal,

9:23

fidal and aggressive. In my academic

9:26

institute, it was a non medical

9:29

psychoanalytic institute, and I introduced

9:31

the idea that maybe some patients who

9:33

were depressed should be on medication rather

9:35

than in psychoanalysis. They argued

9:37

with me for three years before passing my dissertation

9:40

on the subject, just because it was a new

9:42

idea, but it was really a recycled old

9:44

idea. So these are not always friendly pit

9:46

places, Nancy. You know, they

9:49

cut throat nature advancement

9:51

getting that tenure. I mean I

9:54

also taught for nine years

9:57

at the college level to doctor Kendall Crowns,

9:59

who was currently teaching at University

10:01

Texas and Texas A and M also

10:04

the chief medical Examiner Tyrant County

10:06

and Fort Worth. Never a lack of business

10:08

there, doctor Kendall Grounds. I mean

10:10

it's cut throat to get tenure,

10:13

that is very true. I mean my

10:16

bad log a professor, and it was always

10:18

publish or parish, so you know, and yeah,

10:21

people stealing your ideas to try and get

10:23

ahead, and it was just it is cutthroat

10:25

and it's unfortunate. So do you, Wendy

10:27

Patrick, California prosecutor, explain what

10:30

is tenure? Well, actually, it's a great question

10:32

because I actually moonlight as a lecturer

10:34

at my local college, at my local college,

10:37

and it really is when you attain a

10:39

permanent post as a teacher,

10:41

as a professor. It is that that

10:44

level of permanency that many

10:46

academics viye for, which would

10:48

explain some of the competitiveness that

10:50

the other guests are talking about. It really does

10:53

get to be cutthroat when you only have

10:55

so many tenured positions and

10:57

many qualified candidates to dominate.

10:59

Pole joining us from the Greenfield

11:01

Recorder Dominic. What college

11:04

was it?

11:06

It was Mount Holio College. Wow.

11:09

Pretty famous institution, Mount

11:11

Holio. I'm wow.

11:13

And what had Lourette Savoy

11:16

been teaching? She

11:19

was a professor of environmental

11:21

studies in geology.

11:24

Wow. Do you

11:26

know was she up for tenure or was she

11:28

tenured? Yes, she was

11:30

tenured. In fact, she was

11:32

the David

11:36

B. Truman Professor of Environmental

11:38

Studies. Wow. And that's

11:40

I think an endowment, the Truman Yes

11:43

Chair. In other words, they

11:45

pay that professor a bonus

11:47

or they pay their whole salary because

11:50

they are very, very valued.

11:53

Wow, this woman no

11:55

idiot by far, Lurette

11:58

Savoy. So how does she end up

12:01

being attacked with garden shears,

12:03

a fire poker, a rock?

12:06

Was someone trying to rip her eyes out

12:09

of the socket? Take a listen

12:11

to our cut one bee from our

12:13

friends at crime Online. Laurent Savoy

12:15

is rushed to a local hospital with severe

12:18

blunt force trauma. She has multiple

12:20

broken bones and fractures in her face,

12:22

including a broken nose and a

12:24

broken orbital bone that's one of

12:27

the bones that surrounds the eye. There

12:29

were numerous cuts and puncture wounds

12:31

on Savoy's head and face, resulting

12:33

insignificant blood loss, and

12:35

there was evidence medical personnel say

12:38

indicating that the assailant had tried

12:40

to gouge out the victim's eyes. Okay,

12:43

gouging out eyes. I

12:46

need to go to two people on this, two experts,

12:48

Doctor Bethany Marshall, and I need

12:50

to go to doctor Kendall Crown see chief

12:52

Medical Examiner and Tyrant County Fort Worth.

12:54

Okay, doctor Bethany,

12:58

here's my experience with eye gauging. Familiar

13:02

with the case that was worked

13:04

in my office, the Fulton County

13:06

District Attorney's office, Inner City, Atlanta,

13:09

where a victim was murdered and

13:11

her eyes were gouged out. Then

13:14

the part was arrested. He was missing

13:17

an eye. He

13:19

had to be straight jacketed

13:22

behind bars because he was caught

13:24

trying to pull out his other eye.

13:27

Now, if the jury couldn't put together two plus

13:29

two, who killed this woman in gouge out

13:31

her eyes? I don't know who can

13:34

they did convict. By the way, doctor

13:37

Bethany, that's not just killing somebody

13:39

to gouge out their eyes

13:42

as a whole. Another level

13:45

of evil. And I'm sure you

13:48

have an opinion. What is it? Well,

13:51

the idea of gouging out eyes as prominent

13:53

in literature and mythology. Nursissus

13:55

falls into the pool because he's gazing at himself.

13:58

But according to one theory, he's

14:00

trying to gouge out his own eyes because

14:02

he doesn't want to see himself accurately.

14:04

If you watch the Squid Games theories,

14:07

one of the contestants

14:10

in the Squid Games has her eyes

14:12

surgically removed. Happens to

14:14

be a woman, of course, not a man. I

14:16

tend to think that when a perpetrator

14:19

wants to gouge out the eyes of

14:21

the victim, they don't want the

14:23

victim to see what they are doing.

14:25

There's something about the all seeing, all

14:28

discerning eyes that have to first be

14:30

removed before the aggressive

14:32

attack on the victim. It leads

14:34

me to the eyes are the mirror

14:36

into the soul. And

14:39

it also leads me, of course that's on an

14:41

English literature note, but it

14:44

leads me to who is my

14:46

part? I can tell you this much, Lisa,

14:49

Daddy, I farm employees, Lieutenant new Haven, this

14:52

is not a random attack. A random

14:54

attack, you want to go in and you want to burgle our

14:56

eyes the place, you want to

14:58

rape her, you want to steal her pocketbook. You're

15:01

not gonna sit around and waste

15:03

time. You kill, rape or steal,

15:07

and then you leave, no hanging

15:10

around to remove

15:12

somebody's eyeballs.

15:15

Yeah, that's correct. I mean, typically, like

15:17

you said, Nancy, you go in, you

15:20

commit the crime or crimes that you set

15:22

out to do, and then you leave so

15:24

that you don't get caught and you know,

15:26

people don't see everything, or you

15:28

know, risk all of that. And yet in this case,

15:32

the victim was

15:35

brutalized for hours. It seems

15:37

to me with all the attacks on

15:39

her, straight out to you, doctor Kendall, Crown's

15:42

Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrant County. What

15:45

does that mean? What do her injury? First

15:47

of all, tell me about her

15:49

injuries, the injuries to Lourette Savoy, So

15:52

she had multiple injuries,

15:55

cuts, stab, wounds, fracture,

15:57

the versus skull and what it

16:00

knows. There's a variation

16:02

in the objects that are used.

16:04

There's a rock, there's a fire poker,

16:07

and garden shears. So with the

16:09

sharp force injuries, you know you have the garden

16:12

shears. The blunt force injuries is going to be

16:14

the rock and the fire poker. Often

16:16

with the blunt force injuries, when people beat

16:19

someone with an object, they don't instantly

16:23

incapacitate them, so they often

16:25

will switch up to a sharp object

16:27

to try and stab them to the the

16:30

fractures of a skull, the orbital plate

16:32

fractures that are described. The orbital plate

16:34

is basically around your eyeball and

16:37

it's kind of thin, so if she's hit

16:39

in that area, causes fractures that can cause

16:42

brain injury, etc. So,

16:44

but none of the injuries that are

16:46

described are necessarily lethal.

16:49

But in combination they would have

16:51

eventually ended up in our death. But they're

16:53

all very debilitating and crippling.

16:56

Just they gauging the eyes out, they

16:59

tend to pull her eyes out of her skull.

17:01

You know, I don't know what it means

17:03

psychologically, but to

17:07

a jury that will mean a

17:09

lot and the pain, the

17:11

pain inflicted on the victim.

17:13

Take a listen to our cut one A State

17:16

troopers arrive at Laurent Savoy's home

17:19

just after midnight. They find the acclaimed

17:21

author lying in a pool of blood on the floor.

17:23

Had they been severely beaten about the hidden

17:26

face by savoye Side is

17:28

her friend of fourteen years and a

17:30

colleague at Mount Hoolio College,

17:32

art professor RhI Haccianagi.

17:35

It was Hoccianagi who called nine one one.

17:37

She tells police she and Savoy had plans

17:39

to meet around eleven PM. Hoccianagi

17:42

reported seeing signs of a struggle in the home

17:45

when she found her friend in the fourier,

17:47

barely breathing. Savoy, who was still

17:50

conscious, tells police she cannot

17:52

offer any information on the person who

17:54

attacked her, not even gender, as she

17:56

lost her glasses during the assault. Troopers

17:59

searched the property and immediate area, but

18:01

no suspect is found, so

18:03

as it were. When she could still speak,

18:07

she stated that she could not identify

18:10

her attack or having lost her

18:12

glasses. And that's a whole

18:14

other level, Wendy Patrick. Who would

18:16

attack a female professor

18:19

who can't see without her

18:22

glasses? That's exactly

18:24

right. You know, you start thinking it was a student,

18:27

was it a competitor, was it just a

18:29

random attack, a home invasion?

18:32

Was anything missing? And you just start going

18:34

through a list of suspects, and most

18:36

female professors I know couldn't identify

18:39

who would want to do something so brutal

18:42

and vicious. So that's right. It becomes

18:44

a big mystery when you have someone like

18:46

this attack so viciously. Crime

19:02

Stories with Nancy Grace check

19:06

listen to our cut one our friends at Court TV. My

19:09

name is Riccianaki. I've

19:11

taught here at Mount Holyoke for five years.

19:14

That was beloved professor and current

19:17

chair of the Mount Holyoake Art Studio

19:19

in a two thousand ninety video. On Christmas

19:21

Eve of twenty nineteen, Howgianaki

19:24

called nine one from the home of

19:26

a fellow Mount Holyoke professor,

19:28

A longtime friend of hers. She stated

19:30

that she found her friend lying on the floor

19:33

of the residents, barely breathing, semi

19:35

conscious, and with a head injury.

19:38

The officer who responded to the call found

19:41

the victim and missus Hodgianaki

19:43

lying together on the floor,

19:46

but Hadgianaki told the trooper that there

19:48

were signs of a struggle in the house. The

19:50

victim told the trooper that she did not

19:52

know the gender or any other identifying

19:55

descriptions for the alleged suspect.

19:58

To Dominant Polige joining me

20:00

hreporter with the Greenfield Recorder.

20:04

You can find him on Facebook. The Recorder newspaper.

20:07

Dominic tell me about her home? Was

20:09

that an apartment? Was it freestanding?

20:11

Was it a condo? Who had access to

20:13

it? It was it was just a prestanding

20:15

home in Leverett, And you

20:18

refer to that as an ideal at New England

20:20

home area. But what about

20:22

her neighborhood. It's

20:25

it's very sparsely populated.

20:27

The entire town is, so

20:29

it's very sparsely populated. Dominant,

20:33

yes, which really rules

20:35

down not out,

20:37

but rules down random crime

20:40

because he's going to drive out. There's

20:42

there's really no such thing as foot traffic there.

20:45

It's it's pretty much just all winding

20:48

roads and wilderness.

20:50

To doctor Bethany Marshall, have you ever

20:52

encountered a crime victim that couldn't

20:55

make an identification because they didn't want

20:57

to make a identification psychologically,

21:01

they didn't want to think about

21:03

it, so they couldn't make an id Well,

21:05

we see this in domestic violence all

21:07

the time. Right. One person feels

21:10

very threatened their

21:12

spouse, their intimate partner, because we know

21:14

all about intimate partner violence, is

21:16

aggressing against them, stocking them, calling

21:19

their boss at work, threatening them at home.

21:22

It finally escalates to the point

21:24

where they have to call the police. But once the

21:26

police get there, the loyalty and the

21:28

guilt sets in, and

21:30

then they are so reliable to identify

21:33

their most beloved person as the purpose

21:36

all the time. Devini Polie

21:39

wasn't she attacked from behind? Initially

21:42

she was, That's how the attack started. She

21:46

it was very late at night and she

21:50

heard something sort of in the shadows

21:53

outside the back door

21:55

of her home, and she called

21:57

out to see who it was. When law

22:00

horsemen arrived, they find

22:02

her near death. Yeah,

22:05

and she says she cannot identify

22:08

her attack or but

22:10

take a listen to our friends at court

22:12

TV our cut Two hours later

22:14

at the hospital, the victim told police

22:17

that Professor Hodgianaki was the

22:19

one who attacked her. The defendant,

22:22

who was at the time a friend of the victim,

22:24

comes to the house, uses

22:26

a pretense to get into the house and then attacks

22:30

attacks her upon entry with

22:34

anything that she can find. She

22:36

beats her in the head with a rock. She

22:38

attacks her and punctures her face with garden

22:41

scissors. She beats her with a poker. The

22:44

victim told police that Professor Hodgianaki

22:46

had shown up on the deck of her residence

22:49

and told the victim that she really

22:51

missed her and wanted to talk with her about

22:53

feelings. Once Professor Hodgianaki

22:56

was inside, according to the victim, she

22:58

began hitting her repeatedly in

23:01

the head. In a statement to police,

23:03

the victim says Hygienaki told

23:05

her the attack was because Hygienaki

23:08

had loved her for many years and

23:11

that she should have known. She

23:13

should have known. Listen,

23:16

when a work friend shows

23:19

up on your patio at

23:21

midnight wanting to talk about feelings,

23:25

that is very unusual.

23:28

There was no relationship between these

23:30

two. They were not lovers, nothing

23:33

secret, nothing just

23:35

work. Friends. Take a listen to

23:37

our cut one see our friend at

23:40

crime online. At the Hospital

23:42

Laart, Savoy tells police that she'd lied

23:45

out of fear about losing her glasses

23:47

and about who her attacker was. It

23:50

was her longtime friend rih Hachienagi.

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Savoy says. The woman turned up at her

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home, which she had never been to before,

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unannounced. On the premise needing

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to talk to her about her feelings

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and a failed relationship, Savoy

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invited her in, and as they walked

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away from the door, Hoccianagi attacked

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her from behind. The art professor

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had come to the home to admit her feelings

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for Savoy. The attack on Savoy lasted

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for four hours, with Hoccianagi

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using multiple implements in the attack,

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including fists, rocks,

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garden clippers, and a fire poker and

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more. From our friends at crime Online

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Cut one day, Savoy tells police

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she remembers being hit again

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and again and again. At one

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point, Hodgianagi straddled the victim

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on the floor and continued punching

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her. When Savoy asked why

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she was doing this, Hodgianaki

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said she loved the author for many years

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and she should have known. Savoy

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says she was taunted by Hoccianagi

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during the four hour attack, saying that

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she would be blinded, disfigured,

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and then murdered, and at one point

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saying that because there was so much

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blood loss that Savoy didn't

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have long to live. Voice says

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she thought she was going to die.

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To Dominic Poli joining

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us from the Greenfield Recorder, Dominic,

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what happened? Laurette had no

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idea this female,

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professor ree Haccianagi

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was obsessed with her. Yes,

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that's correct. The first time any

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type of feelings toward

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one another were brought up, and it

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is as far as Professor Savoy

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is concerned, completely out of the blue.

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Take a listen to our friends a crime online

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Our cut one E. Savoy

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says she tried to get Hagianachi to stop

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beating her by saying she loved

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her. It took some time, but she

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was able to play along, begging

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Haccianagi to let her go and

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call nine one one. With Haggi

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Andachi convinced there was hope for a relationship,

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the two women hatched a plan to tell police

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that someone else had beaten Savoy

26:09

Savoy tells police while still in her

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home that she has no idea who

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her attacker is. Haggi Andachi

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tells police she is covered in blood from

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trying to help her friend. Finally,

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around four AM, safe in the hospital,

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Savoy tells police the truth.

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Haggianachi is arrested about seven

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AM near Savoy's home with

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the victim's keys, cell phone,

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and glasses. On her

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crime stories with Nancy Grace take

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a Listen again to our Friends a crime

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online Our cut one E. Savoy

26:56

says she tried to get Haggianachi to stop

26:58

beating her by saying she loved

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her. It took some time, but she

27:03

was able to play along, begging

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Hacci and Nagi to let her go and

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call nine one one. With Haggianachi

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convinced there was hope for a relationship,

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the two women hatched a plan to tell police

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that someone else had beaten Savoy.

27:18

Savoy tells police while still in her

27:20

home that she has no idea who

27:22

her attacker is. Haggi Andachi

27:24

tells police she is covered in blood from

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trying to help her friend. Finally,

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around four AM, safe in the hospital,

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Savoy tells police the truth.

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Haggianachi is arrested about seven

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am near Savoy's home with

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the victim's keys, cell phone,

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and glasses on her. Okay,

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Doctor Bethany Marshall, this is right

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up your alley. Hit

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me, oh, NANCYA definitely

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is. It seems that Haggianachi

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obviously used the word fast. Well,

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we think of stalking, and you've

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heard me say this so many times. In

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stalking relationships, the

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perpetrator feels that there's a

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unique and special relationship

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with the victim, even when there

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is no evidence to support

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that. So yagi Andachi was

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obsessed with the boy boy

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I felt herself to be in loved with her.

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So what happens as it sets up a cycle

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where the perpetrator continually

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feels rejected by the victim

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because the victim has no idea that the

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other person's in love with them. But you might

28:30

ask yourself, why would a professor

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with such high standing

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launch such a vicious attack?

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I mean, how could she pass

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in everyday light life

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as a professor with

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a person, as a person with good mental

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health when obviously she's so disturbed.

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And can you think of Lisa Noac remember

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the astrona. Yes,

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all the way across the country, an adult guy

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first to attack her love

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rival. Okay, so when

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the guy okay, so the love object

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had totally broken up with her. Yes.

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So you have these high functioning women, and

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because they're academics, they have

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a veneer of sophistication that

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lends the public to believe that they can

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never be so sinister and so disturbed.

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And when that veneer cracks, all

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the aggression comes out. To

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Dominic Poli joining

29:29

us from the Greenfield Recorder. Now

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I hear doctor Bethany Marshall going on

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and on and on, and I liked every

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word you said. I just didn't agree with

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some of it, Doctor Bethany. She

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made it sound like they

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defendant in this case, another female

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professor, had some sort of a mental disability.

29:48

I call it rage and rejection,

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and she sought revenge.

29:54

Take a listen again to our fransa a court

29:56

TV Professor Hydrinaki is now

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facing six charges, including assault

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with intent to kill. The defendant,

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who was at the time a friend of the victim, comes

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to the house, um uses

30:08

a pretense to get into the house and then attacks her.

30:11

Attacks her upon entry with

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anything that she can find. She

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beats her in the head with a rock. She attacks

30:20

her and punctures her face with garden

30:22

scissors. She beats her with a poker. The

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motive that I love

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you, therefore I have to kill you doesn't

30:29

doesn't make sense, and

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it continues to not make sense. That

30:35

was the first question. When the defendant

30:37

was attacking the victim and the victim world over onto

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her back, was the victim looked

30:42

at the defendant and said, why the

30:44

allegation is that is that the defendant

30:46

did this. There's no doubt that the

30:48

victim's orbital bones were broken. There's

30:50

no doubt that the victim received multiple

30:52

stitches to try and

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and put her face back together.

30:57

The punctures to the victims, to the

30:59

the tissue surrounding the victim's eyes

31:02

from the gardening scissors

31:04

are horrified. Also after Indictmond

31:06

made aware of another allegation. A

31:09

few years, crun of

31:11

a former colleague of the defendants, was

31:14

subject to what she describes as harassment

31:16

on the part of the defendant, and speaking

31:19

with counsel for the college, the

31:22

council affirmed that this

31:24

kind of antagonism was present, but wasn't

31:28

really able to go into detail and wasn't able

31:30

to turn over the records of

31:32

documenting that without without a subpoena.

31:34

The victim told police that during the attack,

31:37

she thought she was going to die, and

31:39

she says she survived by playing

31:41

along with miss Hodgianaki and convincing

31:44

her to call nine one one

31:46

for help. Professor Hodgianaki has

31:48

pled not guilty to the attack. So

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where does the case stand now?

31:53

Dominic Polly? The

31:56

Professor Urihachi Nai

31:59

has been sent to ten

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to twelve years

32:04

in Franklin County House

32:06

of Correction. Take a listen to our

32:09

cut seventeen from Crime

32:11

Online. Laurence Savoy tells

32:13

a court that after her attack, which

32:15

she calls torture, she still has

32:17

not healed and probably never will.

32:20

Savoy says she suffered nerve damage

32:22

to her face, two of her fingers no

32:24

longer work. She also has trouble

32:26

sleeping, suffering nightmares and

32:29

headaches daily. Savoy also

32:31

says she has suffered financially. Insurance

32:34

has not covered all her medical bills and

32:36

post traumatic stress disorder therapy.

32:39

Security in her home has had to

32:41

be upgraded for her to feel safe. Savoy

32:43

says she has also lost significant income

32:46

since she has not been able to return to teaching

32:48

and has had to turn down at least thirty

32:51

professional opportunities since the

32:53

attack, and that in itself

32:55

has been difficult for this acclaimed author.

32:57

Laurent Savoy is the winner of Mount Holio

33:00

College's Distinguished Teaching Award and

33:02

an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. She

33:04

has held fellowships from the Smithsonian Institute

33:07

and Yale University. Her book Trace,

33:09

Memory, History, Race, and the American

33:12

Landscape won the twenty sixteen

33:14

American Book Club Award from Before

33:17

Columbus Foundation and the twenty

33:19

seventeen Aslie Creative Writing

33:21

Award. It was also a finalist

33:23

for the Pan American Book Award

33:25

and Philli Sweetley Book Award. It

33:28

was also shortlisted for the William Saroyan

33:30

International Prize for Writing and

33:32

the Orion Book Award. Let's

33:35

listen to Savoy speaking about her

33:37

book Trace to the twenty sixteen

33:39

Brattleborough Literary Festival. Race

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began in my struggle to

33:43

answer or come to terms

33:45

with questions that have haunted me since

33:47

childhood. Questions like these

33:52

in each of our lives

33:55

is an instant, like

33:57

a camera shutter that opens and

34:00

loadses. What

34:02

can we make of our place in the world

34:04

for that instant our latent

34:06

image, and then

34:09

over time, over generations,

34:13

what do accumulated instance

34:15

mean? The

34:17

book grew to become a mosaic

34:19

of personal journeys and historical

34:21

inquiry across the continent and time,

34:24

trying to understand,

34:27

or at least explore, how this

34:29

country's still unfolding history

34:32

has marked the land, has

34:34

marked the society, and

34:37

marks an individual because the voice

34:39

as the health issues she has suffered since the attack

34:42

all came about because her friend thought

34:45

she would get away with murder. Well

34:48

she didn't. And this poor

34:50

woman, Lauret Savoy

34:53

must be on pins and needles because

34:55

if the is sentenced to nine

34:58

or ten years, she'll be out in

35:00

three. That gives her three

35:02

years behind bars to stew

35:05

and fester about

35:07

the one that got away. Nancy

35:10

Gray's Crime Story, signing off, Goodbye

35:13

friend,