THE PERFECT VICTIM
Portions of the book for examination
I wanted to put parts of this one chapter of
this book because it is one that I read which aided in my deprogramming from
the mind control. Although there are extremes in this book, it is what shocked
me enough to see that Lloyd Goodwin used some, if not all of these same
techniques, in the Des Moines Gospel Assembly Church. As you read this, make
note of certain issues that could pertain to your own experience. They will be
varied and less extreme but let us know what you saw.
Chapter - THE MACHINERY
Shows some of the methods of Persuasive Coercion
Instead, she would have to base her
questions on a hypothetical situation.
She asked the doctor to assume certain facts, then meticulously outlined
the elements of Colleen Stan's first six months of captivity: the kidnap,
hanging, whipping, imprisonment in a box, deprivation of food and light, lack
of hygiene, dunking, burns, and so on.
"Now, Doctor," she concluded,
"assuming those facts, based on your experience, training and education,
do you have an opinion as to whether those facts are sufficient to coerce a person?"
Papendick promptly
objected to the hypothetical. He was
overruled.
Dr. Hatcher said
the facts "would be sufficient to coerce the majority of individuals into
a desired behavior pattern and to give up any overt resistance."
McGuire then asked:
"To ‘break’ a person is that the
same thing as coercing a
person?"
Hatcher said the
term, accepted within psychological literature, usually referred to "techniques initially developed by the Soviets and
Chinese to establish coercion [to, a degree that] you are able to extract a
behavior or a confession, to the point at which a person essentially gives up
their overt resistance and will do what you ask them to do."
"Is that what
we're talking about here, given those sets of facts?"
"That's
correct."
McGuire then asked
the doctor if there were specific steps, which
could be followed to break a person.
Dr. Hatcher began an explanation so closely related to Hooker's
treatment of Colleen Stan; everyone in the courtroom seemed to lean forward to
listen. The first step, he said, is a sudden, unexpected abduction, followed by
isolation (we
were isolated from family and friends.) as
soon as possible. "Refuse to answer questions, place
them in a cell-like environment; remove their clothes, and begin humiliation (there was lots of public
humiliation.) and degradation."
1.
Later, it was clarified that these were more
accurately "techniques" rather than
"steps." Dr. Hatcher pointed out that not all the techniques need be applied, and they needn't
be applied in any particular order.
"The degree and intensity" of application of these techniques
is "so variable that you could take three or four of them and, with particular
individuals, achieve the result," he said.
Asked to apply this
first step to the hypothetical example, Dr. Hatcher said: "We have an individual
who is initially in a situation in which the average person would feel somewhat
comforted, in that it is a family in a car with a small child. The captor then not only displays the knife,
the first point of danger, but rapidly puts a device upon the head which is
beyond the realm of most people's experience or ability to comprehend, so the
degree of isolation imposed would be
greater than, for example, a kidnapping in which someone puts a bag over their
head or pushes them down in the seat and says, 'Don't look up. Don't ask me
any questions.' (We weren’t allowed to ask
questions, just accept.)
Dr. Hatcher went on
to explain that a cell-like environment stimulates a feeling that one's worst
fears are being realized, raising the level of
fear and anxiety. (This was done by fear of the
judgment of God.)
Removal of clothes magnifies the feeling of vulnerability.
The second step in
breaking someone, the doctor continued, is to physically
or sexually abuse the person, (Ours was mostly mental
abuse but the children were physically abused and some were sexually abused, as
well as women.) to expose the captive's vulnerability
and shock her or him. "In other words, not only has the victim
been stripped of their clothes and placed in a physically vulnerable position,
but you are going to whip or abuse in some other way, specifically with sexual manipulation, to illustrate
just how exposed and vulnerable they
really are." (Some people were manipulated sexually)
Applying this to
the hypothetical, Dr. Hatcher cited the sexual manipulation, and the exposure
in terms of hanging and whippings, in which there is no perceived way of
escape.
"The third
step is extremely important," he said, "and that's to remove normal
daylight patterns. All of us, both biologically
and psychologically, are used to a certain day and night kind of sequence, and
this has been well-documented in various types of scientific literature."
Removing this, either by placing someone in a constantly lit or constantly dark
environment, "is very disorienting, and is a rather standard part of the
techniques employed." (We were constantly in church or
some church activity. The services were long and drawn out and people were
worked to the point of exhaustion.)
The blindfold and
boxes of the hypothetical, of course, accomplished this purpose excellently.
The fourth step,
Dr. Hatcher explained, is "to control urination, defecation, menstruation,
and to be present when these activities are performed. Basically, what you want to do here is destroy a person's sense of privacy." (We
had no privacy because he was into every area of our lives. We were also told
that we should be able to sit through a service without going to the restroom
or get a drink of water. I also understand that this is something that William
Sowders told people that they should sit there for hours without going out of
the tabernacle to “put under the flesh” so in this way, the bodily functions
were controlled.)
He also pointed out that "if a person soils himself, and
isn't able to clean that up, the sense of shame 'in sitting or lying in their
own waste product is really quite extraordinary, and individuals become very
motivated to do what they can to get permission to clean themselves up. Most people have not had the experience since
being a small infant, of sitting or lying in their waste product over a period
of time. It takes you back to a period
of vulnerability." (We had to get
permission to do almost everything, and were even told how to do personal hygiene.)
The fifth step is
to control and reduce food and water.
Hatcher stated the obvious: "If you don't get that food and water,
you are going to die. So, on the one
hand, they may be torturing you and preventing you from leaving, but on the
other hand, they are bringing food and water." This
helps make the captive dependent upon the captor. (We
were even told that we should not eat certain types of food. We were very
dependent on LLG for most areas of our lives. This was also done in the dmgac
and on the campground from what I’ve been told, by having people sit for hours
and hours as I mentioned above, without getting a drink of water or food. Then
people ate whatever was given to them in the dining hall.)
The sixth step is
to punish for no apparent rhyme or reason. Initially, the captive tries to figure out
some rationale to the intermittent beatings but, finding none, eventually has
to simply accept that punishment will occur with
no reason. (This
happened all the time. You would be publicly rebuked without knowing you had
even done anything and you never knew when it would happen.)
The seventh step is
to "require the victim to constantly ask
permission for anything or any behavior. This would involve asking permission to be
able to speak to someone, permission to take a tray of food. It is a type
of training procedure."
The eighth step is
to establish a pattern of sexual and physical abuse. This "indicates to the person that this
is what their new life is now going to be like." It's a way of "getting the person to realize things have changed in a
permanent sense."
The ninth step is
to "continue to isolate the person. The captor has now become the source of food,
water, human contact, as well. That's
important information, as well as pain.
All of us are information hungry people.
If you put us in a restricted environment
without newspapers or magazines or television, that's real nice for
a while, but if it happens [that] you are totally cut off and weeks pass, all of
us get a little hungry to find out what's going on. (This
is called “information control” and we were told not to watch T.V. or listen to
other preachers, etc…)
"Cut that off
and tie it to one person. Being a source
of information is extremely important.
As well as human contact the captor has a tremendous amount of power
because he's the human being that you see, he is
that only point of contact." (This was done in a lesser
degree but we were limited to fellowship with church members only.)
During his
explanation, Dr. Hatcher spoke clearly, usually addressing himself to the
jury. He wasn't a man of few words, yet
no one yawned.
McGuire next asked
how someone might learn the steps of breaking a person.
Dr. Hatcher listed
three sources: the study of psychology;
the law enforcement and military forces of
"countries who have a rather low regard for human rights";
or, the most common, sadomasochistic and
bondage and discipline literature.
"How are
people initially attracted to this S/M and B and D literature?" McGuire
asked.
Hatcher's answer
must have been more interesting to Cameron Hooker than to anyone else in the
room. He'd surely never heard himself
explained so clearly.
"The
consistency is rather interesting," Hatcher said. About the time of puberty, a boy finds
himself stimulated by images of people being tied up or tortured. "It's initially extraordinarily
disturbing to them. They tend to feel
there's something wrong with them." And so this is suppressed; they don't
talk about it.
Instead, they
eventually find S/M and B&D literature, which also isn't talked about. "But the impulse and stimulation of this
after a while just becomes more than they can keep to themselves," so, at
an older age, the boy perhaps approaches girls, showing a picture and saying,
"Would you like to try something like this?"
"The
literature provides the stimulation, which doesn't cause the behavior, there's
no mistake about that," but it also shows "how you can hang someone
up, how you can put them in certain types of positions of torture, how it's
been done before."
Now McGuire wished
to introduce some of Cameron Hooker's S/M and B&D literature. Papendick objected, and again, the jury was
excused while the two counsels argued about the relevance of Hooker's
collection of hard-core pornography.
Judge Knight
finally ruled that "any literature that either has instructions or rules
or suggestions on captivity and any literature that contains ideas that were
communicated by the defendant to the victim is admissible."
With the jury
ushered back in and Dr. Hatcher again on the stand, McGuire introduced another
of her impressive exhibits: an enlarged reproduction of the graphics for an
article in the June, 1976 edition of Oui
magazine, entitled: "Brainwashing:
How to Fold, Spindle and Mutilate the Human Mind in Five Easy Steps."
If the jury had
thought McGuire a prude, taking umbrage at Hooker's prurient interests, the
colorful illustrations before them now presented an interest
less in sex than in control.
While provocative and lurid, the drawings depicted the "five easy
steps," which McGuire asked Dr. Hatcher to review. (LLG
was very interested in control.)
As Hatcher pointed
out, it wasn't necessary to read the article, written by the Harvard-trained
psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary,' to understand the "five easy
steps." The pictures were sufficient:
Step one: "Seize the victim and
spirit her away." (We were spirited away to Des
Moines and told we had to or we could not go on with God.)
Step two: "Isolate the victim and make her totally
dependent on you for survival." (We were isolated from our
families and totally dependent of LLG for salvation.)
Step three: "Dominate the victim and encourage her to seek
your recognition and approval." (We were dominated and
always looking for a little recognition and approval from LLG.)
Step four: "Instruct the victim and re-educate her to
think and act in terms of your ideology." (We
were instructed to think and act like LLG.)
Step five: "Seduce the victim and
provide her with a new sexual value system." (We
were seduced and provided with a new religious value system.)
The scene in the
courtroom was now a weird tableau: the thoroughly dignified Dr. Hatcher, in his
somber, dark suit, surrounded by poster-size pictures of the slavery contract,
of the basement, of the rack, of the Oui illustrations, and of Colleen,
stripped and hung. And still, the heavy
bed and box occupied much of the courtroom floor.
2. Dr. Leary expressed astonishment upon learning that this article had been introduced as evidence in the Hooker trial. He said that, following the Patty Hearst case, he wrote the article "to warn people" how easily they could be brainwashed. Though he said he had "nothing against things being sexy," he disavowed any responsibility for "those horrible illustrations," which he called, "disgusting."
(It doubtless
required great restraint on the part of the jurors to be confronted with such
images and information day after day, yet never discuss it. Every time court was adjourned, the judge
asked that they please remember the "admonition of the court" and
refrain from reading about, talking about, or viewing programs about the
case. They bottled it up and took it
home, without disclosing what they'd learned even to their spouses.)
Some of Dr.
Hatcher's testimony, while phrased in academic language, was
explicit-shocking. For instance, he said
that places where, a customer can rent sado-masochistic paraphernalia and
perform various acts on a prostitute, which Colleen had described as,
Rent-a-Dungeon," actually exist in cities such as New York, San Francisco,
and Los Angeles. And he briefly analyzed
a selection of articles from Hooker's library, including such literary gems as
"Captive Maid...... Sex Slaves for Sale," and "Actual Case
Histories of Sexual Slavery."
McGuire asked
Hatcher if, in addition to the nine he'd already outlined, there were other coercive techniques.
There were, and the
psychologist related these now.
The tenth
technique, he said, is to "present a goal
or a model... of future behavior, a model of how to please the captor." (This
was done by him telling us that every man should seek to be like him and the
women should seek to be like June.)
The eleventh is to threaten family and relatives with a similar fate.
The twelfth is to threaten to sell the captive to an even worse master. (Like
if you leave, you will be damned and under the judgment of God.)
The thirteenth is
to continue to beat and torture the captive at
irregular intervals. (This was done more in a mental
way.)
The fourteenth,
called "irrelevant leniency," is to allow
small privileges for no reason, making the captive more confused and more
pliant. (It started out that we could hardly do
anything, then he would gradually give back things here and there, such as we
could watch videos but not T.V. or the women could trim the top of their hair
and other things that we should have been free to do all along.)
The fifteenth is to
obtain further confessions and signed documents,
having the captive give over more and more control in writing. (We
publicly swore to Ten Covenants
as if they were commandments from God.)
And the sixteenth
and final technique is to incorporate new
behavior goals. Dr. Hatcher
pointed out: "It's enormously time consuming to carry out a successful
coercion. It takes a lot of time, a lot
of thought, a lot of energy, and people have difficulty doing that over a
period of time. They have to attend to
other processes of life, and I'm speaking of the captor. So, you need to establish
some type of pattern where you won't have to be constantly physically
monitoring this person." Some ways to do that are to allow the
captive to tend to personal hygiene, allow clothes, some privacy. And, Hatcher explained, it's important to permit the captive some degree of
freedom, without the captor's constant presence, and then suddenly appear,
giving the captive a feeling the- captor is omnipresent. (We
got to the place that we could not even “think” any negative thoughts for fear
of the judgment of God coming down on us. To Colleen Stan, it was the “Company
is watching you and if you try to get away, they will kill you. To us, it was
God is watching you and he will get you.)
Dr. Hatcher added,
"There are many historical examples where
slaves not only outnumbered their masters in terms of manpower but also had the
opportunity to attempt an escape, and yet that's done in only a very small
percentage of cases." The significance of this surely wasn't lost
on the two black members of the jury.
With these sixteen
coercive techniques understood, and with Hooker's research into coercion
presented, McGuire returned to her nearly forgotten hypothetical.
Again, she asked
the psychologist to assume certain facts, then outlined the conditions under
which Colleen was kept during certain periods-the next six months, the next
year, then each subsequent year. At the conclusion
of each period, the doctor enumerated which of the coercive techniques had
been applied during that time, giving special attention to important aspects,
such as the slavery contract and the story of the Company.
Dr. Hatcher shed
illumination on Colleen Stan's darkest hours.
He took the components of her captivity-the workshop, the
"attention drills," the slave name, the slave collar; the box and
distilled them into elements of power and control.
Even the freedoms
that Colleen was later allowed-to brush her teeth, shower, wear
clothes-the doctor explained as giving the person some remnants of
self-esteem, with the reminder. "If
you displease me, I can remove any shred of personal privacy or personal
identity, with the exception of what I have chosen as your slave
designation."
As the prosecutor
continued with her hypothetical situation, Papendick
fidgeted. He objected to each stage of
her hypothetical, but the judge consistently overruled his objections.
Commenting on the
captive's being allowed to do new activities in new settings where other
people are present, the psychologist said, "the fact that these
situations do not result in discovery" or in anyone interfering,
"begins to reinforce, in the majority of captives' minds, that this is the
way life is, and they are going to have to accept that."
Dr. Hatcher also commented on the gift of the Bible: "Part
of Christianity emphasizes that you are going to suffer and that God will
provide, that no matter what type of disaster or terrible situation may befall
you, if you maintain your faith in God, God will get you out of it. Some captors use a religious tract, they want
to assist the captive along the pathway of believing they should have faith in
God, and that God is really part of all this, that this is not alien
from Christianity. It incorporates [the
captivity] within the framework of what's normal and serves often to make the
person more religious. The sad part is
that it does make the captive easier to control."
It seemed a shame
that Colleen Stan couldn't hear this.
Instead, Cameron Hooker, along with the rest of the court, was
treated to an educated view of what made him tick. (He
used the Bible to control her and LLG used the Bible to control us.)
Addressing himself
to periods of greater freedom allowed the captive, Dr. Hatcher undertook an
explanation of the captor's motivations: "The main thing here is that the
captor is not necessarily an individual of extraordinary intelligence. He doesn't necessarily have to have a
comprehensive kind of knowledge as; for example, Dr. Leary might have in
constructing the article we talked about before. What comes across consistently, however, is
that the person, to some extent, has a feeling that is like a hunter. Think of the person in your acquaintance who
is the best hunter. It usually isn't the
chief executive officer of the bank, a person who has a very high degree of
status. It's a kind of sense or skill
that makes them a particularly good deer hunter or duck hunter a certain
amount of patience.
"The analogy
drawn for me by the individuals I have interviewed is that they see themselves
in a similar way as a hunter.
Initially, they are concerned with the
stalking and the capture. Then, rather
than killing the prey, they see how far they can train this person.
"After a while,
curiosity sets in to see just how far he can let this person go and still have
control. There is a certain risk or
gamble there, but [this is outweighed by] the value or degree of enjoyment and
satisfaction, the sense of being able to hunt with higher stakes. The gratification from being able to allow
the person contacts with outside people and still know that you have enough
coercion and pressure upon them, that's an extraordinary reinforcement and
overcomes some of the other concerns about apprehension."
One couldn't help
but wonder what Hooker thought of this.
Dr. Hatcher's direct
examination took nearly two days.
He seemed to sort
through every aspect of Colleen's captivity and place it in context: The
"love letters," he pointed out, were consistent with types of
statements in S/M literature, and it was common to have the captive echo the
captor's belief system. He reviewed the
letters, citing Colleen's repeated references to her position as a slave.
Still posing a
hypothetical situation, McGuire asked if the doctor could account for the calls
and letters to the captor and his wife.
"There is a
great deal of dependency upon the wife in the situation you've described,"
Dr. Hatcher explained. "It's not as
if there was a relatively rapid, clean escape without having the possibility
[the captor might come after her]."
By talking with the
captor, yet experiencing that this doesn't result in being put back in the box,
"the person gradually begins to feel they have a greater degree of
control, that they have reestablished themselves somewhat."
Further, the
psychologist said, it's common that captives, once free, express the idea "that they want to let God or
someone else take charge of retribution or punishment," and he quoted
sections of Colleen's letters to Cameron and Jan saying, for example: (Does this sound familiar?)
"I
don't want to play God and I forgive you and Cameron for all things." Additionally, Hatcher said, victims are
often averse to pressing charges because criminal proceedings would force them
to relive the experience. (How many times have we heard
this? Just pray and let God take care of it.)
Hatcher made comparisons with several other cases in which the victims were "mentally restrained," fearful of attempting escape, and then, once free, reluctant to go to police. These cases shared many elements in common with Colleen Stan's, but by the time the psychologist concluded his remarks it seemed clear that Hooker's coercion of Colleen had been uncommonly intense.
Dr. Hatcher said as
much: "The circumstances as you have described them to me, with the
possible exception of issues that go farther back in time (such as black
slavery in America), would be unique in recorded literature. There would not be a similar situation in
which this degree of captivity and of sado-masochistic torture of a human being
had existed in a previous case."
After nearly twelve
hours of eliciting expert testimony-an outpouring of information-the prosecutor
at last came to the end of her questions, took her seat, and handed Dr. Hatcher
over for cross-examination.
Defense Attorney
Papendick opened by trying to belittle psychologists as opposed to
psychiatrists (since the expert witness for the defense, Dr. Lunde, 3 was a
psychiatrist), but Dr. Hatcher's answer was so complete it seemed only to
emphasize his competence.
Papendick
persisted: "You are not a licensed physician, are you?"
"No, I am
not."
"You are not
an expert on the physical effects of diet control, are you?"
"No, I am
not."
"Or the
physical effects of lack of sleep?"
"I would have
a degree of expertise in the physical effects of lack of sleep, but as it
pertains to captivity."
3.
McGuire
was astonished that Papendick had retained Dr. Donald Lunde, the Stanford
psychiatrist she had interviewed for the prosecution months before.
From here Papendick
launched an extensive examination of Dr. Hatcher's experience in related cases,
such as the Parnell case and the People's Temple and Jonestown. Though Hatcher's accounts of these were
informative, they served more to showcase his experience than to discredit
it and seemed far from the matter at hand.
It was difficult to understand what Papendick was trying to get at. Judge Knight finally stepped in: "I fail
to see the materiality of this rather detailed questioning about
Jonestown. What are we getting to?"
Still, Papendick
continued his questions about tangentially related cases, such as Patty Hearst and Korean prisoners of war. Since it was late in the day, McGuire
privately wondered if he were simply trying to kill time so he could prepare
overnight for the beginning of his case tomorrow.
At length, Papendick
referred to the spectrum Dr. Hatcher had described: from persuasion, to
coercion, to brainwashing. Specifically,
he wanted to know at which point persuasion ended and coercion began.
The doctor naturally said there's a gray area
here, and that, for example, some people would call a military draft
persuasion, and some, coercion. But, he
added, "A person in a captive situation against their will is in a
coercive situation."
"In your
opinion," Papendick asked, "can a person involved in a captive
situation be subjected to persuasion?"
"Yes."
This was the answer
Papendick wanted to hear. He brought up
the example of a prisoner in a Nazi
concentration camp having relations with a guard or officer. "Is
that an example of persuading the person as opposed to coercing the person into
a sexual type of relationship?"
Hatcher wouldn't
grant those kinds of liberties with the term.
He pointed out that, while there may not have been a specific beating or
incident preceding the development of a relationship, the guard or officer was
nonetheless perceived as a person in authority who had the power to protect the
prisoner from torture or death.
Here the defense
attorney asked Dr. Hatcher if he were familiar with the term "coercive persuasion."
The psychologist
said the term had arisen in the 1950s, but had fallen from use and was no
longer a common psychological term.
"Does coercive
persuasion have a generally accepted definition in your field?"
"No, it does
not." Dr. Hatcher explained that it had never gained general acceptance,
and that it wasn't listed in the index of the American Psychological
Association Psychological Abstract, or the Index Medicus.
(Terminology later
became a sticking point. Dr. Lunde would
use this term in his analysis of the Hooker case, attempting, in turn, to
discredit Hatcher's use of the term coercion.)
Overall, Papendick seemed
unable to take control of this witness.
He unwittingly gave Dr. Hatcher the opportunity to further assist the
prosecution when he asked: "What are the effects that one would expect to
see in a coercive situation?"
"There are
several," the psychologist said.
"The most interesting one is a numbness of affect. You may, for example, ask someone to describe
something related to their captivity, and they will describe something that is,
by most objective standards, truly appalling, yet it is not expressed with a
great deal of emotion. There is a
flatness or blunting of affect."
The
meaning of Colleen Stan's indifferent manner instantly clicked into
place.
Hatcher explained
another effect might be "intrusive images," something like nightmares
in the daytime. McGuire hadn't asked if
Colleen experienced this, but it seemed a reasonable guess.
A third
characteristic, Hatcher said, "is that they
want to try and get their lives back to normal. Before they can begin to deal with the images
and impact of this, they have to put a great deal of effort into creating what is almost a veneer of a normal life. To have a job, to have some friends, to have
some activities, is almost like a kind of teddy bear. It's a security, and they will work to do
that before they start to go back and, in depth, deal with the problems they
have had in their captivity."
To McGuire's mind,
this fit Colleen perfectly. She wondered
if the jury perceived this.
Papendick then
switched to another line of questioning, and here he made headway. He asked Dr. Hatcher whether, in order to
judge a person in a coercive situation, it would be important to know the
person's background.
Hatcher said,
"It would be contributory."
"What do you
mean by 'contributory'?"
"Helpful,
useful."
"Would that
include social history?"
"All
history."
"Social,
family, marital, medical, sexual?"
"It would be
useful."
McGuire's hackles
went up. After having successfully countered
Papendick's motion to admit the victim's prior sexual conduct, she was alarmed
that Papendick might work it in. She
only hoped it wasn't as glaringly apparent to the jury as it was to her that
Papendick had uncovered some evidence about Colleen's past which he believed
would help the defense.
But Papendick
miscalculated when he handed a magazine to Hatcher and asked him to tell the
court which of the sixteen coercive techniques it covered. He apparently remained unconvinced that
Hooker's pornography collection could be used as instruction for coercion.
The psychologist
promptly responded: "Page thirty-two in Captive Maid, we have
sudden unexpected abduction."
"Which
technique is that?"
"That's number
one. Sudden, unexpected abduction. The isolation is begun as soon as
possible. You begin the humiliation,
degradation, sensory isolation. You
remove the clothes."
"That's number
one?"
"That's all
number one. Fairly clearly, I think,
both illustrated and in text. I can
quote from the text if you like."
"No I just
want to know what number techniques are included."
Dr. Hatcher then
mentioned number six, creating an atmosphere of dependency.
"How is that
illustrated in that article?" Papendick protested.
"Well, it's illustrated
by saying whipping and degradation are always accompanied with sex."
"How is that
dependency? Didn't you talk about that
before as dependent for food and water?"
"You are also
dependent upon the individual whether or not they are going to beat you
anymore."
This clearly wasn't
developing as Papendick had hoped. He
snatched the magazine away and, to McGuire's amazement, continued with this
line of questioning. He handed the
doctor an article, which was, essentially, a pornographic movie advertisement,
surely believing this illustrated no coercive techniques whatsoever.
The doctor
appraised the article and listed techniques eight, nine, ten, and thirteen.
Still, Papendick
didn't abandon this line of questioning.
He handed Dr. Hatcher the article that accompanied the slavery
contract. This was a mistake.
He'd given the
prosecution's expert full rein, and Dr. Hatcher made excellent use of it. He listed techniques ten, sixteen, eight, and
six, giving detailed explanations of how these were illustrated in the article.
Papendick seemed to
realize his error in trying to fight Dr. Hatcher on his own territory and
concluded this line of questioning by turning it to his advantage: "Are
any of those sixteen techniques used by, say, the Marine Corps in boot camp
training?"
Dr. Hatcher
admitted that "some of the behaviors" were.
Completing his
cross-examination, Papendick asked, "Do you know Dr. Donald T.
Lunde?"
"Yes, I
do."
"Would you
consider him an expert in forensic psychiatry?"
"Yes, I would."
And with that, the
psychologist was excused.
If you want to
read the entire book, you can get it here: “The
Perfect Victim”
By - by Christine McGuire, Carla
Norton