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On January 27th, 1996, CC Openowski was home alone in Hudson Falls, New York, when her ex-boyfriend
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Shawn Doyle showed up at her house and became violent, at one point holding scissors to her neck.
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He pushed me onto the couch, started holding me down and restraining me, and you know, yelling at me. Then I thought
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he was going to stab me. He picked me up, held me up, and cut my hair off. It was gone, just all of it.
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What was it like to have your hair cut off in this way? Dehumanizing. Dehumanizing.
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Think that's why he did it? Probably. CC thought she would never make it out alive until the phone started to ring,
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and Doyle let her answer it. It was her friend, Shannon McAuliff. When she finally picks up the phone,
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what did you hear in her voice? Fear. Shannon knew that Doyle had threatened CC in the past.
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And that's when she said, "Is he there?" And I said, "Yes." McAuliff called police. Doyle was
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arrested. He pleaded guilty to menacing in the second degree, and was sentenced to three years probation.
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I'm having night terrors. CC, terrified of Doyle, left Hudson Falls and tried to forget her past. But
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nine years later, Doyle was arrested for murdering Lori Leonard, a young mother of two boys. Lori's body was found
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inside a toolbox floating in the Champlain Canal. Lori was handcuffed and duct-taped,
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and wrapped up in a comforter. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing to see. When CC learned of Lori's tragic death,
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she was heartbroken. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I felt for her whole entire family and her
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two young children. So, in 2006, when Doyle's murder trial began, CC was determined to testify
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against him. I need to make sure that he is put away for murdering Lori. At this point now
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I'm angry. I'm not fearful.