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...Since Kay killed Jackie, the general public has reached a greater understanding of the potentially lethal relationship between an abuser and a victim--thanks in part to the endless examination of O.J. Simpson's volatile marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson. Police officers, judges, doctors and lawyers have begun to get educated about the "battered woman's syndrome"--the psychological dependency that keeps a spouse trapped in a violent relationship, repeatedly forgiving her abuser and even sometimes blaming herself for the attacks. In recent years, legal protections for victims of domestic abuse have also been dramatically strengthened in ways that might...
...state's educated professionals, like a group of Boone County lawyers, still think domestic violence is a joking matter. "Oh, of course, the woman is always totally 100% innocent," notes one sarcastically. The lead prosecutor on the Weekley case, Samuel Hall, does not seem to understand why Kay did not simply leave Jackie for good. "When your complaining witness--the person that is being abused so terribly--doesn't show up in court [to press charges], where does the blame lie?" he asks...
Hearing about the violence Kay endured can seem almost surreal to those at a distance from her life. To those in the middle of it all, though, the abuse has an almost everyday quality about it. Kay's daughter Amanda, 14, a pretty girl with a sharp sense of humor, refers blithely to the time "when Daddy kidnapped us," and remembers going to bed with her shoes on so she could run to the neighbors for help. "I got used to the hitting part," Mandy says, "but what I hated was when he spit in her face or slung food...
Weekley's final act of violence was on June 6, 1992, when he stabbed Kay, Debbie and William during an argument at the mobile home where Kay was living. Three weeks later, as Kay tells it, she returned to clean blood from the trailer, bringing her father's shotgun for protection. On Sunday night, Jackie parked his car outside a pool hall just up a small incline from the trailer and put a quarter on the table to reserve a game. He then went down to see his ex-wife. Kay says she shot Jackie on the porch after...
These inconsistencies are undeniable. The ballistics report shows that Jackie was shot from 24 ft. to 28 ft. away, not the 12 ft. or so Kay claimed. Nor did the door appear to have been broken down. After the guilty verdict, Kay wrote a letter to the judge explaining that she had actually used her brother-in-law's sawed-off shotgun but lied because she did not want to incriminate him for possessing an illegal firearm. A witness came forward to say that Kay told her she had laid in wait to kill Jackie two days earlier but changed...