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Genre: Domestic Violence / Memoirs / True Stories / Violence In Society

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The true story of how one woman killed her husband of four decades and changed the system forever

David Challen grew up in the perfect house with the model family of 2.5 children. He also grew up in a household ruled by his father’s manipulations and mind games.

On a Saturday in 2010, his fearful mother struck twenty blows to the back of her husband’s head with a hammer powered by the cumulative rage of thirty years of abuse. Then, she turned back to the stove she had been cooking his lunch on and turned off the gas, washed the dirty dishes and left the house to jump off a cliff.

In those few minutes, she changed the legal system and the lives of countless women across the country.