Chapter 4

The psychiatrist was going over his notes on the patient. Darlene Watson –Drake was born, February 16,1963. Her mother died while she was a young girl. Father never remarried, and started to sexually abuse her by age eight. Her father was a known drug dealer, mostly marijuana, according to subject.

Under hypnosis subject has stated that she killed her father May 30, 1980, before her high school graduation. According to her it occurred, because he had tried to rape her while she was getting ready for commencement exercises. He had gone up to her room, while she was taking a shower and waited for her to come out. When she got out of the bathroom, she was wearing only a towel around her body. And so when her father decided to strike, she was naked. He ripped the towel off of her body and pushed her onto the bed. She was unable to stop him even though she had taken self-defense classes; he was simply much too large for her physically. She endured the ordeal of being forced into sex, and waited until he was though.

When he had finished, she took advantage of his being worn out. She threw him off of her, went down to the kitchen. She removed the butcher knife from the drawer, and started to go back up the stairs. He had gotten off the bed, and was furious at her; he was on the way down the stairs. He was running, mindless of the fact they were steep. She was just as angry; ready to finally make him paying for the abuse he had visited on her since childhood. She was coming around the corner and started to ascend the staircase, full tilt. He saw too late the knife in her hands, and she saw a perfect opportunity, he was going to fast to stop, she took the knife in both hands and plunged it as deep as she could right into the center of his chest. The sound of the breastbone cracking, was explosive, it sounded like a tree limb being struck by lightning.

He was dead before he could take a step, or fall to the floor. He instinctively grabbed at the knife in his chest, but the brain was not able to command the hands too pull it out. The brain ordered adrenaline to be released into the body, in an attempt to get the heart to pump more blood, and bring much needed oxygen to it. But the heart was not able to follow through. It was suffering from extreme trauma. The knife had gone through the breastbone and into cut the aorta completely severing it. The fall down the rest of the stairs had further damaged the heart bringing a swift death.

Darlene had cleaned the blood off of her and got dressed. She called the police and told them they would need to come to the house. That there had been a terrible accident. When the police arrived she told them that her father had attacked her, and in the chase was injured, then he fell down the stairs.

There was not a very lengthy investigation, and in the end the grand jury, along with the DA decided not to pursue charges. According to his subject she went on to college, she was admitted to the Texas University, where she took premed classes, she graduated with a BS in Biology. She went to medical school where she was awarded an MD after graduating from medical school; she specialized to psychiatry, and graduated with a PhD. in 1988

He’d learned over the years of being her counselor that she was involved as an activist against the adult entertainment industry, having blamed them for all of her father’s ills. She was a very overt lesbian in college, and vocal about gays and lesbians rights during the late 70’s and early 80’s.

She wanted a family of her own so she decided to break off her relationship, with her longtime girlfriend. She met a young ruggedly handsome psychology major; during her final year in school he fell madly in love, with her, gave her attention, and didn’t crowd her about her past. In fact after he found out that she was an orphan, and had lived in foster care, her entire childhood, he really never pushed her about opening up too much. She had lied and told him she was a virgin. She warned him she wanted to remain one until marriage. He respected her for that. At first, but she drug the courtship out, he started thinking that maybe she needed a little encouragement in the fine arts of lovemaking, figuring that if she discovered that it was enjoyable, she would give up on the virgin until marriage, or decide to marry sooner. She did not. Oh she knew he would cave, she knew men were animals, the only way to control them was to deny then the one thing they craved, SEX. Finally they were married. It was a fairly simple ceremony, friends and family.

The first time Dr. Perkins had seen Darlene, was about three years into the marriage, her husband, Charles had admitted to having an affair. The whole thing had lasted all of 3 months tops, he had a new position as a professor, and one of his students, had enticed him, more like encouraged him, he had said. Mrs. Drake was understandably upset. But what had brought her to him was a court ordered anger management class. She had attacked Charles after he admitted to her what had taken place. The police were called she spent a night in jail, and was given a suspended sentence, provided she attend an anger management class. Well after the mandatory time period, she had decided to continue seeing him professionally; she had told him that he had helped her overcome some of her biggest issues with her past. He prescribed drugs as well as sessions, and in time she appeared to stabilize. Her anger appeared to be under control, she said she was beginning to actually enjoy sex as a normal part of her life. She was doing well enough to cut her sessions to once a month, and then once every three months. But the last couple of sessions had seemed to indicate that not all was well in the world of Mrs. Watson-Drake. She told how her husband had been cheating on her throughout the marriage, and how he would pick an attractive young student and pursue her then have his way with her. She told him about how he flaunted his lovers, how he would go out to the strip clubs and not come back until the early hours of the morning. Finding a stash of pornographic materials also infuriated her; he had been keeping it a secret. Then she got on his computer and found emails to other women and swinger chat rooms were among his favorites list on the Internet.

She had threatened to divorce him, but he again admitted everything and was repentant. But she was not buying it. Then the last visit she said everything was fine and that she had probably over-reacted. This is when he became concerned. He inquired whether she was taking her full dosage of her medication, and if she were feeling overwhelmed or depressed. She had told him everything was fine, no problems.

Dr Perkins did not believe everything was going as smoothly as Darlene had made it sound. He knew her too well, and knew how she was capable of hiding the fact she was disturbed about something. She had kept the anger, she had aimed at her father for years, before unleashing its terror, and he was afraid it might be the case now, he feared for Mr. Drake’s life. Professionally he was supposed to tell the police if he suspected a patient might commit a crime, but personally, he could not say that she would, he knew that she was angry, but he could not, based on his previous sessions determine that he was truly in danger. Call it a hunch but unfortunately hunches were not evidence.