Dr. Bethany Marshall

Nancy, when somebody is attacked in the middle of the night when they're asleep, especially an elderly person,

The first response is shock, a shock to the system like fight or flight.

The next step is disorientation.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What is happening?

There's no ability to orient oneself to the environment.

The third step is denial.

This is not really happening to me.

This couldn't be happening to me.

The person dissociates from the reality and then

confusion sets in and the final stage, Nancy, is extreme pain.

You know, as seniors, your mother lives with you, you just touch their skin and it, it,

it peels back.

The skin of seniors is very, very fragile.

So if they are dragging her through the house, there's going to be extreme pain and extreme harm to the body.

And the final thing, Nancy, is the first 45 minutes of a kidnap or abduction is the most dangerous time.

So we have to think about what were these perps or the perp actually doing to her

out of their own panic, their own ruthlessness to subdue her.

And how did that lead to blood on the doorstep and then the blood trails stopping as they potentially carried her to a vehicle?