Joe Hunter

There's some things that she shared with me that were really hard to hear.

Really hard to hear that I didn't know what else to do because I was also seeing what it was doing to my dad, seeing what it was doing to my mom, seeing what it did to my friends and my sister.

So there was a lot of, what do you say?

These restraining orders aren't working.

This piece of paper isn't working.

She was getting restraining orders.

You know, I think that when you go through that, I'm sure she got in many dark places, but in no way, shape, or form was she capable of that mindset because I know my sister deep down just wanted to leave.

She had never said that.

She never mentioned being suicidal.

I never saw anything that she wrote about saying that or even implying that.

She just knew near the end that she needed to get away from him, but she never wanted to leave me or my family.

Correct.

So, you know, I would say maybe about a couple months before she passed.

My mom called me and said, Joanna's coming home.

I said, oh, really?

Yeah, she's done.

And I said, she's really, really done this time?

She's really done.

And we were all just so happy and she seemed

so confident this time.