Fabienne Witherspoon didn’t know she had survived a serial killer’s attack when it happened, nor that she had seriously injured her attacker in the process. She was just trying to escape with her life.
Fabienne Witherspoon was walking to a friend’s apartment when she saw a man asking for food. Witherspoon said she was packing a bag of groceries and clothes when the man entered and attacked her.Fabienne Witherspoon didn’t know she had survived a serial killer’s attack when it happened, nor that she had seriously injured her attacker in the process.“I just wanted to get away, and I didn't realize I had stabbed him,” Witherspoon told “20/20.
“I always felt if something like that ever happened to me, I would probably just faint. I would just- I would faint and die. I would not fight, but I found out that I was somebody different,” she said.Fabienne Witherspoon was 19 years old when she said she was attacked by a man who turned out to be serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells.
Witherspoon said Sells told her he was going to rape her, and that’s when she decided she was going to fight back. “I felt like it was my fault that he only got five years,” Witherspoon said. “I've read … that after he had his encounter with me, he never wanted to be stuck in that situation again where he could be at jeopardy of being hurt, so he turned to smaller people or children after that.”
Rea, who has always maintained her innocence, was the primary suspect for years. She was indicted on first degree murder charges in 2000. The prosecution presented a largely circumstantial case, focusing on Rea’s ex-husband’s testimony, pinning Rea’s motive on a bitter custody battle, and on the fact that Rea had Joel’s blood on her clothes that night. Rea’s defense claimed Joel’s blood transferred to her clothes during her struggle with the intruder.
Fanning said she was taken aback by the prosecutor’s claim that an intruder would not break into a house with the intent to kill and not bring a murder weapon as Sells had done that in more than one occasion. Fanning then wrote Sells a letter telling him about the prosecutor’s comments. “There had been corroborating evidence to place [Sells] in Lawrenceville,” Fanning said. “When I found out that, then I believed 100% not only in Julie Rae Harper's innocence, but in Tommy Lynn Sells guilt.”Author Diane Fanning was exchanging letters with Tommy Lynn Sells when she asked the incarcerated serial killer about details from Julie Rea's TV interview where Rea said she did not kill her son.
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