Her name was April. She was out having a great time with her ex boyfriend, Brandon, and a friend of his, named Virgil. They were in the car going out for a joyride at about seven pm. They were out on an isolated highway in the small town of Paris, Tennessee. She was in the front seat driving, and Brandon and Virgil were both in the back. All of a sudden, Virgil starts major choking Brandon, and April pulls over.
Virgil gets out of the car with a gun in his hand and tells Brandon to get out of the car and to get inside of the trunk. Brandon cowardly listens, and Virgil shuts the trunk with Brandon inside.
He then grabs April and takes her down to a nearby cemetery and he sexually assaults her multiple times throughout the night. He checks on Brandon often to see if he's still in the trunk. The third time he knocked on the trunk, there was no answer. Then he asked April in a shrill voice, " Do you think that he's asleep, or do you think that he is dead?"
What Virgil didn't know, was that Brandon had escaped his solitary confinement, and had run away cowardly.
April kept praying that some cop would come down the highway and hear her struggling with Virgil. But none did.
After checking for Brandon the third time, Virgil took April towards the front of the car, and sexually assaulted her again.
April knew that Virgil was going to kill her, so she tried to escape from his grasp, but Virgil stabbed her in the chest with a rod that he had picked up from the ground.
April decided to play dead. When she did, Virgil stuck her in the trunk and drove her to a remote location on the outskirts of town.
Virgil had a tank of gas which he took out, and poured gas all over April and her car, and set part of her on fire. She screamed loudly although no one could hear her. He shut the trunk and set the car in flames.
April could hear that the car was on fire. All that she could think of, was that her gas tank was going to explode, and that it was right under her head. She knew that there was an emergency lever inside of the trunk, and any chance that she would get, she would pull that lever, and get out of there.
She heard a truck outside pull up and then drive away after a door was slammed shut.
She knew that Virgil had left.
She pulled the lever and then all went black, but she was relieved that she had gotten out of the car. A nearby farmer saw the big flames on his property, and came by to see the source of the fire. He came over and saw April lying on the ground half burned and bleeding. He called 911 and April as saved.
I was surprised that she even survived those massive attacks. She suffered third degree burns and broken fingers. Her attack shows that anyone that you don't know well, could be abusive. You have to be careful with who you hang out with.
April never did find out exactly why Virgil attacked her, although he did turn himself in six months later.
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