At 2:27 a.m., My Dad Called: “Your Sister-in-Law Beat Me with a Baseball Bat—But She Told Police I Attacked Her Because I’m Mentally Ill”

when he’d finally worked up the courage to call his lawyer’s office and demand they stop what he now understood was happening to him, Vanessa had grabbed a baseball bat from the garage. He never fully explained what happened in those next few minutes, only that he remembered pain, and Eric standing in the doorway, and then police lights through the continue reading …