This essay was written to save lives. It was written to save your life and the lives of your mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, grandmother, and child.
This essay was written to provide you with information to help you make decisions regarding your safety and the safety and welfare of your children.
This essay was also written to keep your death from becoming a murder statistic, and to bring the number of women being murdered in this country to the attention of America.
Hands Across America is not a murder mystery or thriller where the victim is put on public display. Hands Across America is the preamble to the examination of the murder of 252,287 America women in this country giving recognition to their lives not an exclamation of their deaths. Hands Across America is filled with information that is not commonly known which we want to share with you. We want the American woman to believe something can be done to prevent the rapes and murders that are occurring throughout our country. Some of you may want to sit at home and pretend all is well but every time your daughter walks out of your home the possibility that she may not return grows exponentially. The only chance she has to survive is if you stand up, become informed, and participate in the defense of yourself. Also for you to say my husband loves me in the face of adultery is comparable to committing suicide. There is nothing wrong with loving a man and being careful but not foolish at the same time. Just because you are married does not mean your brain has to stop working. Two plus two equals four whether you are married or single. The question is why does he want to take a large life insurance policy out on your life (e.g. Mrs. Sherri Dally, Mrs. Liana Duke, Mrs. Trish Willoughby, Mrs. Miriam Illes, Mrs. Carol Bruce, Mrs. Nannette Hansen, Mrs. Leslie Larson, Mrs. Cathy Frost Larson, etc.), when you do not have children? Would it not help you to know how other women were murdered in this country and the signs leading up to their deaths? Do you not think this information would improve your chances of survival?
Or do you want to be the last to know like Mrs. Linda Sandler of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Jamie Stonier of Massachusetts or the ex Mrs. Clayton Miller of Michigan? It just so happened that these particular women survived their ordeal.
Mr. Joel Sandler, 52, was convicted January 16, 2004 of hiring and paying an undercover detective $30,000 to kill his wife. Mr. Sandler did not want to share the family assets of $4.5 million during the couple's divorce. Linda Sandler was seeking a divorce after suffering years of abuse during the marriage. Joel Sandler was convicted of solicitation to commit first-degree murder and five counts of criminal use of a telecommunication device. Mr. Sandler's wife had fled the state in fear for her life. Her husband used a detective and a phone to track her down. His wife made the mistake of telling him she wanted a divorce but did not want to move out of the family home until the children finished school for the semester. Mr. Stonier took the position he wanted custody of his son and he wanted to get on with his life. To accomplish these two goals required the death of his wife, Jamie Stonier, so April 10, 2003 Mr. Harold Stonier paid a hit man (an FBI agent) to murder his wife.
Mrs. Clayton Miller married right after high school in the 1980's. She stayed in the marriage for eighteen years and had seven children so her marriage was important to her. She divorced her husband after years of abuse. October 16, 2001 the Michigan State Police phoned her and told her that her ex-husband was just arrested for solicitation to murder. Mr. Clayton Miller paid a hit man (an undercover police officer) to have his ex-wife, two of their children, and her new husband murdered. He called the death of his two children collateral damage. The most outstanding characteristic about Mr. Miller is that he is a liar. He lied and said he was a Vietnam Veteran. He is not! He never fought for this country. Mr. Clayton Miller has never worn a military uniform. He is just a common, garden-variety bully. Mr. Miller was a want to be, this is why he was so mean and vicious to his wife and children throughout the marriage. He never had the courage to be the man he envisioned for himself. He failed at being a man that made him fail at being a husband and a father. Mr. Miller has subsequently been convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison but he is eligible for parole in six years. Once Mr. Miller is paroled what is this family going to do? The Institute does not believe the state of Michigan will feel Mr. Miller is a threat to his family and he will be paroled.
Michigan is a parole state. Karen King, a beautiful 18-year old Michigan State University student, was abducted and murdered January 3, 1997 by a parolee, a man who was paroled October 31, 1996. It took him and his cousin just two months to find a victim. Michigan has frequently paroled murderers and rapists, so why should Mr. Miller be required to serve thirty years in prison for merely threatening his ex-wife and her husband? Mr. Miller was allowed to plead guilty to only one charge of solicitation to murder when it was clear he wanted four people murdered. Mr. Miller was clearly not happy about losing control over his family. Is prison supposed to transform Clayton Miller into a caring human being and a genial father? The solicitation to murder was the final act of exerting control and power (I'll show you). We shall see what the Michigan Parole Board thinks in 2008.
The reason why the decisions you make regarding your safety are so important is because you are a mother and you are the only natural protector of your children. If you make the wrong decision regarding your safety, your children will be left motherless. A motherless child is the most wretched person in the world. Understand this, motherless children must do as they are told, they have no negotiator and no sovereignty over their bodies. The children that survive foster care are dumped onto our city streets with no family affiliations, support, or hope to begin a future. What are they to do? They are poorly educated and bruised and battered emotionally. Predators set upon most motherless children. The predators use the naiveté of motherless children to their sexual and financial advantage. The motherless children are obliging because they have been trained to be conciliatory all their lives under the foster care system. Our society has moved so fast in the last fifty years that it has not considered those among us that are living in pain. The casualties are accumulating in our cemeteries. Many of these individuals were motherless children. It is not fair for you to leave your children motherless. Regardless of what society or your girlfriend says with respect to your responsibility toward your children you are intrinsically linked to the destiny of your child's life. The responsibility of a mother toward her child cannot be abdicated so every time you consider your safety you must ask yourself have I placed myself in a situation of danger (talking too much) by my decision or my failure to respond to a dangerous signal? If you choose to ignore this warning or if you feel insulted by our insolence, the next time you hear a child cry, stop and listen to the wailing when the child cries mommy.
The goal of Hands Across America is to get women to change. We want women to begin thinking more about their safety and to do more about violence against women and children in this country. To bring about this change we will briefly discuss the circumstances surrounding the murder of 1,209 of the 1,747 women mentioned in this book. 1,534 Americans, one Argentinean, and two Canadians women murdered on American soil, one hundred and twelve Canadian women, and ninety-six Mexican women, and two American women murdered on Mexican soil. Less that one-percent of these murder cases are nationally known.
As a nation of free women we must rise to the occasion. We must not look to the past except as a lesson to the future. We do not have to be concerned with fear. Fear shall take care of itself. We must focus on solving the problem of violence against women and children in this county. We must meet this challenge to insure the welfare and safety of our children and female relatives. We must pledge to one another that we shall fight and not die on our knees.
This book was written to call you to action.
Because this book was written for you and to call you to action we ask that you take your time and read this book carefully. You have much to consider.
