Editorial
Sympathetic ear often what abuse victims need
The night before Joyce Carwile was killed March 19, she told a police dispatcher her husband had a gun and had said he wished she were dead.
A witness told investigators the following night that the 59-year-old Fort Wayne woman lay wounded on the front lawn.
“Good,” David Carwile, 65, later told police, according to court documents. “I hope she dies.”
She did, and he is charged with her murder. An Oct. 26 trial date is scheduled.
The local tragedy represents the most extreme form of many types of domestic violence. A new initiative designed to motivate those on the periphery of those awful situations to listen and help could lead to an escape for some victims.
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