Police announced Friday that they have issued an arrest warrant for Ewing, who is currently serving a sentence of eight to 40 years at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City. I mean, I guess it really hasn’t hit me yet - it’s been 34 years. “And I didn’t - I wasn’t … like … in shock. “I can’t remember her name, but she said your parents’ killer had been caught,” she said. They told her a man behind bars in Nevada since August 1984, Alex Christopher Ewing, was suspected of being the attacker who altered her life and took her parents and sister from her. Then, this week, she got two phone calls - one from someone with the Aurora Police Department, another from the District Attorney’s Office. Today, she traces the injuries with her fingers. “I was in a coma,” Vanessa Bennett said Thursday. The attacker was savage - beating all four with a hammer, slashing Bruce Bennett’s throat with a butcher knife as he fought to save his family. She walked into a scene of absolute horror: Bruce Bennett crumpled near the bottom of the stairs, Debra Bennett and Melissa dead in their bedrooms, Vanessa barely breathing. Her grandmother, Constance Bennett, went to the family’s home that morning after her son and daughter-in-law didn’t show up for work at the family’s furniture business. Her parents, Bruce and Debra Bennett, had just moved into a new home in Aurora. I remember bits and pieces of the last Christmas.” “Honestly - people ask me that all the time if I remember things but I don’t. “I don’t remember anything at all,” she told 9Wants to Know on Thursday in her first interview in more than two decades. Vanessa Bennett sat under a picnic shelter on a muggy Arizona morning and talked for the first time about the physical and emotional toll she bears as the only surviving victim of one of Colorado’s most brutal crimes.īennett is 38 now, and the scars of the 1984 hammer attack that left her clinging to life are visible.
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