Only known survivor of 'Railroad Killer' advocates awareness
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — In August 1997, Holly K. Dunn was walking along railroad tracks at night near the University of Kentucky with her boyfriend Chris Maier.
From the darkness, a man appeared and then bound and gagged the couple. He killed Maier with a rock.
Dunn was stabbed in the neck, raped and beaten with a blunt object.
"It was so surreal," Dunn said at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center. "I cannot tell you how naive I was. I was living my life thinking nothing bad could happen to me."
After a warning to the audience, Dunn displayed a photo of herself taken at the hospital after the assault. Her blonde hair was fully crimson, and her face was streaked with lesions. Her eye socket and jaw were broken.