Murder Documentary Reveals Victim’s Pain, Police’s AnguishAnd the dust returns to the earth as it wa
Murder Documentary Reveals Victim’s Pain, Police’s AnguishAnd the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 (The Israel Bible™)Kay Wilson sits with her dog, Peanut, at the site of her attack. (Photo: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)Black Forest is a documentary on the investigation into the terrorist attack that killed Kristine Luken and left Kay Wilson struggling for her life. The documentary focuses on how the DNA collected from that attack helped solve the murder of Neta Sorek, who had been killed earlier that year. But guided by directors Hadar Kleinman-Zadok and her long-time partner, Timna Goldstein-Hattab, the lens goes much deeper, revealing the victim’s pain and the police’s anguish that drives them to solve these horrific crimes. Though not the focus of the documentary, the directors wanted to bring to light these two painful aspects of Israeli life that are far too common and so rarely discussed.The story begins in February 2010 when Sorek, a 53-year-old Israeli woman, was on vacation at the Beit Jimal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, a few miles south of Jerusalem. She went for a walk in the forest and did not return. The police were alerted and the next morning, they found her body in the forest. She had been stabbed to death but heavy rains erased any evidence that might have been found and her murder remained unsolved. The following December, Wilson, an Israeli citizen originally from Britain, went for a hike in the forest near Beit Shemesh with Luken, a Christian-American friend. Two Arab men, Aiad Fatfata and Kifah Ghanimat, followed them into the forest.“Please don’t kill us,” Wilson pleaded. One of the terrorists looked her in the eye, put his hand on his heart and declared, “I am good, I not kill.”“I believed him,” she says.The two Arabs attacked them with knives. Wilson managed to stab one of them with a pen knife before they stabbed her 13 times. “I lay bound and gagged, staring at the autumn skies. In those moments, which I believed were to be my last, I looked at the sun obscured by a man’s hand wielding a machete,” she says. “Thirteen times they plunged their machetes into us to the blood-curdling crescendo of ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Kristine screaming ‘Jesus’ and my own whimpering of ‘Shema Israel.’”Luken was killed in front of Wilson’s eyes. The attackers fled, sure that both women were dead. With her hands tied behind her back, Wilson managed to stagger close to a mile to a parking lot where she was found.Read More: Here -- source link