“I remember the ones who celebrated their orders after years of living in fear.” – Marilyn Harp

We are grateful for working together with all to prevent and eliminate sexual and domestic violence!

Carla Stovall Steckline was Kansas’ Attorney General in 1995 – 2003, and in this piece, which she wrote for the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence’s (KCSDV) blog, she remembers a friend, who was murdered by her exhusband in the context of domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, inflicted on her by her exhusband.

The situation: A man shot and killed his wife – and then he shot himself. It happened on July 31, 2017 in their Prairie Brook neighborhood home in the wealthy Kansas City suburb of Olathe City in Johnson County, Kansas.

In the Wichita Eagle newspaper published on February 26, 1994, there was an article titled, “Dad of Girl Killed in Crash Charged in Death of Wife.” It went on to state the “couple had one other child, a 15-year-old girl, who was at home” at the time. That “15-year-old-girl” was me.