Playing Dead: A Memoir of Terror and Survival
Tonight, my special guest is Monique Faison Ross who's here to discuss how she narrowly escaped her obsessed ex-husband and his jealous rage.
This domestic abuse survivor’s memoir shares an “engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story" of a bad marriage that ended in attempted murder (Lundy Bancroft, author of The Joyous Recovery).
Monique Faison, the daughter of San Diego Charger’s football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris had always been shaky, but his verbal abuse only increased—and then gave way to physical attacks. Eventually, Monique took their children and left. That was when the stalking and serious threats began.
Nothing stopped him—not protection injunctions, police warnings, or even arrests. One fateful Monday morning, Chris kidnapped Monique in front of her children. After a nightmarish car ride that involved car crashes and rape, Chris beat her on the head with a shovel and abandoned her brutalized body in the woods, presuming she was dead. But playing dead was what saved her life.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. For other people that may be going through the same thing, I mean, with someone that is...
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I mean, this is someone you were married to. So, um, what kinds of things were you told to ga- what kind of information or, you know, proof of stalking were you asked to gather? Well, at that time- Go ahead...
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at that time, I ju- I averaged 10 911 phone calls a week about every time I'd see him. You know, when there's an injunction for protection, he couldn't come within so many feet of me.
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He stalked and drove around my apartment constantly, like every 45 minutes to every hour looking for me when I was at work, if I went to lunch.
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Once I went to the grocery store, I came out of the grocery store and saw him. Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
