Met the End

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Met the End</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>true-crime survival memoir </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>explores the life and death of John Powell first known victim of American serial killer Donald Harvey through the eyes of Powell's daughter Holly Brians Ragusa. When a motorcycle accident in 1986 left Powell in a coma the nightmare for Brians Ragusa and her family had scarcely begun: Harvey a nurse's aid was poisoning him with cyanide and when Powell died an investigation revealed dozens of similar crimes. For Brians </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ragusa fifteen years old at the time the incident had profound mental and emotional consequences. She struggled for decades to reconcile childhood memories of her dad against the sensational publicity surrounding his murder. Then in 2017 the national spotlight returned to Harvey's case when a fellow prison inmate beat him to death. Rekindled trauma from the news coverage drove Brians Ragusa to finally tell her father's story. Through research interviews and introspection Brians Ragusa faces the tragedy of her family's past and finds reclamation.</span></p>